tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63401774149412582892024-03-13T20:31:34.800+01:00A Tale of Two WippittsThe wonderful world of Archie & Angel!madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-23089118267721556062017-12-22T14:39:00.002+01:002017-12-22T14:39:20.237+01:00Our Christmas messageto the nation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-59300047970836242562017-12-11T11:18:00.003+01:002017-12-11T11:18:39.382+01:00Things to do when its snowing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No.1</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">TAKE SELFIES</span></strong></div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-81584774258190488562017-12-02T13:01:00.003+01:002017-12-02T13:01:42.805+01:00Doesn't time fly?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Has it really been over a month since we last blogged?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We blame the Madwoman as she has been so busy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">gluing and felting for the Kim's Home auction</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">that on some days she hasn't even turned the computer on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It has also been really cold so inbetween supervising the Madwoman's </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">sticky crafting efforts we have been doing a bit of this:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and a bit of this:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and a bit more of this:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">quite a lot of this:</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and after an expedition to COAM this morning</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">we now need to catch up on a bit of this:</span> </div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-80831289164567776922017-10-22T09:59:00.003+02:002017-10-22T10:02:43.713+02:00Traditional celebrations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It was Angel's 12th birthday on Wednesday!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As usual the unwrapping was better than the present</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then we went to Chiltern Open Air Museum for the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We tracked it all through the woods ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">... and finally stalked it to its lair.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Having cornered it in the caff, the Madwoman</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">handed over the traditional quid to secure its release </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and we carried it home in triumph ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Where we stuck a traditional candle into it,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">made a traditional wish</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and then helped by the Madwoman, consumed it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">Next week we get to do it all over again as it will be </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">That's the good thing about traditions - you have to do them lots of times.</span></div>
<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-71056561025626096382017-10-15T10:06:00.002+02:002017-10-15T10:06:19.656+02:00Meet the Ancestors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We found a pic of one of Angel's ancestors online</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the other day. This is Rystone Blue Magpie, who was the daddy of </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">a very famous blue whippet called Martinsell Wild and Lonely.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Magpie was Angel's great, great granddad,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and belonged to Anne Vickerstaff who wrote the first whippet book that</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the Madwoman bought. (And thank you to our new Aunty Anne for </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Handsome chap, isn't he?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Easy to see where Angel gets her amazing good looks from :-)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But we won't let famous ancestors go to our heads.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As celebrities in or own right, we are quite used to</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the whole media circus ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">but they have nothing on Angel when it comes to</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the as yet little-known art of pillow-folding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While awaiting recognition from the Tate,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here she is with one she made earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Eat your heart out Tracey Emin!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On the whole the Madwoman is fairly well trained and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">most of the time does as we tell her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But sometimes we have to be a bit firm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For example, sometimes she ignores us when we tell her it is time for bed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But we know how to deal with that.</span> </div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-1829257276946690232017-08-29T19:03:00.002+02:002017-08-29T19:03:35.094+02:00Jammy Bank Holiday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well we had to do something while the Madwoman</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pffft! Men! Such a fuss.</span></div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-36465901271170237882017-07-16T11:40:00.003+02:002017-07-16T11:40:55.098+02:00New skills!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Unfortunately that gave the Madwoman ideas. Again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Once upon a time there was a Princess.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Someone thought they would check that she was indeed a Princess by</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... and then concealed the crime by eating</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Which was a good thing, because whether you are a Princess</span></div>
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madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-86767921217732790882017-06-18T06:30:00.000+02:002017-06-18T06:30:13.578+02:00Walking on the wildside<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We spotted this froggy in our pond,</div>
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And then the pigeons moved in,</div>
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They didn't hang around long when Archie woke up ...</div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-86128184781379792922017-06-09T12:53:00.002+02:002017-06-09T12:53:50.906+02:00Prioritising<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our Madwoman says that recently we have become</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At least we think that's what she said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We would like to point out that after a long cold winter </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">we have got a lot of </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">sunbathing to catch up on.</span></div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-35580601743891759092017-05-29T13:06:00.001+02:002017-05-29T13:06:26.048+02:00Salve! (again)<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Madwoman decreed that it was cool enough for us to venture outside for a walk today, so venture we did, up at the Open Air Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Not only did we do venturing, we did mingling too, as the Romans had moved in for the weekend and were busy rising and shining (unlike the sun). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While the Madwoman checked out some egg tempera artwork </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">we admired a neighbouring tent with some hand loom-woven bags </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">that would have been perfect for storing wippitt snacks in, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">then checked out some toy wooden mice (we prefer ours made of fleece and squeaky)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">at the wood-butcher (that's what it said on the sign), </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and THEN we found the wippitt snacks in the shape of </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As they made us feel a bit peckish and the Roman in charge </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">didn't offer to share them with us </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">we dragged the Madwoman off home to give us some elevenses. </span></div>
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madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-46280027708682810042017-05-07T13:21:00.003+02:002017-05-07T13:21:42.024+02:00A Christmas shopping spree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We are helping our Madwoman to tidy up today after</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">a marathon stint of helping* her make little papier mache and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">needlefelt houndies which are now up for sale to raise funds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">for <a href="http://www.kimshome.org.uk/"><strong>Kim's Home for Abused and Elderly Dogs</strong></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's a great cause - do nip over and look at some of the great items -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">its a great opportunity to bag a bargain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And get your Xmas shopping done early ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia;">Here's the link to the auction:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia;"><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/KimsHomeAuctionPage/photos/?tab=album&album_id=459008644445008">Kim's Home Spring Auction 2017</a></strong> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">* in case you were wondering, we help her</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">by keeping well out of her way ...</span></div>
madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-69836228075272705812017-04-29T10:39:00.002+02:002017-04-29T10:39:46.194+02:00Something in the air <div align="center">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Angel has been on pillow-warming duties.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia;">Our Madwoman says that she would much rather find a wippitt </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia;">on her pillow than a chocolate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So maybe we shouldn't tell her about the farting ...</span></div>
madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-67755861319085758352017-04-24T13:06:00.000+02:002017-04-24T13:06:00.651+02:00Seating arrangements<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One thing we have noted about humans is their amazing capacity for optimism.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Take this settee, for example.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is described as a 'two seater' - when as you can plainly see,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">it barely accommodates a single wippitt.</span></div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-21161501500114563952017-04-01T20:36:00.001+02:002017-04-01T20:36:22.781+02:00Peas and poos<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Actually we are pretty sure that in the event</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the eventual winners won't be triffids but peas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They are invincible.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We know this because </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">when we eat peas </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">they come out looking exactly the same as when they went in.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another pea on its way ...</span></div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-91060990871770375972017-03-25T19:17:00.003+01:002017-03-25T19:18:02.127+01:00Forward planning<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tonight sees months and months of </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">finally coming to fruition. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While the rest of the world will wake up tomorrow all bleary eyed </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and feeling jet lagged after the clocks have shot forward an hour, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Madwoman will leap from bed, fresh as a daisy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is because we have selflessly been getting her into training for tomorrow</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by waking her up at 5am every morning. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She should be really grateful to us, but we bet she isn't.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the meantime, please send any spare turkey morsels you</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have going spare to us: Archie has tweaked something in his paw and is</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hopping around on three legs looking sorrowful. Laser and homeopathic remedies and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ice packs have been applied, but we have more faith in the miraculous curative effects</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of turkey.</span></div>
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madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-73070014500906059822017-03-20T15:00:00.002+01:002017-03-20T15:00:59.168+01:00A bit of education<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yes, we missed posting a blog last week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We know.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As usual, the blame can be laid firmly at</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the feet of the Madwoman, who had failed to tell us</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">in advance that she has decided that in future</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sundays will be computer-free days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, plainly we cannot be held responsible.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We did put the time to good use though:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We spotted a seat that we'd never noticed before</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And yesterday we went to visit the ginger one at Bath.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We stopped along the way for a bit of education.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Although Bath is a bit like another country:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">we have noticed that there are lots of hills, but they lack the graceful elegance</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">of our own local ones. Bath hills are rather lumpy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And much, much muddier and slippier.</span></div>
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madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-80128305893156510012017-03-04T13:44:00.001+01:002017-03-04T13:46:18.012+01:00Getting crafty<div style="border-image: none; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've been keeping the Madwoman on her toes recently - </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">well someone has to, and we never shirk a challenge. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because we are having lots of therapies at the moment, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">including homeopathy with our nice Uncle Chris Day, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and acupuncture and laser with our new Aunty Phillipa, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">plus various food additives to keep our tums and brains working properly, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we are apparently running up quite a few bills. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Madwoman's horse Flash is also doing his bit - </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we will be visiting him soon to congratulate him on his efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This means that the Madwoman has been busy </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">making needlefelt thingummies, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which she hopes to sell to try and pay for some of our bills. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">A bigger table might be handy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the same she is busy making papier mache houndies </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">near the beginning of May.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Naturally we are helping her as she glues and mutters and stabs and screams </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(because she spends quite a lot of time stabbing her finger). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are doing this by keeping out of her way. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As always, supremely helpful. </span></div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-91788102508544211242017-02-27T17:40:00.000+01:002017-02-27T17:40:32.774+01:00Because we're worth it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000;">Guess what?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Yes, we are on blog strike again this week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We have had a busy few days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">being poked, prodded, tweaked,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">and even had needles stuck in us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">The Madwoman tells us it is Therapeutic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">She also tells us it is Expensive, although we are</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Well of course we are.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We thought that went without saying.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">But while she is busy counting her pennies up,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">we are going to take a well-earned nap.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Next week we might tell you about her new project.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Or not.</span></div>
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<br />madwippitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340177414941258289.post-80746332139455206422017-02-18T12:56:00.001+01:002017-02-18T12:56:25.125+01:00Decision time<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sometimes it is necessary to prioritise ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This means that sometimes we have to make difficult choices ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... but sometimes it is quite easy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia;">Take today for example.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia;">No-brainer really ...</span></div>
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