Fay and Ray are committed Christians and go to church every Sunday at Easter and Christmas, but they don’t like it much because of the people.

Fay does a lot of voluntary work and Ray contributes to environmental concerns. He is a shareholder in a South American deforestation project. There’s enough rain without rain forests making more.

They have adopted a red-faced spider monkey in Colchester Zoo. He’s called Zombie.

Friday 31 December 2010

Well?


"Happy New Year".

What's "New" about it? It happens every year.

Wednesday 29 December 2010

Free At Last


Wonderful news for 2011!

Fay today found out she has been let off with a caution by Essex Police (aren't they wonderful!!) following her yellow paint/monkey-faux-pas at Colchester Zoo. She has received a lifetime ban from The Zoo though, but we hope to appeal when the dust settles a bit. Needless to say Liz is keeping her head down - as usual when there's trouble about, especially when she usually causes it all.

So, normal sleep patterns have resumed at The Bray Household, and Fay triumphed again in the bedroom games "Guess The Time" event we so cleverly invented.

Last night Fay guessed 23:56 and Ray 00:48 when it was 23:44
Then Fay guessed 02:18 and Ray 01:32 when it was 02:07
Then Fay guessed 04:15 and Ray 06:30 when it was 03:59
Then Fay guessed 05:32 and Ray "Blinking Christmas Morning" when it was 05:29.

Tuesday 28 December 2010

Bedroom Games



Fay and Ray have invented a wonderful new game in the bedroom.

Whoever wakes up during the night has to wake the other one and ask them to guess the time. The digital alarm clock (with DAB radio, whatever that is), is always covered with a November 1982 issue of the Reader's Digest as the light from the clock is rather too bright for purpose.

The one who guesses nearest the correct time  is the winner.

Last night Fay guessed 23:11 and Ray 00:24 when it was 00:48
Then Fay guessed 03:15 and Ray 01:56 when it was 02:48
Then Fay guessed 03:15 and Ray 06:24 when it was 03:34
Then Fay guessed 06:21 and Ray 02:36 when it was 06:40.

So last night, Fay was the winner by a country mile.

What hilarious times in the bedroom!

Sunday 12 December 2010

ANOTHER Brush With The Long Arm Of The Law


It's been another terrible week. Fay and Liz decided to go to Ipswich for some so-called Christmas shopping and a little light luncheon in the 'Drum And Monkey' public house.
Needless to say, bad went to worse, as is so often the case when Liz is on the scene, culminating with Fay being discovered trying to climb a fence in Colchester Zoo armed with an aerosol can, intent on  painting our adopted red faced spider monkey, Zombie, yellow.
The so-called security guards called the local police, who took Fay into temporary custody and she now awaits prosecution, convinced that Colchester Police will invoke United States law which states 'You will be arrested if you paint your horse in Vermont.' This is according to something on the Internet that Liz unhelpfully pointed out, along with the equally alarming information that the selling of horse urine in Vermont requires a license.
So once again, the Bray household is rent with Fay's nocturnal shrieks as she wakes, convinced she languishes in a New England gaol, being taunted by a sadistic Puritan warder.
When will this all end?

Thursday 2 December 2010

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Fay wants to paint EVERYTHING yellow.

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