SOPPY SUNDAY

  1. This peoples is taking me in to work today. I’ve found that peoples come in hand for things like that, which is just as well because they are no use for most things.

2. Down with Tories, us sheep say.

3. Beach party.

4. A nice welcome from the little one.

5. Where’s Andi?

6. Great story about this fellow, Storm, getting himself a free ride on Melbourne’s Werribee Line. There’s a video on the link. He’s back safe with his peoples now.

7. Hello. I’m all dressed up here in my Soppy Sunday best.

8. Oh, hello there.

9. Haven’t I got nice feet?

10. We called off the race.

11. Some just like someone to cuddle to get off to sleep.

12. I’m an arboreal lizard. What are you?

13. For heaven’s sake don’t tell any of those lards you lot have that I’m here. They’ll want me for a collar. Imagine being stuck round the neck of one of these smelly old aristos?

14. How kind of that sculptor to make me a bed.

15. I want to be a peacock when I grow up.

16. Gap of Dunloe, County Kerry.

17. Slow down, daddy… and you should be paying attention too, dog!

18. You wouldn’t believe that this is a part of our capital.

19. You’re right, this Golden Crown Kinglet doesn’t believe it.

20. Munguin visiting Hill of Tarvit near Cupar.

21. And playing croquet.

22. He was given a tour around the …erm, servants’ quarters (he didn’t realise that servants had to live somewhere) and was mystified by the equipment they used. No idea what this is for.

23. He was pleased to see that the important people had their clothes ironed, although Tris could barely lift some of the irons, which had to be heated by a furnace. He’ll have to start again at the gym.

Or this…

24. Also, there isn’t enough room in the Towers for this size of equipment. So Tristan will have to move out of his apartments to make space. Does anyone have a tent or a garden hut they can lend him?

25. Sugar cane snack provided by Munguin at a modest cost, to keep the strength up during a long shift on the door.

On behalf of Munguin, I’d like to thank AndiMac and Quokka for their kind contributions.

56 thoughts on “SOPPY SUNDAY”

        1. I think she used to live in a big hoose up in the Grange, other side of Edinburgh. Last I heard she bought a huge chunk of our land in the Scottish countryside, spoiling the beauty by her presence.
          The street is gorgeous, mews houses, which were of course where the lower folks lived in the upper floor, horse and carriages kept underneath, that were used to ferry the rich Newtown folk about town. I walk that street often to look at the lovely plants and flowers, tourists love to photograph it. Shame about the name, Cumberland Street lane.

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          1. Must check it out next time I’m in Edinburgh, which will be soon. I want to check out the new tram routes.

            It is a big shame about the name!

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          1. Tris……Whether you live in posh “picturesque” neighborhoods, or in slums that look like bombed out war zones, depends on how much money you have. And you need LOTS of it to live in posh Washington, New York, Boston, Detroit, New Orleans, San Francisco, etc. New York City finally cleaned up Manhattan, but not so sure about the South Bronx. Washington DC is said to have cleaned up its horrendous pre-WWII slums considerably. Pictures of the DC slums within sight of the Capitol dome were iconic from the 1930’s and 40’s. Even today, driving from the gleaming white buildings and monuments of the federal city and Embassy Row into low-income residential areas of the city is a considerable shock.

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            1. Jeez, I see what you mean, Danny.

              So much poverty cheek by jowl with so much opulence.

              I hear that Trump, back in DC to be arraigned was telling reporters what a mess the place had become since he left.

              Hmmmm He’s so full of bull.

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  2. Just imagine in years to come people
    Wil find munguins soppy Sunday archive buried in the ash .

    Then say so that’s what life was like
    Before the world 🌍 burned 🔥 down
    👀 looks idyllic.

    Εν πάσι γαρ τοις φυσικοίς ενεστί τι θαυμαστόν.

    -In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous

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    1. Well, we are doing something right then… When the world starts up again in a few million years, Munguin’s greatness will be appreciated by mankind… or whatever kind is in charge.

      🙂

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  3. Is there a couple of repeaters there? I definitely remember the Aussie dug! Loved the bunnie in no 8 – that one can be repeated anytime, such a cutie! Easter maybe – heck if the shops can have Xmas stuff, I can talk about Easter!

    I knew the cute Edinburgh street too. Gareth has written about it, not sure if he still lives there. Tonnes of elephants too (see what I did there!). But as ever the doorangutans steal the show. Tonight on stv and thus later on stv player, Walking with Orangutans whereby Levison Wood – a military spook (77 Brigade) and explorer – does just that.

    Loved Munguin at Hill House of Tarvit, a place I’ve been several times. Seems he had a great time. I’m surprised no-one on staff stopped his posing but I guess he had Tris to act as lookout 🙂

    All in all such a balm for the soul.

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    1. Odd… Quokka just sent me the Aussie Dog.

