Pantos, Weddings . . . .

Oh my gosh and coo coo! I completely forgot to tell you about the panto and about all the other things that have happened recently.  Well, the panto. Babes in the Wood. We went to the Kuwait Little Theatre which is in an old Nissen Hut in Ahmadi, and the atmosphere was very nice with people milling around, enjoying the cool evening air.

The Panto was good.  The best character of course was Pepper, a huge, noisy and flamboyant woman played by a man who squawked all through the play.  The audience was good and the children involved themselves throughout.  I do like pantos. They have a special ‘feel’ to them.

The big news last week was the Royal Wedding in England next year.  That is definitely something I am going to avoid even though we feathered creatures are always invited to such events, privileged as we are.  I don’t think I could cope with the crowds there, the feathered crowds as well as the revolting bare skinned one.  I would love to contribute to the good luck ‘droppings’ on the couple but it would be quite a fight, even for me.  Oh these royal weddings (and even run-of-the-mill royal visits) are so funny and they bring out the strangest behaviour in people.  I remember, many years ago, when the queen of England visited Kuwait, the British Embassy hosted a reception and several people who weren’t invited left the country on ‘urgent business’ as they couldn’t bear to admit that they had been left out of the guest list.  Oh what a hoot.  Shall I tell you who those people are? No, I shouldn’t be mean, let them get on with their fantasy ‘wannabee’ lives.

Of course, I, Miss Mundy Pigeon ‘Past Compare’ have an open invitation to all these events so I don’t get my knickers in a twist about such things.  Not that I wear knickers.  Oh I’m so special I can’t believe it.  How fortunate to be me.

Now, more’s to the point, did you hear about the rare copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America book, the world's most expensive book, being sold for more than £7m at auction.  Well I should think so too, it’s beautiful and why wouldn’t a book of feathered creatures be the most expensive book in the world?  The illustrations are exquisite and apparently it took the artist 12 years to  complete.  There is such attention to detail and the colours are wonderful. If I had the lolly, I would have bid for it and if I’d won, I would have put it on my perch and stared at the pictures all day.  The purchaser was anonymous. Hmmmm......aaaaaaah............finger tap finger tap.