As most of you will I’m sure realise I don’t generally do cute, even for kittens. And as most of you will also know it was my 60th birthday last week. So what what did Noreen buy me, but these two cute little 15cm high Dodos. We think they’re called Gilbert and George, but that has yet to be confirmed.
I can’t help feeling that there’s something irresistibly appropriate about being given Dodos on one’s 60th birthday. Indeed a Dodo Anniversary – maybe it’ll catch on?
[Oh and so no-one worries, they did come with a handsome dowry!]
Happy Birthday! Strikes me (and you have Google Alerts to thank for this) that perhaps you need a Dodo Pad to keep track of their (and maybe your) movements and social engagements. It's a lot of fun and very organisationally suited to the enquiring and intelligent mind. Anthony Powell would have approved. Toodlepip!
And they are, after all, not merely cute and originally (of course) from Mauritius, but I came upon them gazing at books in the window of the Buddhist Centre's secondhand book shop in Bethnal Green…
Happy birthday – rather late – sorry!Love the dodos. They ought to have been sitting near the book by Angus Wilson called 'Such Darling Dodos'!