Sunday 20 June 2021
Memories are made of this...
Monday 26 October 2020
Monday's Child
Saturday 24 October 2020
All change, all change!
That's a cry that brings to mind days from my youth. Whenever a local train broke down, passengers had to be winkled out of their comfy carriages and re-instated in a less salubrious bus or coach to finish their journey. Ah, me! What jolly fun...
In these ever changing days of Covid19 lockdowns, taking any means of transport becomes more of a military operation. "Masks on!"..."Keep your distance!"... "Don't travel unless it's an absolute necessity!"
I don't wonder that Ada and Cad have barricaded themselves into Trellis Manor, relying on Food Parcels donated by their local Squire. However, he is by no means as generous as this kind gesture might imply.
Last week, the Trellis kitchen was the scene of many a ruckus, as Ada attempted to make edible dishes from unusual ingredients such as pigs trotters, bean sprouts, two pounds of homegrown windfall apples (maggots included) and a pack of nine toilet rolls with three already removed...
And tomorrow is another day. Happily, it will be a whole hour shorter in the UK, as Time is given short shrift due to the Daylight Saving procedure of turning clock hands counter clockwise at 2 a.m. until dials register 1 a.m. on their shocked little faces. The whole country (and not a lot of people know this) is full of people who sit clockwatching, wide awake, until the appointed hour arrives. And if you believe that, you will believe anything.
Thursday 3 September 2020
September with no Serenade?
I'd serenade the world if I, Trellissimo, could only appear once more to find out how Caddoc and Ada are dealing with Covid19 lockdown! :-)
Saturday 14 September 2019
Alive and Well?!
Watch this space...
Monday 19 August 2019
What year is this?
So if anyone asks me such a silly question, I shall give them short shrift...
Thursday 17 September 2015
THEY'RE BACK!
Sunday 1 June 2014
We'll Gloss Over This One, I think...
Now she pouted up there with the best!
But her lips grew so sore
that it took pills galore
before she could get a night's rest!
Of course, she only got the idea from Tess and her Mag 222!
Monday 24 March 2014
The Morning After
The bed clothes were rumpled and all of a heap (I won't mention the mess on the floor). Neither Ada nor Caddoc could even begin to guess what had happened before...
Had a tornado struck?
Had they both run amok?
Was the bottle of whiskey to blame for the way their heads pounded and nothing stood still? Had the world spun and addled their brains?
Monday 2 September 2013
What A Charmer
I could've placed her on a pedestal, the way that lovers do...but " I will not squat on porcelain, not even, Cad, for you " said Ada in her sharpest tones, which made me think anew- so I've drawn her in a treetop crown.
"Forgive me, Ada dearest, for when you've simmered down, you'll realise I put you there 'cause you're way above the best, and will charm the birdies from the trees!"
And there my case shall rest.
Sunday 18 August 2013
Did She Fall Or Was She Pushed?
"Caddoc, you ninny, I've been fast asleep beside you for hours, not walking on wings. What makes you think up such terrible things? Must be the cheese you ate for your supper?
Now snuggle back down and don't be a duffer!"
Tuesday 13 August 2013
Olé !
" Beloved, I'll follow you where'er you lead, but I beg you to keep it polite, for tango's, if danced with abandon, can be a right turn on. All right?"
Written for the Mag 181, with thanks to Tess and apologies to Toulouse-Lautrec .
Monday 5 August 2013
Unhand Me, You Cad!
(And don't you agree, come now, won't you confess, his hat is a terrible, terrible mess?)
But then he'll come in and he'll creep up behind and I must pretend that I really do mind how his left and his right hands unerringly know the very two places where they should not go!
So I always pretend to be stern and severe and cry "You great Welsh lummox, less of that here!" And then he says "If not there, where then, my dear?" as he smiles his daft smile and gives me a cuddle, knowing he’ll soon throw my thoughts in a muddle till I’ll give him a kiss, and forgive him his hat. Now tell me, could you resist chat-ups like that?"