Reblogged from Tallis Steelyard:
Mistress Laviscia wasn’t one of my more regular patrons. It wasn’t that we couldn’t work together; it’s just that I’m not the sort of person you’d automatically call upon for arranging the sort of event she preferred.
She tended to do a lot of ‘ladies-only’ poetry readings. Now to be fair a lot of the poetry readings I do are effectively ladies only. Apart from my good self, the butler and perhaps a couple of sturdy footmen to help rearrange the furniture, there will be no other men present.
Mistress Laviscia’s affairs differed somewhat from the norm. Because I wasn’t present at them I cannot report what I saw and I’m not going to sink to the level of reporting gossip. No matter how salacious and entertaining.
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Not only that but careful choice of clothing worn during the painting of the picture meant that we did our bit for the environment by not needing to use the air-conditioning!
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The dog says she would prefer me not to follow suit 😉
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I think the dog is wanting to stick to what it knows best
You’ve never struck me as a cat person anyway 🙂
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No… I don’t dislike cats, but give me a dog any day. Though for some reason, all the dogs I’ve ever shared a home with have been marginally mad… 😉
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I don’t dislike cats, but dogs are the superior species. But yes they do run to lovable eccentricity 🙂
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Mine certainly does! Mind, she needs lessons from Sal… she met her first sheep recently and managed to get told off by it, just for looking. 😉
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Sheep are an acquired art. There is one ewe with two lambs (who’re damned near bigger than mum) who Sal has trouble with
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This one stamps at Ani… who is more curious than anything. It is a very martial sheep.
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some are, for no particular reason. And actually at the current stage of sheep evolution there is nothing really to hinder the evolution of a more martial sheep. A million years ago in a world with serious predators, it wasn’t perhaps a good idea, but at the moment with ordinary working dogs, you can sort of get away with it 🙂
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I’m pretty certain it was 1:0 to the sheep on this occasion 😉
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some dogs are dealt a poor hand by fate 😉
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Ani recognises no human authority… but she did pause for the sheep 😉
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A dog of wit and sagacity 🙂
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Something like that 🙂
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