Actually we have two sofas in the front “formal living room”, and Chloe likes both of them, at various times! She has always preferred to lean rather than just sit! But apparently, she forgot for a while:
Chloe on the sofa
Stick insect!
At school (many) years ago, we had stick insects – I kept some of my own in a tall plastic jar, feeding them with privet hedge branches and watching them grow, lay eggs (which hatched into tiny versions of their parents); all fascinating stuff but I’m astonished to discover that there’s one of these exotic creatures right here in our garden!
It wasn’t keen on me getting close with the camera, and proved itself alive by moving and turning away a bit, though it didn’t move in the slow wobbling wiggly way that I remember from school days …
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Sorry to anyone that’s not keen on insects, but I always found these fascinating when I was young!
Welcome (back) to MINI
Surprisingly, I discovered this weekend that MINI USA still send out welcome kits, quite differently packaged to what I’ve received previously; the interesting package design is intended to be re-usable, with instructions to turn it inside out and use it as a bag:
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Contents include the usual MINI pen and notebook, also a quite nice MINI flash drive and of course a copy of MINI International; also included are “adverts” for MINI insurance, MINI Performance Motoring School, MINI Financial (but I’ve already bought the car so can’t understand this one!), a Name Your MINI sticker, a quite fun 101 Fundamentals of Good Motoring booklet, and of course the Welcome Letter (sadly no longer from Jim McDowell).
Nice job, MINI USA – a good reminder of why I’m driving a MINI again.
M&I / GBMINI 