      Other thing… yes, I sometimes forget to delete them and I can’t remember if I’ve used them here, or on Facebook or Twitter … or whatever…

      I sometimes get a severe reprimand from Roddy for repeating busses.

      Walking with Orangutans sounds good.

      Munguin has the staff trained. They bow and curtsey appropriately and wouldn’t DARE say anything when he wants to poke around in their buildings.

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  4. This really is a hangover from AOY but I’ll post here anyway. From a recent BBC Sondheim review. Didn’t know she was heading for 90.

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    1. Aye, she’ll be 91 in November. But she can still get the audience standing …and still pretty.

      Love her as an artiste. There seems to be no style of music she can’t tackle and make her own.

      And as a person I’ve had the pleasure to spend time with, here, in France and in Switzerland, she’s a delight.

      Fun to be with, and absolutely no “side” to her.

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  6. I enjoyed the pictures of Munguin’s tour.

    https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/hill-of-tarvit-mansion

    # 21……Croquet is vastly underrated IMHO. We had a croquet set.
    Sensible summertime activity played by men in ties, blazers, and straw boaters; and women in long white dresses.

    #22……I first thought of a rushlight holder. But probably not in upper crust Edwardian times.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushlight

    #23…….Reminded me of an item in our family collection from the days on the old family farm……a kerosene powered iron, ca. 1940’s. No external heating required. Some rural areas of Missouri didn’t get electrical service (from FDR’s Rural Electrification Administration) until the early 1950’s.

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    2. It was a nice place, Danny and the (volunteer) staff were fantastic. Knowledgeable and friendly, witty and charming all at the same time.

      The instrument was found in servants area of the house… the Edwardian laundry. I guess it could have held a candle … but maybe it was a bit elaborate for a laundry… Good suggestion though.

      Was that iron VERY heavy?

      I tried lifting them, and the one at Munguin’s left hand was a two hand job! How they ironed with it, I do not know.

      These ones were heated in a space about the furnace, so no kerosine.

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      1. TRis……As I recall, it seems a bit heavier than an electric iron of the time, some of which would be the weight of the kerosene tank. Probably much lighter than the kind you saw. They were heated externally, so you needed lots of heavy iron to hold the heat.

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          1. I’ve never lifted that kind of iron. But without its own heat source, it needs to have a very high heat capacity, so that once it’s hot, it stays hot long enough to use. So the bigger and heavier the iron, the longer it stays hot. Must have been torture to use for long periods.

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  7. Tris, Pic 2 is a goffering iron. They were used for ironing frills, flounces on things like ruffs, fancy pleated cuffs, etc. Those bits that look like iron test tubes were hollow and you inserted a iron plug heated in a fire (you can see that in the lower tube). That heated up the tube and you could iron the ruffles, etc., by winding them around the hot tube. I note that Munguin has accepted an antique clothes peg as a souvenir of his visit.

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    1. He he. Thanks, Andi.

      It looked like an instrument of torture to me!!!

      Munguin picked up the clothes peg on the way in. He wasn’t sure, never having been in the servants’ quarters, but he feared the place might smell of common people, so he had it at hand to put over his nose and block the pong.

      He really was much more at home of the croquet lawn.

      🙂

      https://applecrossantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/GofferingIron1a-1050×1478.webp

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  8. Lovely pictures, some very cute cuddly ones there. Sadly, elephants are facing extinction in parts of Africa, in the very near future. Absolutely tragic.
    Number 23 below the heavy irons, don’t know what it was for but it would make a very nice printing press for woodcuts or etchings.
    Talking of irons, when my sons were wee, we were walking past a bin and my youngest asked, what’s that mummy? It was an ironing board, lol, proof of my housekeeping skills. Why waste time flattening clothes when they just get creased again. My twin sister used to iron her socks, not sure if she still does. Do they iron stuff in Australia.

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    2. LOL.

      I knew a bloke who ironed his underwear… seriously… what a pillock!

      Whats the reason for the elephants facing extinction, Hetty? Is it climate related of human murderer related?

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    1. Oh that was brilliant! Saw a few kitties there which reminds me fellow ailurophile that 8th August is international cat day. So, in honour of the Highland Tiger – my addition to the vids

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      2. My granny would have called Hamish a “bobby dazzler”.

        Actually, at the Deer Centre today we saw some wild cats, but they weren’t in the least willing to cooperate with us by even waking up for a photograph… so don’t expect anything much!

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    2. Auldmarcia, big thanks for the Riga Art Nouveau. I’m a big fan of Art Nouveau (and its successor, Art Deco). Some of the Riga stuff seems to be an amalgam of art Nouveau and Belle Époque, but none the less fascinating for that. Looks like a trip to Latvia needs to be planned. Might just take in Estonia and Lithuania too. Ah’ll need tae start coontin the bawbees.

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