20/10/2012

What a mess!


I've just discovered where Wilson's leaf collection has been tidied away to. It's going to have to go, either in The Wilson Vermilingua Museum of Old Stuff and A Robot or on the Guy Fawkes bonfire. 
I was afraid he'd make a mess carving his pumpkin, but this is way beyond 'mess'! 
W said he was 'astonished' to find the leaves beside his bed, and suggested that Antony might have put them there...


19/10/2012

It's Pumpkin Time!


Wilson made a pretty good job of tidying up the living room yesterday, so today he's carving his pumpkin with Antony. 
I sense that Antony is not completely at ease around sharp knives, but W has no such reservations and is wielding his knife like Zorro. 
It's made quite a mess, but W has promised me a Pumpkin-and-Ant Pie for dinner tonight. And Pumpkin-and-Ant Soup for most of next week…


18/10/2012

Clearing up is boring!


Before Wilson starts carving his pumpkin, I've insisted he finish clearing his leaf collection out of the living room. I'm hoping he manages to remove all the insects that have crawled out of it and are now living under the sofa too. 
W is not in a very good mood — he keeps sighing and saying how instead of doing menial housework I should be letting him get on with his groundbreaking Leaf Research. 
I'd like to point out that the mop cap is not my idea  W put that on just to make me feel guilty!



17/10/2012

Halloween


It's only a couple of weeks until Halloween, so once Wilson had cleared away (most of) his leaf collection we all went to the Garden Centre so he and Antony could choose their Halloween Pumpkin. 


16/10/2012

The new David Attenborough?


Wilson returned from his leaf-hunting expedition with less of a leaf collection, more of an indoor compost heap. There are creepy things coming out of it and crawling under the sofa! I tried to protest, but he said each leaf had some special character or quality that he needed to study. 
I have insisted that it be moved from the living room and into the Wilson Vermilingua OBE Museum of Old Stuff and A Robot, but W says it will be too cold for him to work out there. He went off muttering about how he's certain Richard Attenborough never had to put up with this when he was a child… I expect he means David. 


15/10/2012

Leaf hunting


Readers of the National Geographic Magazine may have noticed a brief article this month called The Glory of Leaves. Wilson enjoyed this item because it related to the world immediately around him rather than somewhere far-away and exotic, and now he has decided to make a leaf collection for himself.
This seems to me a ideal hobby for W; it will get him out into the countryside, he will enjoy  the fresh air, it will be good exercise for him and it will distract him from thoughts and doubts about 'Reality'. Moreover, Autumn is the ideal time of year to start a leaf collection. 
He has pulled on his new boots and gone off to the local woods on a leaf hunt. I'll pop out later and buy him a scrapbook to stick them in and a tube of glue.


14/10/2012

These Boots are Made for Protesting!


Wilson has been on a fundraising visit to Toys 'n' Bears, a local toy megastore, hoping they would donate some teddy-bears for him to send the the Costa Rican Sloth Orphanage. 
They refused, and when he started calling them names ('rotten meanies') they asked him to leave. 
W immediately went outside with his guitar and sang anti-Toys 'n' Bears protest songs.  
I think his protest would have carried more weight if he hadn't popped back inside to buy the Hot Wheels wellingtons he's wearing in the picture, but he said he couldn't live without them, and he'd never seen them anywhere else!