However, I am fond of democracy. This Thursday, I will therefore Attempt to Post All The Submissions So Far overnight and put them to the vote whilst I Fly Away to the Colonies.
In the meantime, there is a very special monkey that should have seen the light of day. But he was to do with me redesigning my blog in a fancy stylee and I've never got round to it. (Because I don't know how to.) But that isn't to say that this monkey shouldn't be seen, because secretly I think he's the best one. (And let me tell you, there's some smashers stored up for Future Reference!).
Dave Shelton made him with his own hands. It is a True Likeness of me sitting at my workstation in Monkey Towers tormented by squirrels, wearing a fez, smoking a small clay pipe and drinking a cup of tea laced with absinthe.
Dave is trying to find a flat at the moment, but will you go and look at his blog? Only because if you scroll down to the post before last, there is one of the loveliest drawings I have seen for a long time. And if you keep going you will find all sorts of marvellous things, like penguins and elephants in suits. Ça vaut le détour, as they say in France (and probably in the French Canada, too).
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That monkey (ie. YOU) has the loveliest feet.
I love it when toes go in many directions.
This is the most marvellously true-to-live picture of NWM I have seen for a long time. Congratulations Mr Shelton.
I wonder whether the estimable Mr Shelton would do my portrait sometime, when he has found a flat and has a second to spare? I warn you now that I shall insist on being fully clothed.
I don't want to hark on about the nudity question, but I do think it's a little foolhardy to sit around in a state of undress now that the weather is getting a little chilly, even with a warming cup of tea with absinthe at one's elbow.
And when do I get a link? If all the Monkeys get links then I think I deserve one too.
I am, after all, the creative genius behind the Ottermonkey.
oops,true-to-life, of course.
ramfoj?
I could tell right away that Mr. Shelton had done the portrait. MM-why the issue re: clothing? No naughty bits are showing and at least she is wearing a fez (and pillows)
I just don't want her to catch a chill - she hasn't grown her winter coat yet.
A nice dressing gown or - and this is my choice - smoking jacket could probably be added for a small extra charge.
Thanks for the plug, NWM. Most kind. And thanks for the kind words everyone.
Monkeymother, I would be happy to attempt your likeness once I am successfully rehoused. You may be clothed howsoever you desire.
Mikey - at least one of my early sketches of NWM did feature a smoking jacket (see here) but it got lost along the way somehow.
Let's not forget that, although she smokes a pipe, wears a fez and drinks absinthe, the little monkey is of the female variety. How about a cosy, fluffy dressing gown, as worn by good grannies everywhere?
oh, that shelton does good monkey.
:)
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