Day 13: My Family

Day 12: Favourite Fairytale

My favourite fairytale is The Cat Who Was King. I believe that was what it was called. I do not know where my mother's copy has got to and neither does said mother. It was yellow and the pictures looked nothing like these. 

Searching for it on the internet I found this tale by the famed fairytale writer Andrew Lang. He wrote all the coloured fairy books - The Blue Fairy Book etc. Also, I may have heard of him because he gave his name to a lecture series at St Andrews. This would be the kind of thing I would go to. These lecture series with  prestigious names always have canapes. Lang's tale is called The Colony of Cats and has some dissimilarities from the storybook I read as a child. The tale I remember did not have the girls working as servants for the cat king - who was definitely a king - they were just there on errands.

I have made my heroine Jewish, because of the star on her forehead reminding me of the Star of David. I suppose she could have just as well have been pagan. Next time.

The nasty stepsister kicks a kitten!

Despite the donkey's tail, the prince engaged to the heroine is tricked into getting into the wedding carriage with nasty girl wearing a huge, thick veil. He gets suspicious when she won't let him see under her veil, sounds entirely different - claiming she has a cold - and is just a grumpy-pants. So he tears off the veil, sees it's not his fiancee and pushes her out of the carriage. This latter part, seems somewhat unnecessary, seeing as how he could've just called the driver to stop. However, we must make allowances for the poor boy, since he's probably just had a nasty fright. 

Day 11: Turning Point in Your Life

These questions are getting a bit personal. I copped out and did my favourite literal turning point - imagine there's a signpost in front of this oblong blob. The oblong blog is the milkstand which is at the turning point between Traboe and Rosuick on the Lizard Peninsula. I guess my ancestors may have placed milk churns on it long ago.

Day 10: Favourite Confectionary

Just been craving nougat lately. Perhaps because it's not as common as chocolate and caramel and therefore, it's hard to surfeit. Recent nougat experiences were provided by couchsurfer Frank Paul (artist of this zany apocalypse), who I hosted for his 2nd stop-off on a hike from Land's End to John o' Groats. I forget what type of nougat he brought, but it was very nice, soft and honey tasting, with pistachios. The other one was reduced Cote d'Or chocolate covered nougat bars, which I got from 10p from the Cornish Candy Shoppe, my local sweetshop, because they were out of date. They were gorgeous, but expensive at real price :s, so I haven't had any more.

Gosh. I actually can talk quite a lot about nought. I thought this was going to be a short post.

Day 9: Favourite Animated Character

Penny Crayon! She can draw anything she likes! Like cars and dogs and chloroform and cinnamon and bikes! And dan da dan da dandan da doo d-doo d-doo something something something and fourteen hundred trikes!

Yeah. I think you get the picture. From the same animators as The Family Ness. Whatever Penny draws comes to life. Actually, it sounds like a Midas curse. 

I watched Penny Crayon as a child, but the character I recently rewound the Skyplus to watch again and again was the Cat Bus.