Personal update

[johnny9fingers]

Since the end of last year I've been taking Poor Mad Felix to lunch on Wednesdays rather than Thursdays, as he gets his injection and other medication on Thursdays. As usual, we travelled (meaning I drove) to Botley Hill Farmhouse where the staff are helpful, understanding, and sympathetic.

He's not really on planet any more, poor love, but it's always good to see him enjoy himself, even if a small but obvious percentage of food ends up on his clothing.

Felix has decided that doctors are the cause of illness, smoking is good for you, all immigrants should be sent back to where they came from, and all lawbreakers should be executed, no matter the gravity of the crime.

I realise that whatever Felix believes is liable to be the opposite of what sane people would regard as the case, but I've rarely had such striking confirmation of the fact.

I did mention that way back when, in the Catholic school we attended, there were significant numbers of immigrants from (or residents of) Spain, France, Italy, Poland, and Ireland, and some of those folk were amongst our best friends: which gave him pause. Then I listed the nationalities of the Monarchs of England since the conquest.

Alas, he trumped me by declaring himself King of England since his birth, and the members of the house of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha mere usurpers.

There are some folk you just can't argue with: so I smiled and ate my lunch.

Well, you would, wouldn't you?

Comments

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

I'd like to meet this chap.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i love the whole saxe coburg gotha thing, i can't think why they don't reinstate it.

i have two lovely names in my recent family history - stenhouse ross and stephenson knight. i would use one of them if i had any reason to be posh. sadly, my poshness is more or less restrained to small time snobbery and a mason pearson hairbrush.

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

He does sound like a delightful chap.

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

I like reading your reportages on Felix. You're quite lucky to have a regular injection of willful surrealism. It makes a tad surer of the little 'sanity' which remains to us.