Sunday 11 November 2018

Flashbacks


 This isn't going to be a wobbly soap opera-style flashback post (like certain others), just a series of fleeting glimpses into some goings on, and items of limited interest over the past couple of months, so we can get up-to-date before ploughing ahead with with current affairs.
 First up - despite the gruesome rabbit head photo on the right there (more on that in a mo) - are a couple of Triffid-based items that we had almost forgotten about.  It was only the talk of the Garden Photos Event over at The Very Mistress's that reminded me.

Beautiful Liriope in the Extensive Gardens of Castlette DeVice at the end of September


Phalaenopsis orchid towering over the loo in the smallest room of Château DeVice in mid-September
(and it's still going now - although half the flowers have dropped.  More orchids can be found here.)
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 Moving into October, here are some of those un"squash"able spiders (and a bat) that I mentioned in the last post.  I conjured these up for our work Hallowee'en decorations.

It's amazing what one can do with a tiny pumpkin and a load of twigs

I took these back to Indescribable's for Hallowe'en and gave them to the Little Witch and Von Smallhausen

This is supposed to be a bat, but it looks more like a pig or boar with wings...
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 Finally, here is our hot, surly Postman who, I think, looks a little like Mistress Maddie's gardener, only with more clothes.  I must admit to getting all tongue-tied and flummoxed when he approaches my slot with a big package!

Such is his hold over me, that I think he may be other than human...

oOo


 Next up (probably), will be the anomalous T-shirt...

21 comments:

  1. I have to share these with super nana for next year's Halloween decor! BGM is HUGE on holiday decorating!! Really nicely done, sweetpea!

    Love the orchids and your Postman. Both are GORGEOUS! xoxox

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    1. If Super Nana and BGM go down the mini-pumpkin & twigs route, I hope you'll take some photos - I'd love to see what they come up with.

      I practically had to elbow the orchid aside to get a quick, if rather stalkery, snap of my yummy posty!

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  2. I want a bat cage!!
    Is that rabbit's head strapped to a fan?? You have been busy.
    Sx

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    1. "Quick! To the Bat Cage!"

      Yes, it's a rabbit on a fan! It was one of the youngsters' ideas to have the ghastly head sweep from side to side and survey the office.

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  3. YIKES! It's the bunny from Donnie Darko!

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  4. I have truly missed you dear. This past October toward Halloween, you were my inspiration for many of the post. Especially the Halloween House inLambertville. I love the little spider and bat...what a great idea....but then I got lost over that postman. Trust me...I would be making him come twice.

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    1. I'm sorry I missed your Hallowe'en postings at the time - I have since gone back and read them, though. The Lambertville house decorations are brilliantly creepy!

      Drat! "The Postman Always Comes Twice" would have been a much better title to this post. And I expect you could get him to make an afternoon delivery, too!

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  5. Your hunky postman seems to be approaching your slot with a cell phone....I hope we are not going to hear about this on the Nine O'clock News!

    Love your Phalaenopsis, too!

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    1. Oh, he's always got that thing out! (And his ear-phones in.)

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  6. I'd like to take delivery of his pseudobulb!

    Jx

    PS Love the spiders...

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    1. I'm sure you'd have no trouble handling it, as it is quite swollen and bursting out of its sheath...

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    2. In full bloom, I imagine it might be quite magnificent. Jx

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    3. Do have a towel or something handy, as the nectar is sticky and thick, and can be produced in surprising quantities.

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    4. My kind of Harvest Festival. Jx

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  7. And to think I was considering posting Nancy Spain to you! Now I'm not. Purely to save your blushes of course. That's some postman you've got there.
    I seem to have fallen in love with Ben, the First Doctor companion. Why can't I fancy someone alive?
    I'm a little concerned about the flora and fauna though. Don't you have a nuclear reactor near by?

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    1. A nuclear reactor?? Do we??

      * hastily googles - or Bings, rather *

      Oh, yes! Sizewell A & B down there in Suffolk. Perhaps Black Shuck was a Yorkshire Terrier who strayed too close to one of the reactors...?

      While I was at it, I Binged Ben ( sounds a bit risque) - Not bad for a dead chap!

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    2. Ben was re-cast for last Xmas Doctor Who special, apparently (I never watched it) - by this fine young man! Jx

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    3. Well, he's not too hideous... ;)

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  8. The Halloween creations are awesome! FUNtastic!

    The purple flowers and orchids are gorgeous! The only thing that had ever grown in my bathroom was a huge web from a spider who came in the bathroom window that I had left cracked open while I was out of town for two weeks.

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    1. Hopefully that spider kept all the other bugs out? Or ate them!

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