Autumn arrived a few weeks ago, and literally overnight the trees where I live lost their leaves following a terribly windy night.
Miss Emily was also bragging about her new wellies and I took her out for a quick pic session. It was not very successful I am afraid.
“Gee, just look at all these leaves! did you do that?”
“Me? Miss Emily you credit me with too much energy, twas the wind. Didn’t you hear it last night?”
“Now that was wind! I thought the house was going to blow away and wanted to start packing my hats and hair bows away just in case.”
“Talk about hats, where did you get that chapeau from anyway?”
“Ah, tis a school hat, I found it in a shop in town, it’s very nice.”
“It’s also a bit too small for you, or maybe your bonce is too big?”
“My bonce big?”
“Yep, a 5 gallon hat on a 10 gallon head.”
“That’s not very nice, I think I must go pout.”
“Are you sure you don’t want to pick up all these leaves instead?”
“No thanks, I will leaf that to the experts. Oh, I made a pun.”
“And it was truly punful to hear.”
“I definitely feel a pout coming on.”
“Never mind the pout, do you realise that a few years ago you made your debut amongst the leaves on the field?”
“Yikes! what is with all the yellow? I look like a 46″ banana!”
“Oh I don’t know, I think you looked kind of cute, all prim and proper. Even your sandals were yellow.”
“That is scarey. I hope I don’t have them anymore.”
“No, I gave them away because they didn’t fit very well.”
“That’s a relief. Where is my hat?”
“You hadn’t really developed your own “style” by then. You were really just a cute dolly with a pout back then.”
“And no ice cream either?”
“None. You were more of a tea and biccie type of girl when I met you.”
“Wowsers, I am impressed with me. Such self discipline, so much catching up to do!”
“Not so fast young lady. What are we going to do about all these leaves?”
“Sell them on ebay?”
“I think not. I will leaf you to think about it.”
It took her a week, but she finally ended up doing backstroke in the leaves..
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