The Walking Dead Spoilers

I blame the script writers of The Walking Dead , for when it suits Kirkman's narrative, they allow the characters to assue new directions of behaviour and motivation that often don't make any sense at all  to the die hard fans who have followed the series from day one.

I understand why they do it.....they have to manipulate the story into areas that only make sense in the comics.........and the  comics are more suited to teenage geeks who love the salacious...the scriptwriters forget that ........the tv series are for a more sophisticated audience! 

So in East  we have almost all of the  alpha characters outside the soon to be besieged Alexandria. 

Daryl is off on a somewhat perplexing revenge raid followed by Glen, Rosita and Michonne . The newly pacifist Carol is cornered by another ( yes another) group of Saviours and spectacularly has to  kill again ( and gets injured in the process) and Rick and Morgan leave a near defenceless hometown to go and retrieve her......

Oh and Maggie gets pregnancy pains which means ( with the timely death of the lovely Denise) that a trip to see the hilltop doctor may be in order...........and .............Daryl definately gets shot! 

The scene has therefore been clumsily set! 

All of the main characters are out! And at the mercy of the new uber villian Negan who is set to appear in the finale..........with his overblown and silly barbed wire baseball bat in hand....

What's The Best Thing Your Mother Ever Did For you?

In idle chit chat mother-in-law was recalling memories of her own Broadstairs childhood. Her mother was a full time teacher who ran a home, shopped for the week's meat on a Friday by bike and catered for a whole gaggle of relatives for the entire summer holidays as Broadstairs was the destination to visit in early postwar Britain.
Selfless motherlove that has been reenacted a million times over in a million homes

My own grandmother was famous for saving my mother and uncle during an air raid over liverpool during the war. Just before the bomb blasts brought down the ceilings and blew in the windows, she single handedly covered the children with a heavy sofa before leading them to safety wrapped in chenille curtains.
Selfless Mother Love on a grander scale.
Both as important as the other.

What is the best thing your mother ever did for you?
I'd be interested to hear.

Puppy Wrestling

I love this photo......it's the kind of photo you can hear as well as see.
Mary has taken to Sorrel.
This is , I am sure, a reflection that Sorrel is our first female visitor, who has a tendency to shriek when bated by an over active puppy. The louder the shriek, the better the game, and so every few minutes of stalking, out Mary will bound and an unsuspecting mother-in-law will scream a rather satisfying scream before OAP and Puppy embark in a lusty bout of all in wrestling.
It is Sorrel's Birthday today...I'm in the process of making a roast for lunch! 

A Stripper's Knickers!

I'm waiting outside the hospital after a 13 hour shift

The taxi is a little late.

I am getting a taxi because the Prof needed the car to take him and Sorrel to church

Easter is a big gig apparantly

I stink like an old cart horse who has worn a stripper's knickers too long

That's intensive care at full stretch for you

Hey ho

You Can't Beat a Plump Cushion!

One of my guilty purchases

 We are in Liverpool. The Prof and his mum are shopping, I was going to the Tate Gallery but it's shut! So whilst the others are giving Zara a bashing, I have done what any self respecting gay man over forty does,I have had to settle for the soft furnishings department of John Lewis.......
Let it be known now,and I am out and proud......... I love nice cushions!
There I've said it!

All cushioned out.......I had a doze at Albert Dock

This shopping lark is hard work

Snatched From Facebook

Blogs are not really the forum for posting cute videos featuring cats

( That is the remit of facebook)

But this video made me chuckle last night

It made me chuckle as it totally reminded me of the Prof

That wonderful face

The hint of a curly moustache

The slightly imperious look.

That's my husband! 

Timing

Mary opened her bowels on the hearthrug at 19.10

Just after I finished a posh pot noodle in front of the tv

I left it there

( the  shit not the pot noodle) 

And in a fit of pre mother-in-law cleaning stress I ate all of the chocolate rabbit

Mrs Trellis bought for the Prof for Easter! 

Hey ho

Operation Dog Snot Removal

The spare room in the West Wing has been spring cleaned in readiness for the mother in law's arrival.
It didn't take too long, the room is the size of a nun's cell.
I've bathed the dogs , bought more scented candles that would sink the Queen Mary and am just in the process of washing the fanny stains from the couch throws.
My life is one heady whirl of excitement......the Prof is wisely working away until tomorrow night