O Frabjous Day!

[ailbhe]

We had a marvellous day. We found a shady glade with dew on the grass and had lunch with acorns dropping all around us, we found a male peacock sitting on a nest and male peacock with no tailfeathers left and about three baby peacocks and two females. We found a pheasant that looked like a cartoon parrot in colour, and we lay in a sunny clearing and watched the sky, which was full of dragonflies and little helicopter-seeds whirling madly across the opening in the trees.

Linnea insisted on wearing my jumper for a good part of the day. Yes, she was much too hot.

We watched coots on the waterlily pond and Linnea found a truly excellent rock which we then had to extract from the precarious positions into which she threw, kicked or chewed it. Linnea picked a flower - but only one, and anywhere but Kew it would have been a weed anyway, so that's kind of ok. I mean, of course I feel guilty about it, but I also picked up other people's litter so I think that's even.

We played "One two three wheee!" with Linnea until she stopped walking at all for one two three and just sort of hung from our arms waiting for wheee. Rob carried Linnea on his shoulders and she imperiously removed his hat because it was surplus to requirements; I, at her right hand, took the hat and placed it where it couldn't interfere. She flew on my shins while I lay on my back.

Linnea and I fed each other cashews and raisins and she removed the yolk from her egg and put it in my hand to be got rid of. Rob and Linnea did a bit of plane-spotting and Linnea identified the moon again ("Ball!") even though it was a crescent. She was also very polite and unencroaching towards a passing pussycat.

Linnea went to bed after we got home, having eaten snack-dinner on the train, and Rob and I had fishfingers and baked beans for tea. And that was wonderful too.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Zoe and DJ are very useful around yolks-that-need-to-be-got-rid-of.

[ailbhe]

I just had this asphyxiatingly gigglemaking urge to say "Jeez, do you HAVE to mention those dogs ALL the FRICKIN' TIME?"

Only I can't quite manage the accent it's in my head in. In which it's in my head. Ow. Perhaps I should come offline, stop waiting for gmail to work again, and go to bed...

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I can unmention them, if you like. Egg yolks are the stimulus, here.

[ailbhe]

Oooh, the unmentionable dogs (dawgs, I'm saying, in my mother's fake American accent). No, I wanted to say it because I actually had to suppress the urge to see how often I had typed "Linnea" in my post. Well, when I say had to...

I should stop wibbling and go to bed. Like that's gonna happen.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

And I note you're not even on my dog filter. ;)

[ailbhe]

That is probably just as well. We so, so don't have room for a dog here. Nor for more kittens. Why the hell haven't I gone to bed already?

[djelibeybi.livejournal.com]

*This* is what LJ is really all about.

We get to read about your wonderful day. You get to keep the memories and look back on them when you need a cheer-up.

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

Jealous...Kew in late Summer. Sigh......sounds like a wonderful fantaboulous gorgeous day, and one that all of you will remember.