By Truffle McFurry
(Illustration by Miki de Goodaboom)
Hello…
Today I am very sad… It is my Dad’s birthday, and he cannot be with me. He did come home to spend a bit of time with me, but not much… I was happy to see him, of course, but it is not the same when I know he has to go away again…
I told you already, yesterday evening we met Auntie Ann, from the UK, and we had a fabulous time! I had put my green camouflage clothes on, you know, because I am famous now, and I wanted to go incognito to the lovely beach cafe in Mojacar. But when I arrived there, I noticed that there was hardly anything green around, apart from the palm trees and they are anyway in the sky! Clear that these clothes were made in the UK… here in Mojacar you need blue camouflage, because of the blue sea and the blue sky everywhere!
Auntie Ann brought us a wonderful porcellan mug from England, with a cute Teddy bear on it. She is called Matilda. I don’t know who is Matilda though, the bear or the mug. And she also brought us an amazing tin, on which is written:
“All butter lemon curd & almond shortbread rounds”
As Miki saw me so sad, she decided to make me a hot chocolate in the new mug, and to have some cookies with it… she even painted a heart with cream on the hot choc! Well, I tell you they are the most amazing cookies I have ever eaten!
And then I asked Miki to paint it all, and she kind of lost the plot… she is sad too, you know… she totally miscounted the hours on the wall clock, painted 14 instead of 12. As I told her she said:
“Sometimes one needs more time in life!”
And she even forgot the hands on the clock! I did not say anything about it… I guess time stood still in her heart…
But I asked her to write the make of the cookies very big on the tin, because it is a good advertising for them and we might get many freebies!!!
Thank you Auntie Ann, for the great time and the lovely gifts, you are the best Auntie in the whole world!
I would want 14 hours in a day, too, if I could be eating lemon-curd shortbread cookies and hot chocolate with cream! Coco Nofrio
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