A Spot of Late Night Reading
DADDY: “Goodness Malachi! What are you doing?”
MALACHI: “I should have thought that was obvious, Daddy! I’m reading!”
DADDY: “Yes, I can see that. Do you know what time it is?”
MALACHI: “According to your many chiming clocks Daddy, it’s after midnight.”
DADDY: “Well Malachi, isn’t that a good reason to be in bed, sleeping, rather than being up and reading?”
MALACHI: “I shouldn’t think so, Daddy, as I couldn’t sleep. Why waste time lying there staring at the ceiling when you could be enjoying the great William Shakespeare!”
DADDY: “And the tea and lemon sponge?”
MALACHI: “Call them midnight refreshments, Daddy.”
DADDY: “I’m not so sure that Richard III is very good to eat cake to. Perhaps a Midsummer Night’s Dream might be better.”
MALACHI: “Don’t worry Daddy, I have a strong stomach. Now off you go to bed. You need your beauty sleep.”
DADDY: “Err… thank you Malachi… I think!”
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 21st of May is “between”. I spent quite a bit of time photographing bookmarks sticking out of the pages of various volumes I have in my library, but I wasn’t very happy with the results. Then it struck me that Malachi, my miniature 1:12 size bear hasn’t featured in “Looking Close on Friday” or my photostream for quite a while, and I thought that he would look very nice between the pages of my big old volume of Shakespeare with the red edged pages that I had been photographing. I hope that you like my choice, and that this photograph makes you smile!
Malachi I acquired in mid-March 2020 (and mid Coronavirus) from a wonderful Melbourne stalwart toy shop: Dafel Dolls and Bears, when I went looking for a present for one of my goddaughters. Malachi is designed by Mary and hand-made by Wendy Joy in Australia. He has articulated arms and legs, and an extremely sweet face. Malachi was the name he came with, written by hand on his little tag.
Malachi is taking tea from a 1:12 gilt miniature “Baroness” tea set made by Reutter Porzellan in Germany. He has a delicious lemon sponge made lovingly by hand by Karen Ladybug Miniatures in the United Kingdom. All the pieces are artisan made 1:12 miniatures from my own collection. My copy of the “Complete Works of Shakespeare” is being held open by one of my Grandfather’s hand-made chess pieces.
A Spot of Late Night Reading
DADDY: “Goodness Malachi! What are you doing?”
MALACHI: “I should have thought that was obvious, Daddy! I’m reading!”
DADDY: “Yes, I can see that. Do you know what time it is?”
MALACHI: “According to your many chiming clocks Daddy, it’s after midnight.”
DADDY: “Well Malachi, isn’t that a good reason to be in bed, sleeping, rather than being up and reading?”
MALACHI: “I shouldn’t think so, Daddy, as I couldn’t sleep. Why waste time lying there staring at the ceiling when you could be enjoying the great William Shakespeare!”
DADDY: “And the tea and lemon sponge?”
MALACHI: “Call them midnight refreshments, Daddy.”
DADDY: “I’m not so sure that Richard III is very good to eat cake to. Perhaps a Midsummer Night’s Dream might be better.”
MALACHI: “Don’t worry Daddy, I have a strong stomach. Now off you go to bed. You need your beauty sleep.”
DADDY: “Err… thank you Malachi… I think!”
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 21st of May is “between”. I spent quite a bit of time photographing bookmarks sticking out of the pages of various volumes I have in my library, but I wasn’t very happy with the results. Then it struck me that Malachi, my miniature 1:12 size bear hasn’t featured in “Looking Close on Friday” or my photostream for quite a while, and I thought that he would look very nice between the pages of my big old volume of Shakespeare with the red edged pages that I had been photographing. I hope that you like my choice, and that this photograph makes you smile!
Malachi I acquired in mid-March 2020 (and mid Coronavirus) from a wonderful Melbourne stalwart toy shop: Dafel Dolls and Bears, when I went looking for a present for one of my goddaughters. Malachi is designed by Mary and hand-made by Wendy Joy in Australia. He has articulated arms and legs, and an extremely sweet face. Malachi was the name he came with, written by hand on his little tag.
Malachi is taking tea from a 1:12 gilt miniature “Baroness” tea set made by Reutter Porzellan in Germany. He has a delicious lemon sponge made lovingly by hand by Karen Ladybug Miniatures in the United Kingdom. All the pieces are artisan made 1:12 miniatures from my own collection. My copy of the “Complete Works of Shakespeare” is being held open by one of my Grandfather’s hand-made chess pieces.