Pandora and Bob

There is a school of thought that says one should do something different every day to keep the brain and body on their toes. So to that end, with it being a Bank Holiday and all, we had breakfast in bed and watched CBeebies, which we would never normally do for obvious reasons.
(Crumbs and infantilism).

We had toast and marmalade, strawberries and yogurt. We watched Bob the Builder, Jollywobbles, Buzz and Tell and Timmy Time. I am familiar with Bob the Builder, it being around at the tale end of my own children's childhood. In fact, I seem to remember Heather having a Kipper the Cat amongst her toys. Jollywobbles and Buzz and Tell were merciful in their brevity. And because Jollywobbles was mime and music and amusing sounds, Andy was of the opinion it had been made to fulfil the foreign market, too, and was slightly disgusted with the BBC for this reason. Buzz and Tell was like a game show with watered down sarcasm, and a know-it-all bunny which, quite frankly, needed taking down a peg or two. But there was also a chicken so the programme did redeem itself slightly.

And Timmy Time I am familiar with because it is a spin-off of Shaun the Sheep, who in turn is a spin-off from Wallace and Gromit. All these spin offs - must be something to do with the wool. And I am familiar with Shaun the Sheep because my 70 year old Mum is a big fan of his programme. (You see, life is cyclical and we all return to our childhood eventually!). Timmy Time is also delivered without comprehensible language a la Bill and Ben but you'll be pleased to know that today Timmy won the boat race with the help of his sneezing badger friend and the moral of the story seemed to be that it is good to share and even better to avoid whalloping your sneezing badger friend with irritation because he can't help having a cold and something positive came of it eventually, didn't it?

And all the while we were eating breakfast in bed and watching CBeebies, Pandora Kitten was perched on my feet, enthralled by Bob the Builder. I kid you not. Normally, if there is toast in the vicinity, you'd be trying to eat it with one hand and fending her off with the other as she is very fond of toast. But not this morning. Oh no! So enraptured was she with the shenanagins of Bob and his mates, that she was completely oblivious to any toast-related activities.

And she was quite interested in Jollywobbles, too, and didn't really realise she was missing out on breakfast until Timmy Time came on, by which time it was too late because we'd finished.

So Pandora has a new love.
'Do you think it's because she's got the mind of a three year old?' I said.
'I expect so,' said Andy.
'That's good, then,' I said. 'Because she's barely one and a half. She must be a highly intelligent, ahead of her time creature.'

The second thing I did today that I don't normally do is get some daffodil bulbs organised ready to plant for next Spring. This is good for me, because every year I think, it'll be good to have a few daffodils about, but I don't think this until I actually see the daffodils coming up, which is too late to plant them. But thanks to my two gardening magazines and Chris saying to me yesterday, 'The Spring bulbs are in, Mum,' I am ahead of the game this year, or rather on time with the game.

I've plumped for February Gold, Minnow and Hawera which, in theory, should give us a goodly show from February through to May. But daffodils, like bees, probably don't read the magazines, so they'll arrive and stay as and when and for as long as they darn well please I guess. And with the weather being completely weird (I had to put on a CARDIGAN this morning - I mean, I ask you. A cardigan in August??) who can tell???

And this evening's unusual activity will be the creation of a mood board. It was an activity suggested in the paper this morning as one that is motivational, creative and works with the Law of Attraction principle. Well, I don't know about that, but it sounded fun, and as my designated TV programme choice of the day isn't on until 10 p.m when I shall be too tired to stay awake and watch it anyway, I've got some time to get creative and motivational in. Which reminds me, I need to crack on with the kitchen cushions I started and get those finished, too.

Tomorrow is D-Day. Yes, Decorating Day is almost upon us. Do I need to hoover the skirting boards do you think? Now there is an activity to take my brain by surprise!