Droopy Nosed Hedgehogs

Well, it didn't take an awful lot of sleuthing a few weeks back to suss that the erm..... "artistic friends of hedgehog" had a few more plans for our railway bridge, after Nigel spotted the embryonic startings appearing to be in progress.

The inside of the bridge looks like it has now been finished ..........

...... with a somewhat irate looking, be-capped hedgehog .......

........ surrounded by toadstools ........

........ which we rather like ....... 

....... and yet  another tag, this one though is pretty much undecipherable.

However, said artists may have left us a clue as to who they might be by leaving a handprint, which Nigel has decided needs to be carefully and minusculey photographed and then passed on to Tom the Scientist for his state of the ark, forensic lab to hopefully unmask the owner!

And outside the bridge, with it's very convenient brick canvas is yet another work of art, again started a few weeks ago .......

The nose, in Nigel's now expert opinion (perhaps there's a job for him on Fake and Fortune alongside the delectable Fiona Bruce) is too long and to be honest slightly on the droopy side, possibly due to it's length and having to hold it up for any length of time?

And ..... on the other side? 

Goodness only knows, obviously we have our suspicions, however, as soon as Nigel notices the stirrings of any further development, as ever, you'll be the very first to know .........

One Very Happy Bunny

This morning I made Darrell one VERY happy bunny.  I was mooching in Home Bargains, perusing the cleaning shelves when I thought I might just look see if they had any Method Daily Shower Spray, Darrell had availed himself of a bottle a little while ago and was very impressed, but sadly had never been able to find it again (at that price) once we'd used it all up.

And then ...... low and behold, there is was sat sitting right in front of me, I couldn't believe it and imagined the unbridled joy that would greet me if I took some home to Darrell.

However, knowing how hard it had been to find, I threw caution to the wind and rather filled my basket with three of said spray.

Well, the look on Darrell's face was priceless as I put not one, but three bottles of his daily shower spray of choice on the table.

Not quite tears, but certainly little raw emotion would be the best way to describe his delight ..........

It goes without saying that he rushed to the en-suite, where I expected him to simply leave a bottle ready to start using tomorrow, but while he was there he just couldn't resist giving the shower a good going over, despite having already done it earlier, such was his jubilation!  What on earth is he like? 

A Church With A Difference

Now, as you know, we all very much love a church, particularly a Greek Orthodox one when in foreign climes  .......

..... however, dans Evesham we have a very unusual church ......

..... to wit a wonderfully repurposed one .......

 

..... stood standing proud in the grounds of our community hospital.

What more wonderful and romantic place to peruse for corn plasters or haemorrhoid cream, should you be so afflicted, than in a church, in perhaps hushed tones  .........

........ because this one is actually a real life chemist in real life .....

..... complete with original, stained glass windows behind the till and dispensary area.

Nigel said it was quite a surreal experience while looking for some fizzy Vitamin C tablets .....

...... musing, what on earth would any ghosts make of it all, should it be haunted, as many churches are, in a late, great Derek Accorah (RIP) way?

"At least," he said, " ..... they'd probably be able to find plenty of surgical spirit, should they feel the want!"  What is he like? 

Quagmire City

Oh my goodness, after all the excitement of yesterday, with us officially now living in summer time hours  .........

I am afraid the river bank and our picturesque pathway into town, should we choose to use it, is to be found ......

 ...... wanting, very wanting indeed.

I'm afraid it's all a bit of an unsavoury quagmire down there at present.

Sadly, I fear, it might still be quite a while before we can chug our deckchairs down to one of the fishing platforms, accompanied by a cheeky jug of iced sangria to watch the sun set over the marina and feed the odd hungry duck or two ........ sometimes I think I am just a tad impatient in wanting to chivvy nature along, way before it's really ready!  What am I like?