Oliver Jeffers. Oh yeah baby.

You must have heard of Oliver Jeffers.  You have, haven’t you? I say that like I’ve been in on the Jeffers secret from the beginning but I only found him through a blog a year or two ago. The interwebs are fabulous for things like that.  A random click and BINGO > a new artist to love and adore.

I have bought a bunch of his books since then.  Yes, I am a proper grownup … but the illustrations are just so fabulous I wanted to see them with my very own eyes. The stories are pretty cute too.

And speaking of cute, here’s the man himself talking about what he does best.  Enjoy!

And… action!

A screen entrance like no other.

Monty Python Autumn

Each year never fails to remind me of this Monty Python skit. We have a fig tree which does this exact thing….

Autumn, you are a beauty

Autumn is well and truly here in my part of the world. The deciduous trees are shouting “Look at me, no, not her, me, look at meeee“. One of my twitter friends put it perfectly > Autumn, you hussy.

Pretty soon it will all be bare and a bit miserable looking.  But for a  few more precious days it will look like this and we will stop and go “oh wow, would you look at that?”

Just what the trees want us to do.

: )

Hey lady, we don’t know what happened, honest.

Yes, we seem to be having a theme around this place at the moment.  Maybe it’s the autumn weather putting mischief in the air…

 

 That poor pillow survived the longest (about three months outside). Now the dogs only have its pathetic empty skin to lie on. Suffer.

Dear dog, you’re asking for it…

Yep, another doormat bites the dust. This makes three or four now. I don’t know why I bother.

 

Hey Dreamworks animators … I’m sorry

Straight up front I’ll say I don’t know where these pics came from and I apologise for no proper credit… and whomever took this deserves BIG credit.

Have you ever seen a peacock flying?

I have. In Kung Fu Panda 2 the peacock does all these things.  And I thought the film makers were just being ridiculously dramatic. No.

 

How cool was that?! Way cool.