New Developments On The School Run

It would appear, that from the posters plastered all over what used to be Young Master Bertie's bathroom showroom of his dreams when he was tiny ........

 ..... that Tesco are planning to take over the long abandoned (since Lockdown) site .....

....... a very interesting development at the top end of the school run, as we have very fond memories of our village Tesco Express, back in the homeland .......

...... with its baskets of reduced bread at 10p a pop, and other fresh comestibles like salmon fillets, steak and whole chickens on the cusp of their sell by date.  Let's just say Darrell's freezer was never found wanting in those halcyon days! 

Soooooooo, if all goes well, this will be a very obvious port of call for Eric on his way home, as we very much like a Tesco shop, but rarely use their online delivery service anymore because of the £50 basket minimum!

Oh, and there's more ......the irony, certainly didn't pass Eric at what one of the said plastered posters was covering .......... those flipping "friends" of Hedgehog get every blinking where!

Tis The Season To Be Spooky .......

With October being the spookiest time of the year .......

..... to enter into the full spirit of the season, Darrell, the ever fragrant Alice and I decided to club together to adopt a ghost for Eric!  What are we like?

Needless to say, when we presented it to the little fella, it was emotional.

Said ghost comes with a small scroll containing a few details to help Eric through the adoption and help settle "our" new, little friend.

We discover the ghosts name is Arnold, he was born on 6th December 1830 and he was a Bird Boy, scaring birds from crops in the fields for farmers, so quite a rustic and romantic sort of profession with plenty of fresh air and exercise.  

Arnold likes the smell of misty autumn mornings and frosty spiders webs but doesn't like full on sunshine and any salt and garlic in his food!

Eric obviously is over the (full) moon with his new friend and has vouchsafed to keep Arnold close at and in hand ........

......... looking after him with all due diligence until, we believe, Arnold will return from whence he came, disappearing into the ether, on the stroke of midnight on 31st October, to wit Halloween.  Now thinking about it, I hope we've done the right thing, as there could possibly be tears if Eric gets too attached, oooooops!