Comments on: Things As They Should Be

by: carol

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:53:18 +0000

Yes. Dim recollection seeping through. I must have repressed the details due to squeamishness.

What Larks! Took the best part of 3 hours to get home from college last night, over an hour of which was spent vascillating between busstops in the City (number 4 useful on one side of St Paul’s going East and North; the 17 equally heading home but West and Northerly on the opposite side of the road.) See Carol play in windswept rushhour traffic! Today I am so sandblasted I look like the woman on the makeover show flatmate was watching last night who’d had a chemical peel. Pink and rosy is all very well, but half flayed is not my preferred look for spring. Hope eveyones’ roofs intackt?

by: Jane

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:38:22 +0000

I would not myself give a dog a bird carcass with splintery bones. In any case, Miss BF, though retires, still has an occasional day out with the Gamekeeper and his gun. She’s not SUPPOSED to eat them.

by: will

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:04:50 +0000

I give mine real ones after I’ve taken the breasts out. Anyone for a pheasant?

by: Jane

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:02:17 +0000

Have we not blogged the pheasants? These are absolutely revolting, life size and strangely realistic despite being made out of fur-fabric — they are made and sold to teach young gun-dogs how to pick up. Miss BF adores them; there is one WITHOUT feet (she gnawed them off in an emotional moment) and one with. They are stiff with saliva, leaking kapok at the seams, and in all respects, unpleasant pheasants.

by: carol

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:39:42 +0000

The pheasants: I’m concerned. Are we talking taxidermy here, stuffed toys or bouncy rubber fun?

(I’m alone in the office, hoorah! Suspect that Jane and Jayne did not make it through the gathering near-hurricane today. Huh! I did. Recpetionists cracked out laughing on my windswept arrival- hair apparently vertical and oozing- well, I could feel the oooze myself. The Ukranian tweed is authentically, damply aromatic right now, but drying out at its own pace. Kent very likely to be blown away very soon and become either the most northerly Channel Island, or REALLY give French customs workers something to complain about.)

by: Jane

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:40:39 +0000

PS. I’m sure you are right about the dictionary, but good old Google produced a picture of kerawang work in something less than two seconds.

by: the tropical godfather

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:43:30 +0000

But OF COURSE MargaretMcCallum would have been DELIGHTED to create a designer collar for MBF - crystals, beads, embroidery - the lot! If she’d fancied something uniquely exotic and exclusive, we would even have incorporated kerawang work. Bet you won’t even find that in the dictionary!

SUCH a shame she has a leather fetish!