A Half Faced Whiskery Selfie

Hello, and welcome to our latest Sunday selfie! 

This week's selfie is, maybe unsurprisingly, another bed shot. 

As Mrs H is very busy looking at some editing, (I hasten to add she is doing more looking than doing!) I had wandered into Ol' Ned's room and pestered him to take a Selfie.

After half an hour of getting comfortable (Ned, not me), the pose is supposed to be one of, well, I'll let you decide and comment below. One thing for certain, it seem as though I have lost most of my whiskers on one side. Though the other side looks quite full and majestic. I assure you no whiskers, save Ned's, were hurt in the taking of this selfie!

In other news, the wars around the world seem to be escalating, and the weather and mood here in Upper Much-Mousing is an unhappy reflection of the bad, and stupidity of leaders that there is elsewhere. Thankfully, we know there is a lot of good out there. As Buddhists we dedicate prayers to guide us to help stop this dangerous folly and cycle of destruction and death. 

May your own weeks be filled with happiness and the causes of happiness and be free from the upset and the causes thereof.

For now, I am heading off to see if I can get Mrs H to add some whiskery highlights to restore my inner and outer balance. 

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ERin & Mrs H.

The Upside and Downside of Life

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday selfie! 

This week's selfie is brought to you courtesy of Ol' Ned, who awoke from one of his impromptu naps to see me checking him from above for signs of life.

His short naps are famous in these parts, mainly due to their length which often exceeds his working hours. Mrs H thinks that he mistook our advert for a sleep-in handy-person to mean quite literally he had to sleep whenever and in whatever was to hand. 

Thankfully all was well, and Ol' Ned was just dozing on his sofa under the window. Having got up to make Mrs H a cup of tea he set off on foot to fetch the morning papers from Mrs Singh's World Food Emporium, aka Upper Much-Mousing's corner shop.

After that we are hoping to make the best of the last of this week's sunshine, before more gloom and cloud and rain head in this afternoon. 

Spring is most definitely with us, and the early blooms are doing their best to fight off all the bad news in the world.

May your week bring you health and happiness, and may peace reign supreme in your world as well as ours.


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A Sunday Selfie, Lint Roller Not Included

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday! 

In a week full of bad news, anything positive, seems a real rarity.

And when Mrs H accidentally dropped a spanner across the battery terminals of our Vauxhall 30/98 E type tourer, things were far too positive. There was a shower of sparks and the spanner jumped a few feet into the air. Fortunately, no body, be it spanner, feline or human were any the worse. The battery is likely toast now, so Mrs H has bought a new one to be on the safe side. 

As the weather and Mrs H's tooth hole have shown some improvement, Mrs H, feeling a lot jollier, has tried to start on book 4 of our adventure series. But as I dictate the post for today, the dark clouds once more march across the sky, and it looks like more rain will spoil what is left of the weekend. I suspect it will be (another) Sunday spent laying on the bed grooming, napping and thinking of warmer, happier, peaceful days.

On the subject of work, here is my selfie. It was taken on Friday, and shows me at MY desk. I told Mrs H that great things happen at this desk and on this chair, and my naps are power thinking naps, rather than an opportunity to shed some hair on the chair's stiff fabric. To which Mrs H rolled her eyes and went to get the vacuum and lint roller . . . .

Whatever fluff your day finds you in, be it good, bad, or self inflicted, we hope you find some joy and warmth in knowing there is a lot of good out there. And if all that joy gets united, it can change the badness into goodness. And not just in stories. 


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Sunday Selfie and a new fun gift....

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday! 

I really wish I could report that the weather held less of the wet stuff, but sadly it has remained windy, wet, and decidedly boring.

No new physical books read, but we have been steaming through MC Beaton's Agatha Raisin series. If you are not familiar with the series, MC Beaton, who is sadly no longer with us, was a prolific writer of murder mysteries, and has been dubbed the queen of the village murder mystery series and genre. She was prolific, and had a style that pleased across all her separate character lead series, which included Hamish Macbeth.

