Jeudi Journal - Still Solo

Wendy is still having problems with the computer connection at her new home so once again I am grateful to Aimslee for her 'Anything Goes' theme at Art Journal Journey and once again I am using a page from my Lavinia Journal.

I do hope she gets sorted by next week or we could be "up creek without paddle" in that I don't have that many journal pages in my Lavinia Journal and what I have may not fit in with the theme.  As it is October next week when we meet up again I am using one of my pages that is very autumnal.

It is already feeling like autumn and time to get the woolies out and put the summer clothes away.  Yesterday I watched leaves falling on our back lawn and thought of days of 'leaf picking' were drawing ever closer.  The house down the road from ours has lots of beech trees and unfortunately we get all of their leaves blowing into our garden.  So it's not just our own but theirs as well that we end up raking.

Well, it looks as if someone is having a visitor as Tilly is knocking on the blue door.

"It was around 4 pm, the sky was just starting to darken and the enchanted wood was quite busy for a Thursday.  Tilly had decided to call on her good friend Tango who lived in the second Pumpkin House by the old tree where the Wallace family lived.  Mrs Wallace was just scurrying along to the shops as fast as her little hog feet would take her and Kernal the fox was keeping his eye on something high up in the trees.

Suddenly a little voice could be heard "Hello"said someone a little nervously.  "I don't mean to be nosey or anything like that but I think Tango went out earlier.  She usually leaves the lamp lit for when she gets back if she goes out in the early evening light."

Tilly turned and she saw a little hare standing there, ears pointing down.

"I think she said she was going out to buy a birthday present for someone."

"Oh, thank you very much" said Tilly, "I don't think I've had the pleasure."

"I'm Pippin" the little hare replied, "I live underground, just behind that tree.  Tango is a good friend of mine and I heard her going out when I was clearing out my garden ready for Autumn.  We exchanged pleasantries so that is how I know where she was going."

"Well, I was just coming around to tell her, well, to remind her, that it was Moo's birthday tomorrow and to remind her to go and get a present for the party we have been invited to."

"Ooh, how exciting" said Pippin.  "I love a good party."

"Right, then why don't you come along.  I am sure Moo wouldn't mind me bringing someone."

"That would be lovely but I am sorry I can't come along with you.  You see my twin sister lives with me and we always, but always, do everything together."

Just then Tilly noticed another little hare standing just beyond the pathway.

"I am sure Moo could fit another two in at her party" said Tilly, "She loves to be surrounded by lots of woodland friends and always says 'the more the merrier' so please, the two of you come along."

"What about me?" came a loud voice from the left.  It was Kernal the friendly fox.  He acted as a kind of policeman in the woods, making sure all the tiny animals were safe and sound.

"Oh dear" thought Tilly, "this is getting to be a big party, I do hope Moo can cope with us all."

And I hope that next month here at AJJ the theme is one that my post that is sitting here waiting to be published can be adapted to.  I had my post ready at the beginning of the month and it was so easy with 'Anything Goes' but I don't remember anything about it so guess I had better go and check, or maybe leave it until the 1st October.