Hello, and welcome to our latest Sunday selfie!
This week we have had a visit from a guest. Almost long forgotten, always welcome, at least until they outstay their welcome by being to fervent and unrelenting in their endeavours to make everyone feel happy.
Yup, like a whirlwind, a summer heatwave has arrived in Upper Much-Mousing! With temps in the high twenties, and destined for mid to high thirties the village has been transformed. Washing lines, full with maritime pennant flag-like multicoloured arrays of knickers, hankies and frivolous frilly bedtime wear, raise eyebrows of the old, giggles from the young and make magpies curious.
Winter bedsheets, their final wash over, now flap languidly in the light breeze. The artificial fabric conditioner fights with early scents from nearby gardens soon to be open to all to view in the villages open garden scheme.
Mrs H, ever one to have a hands on approach to looking after the farmland we have, has been out spot spraying some of the pernicious weeds. Gladys, who helps Mrs H in the kitchen, and comes to stay here at the Manor House whilst we or she is off one one of her missions for the NAFFI, says she looks like a cross between a bee keeper, and an astronaut!
Me, I have been chatting with a newcomer to the village. One time travelling cat, who we first met in a recent adventure; more of that to follow nearer its publication. Minstrel by name and nature, Mr Mins, as we like to call him, has been staying with Miss Carroll – fellow WI member who lives nearby – until he can find permanent lodgings of his own. Just as well he chose Miss Carol and Mrs H to befriend as booth cook very well, and he has an appetite to match a horse!
Anyway, I said to Mr Mins, "Why not do a selfie to introduce yourself to the Blogosphere and future adventure book readers?"
He said he thought that to be an excellent idea, and far better than the mug shots of his one time life as a henchcat.
So without further ado, here is Mr Minstrel taking the sun and letting its natural warm healing properties sooth way the aches of the mission . . .
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We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site. Or copy and paste this link: https://thecatonmyhead.com/
Till Laters!
ERin & Mrs H.
