Happy birthday to Leo. Another recent card. Our family does like to bunch a lot birthdays together.
Basketball Bottle Bank
Month: March 2023
New Colours
For the first time in years, Farrow and Ball have released a new range of colours.
Happy birthday to Ali at the weekend. There are eleven colours in the new range and I couldn’t fit them all on Ali’s card but I couldn’t resist drawing the remaining four who didn’t make it into the final cut.
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Vegan, Veggi, Vici
Healthy options in Ancient Rome. Happy birthday to Tom yesterday.
The Twiglet Zone
Happy birthday to Susan, who always avoids encounters with cheese straws at parties. Come to think of it she always avoids Twiglets too. After this she’s probably going to avoid me at the next party too.
You can see that I’m still missing Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoons. I can’t believe that his last cartoon appeared as long ago as 1995.
Spaniel History
Milestones in spaniel history. Happy birthday to Sarah.
To keep in spaniel mode that last caption should have read: ‘Spaniel Radcliffe: ‘Hairy Potterer and the Philosopher’s Bone’.’
Monday Morning Ducks
“I didn’t expect you to survive for more than a few days.” I said to John recently.
“I hope that I haven’t disappointed you.” he replied.
He’s celebrating his 82nd birthday today.
All the family is gathering around but as this is the Hospice in relays rather than in one big noisy party. I drew my usual view of trees from his patio windows on our visit this morning.
Brimstone
Another day at the Hospice but, because we’ve got a few extra visitors this morning, I head down across the racecourse, under the M62 and over the railway at Glass Houghton Station for a coffee break at Junction 32 Freeport.
On my return walk through the strip of woodland alongside the railway, robins and blue tits are singing, a wren investigates the undergrowth and a sulphur-yellow brimstone, the original ‘butter fly’, flies determinedly but erratically, zig-zagging along the scrubby hedgerow in a roughly north-westerly direction,
Addingford
A walk through Addingford, Horbury, alongside the River Calder this morning.
More Trees at the Hospice
We accompanied Barbara’s brother John in a wheelchair on a circuit of the Hospice grounds this morning.
Trees in March
Trees at the Hospice today and the Showcase Cinema at Birstall yesterday.