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The Myfanwy And Friend Advent Calendar - Day Nine

Because sometimes you leave things a bit late, get distracted by weird cards, and make dubious decisions.

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An illustrated Christmas card from over 100 years ago, based on what I could ascertain. It has a gold patterned border, "A Merry Christmas" in pink text across the bottom, and "under the mistletoe" arced over the top, also in pink. There is a person in a black suit crouched down under a huge mass of mistletoe. He is creeping towards a person in a pink and yellow frock with a large pink bow at the back, who is holding a fan and a posy of flowers. There is a gold, red and white throne like chair between and behind them both. The mistletoe creeper is now Friend, a simple drawn figure. The frocked person is now Myfanwy, a large knitted chicken.
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eclectech
I genuinely don't know anymore 😆
Charlotte Walker
Well what was there before Myfanwy’s head? 😂
eclectech
Hehehe, the original for comparison 😁

(edit: shows up my very shoddy editing round her hair, but I still like the new feet)
An illustrated Christmas card with a gold patterned border, "A Merry Christmas" in pink text across the bottom, and "under the mistletoe" arced over the top, also in pink. There is a person in a black suit crouched down under a huge mass of mistletoe. He is creeping towards a person in a pink and yellow frock with a large pink bow at the back, who is holding a fan and a posy of flowers. There is a gold, red and white throne like chair between and behind them both.
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Charlotte Walker
No, the Myfanwy version is way weirder!
eclectech
Looking at them side by side you're probably right 😆

It was one of the less weird cards I found today tbf, because I wasted far too much time staring and saying "WTF?!" to myself.

One has a cockerel biting a tortoise who is biting a duck, and there were more dancing puddings than you can shake a stick at.
Charlotte Walker
Big round plum puddings?
eclectech
Yep. It was obviously A Thing.
eclectech
Hahahaha! OMG I didn't find that one 😮 @purplepadma
@Charlotte Walker
eclectech
Hahahaha! I found a cabbage woman on my travels 🤷‍♀️
Sam Fleming
Is that a beet?
Sam Fleming
I'm reminded that when Christmas cards were invented, there was no traditional imagery associated with them, so they ended up with any old bollocks. Like a beet in his pants flirting with an onion woman.
Charlotte Walker
My friend sent me this beauty
A very odd and unappealing Victorian Christmas card with a plucked turkey, festooned in a string of sausages, rubs across a snowy field. The text reads Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
eclectech
I am trying to resist temptation, but once I've got my morning stuff done I might have to come back and put a hat on that chicken
Stoneface Vimes
and the cat sneaking around the edge waiting for the last robin to drop off so it can get an easy meal.
eclectech
Or maybe it's like a marinade?
eclectech
We once had a bird of prey that sat on the back fence, waited for the sparrows to fill themselves with nuts on our feeder, then attacked with an explosion of feathers.

I always felt a bit guilty I had inadvertently provided nut-stuffed sparrows on the menu.
Sam Fleming
It always strikes as bonkers that I know that song instantly, and I've never seen the film. I wouldn't feel too bad for the sparrows. Raptors need to eat, too.
Stoneface Vimes
yes. There's something rather disturbing about that movie, with it's representation of the CEO, the loyal minions who will get a free pass - at least for now, and the prey. "Celebrate your new overlord and be joyful that you'll soon be feeding him"
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