Things I Never Thought I Would See ...

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