Do you think I’m wasting my time by making personalised birthday cards? You wouldn’t believe how long it takes and I’m too embarrassed to tell you; suffice to say I couldn’t spare the time if I was working for somebody else. But I do love doing it. What price happiness?

I thought I would make my task easier today by using an existing digitally toyed image of our Bobbie, disguised as a Berber granny and sat beside an authentic Berber fire. Bobbie loved that image and found it very amusing because she is very beautiful and model-like in appearance in real life (I can say this because I didn’t actually give birth to Bobbie, though I could not love her more if I had). Anyway, I thought I would revitalise the image as a birthday card for her. Of course, when I looked at it again I thought how lonely she looked in the Berber kitchen, with only a black and white cat for company; in went another cat, a ginger tabby this time, and a poodle, and Willy wonka (an Aussie dog – sadly now in heaven), and a hot koala having a cold bath. Even Andy and Flea wanted get in on the act… And it all takes so much time…

But it was all worthwhile because of the smile on Bobbie’s face when she opened it!