From left to right: Belly, Spartacus, Devil Dog and Piggy
Cats make my skin crawl. I can’t be doing with them at all and a litter box in the house is not for this germaphobe, Sure I won’t even have a house plant for fear it would attract crawlies. Besides, cats serve no purpose and in my ordered little universe everything must serve a purpose or it’s straight in the bin. And don't give me the 'they catch mice' line. My chickens are far better mousers than any cat.
I can tolerate dogs, I have 4 of them, a situation not of my choosing. They have their own room with outside access in an extension at the end of the house, but the rest of the building is out of bounds. At one stage I had 18 dogs after 2 strays we rescued produced 14 puppies between them.
No, I didn’t drown them. I’m no Cruella De Vil. I love animals, at a distance, and haven’t eaten one in 40 years. I’m more your Howard Hughes type, though I don’t store my urine in mason jars. I like things clean and orderly. In fact, I insist upon it.
Just as I insist upon eggs for breakfast. Boiled, fried or scrambled, I love them all, and I've got the chickens to prove it!
Along with my daily eggs I have nutritional yeast, sea salt, Irish Sea Moss, a pile of greens fresh from the garden, and in Summer lashings of basil pesto.
This morning's breakfast"Go to work on an egg" was an advertising slogan for the UK’s Egg Marketing Board when I was a kid in the 1960s, a masterly double entendre that left me with not only a lifelong love of eggs but with a fascination for words and wordplay.
Perhaps that’s why when it comes to films, it’s the dialogue rather than the subject matter that interests me. I’m open to most genres as long as the dialogue is amusing, apart from horror films that is. I haven’t watched a horror film since 1967 when at 4 years old I inadvertently viewed The Masque of the Red Death.
If truth be told, and it always is here, though I used to be a regular cinemagoer, I haven't been to the pictures in at least ten years. There's too much wokeism in films these days. It seems it's impossible to get funding unless all of your characters are homosexual dwarfs in mixed-race relationships. Even Snow White has to be black. The Brothers Grimm must be turning in their graves.
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Posted in response to galenkp's weekend experience prompt asking you 'Cats or dogs, which do you prefer and why?'
Your favourite breakfast food. Show us what it is and tell us why you love it.
Horror, comedy or romance movies, Which do you prefer and why?'