I opened this slightly weird week by seeing a dog drive a car
seriously
I was getting the bags from the back of the car at the grocery shop
when out of the corner of my eye I saw a car gently rolling across the car park
which is unusual enough but add to that there was a dog sitting very calmly in the drivers seat
and I was fairly gob smacked... so what did I do
I stood and giggled... I mean come on there was a dog driving a car
it kept rolling until it came to rest against a now slightly crumpled BMW SUV
the dog continued to sit there tongue out and looking fairly pleased with itself
turns out he wasn't much of a driver because there were plenty of older cars he could have come to rest against, but no he picked the newest and shiniest to act as his brake
I realized there was another witness to this madness because there was an elderly gentleman laughing so hard that he could barely speak
eventually he stopped laughing and all he could choke out was
that dog is a rubbish driver ...
no kidding that is what he said
anyway I have no clue how it all turned out because he said he would wait and tell the driver what happened because he wanted to shake the hand of the dog
he seemed so amused by the whole thing that I left him to it
of course I couldn't wait to tell Sinus and Phantom,
though they took some convincing that I had seen a dog drive
Next on the list of things I never thought I would see is the laundry room floor
the great wall of washing is no more because it turns out that I am not the only one capable of making the washing machine work
Sinus and Phantom have stepped in and done some washing to help out
when I am laid up by the dreaded chemo and it turns out it isn't that hard
well as long as you don't mind a few misshapen clothes
and some creatively tie dyed numbers as a result or mixing colours and whites
not to mention the poor washer has danced across the floor so often due to uneven loads
I have renamed it John Travolta
but the great wall is gone and that is quite something
The final thing I never thought I would see is that I finally lost my rogue hair
due to the onslaught of chemo I lost my locks months ago now
but there was one random very grey hair that stubbornly hung on behind my ear
not one of the really long past my shoulder type hairs thank goodness
that would have looked very odd
but a shortish single grey hair ... It may sound a bit weird but I was quite fond of that grey hair
and the tenacity it showed so I named him Nigel
not for Nigel over at freebird... that would be oddly inappropriate
but Nigel as in Nigel No Mates
but this week I woke to find poor Nigel had finally given up the ghost
and was lying forlornly on my pillow
poor Nige ... he was a good hair
So it has been a week of odd happenings
so I am also posting the odd drawings I have done in my sketchbooks this week
did I paint a dog driving a car ... no
or a washer named John Travolta ... nope
or a lone tenacious hair that deserved to be immortalized for hanging in there for so long... sadly even poor Nigel didn't get a look in
instead I painted my water well pens, some masking fluid
and the Buddha wall hanging from outside...
which like everything else this week is a combination I never thought I would see...
happy painting all... xx