This is the 300 year old oak that was felled by lightning and was resurrected as a children’s favourite. I’ve told the story of the oak-born, knock-kneed and sharp-clawed Gruffalo before, most recently yesterday. The Cosmic Photo Challenge: From an Unusual Perspective
Every pebble on a beach is potentially ancient, every sand kernel was potentially once a large rock. My favourite earrings and the matching pendant are certifiably ancient, they are ammonites, actual fossils. In Nierstein, a wine growing village next to the river Rhein, they have … Continue reading Lasting Materials
I tried to replace it but this particular small mouse is not sold anymore. So a couple of weeks back, I told about my plight on social media, on a local “free your stuff” site where one can give stuff away or ask for particular … Continue reading One Day in March, I Lost My Mouse
Double-dipping for Ragtag Daily Prompt: Cracked and FOWC with Fandango: Unexpected
we ever had with our live trap, aka mouse cage.
Bought when our cat, Henry, was still young and brought live mice in the house and sometimes they got away. We usually caught and released them but one was elusive. So we bought this trap. The only mouse that ever ventured inside was the Gruffalo mouse.
Nowadays Henry eats the mice he catches. Except for the green wobbly bit. (if you’ve ever read Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents you know what I mean).
Sorry, that was a typo. It should read: The Model in … nevermind. I had an extended photo shoot with the mouse from Gruffalo fame last week and in this particular photo the crack was the focus and not the mouse. FOWC with Fandango: Crack
Do you remember Russian nesting dolls? A couple of years back a friend of mine who knew my liking of the Gruffalo children’s books sent me the Gruffalo version of the Matryoska dolls (including a paint brush and paints).
The Fox, the Owl, the Snake, and the Mouse are inside the Gruffalo.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: One Thing Inside Another
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All the characters from the Gruffalo book can be seen on the “Grüffelo Weg” in Weinheim. This is the mouse.
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It seems I can’t stay away from the Gruffalo. This sculpture, carved in one piece from a tree felled by lightning, is standing alongside a foot path leading up to an old castle ruin. One has to walk quite a bit up if one wants to look up at the creature, no cars possible there.
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