The Art Of Innocent Looking....

"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
Jim Henson

Because, according to aprecious, I cannot be entirely trusted I am not allowed the free run of the house. I know you probably find this hard to believe, but I do occasionally do naugtinesses. Not on purpose, you understand? Mostly, I am just trying to help out.

The nearest I get to free run of the house is at bedtime when I am able to charge up and down the stairs (if they take their eyes off me for a minute!) and investigate, find interesting things to chew and rip apart check everything is in order.

Last night, I had one of my free running moments. aprecious was pretending to be cross and shouted, "Maud! Up these stairs at this very minute!" And generally shouting. So, I thought I better go back up but I couldn't straight away because I had discovered something really, really interesting that they had somewhat stupidly left behind in the living room.

Thelma! In a bag. Thelma, the lovely, pristine chicken. The mascot for the camper van....

I thought they must have forgotten to look after Thelma properly so I grasped her in my mouth and decided to take her back to them! Fancy not taking good care of her? I knew it must just be an oversight.

I wasn't going to pull her innards out or anything like that. Or chew off her wattle. Or her beak.

aprecious has placed Thelma high up. On a shelf. For some reason.

Writing day today. It is positively autumnal. This is my 8th week off work and I can tell you honestly that we have had virtually zero sun in all that time. Next week the jet stream does a swift about turn and moves back to its normal position.

The border is from an iPhone app. Where Lady M goes, I follow. Thank you.

For comparison

Edit at 11:00 (ish) - just noticed you can see her teeth on this... how cute!