Monday, May 17, 2021, 8:31 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … Thank you, Kathy, meowy much, for sharing the Alugalug song! … it’s hypnotizingly terrific! …
… it’s so enticing, Teeny ignored her favorites, paper and scratching post …
… “Photos Matter” … film developed in Durham City, England … home exchange, July-August, 1999 …
… video is sideways and dark … but here’s the Teenster … irresistibly drawn to the Alugalug cat song … gotta have the sound on! …
Saturday, April 17, 2021, 5:42 am — Perkins … HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip … funeral today … live streaming, BBC … he’d planned all the details, including participation of his two Fell ponies and carriage, which have been left to his granddaughter, Lady Louise, 17 … Camera on top of scratching post and High Noon book … to film Fell ponies on tv screen (see below) …
… Prince Philip’s Fells … Balmoral Nevis, Notlaw Storm … heading toward and at Windsor Castle …
… Prince Philip … Windsor grounds … 2019 …
… Granddaughter, Lady Louise, 14 … her mother, Sophie, Countess of Wessex (father, Prince Edward) … Royal Windsor Horse Show, 2018 … Philip taught them both to drive …
… Lowther Horse Driving Trials and County Fair, 2005 … 3-day combined driving event … Cumbria, England … (I was there all 3 days, 1999! … Queen Elizabeth was, also, thinking it might be Philip’s last year to compete … not quite!) …
… Competition Carriage Driving … HRH The Duke of Edinburgh … 1994 … have both this and his 2005 book, 30 Years On and Off the Box Seat …
… Windsor … 2017 …
“A red-topped plastic container was placed on the box seat of his driving carriage. He used it to store the sugar lumps he gave to his Fell ponies, Balmoral Nevis and Notlaw Storm, both present along with the carriage in the castle quadrangle. Next to this lay his driving cap, whip, blanket and brown gloves.“
Doob … my Fell pony … Orange Hay Net Cats, Oct. 24, 2016 …
Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:33 am — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … a warm morning snooze … Teeny’s front paw keeps the window standing straight …
… 10:43 pm … Perky welcomes the newest DVD set … all the way from the UK! … Nanny, complete series 1 to 3, 1981-1983, BBC, Wendy Craig …
Thursday, December 24, 2020, 8:16 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … sleepy-happy … new hand-crafted Finnish decorations … by a Finn living in Coventry, England! … via Etsy … tonttugifts … Hyvää joulua! …
Red wall hanging weaved with wool. Decorated with wooden Christmas tree and bark stars. Tree is decorated with red beads. Work is hanging from a piece of driftwood and top part is decorated with pretty lace ribbon.
My reindeer Christmas decoration is hand-stitched with cream coloured craft felt. The antlers are dotted with fabric paint, as are the red nose and eyes. Reindeer wears a red and green woollen scarf and has a loop to hang it from a Christmas tree or anywhere else you would like. The little “fluffy” tail is wool.
Please note that these reindeer do not come with a guarantee that they can fly!
ABOUT ME
The word ‘tonttu’ comes from the Finnish word for the Christmas elves, and at Christmas in Finland, tonttu are everywhere!
My name is Kaarina Nicholls and I originally come from Jyväskylä in Finland. I love making Christmas gifts and decorations and everything is hand-made by me. Every time I make one of these Christmas gifts, it reminds me of Christmas time in Finland. … tonttugifts
Tuesday, May 9, 2020, 1:14 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins …
… 10:57 pm … “Evening, Perk and Teeny … time for walkies!” … Wallace and Gromit talking alarm clock! …
Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 1:11 am — Perkins … staying up late … watching tv … latest season of British series, Peaky Blinders, 2013-2019 … What are those Birmingham lads up to now? …
… season one, 1919 … season 5, stock market crash, 1929 …
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 11:21 pm — Perkins … “Welcome to Scotland … Kirkie Express” … Glasgow Airport … July 1999 home exchange, Kirkintilloch, Scotland … a week in Finland visiting relatives … August home exchange, Durham City, England …
Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 1:17 pm — Perkins … sending a tail sign language message to Teeny Tuxedo …
… On the computer … Fell pony in the UK … over 30 years old! …
Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 11:02 am — Perkins … her fluffy tail is anything but wee …
“Welcome to Scotland … Kirkie Express” … Glasgow Airport … July 1999 home exchange, Kirkintilloch, Scotland … a week in Finland visiting relatives … August home exchange, Durham City, England …
Friday, August 24, 2018, 9:15 pm — Teeny Tuxedo and Perkins … We respect Queen Elizabeth … and her love of horses and dogs … but we didn’t see any CATS in the PBS documentary, The Queen’s Favourite Animals, 2017 … Please hand us the tv remote … we’re too distaught to move …
Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 11:10 pm — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … getting photos organized for scanning … July-August 1999 … home exchanges … Kirkintilloch, Scotland … Durham City, England … week in between, Mikkeli, Finland … Cumbria, England several times, Fell pony research, Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth! …
11:48 pm … 30 minutes later … Teeny Tuxedo and Perk have conked out … Iceberg Augie, Adventure Bear, stands guard …
[From 2014 … previously “private”]
Thursday, June 12, 2014, 5:30 pm — Rain is pouring down outside … Here’s my Paul Cardew teapot riding out an ocean storm … on the dining table today …
Signed and numbered, 278/5000, by Paul Cardew, 9/2000. Made in England … Purchased May 2003, Spokane, Washington. (Flew there for Outcomes Assessment Conference; presented re TILT with Kitty … Carried it carefully on the plane flight back to PDX.)
