THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — mrs mullard

Some of you may know that Mrs Mullard Magic and I celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago.   The 35th wedding anniversary keepsake is traditionally coral so I bought her a fish tank ornament as an interesting alternative.    She seemed totally nonplussed and hasn't spoken to me since so I am thinking of getting in her good books by buying her yet another present, this time to celebrate Morse Code Day which  is celebrated on April 27th each year to honour the birth on that day in 1791 of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and the...

Really....... Well whatever did you expect????   Obviously it wasn't the soldering iron shown here in a 1957 advert - I'll bet this little number outsold a staid Solon - Henley, or Adcola at a ratio of 100:1 For those of you who were expecting a nice expose (in more ways than one) on Mena Suvari or some other American sweetie, I am sorry to disappoint you. For those of you that do not understand the above reference, it relates to American Beauty, the 1999 American film, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball in which Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham,...

Ho ho ho, it's that time again, to the loft I was sent by Mrs Mullard Magic to get the tree down so we can put it up.  Thereafter came a sequence of huffing, puffing, muttering and sighing which was a wonder to behold as you can see from the photo below: - You see, our (vintage) serially connected christmas lights had ceased to work. Mrs Mullard decided enough was enough and we went on a fraught foray to our local shopping centre to get some new whiz-bang lights.  Of course, the ones I wanted were NOT SUITABLE, can't think why:-   Just...