A Party

Friend Who Knows Too Much is on the Island for a few days.  Last evening she brought some friends to Eagleton for dinner.  Two of the friends are from Australia.  It was a very convivial evening with a great deal of serious discussion on esoteric subjects.  And if you believe that you will believe anything.  The company was absolutely brilliant and the very diverse personalities and backgrounds and experience and ages made for an evening filled with so much laughter that at the end of it my face and lung muscles had stretched beyond repair.  

It has long been tradition in my house that FWKTM and her children, when leaving the house, fill in where they think that they are on Pip's Tree.  Yesterday she had no children with her so, as the friends were leaving, we all filled in 'our' position on the Tree.

Sarah, who was taking the pic, is laughing too.  Believe me.

Friends For Lunch

Friend Who Knows Too Much with Daughter Who Loves Horses and Artist Daughter came for lunch today.  One could not wish for better companionship and humour.  I love them dearly.   For very many years I have had a line drawing. I have absolutely no recollection of who gave it me but I’ve always known it as Pip’s Tree.  It is framed in glass and sits in my hall with a pen to enable people to look at it, decide where they are on it at any particular time and colour in their ‘self’ for the day.  This is something we four do and this is the four of us today.  I’m waving.  FWKTM’s standing on the branch with her two daughters and AD is having a piggyback.  DWLH is on the platform.  None of us is falling off today!  That has to be a Good Thing.

A few years ago I discovered from CJ’s blog posting What Sort of a Day Are You Having that the Tree was, in fact, Pip Wilson’s copyright and known as the Blob Tree.   I understand that used at this size the copyright is not being infringed.  For more details see Pip Wilson’s site .