I am grinning from ear to ear after watching the latest TV commercial from tea company PG Tips. Please enjoy their latest ad.
(Background for non-Brits, or those born after 1970: monkeys - originally real and now sock puppet - have featured in PG Tips ads for 30 years). The sock puppet has become a cult figure here and new ads are hotly-awaited. This one doesn't disappoint!)
And for those of you who might have heard of Morecambe and Wise (classic UK comedy duo from 60's and 70's), this ad is an homage to their original sketch about breakfast set to music.
You can't help but smile.
:)
PG Tips ad
Click here: PG tips tea - Home
Morecambe & Wise inspiration
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgdhZGLJrY
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
New Year frost
This morning dawned clear, sunny - and icy!
Took the dogs to Wildmoor Heath and the metallic gold sunlight bathed the bracken and browned gorse in shades of Missoni bronzes and reds, set against a icy turquoise blue sky.
3 deer leaped across the sandy pathway in front of me, fleeing down the hill, popping up above the gorse, then disappearing only to pop up again, light as air and springy as kangaroos. The dogs, of course, went wild straining at their leashes to go and chase them.
Am painting my Christmas present, a beautiful forged iron bird standing feeder. It's now shiny dark green, and the wild birds are forlornly waiting in the hedge for me to finish so I cna hang their feeder and fat balls up again. In the meantime they have to make do with seed sprinkled on the wall, where they have to compete with the very bushy grey squirrels and huge wood pigeons.
The ponds and puddles are frozen over - the ponds probably only a light top layer - and the milk in the bottles delivered early this frigid morning came out in slivers of ice milk when I poured it on my cereal!
We are warm and cosy in our home, and it's great to come back after a walk and warm up with a cup of hot strong tea (and a biscuit!)
Must wash the dogs today! It's too cold to do it outside, so they'll have to have a bath and be dried with the hairdryer (which they try to escape at all costs).
New Year's resolution - do 10 mins of yoga stretches each day at home...
I start work Tuesday. Reality check. However, the office is in a gorgeous warren of a century old building in a narrow passageway off a street in Covent Garden. Last time I went there, I came up from the underground ("Tube") at Charing Cross, to find I was in Trafalgar Square. It was another beautiful morning and I was early, so I walked across the sqaure pst the huge Christmas tree and fountains, and entered the National Gallery (free admission). I spent a very happy 45 minutes browsing through the painting galleries before going to my meeting. Love London!
Happy New Year indeed!
Took the dogs to Wildmoor Heath and the metallic gold sunlight bathed the bracken and browned gorse in shades of Missoni bronzes and reds, set against a icy turquoise blue sky.
3 deer leaped across the sandy pathway in front of me, fleeing down the hill, popping up above the gorse, then disappearing only to pop up again, light as air and springy as kangaroos. The dogs, of course, went wild straining at their leashes to go and chase them.
Am painting my Christmas present, a beautiful forged iron bird standing feeder. It's now shiny dark green, and the wild birds are forlornly waiting in the hedge for me to finish so I cna hang their feeder and fat balls up again. In the meantime they have to make do with seed sprinkled on the wall, where they have to compete with the very bushy grey squirrels and huge wood pigeons.
The ponds and puddles are frozen over - the ponds probably only a light top layer - and the milk in the bottles delivered early this frigid morning came out in slivers of ice milk when I poured it on my cereal!
We are warm and cosy in our home, and it's great to come back after a walk and warm up with a cup of hot strong tea (and a biscuit!)
Must wash the dogs today! It's too cold to do it outside, so they'll have to have a bath and be dried with the hairdryer (which they try to escape at all costs).
New Year's resolution - do 10 mins of yoga stretches each day at home...
I start work Tuesday. Reality check. However, the office is in a gorgeous warren of a century old building in a narrow passageway off a street in Covent Garden. Last time I went there, I came up from the underground ("Tube") at Charing Cross, to find I was in Trafalgar Square. It was another beautiful morning and I was early, so I walked across the sqaure pst the huge Christmas tree and fountains, and entered the National Gallery (free admission). I spent a very happy 45 minutes browsing through the painting galleries before going to my meeting. Love London!
Happy New Year indeed!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy New Year 2009!
The festivities are over, the crowds of family have gone, we have eaten too much, and are blissfully happy!
Happy, healthy New Year to all our friends!
It's been deeply cold here, but dry and with some exquisitely beautiful sunny days. Your breath swirls about you whenever you are outside, the birdbath water is frozen solid, to T's delight, and we are putting out lots of seed for the wild birds.
The foal is now about 2 weeks old and spends a lot of its time curled up in the hay next to its mother.
Out walking last night, with strains of muffled party music coming form various houses, plus squeals of children playing outside, and the odd whirr and bang of a firework being set off to celebrate New Year. There was a light frost covering everything. I felt as if I'd stepped into an old-fashioned greetings card sprinkled with glitter. Streets, grass, all sparkled and twinkled under the yellow street lights.
I came out of a walk in the woods this morning across the cricket field and there was a straight slim strip of mist hanging across the field by the copse about 6 feet up, looking like Nature's own protective laser beam. I stepped under it and then looked back, and it was not there!
J
Happy, healthy New Year to all our friends!
It's been deeply cold here, but dry and with some exquisitely beautiful sunny days. Your breath swirls about you whenever you are outside, the birdbath water is frozen solid, to T's delight, and we are putting out lots of seed for the wild birds.
The foal is now about 2 weeks old and spends a lot of its time curled up in the hay next to its mother.
Out walking last night, with strains of muffled party music coming form various houses, plus squeals of children playing outside, and the odd whirr and bang of a firework being set off to celebrate New Year. There was a light frost covering everything. I felt as if I'd stepped into an old-fashioned greetings card sprinkled with glitter. Streets, grass, all sparkled and twinkled under the yellow street lights.
I came out of a walk in the woods this morning across the cricket field and there was a straight slim strip of mist hanging across the field by the copse about 6 feet up, looking like Nature's own protective laser beam. I stepped under it and then looked back, and it was not there!
J
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