Easy going at times, the audio books have a beautifully narrated flow, and nice twisty turny plots that never fail to please, despite their being familiar long running themes and backdrops throughout the 30 plus books in each series.

One surprise this week, was the arrival of a gift from ol' Ned, the gardener. "Something that would raise a smile on any guests that visit the manor house", he said.

Mrs H and I couldn't help but laugh, her more than I to be honest, but I did see the bright side and think this is a lovely gift for cat lovers who will undoubtedly have experienced the situation too.

 

There are quite a few on Amazon, if you do a search for cat bathroom signs, so if it takes your fancy there are plenty of shapes and images to choose from. 

And now a picture selfie of me. I may or may not be upside down, but I definitely am not in the bathroom or loo!

Whatever rooms today finds you in, we wish you all a happy and hopefully dry and warm week.


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ERin & Mrs H.

Sunday Star(e) Selfie

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday! 

I had nipped into the guest room at Ned's place for a snooze, as part of my mandatory bed testing regime, and thought "You know what, let's take a selfie whilst I am here." Given the size of Ol' Ned's fingers, as well as shaking, it is a miracle they managed to press the shutter button. But with the aid of bale twine and a cunning balancing act using various garden implements, including fork, spade and two trowels, this was the net result.

Mrs H, who was busy in the kitchens experimenting with a new bread making machine from those nice people at Panasonic land, was suitably impressed and said I had an air of Queen Victoria about me. Maybe I can see that in the royal forehead. What do you think? Queen Vic or our dear Queen ER11?

However you week and selfies turn out, be it covered in soil or elbow deep in flour, we wish you a regal, happy, healthy and safe week . . .

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Wet and windy, NOT how I like my cream!

Hello, and welcome to our selfie sunday! 

With mainly wet, wet, wet (not the boy band) performing this week with wind as the backing band, I have been spending my time, you guessed it, examining the weave of this cotton bed spread. 

Not much else to do these days of mid winter, so likely you'll get to see more of such similarly posed shots in the coming weeks.

Hopefully you all will be faring better weather wise, and activity wise?

Let us know what weather is like where you are, and if sunny and warm/hot, where the nearest airport is, MOL

Have a lovely week!

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First Sunday Selfie of 2026

Hello, and welcome to our selfie. 

First off we wish you all a very happy and prosperous and good karma filled new year. 

With the festive season now thankfully behind us, and the husks of other peoples spent firework rockets all but gathered up from the Manor House gardens — save one lodged on the roof — Mrs H can rest up for a while. 

I say rest up, only between meal services and raking up the last vestiges of autumn leaves that appear from nowhere and stain the lawns with patches of limp, yucky brown. 

Whilst she does that, I have been making the most of some down time. No book reviews for a while as we are busy elsewhere, hoping that our book artiste comes through sooner rather than later with some new art for book 2 and book 3. More on that as and when.

Anyways, here is me on one of the day beds, soaking up yesterday afternoons (3pm) sunshine. There was a welcome blast of bright, clear but low light from across the fields. That's why I am squinting. In a week that has seen freezing temperatures here of -7c, with snow and heavy frosts, and continues to threaten so into next week, this and other beds and sofas is where you will find me. Mrs H has the kettle on now, in readiness for an audio book listen before breakfast, so I shall leave you hopefully with thoughts of warm weather and happier days.

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Sunday Selfie 28 September 2025

Hello, and welcome to our 'NOT a book review' selfie. For those that don't like long posts I shall make this one as short as possible.

We are currently finishing off reading a brilliant spooky book, and hope to review it next time. It's call Wyrdwood, and is by Curtis Jobling. I wholly recommend this Teen spooky tale, which blends folk law with horror. We will get a review out to you all asap. It is published 2/10/25 (that's 2 October to our American readers), and will make a great halloween read for teens and upwards. 

Here is me after a week of rainy and windy weather, and a few late night early morning outings. No mice to be seen anywhere, honest (she says, licking her lips) 😉.

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ERin