Saturday, May 19, 2018, 5:36 am — Last night’s raccoon was up early … ready to watch Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding on the telly … 5:36 am … the carriage ride from the church … but cousin cat, Moka, was vigilant … no wedding crashers allowed! …
Below … BBC … a relief not to hear yammering American commentators …
Before all that, the Investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales, July 1, 1969 … up close to the tv with my Craig reel-to-reel tape recorder (audio) … from my blog, Movies, Of Course! … pre-VCR days …
Saturday, February 17, 2018, 10:47 am — Perkins has her eyes … and paws … on the rainbow toy …
8:50 am … Photo album … 1999 home exchange … Kirkintilloch, Scotland … Durham, England …
Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 9:03 pm — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo take a moment … Cat Dancer wire toy mid-air … to contemplate the wonder of James Norton … Grantchester DVD set, 3rd season, 2017 … “Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village of Grantchester.” … 1950s … Perk and Teeny are true PBS Anglophiles …
Sunday, December 25, 2016, 12:17 pm — Cousin Moka … Christmas centerpiece cat …
Hyvää Joulua! … Merry Christmas, Finnish-style! …
1:09 pm … ADORABLE vintage Scotty dog … he rolls on four red wheels … and squeaks!
Card from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … “Person . who . is . not . our . Mom . but . takes . care . of . us . and . is . our . equal.”
Rollo, the vintage Scotty, surveys nine hand-painted feline faces … He’s fearless! …
Rollo meets Kirky … a true Scotty from Kirkintilloch, Scotland … Brought him back from my 1999 home exchange … a month in Kirkintilloch … a month in Durham City, England … with a wee week in between, visiting Korhonen relatives in Mikkeli, Finland …
1:29 pm … Orange tabby Perkins is watching the festivities from the top of the scratching post in the bedroom … blurry Moka stopped by to see how she’s doing … red bag of World’s Best Cat Litter holds up the baby gate …
This year’s new ornament, ordered from the White House Gift Shop … “2013 White House Historical Christmas Ornament, American Elm Tree, Honoring President Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, 1913–1921, Handmade in the USA” …
The 2013 White House Christmas ornament honors Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States. The years of Wilson’s two terms in office, from 1913 to 1921, are defined by the unprecedented devastation of World War I, yet Wilson himself would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, and his life is distinguished by his resolve that the Great War would truly be the war to end all wars. It was President Wilson’s extraordinary quest for a lasting world peace that inspired the design of our ornament.
The centerpiece of the 2013 ornament is an American Elm tree planted by President Wilson on the North Lawn of the White House on December 18, 1913, just before Christmas. This snowy scene is surrounded by a 24-karat gold-plated frame comprised of elm leaves on the innermost circle, a wreath of olive branches in the middle, and holly leaves bordering Wilson’s monogram on the outermost circle. Two peace doves perch upon the olive branches, bearing banners that announce “The White House, Christmas 2013.”
The words inscribed on the reverse side of the ornament were delivered by President Wilson in his War Message to Congress of April 2, 1917: “Peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.” — White House Gift Shop
Saturday, March 12, 2016, 11:12 am — Perkins keeps up with her cousin, Fluffy, in St. Paul, Minnesota …
And photobombs the wee Scottie dog … from cousin L on her visit to the UK last October … The wee doggie is VERY heavy … lead? …
Tuesday, December 30, 2015, 1:10 am — Perkins … two favorite decorations … 1950s snow scene tv … reindeer, former top of M&Ms candy tube … click for full size …
Perky … Finnish aarikka cats-on-a-swing … from Mom … and hearts …
Perk … map of London Underground … black t-shirt … from L, Oct. trip to London … click for full size …
Monday, December 21, 2015, 2:06 am — Perkins does not approve … I plan to recycle the July 1981 newspaper reporting Charles and Diana’s royal wedding … with a photo of that kiss … (I was one of the intrepid Yanks that stayed up all night to watch it, live, on tv) …
Friday, July 31, 2015, 3:11 pm — Perkins said, “My paw needs a job …”
“How about this? … Holding up the sliding glass door … “
“Good job, paw, good job …” … an homage to the 1995 movie, Babe … “a pig raised by sheepdogs on a rural English farm, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett” …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 