Happy St. Patrick's Day from Lucky McWiggles!

Time for a mish-mosh, hodge-podge of St. Patty's Day stuff from this month, starting with Miss Bailey and all her cuteness.

I love Krispy Kreme, but they are really stretching it with the "Lucky Unicorn" donut for St. Patty's Day. But I do like the one with sprinkles!

From Barbara across the pond:

Mail from Bishop!

And from Renee, too!

And today from Isabella:

Post Script 3/22 from Barbara:

Award Ribbon

I sent out some Yellow Owl Workshop award ribbons to pals and was so happy to receive text messages in reply!

Bishop:

The Neverending Story

I'm currently listening to Gerard Doyle read Michael Ende's fantasy bonanza The Neverending Story. I, of course, being a child of the 80s, first saw the film version on the big screen and loved it. Reading the book I am once again sucked into the world of Fantastica and wish I had read this book as a child. The character of Bastian is much more fleshed out in the book and is so easy to love, especially if you, like me, can always identify with the underdog. Gerard Doyle does a phenomenal job of bringing each character to life and keeping the pace moving on this extraordinary adventure tale.

(post script - I really didn't like it when Bastian turned in to a real shit in the last quarter of the story, but I get why and I'm glad he eventually realised what a horse's ass he was being and got it together in the end.)

Find

Last month I took apart an old frame of Nana Irma's to clean it up a bit and discovered that behind the photo of Nana on vacation as an adult was a baby picture of my cousin Christopher, and sandwiched between them was a photo of Irma at fifteen. We have so few photographs of Nana from before she married (her mother was evil incarnate and therefore never bothered to take pictures of her beautiful, wonderful children). To come across this, I'm guessing, school photo, was a slab of pure gold.

Twin Peaks 25

It's hard to believe it's been four years since the third season aired and I'm only just sitting down to watch it. I scored the entire season from my local library so that I can binge-watch. I heard next to nothing about the show except that most of the cast returns and some people mentioned being disappointed and that it's slow. I have set for myself zero expectations, except to feel glee at seeing those old familiar faces on my television again. I'm about to put on the third episode and so far I'm really enjoying the show, especially seeing lovely Catherine Coulson, who I met (and hugged!) back in 2014. Fingers crossed that the rest of the season is thrilling and weird and confusing and fabulous!

(photo kidnapped from tvseriesfinale)

Kid 90

I saw the trailer for this film last night and signed up for Hulu again just to see it. I never watched Punky Brewster when I was a kid but I always knew about it and it's hard to forget a lovely name like Soleil Moon Frye. It was so cool to see all the home movies and how many moments were captured of so many familiar faces from my formative years. Just a fantastic documentary about how really hard it can be to grow up and how those high school years and friendships make you who you are when you finally reach adulthood. I absolutely plan on watching Kid 90 again while I still have a subscription to the 'lu.

(photo kidnapped from seat42f)

Bella in Boston

To celebrate their third anniversary, Isabella and Jacob went with a couple friends to Boston for a few days. When we FaceTimed the other night I told her to be sure and send me a pic of the adorable couple and she did! She was worried about what to order if they went to a bar, so I gave her a couple of ideas of what to ask for, y'know, something a bit girly and yummy. I said Madras (I used to get that when I would go to the club on goth night back in the day), or to ask the bartender for a tasty martini, like a Lemon or Apple-tini. Looks like she was brave and wound up having a fab time.