happy christmas

last evening brian and david's friend, pucci, invited hippolyta and me to dinner at her lovely home in venice. it was up 70 stairs, but fortunately, david did the carrying....

a much-needed little-something...

hippolyta, exhausted from last night's musical outing is resting, so i popped out for a quick aperol pick-me-up...

a little night music

i took hippolyta to a concert at teatro la fenice – all went well till they played 'the dance of the hours' and hippolyta (remembering having seen a hippo dancing to this tune in the film 'fantasia') decided to join in...

'tis the season...

here we are – hippolyta and i – in venice and dreaming of a white christmas...

jurassic buttons

i'm ready for my close-up, mr spielberg...

fossiling

big isn't it?

beside the seaside

h and me taking the sea-air

holiday time

this time last year i was sunning myself on the beach in greece.

brian and david aren't going away this year, so everything was looking a bit bleak –– until hippolyta invited me down to her country estate in dorset...

...i'll be heading off down there later today!

easter bunnies