Thank you one and all for your nice comments. Once again I try to catch up on comments and posting. Working 12 hour shifts is not conducive to daily entries.
As I sat having breakfast this morning, I thought perhaps you would like to meet my "special" friend, Francesca. She joins a cast of other characters in the household... the Rubber Rat family, Lucy who sits in a chair by the front door, Uncle Buck who serves tea, "The Lady" in the bathroom and Clarissa, wearing her hat in the "cat bathroom". Obviously it does not take much to amuse me and I am quite sure I am a decorator's nightmare! It does make life interesting.
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