So it's Monday again, and I still have an appointment with Purrnickerty that I have been putting off since last week.  Jage wants a new T-shirt design, and he is very specific about how it should look.  Now, I know that there may be a few who think that I am getting precious about this, but Jage doesn't draw - he thinks that you just pick up your pencil and something spectacular flows out - and this just isn't always the case.

Here's what he wants (in Jages exact words).  "I want him to be coming through your ribs like that (please at this point imagine rib spreading actions), like Eddie"

Now - to me, this sounds much less like a cute cartoon and much more like a dodgy video found at the bottom of a car boot 3 months after the car boot sale.  I have asked him to expand on this explanation, but the hand signals just get more exaggerated, and the words coming out seem to reduce.  Eddie is the character/mascot that features in the artwork on almost anything by Iron Maiden - and he is great and suitable for that purpose, but I see few ways that he can be applied to anything Purrnickerty.

But it still puts me back to this question:  how do I make a cute cartoon cat, who I am becoming increasingly attached to, emerge from inside your ribs in order to print on a t shirt?

Well, I'll just put it on hold for a bit, and come back to you when/if I know the answer. 

My weekend was fun.  Usually I spend quite a lot of my weekend on my own, while Jage and Sam do boys stuff on the computers.  This weekend we Put Up Our Christmas Tree.  We only have a small house, but we do have high ceilings.  With that in mind, a few years ago, Jage went shopping shortly after Xmas to purchase a new artificial tree in the sales.  And he did great.  We are the proud owners of the best artificial tree that I have seen - really and truly.  We have decorating it down to a fine art - we work on the basis that when you say "that's enough lights", you then add 2 more strings.  The slight problem is this - it is 8 foot tall WITHOUT the topper.  And wide.  And very bushy.  So for the duration of the holidays, there is a fair chance that I will miss about 2/3 of anything we watch on television. 

Because I can only see 1/3 of the TV around the tree.