Thursday, March 26, 2020

Renee and Liliana's Afternoon Party

It was a Sunday afternoon, and Renee Red Panda was bored to death! She had done absolutely nothing all day.



That's when she had an idea, what if she had a party! She immediately called up her best friend Liliana Tuxedo Cat, and told her the idea.



Liliana zoomed over in record time. Liliana loved hosting parties and had learned a lot from her mother, Natalie, the mayoress of Brambly Corners.



Liliana and Renee went up to Renee's room to discuss the party. Who should they invite? Would there be a theme? Food?


While Renee invited their friends, Liliana went downstairs to change the seating arrangement of Renee's parlour. Renee liked the setup but Liliana requested that Renee go and find some flowers to spruce up the place.


Renee obeyed her rather bossy friend and headed out to her mother's greenhouse where Raina Red Panda was working diligently. Renee asked politely to borrow some of her mother's flowers.



Renee and Liliana barely set up the flowers and put out the green tea before their friends arrived! Isabelle, Rosetta, Sadie, and Belle had all come to the party.



The friends chatted, spilling the tea as they drank their green tea.



Isabelle had to leave early to go to tennis practice so the remaining girls went up to Renee's room. Rosetta had some new style ideas that she wanted to try out on the girls, which she did.



The girls left late in the afternoon and Renee thanked Liliana for all her help for making the party the success. They agreed they would have to do more, especially come warmer spring days. Possibly, a future garden party is in the works.



Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Meet the Red Panda Family

Since you may be seeing more of the families of Brambly Corners, I decided we should probably introduce you to all of them! I've introduced the Tippyscotch, Hopper, and Tuxedo Cat families in previous posts so now we are onto the lovely Red Panda Family. Enjoy!



Family Members

The father of the family is Russell Red Panda. Russell works at the Brambly Corners General Store but is also a professional beer sommelier and wants to open a pub in town. Russell enjoys watching football and reading history books.

Russell Red Panda at a pub in nearby Honeysuckle Hollow

The mother of the family is Raina Red Panda. Raina is an avid gardener in her free time but works as a nurse at the Brambly Corners Clinic. Raina loves to bake and is a big Mary Berry fan. The house is always filled with delicious treats. Raina would love to go on the Great British Bake Off someday but unfortunately it's only for humans. Maybe she'll be able to start one for her fellow animal friends however.

Raina Red Panda out in her garden

Raina and Russell's daughter, Renee is their only child but she doesn't mind it. Renee's best friend is Liliana Tuxedo Cat who lives closely. Renee is thirteen years old and loves to play soccer and do rhythmic gymnastics.

The Red Panda family lives at Harebell Hall in House #2. Raina gave us a look at the downstairs parlor where the family relaxes. Upstairs are the bedroom, and next to the parlor is the kitchen and dining area.

Thanks for reading and meeting one of the Brambly Corners family! Stay tuned for more posts coming soon.

Monday, March 23, 2020

Delilah at Keukenhof Gardens

Hi all! I haven't posted since July 2018 which seems so long ago when you think about it. Now with the COVID-19 pandemic I finally have to time to catch up on this blog. We took photos of Delilah Dale last spring when we went to Keukenhof Gardens outside of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Enjoy this post of Delilah, our globe trotting friend!

Delilah had settled in quite well into Brambly Corners but she still longed to see more of the world. She planned a spring trip to the Netherlands to see the tulips.

She knew she had to go to Keukenhof, one of the largest flower gardens in the world!


She was shocked to see how big all the flowers were, some of them towered over her!


She snapped some photos will all the rainbows of flowers she saw throughout the gardens. She'd never seen such a wide variety of flowers in one place before!




Not only did Keukenhof have tulips but it had daffodils as well. 


She took a little break to eat some apple pie and of course, Chocomel! Delilah had fallen in love with Chocomel ever since she had landed in the Netherlands. 


Delilah headed back out refueled with some food. That's when she stopped dead in her tracks. It was a Nijntje Miffy shop and Miffy herself was out front! 


Turns out that it wasn't the real Miffy. Delilah was a little disappointed but she was still excited to tell her friends back in Brambly Corners that she had seen the store. 


Delilah was awestruck seeing all of the amazing landscaping of Keukenhof. There were rivers, windmills, boats, gazebos, and of course, flowers! It was beautiful.


Before she left, Delilah remembered to take a photo in front of the Keukenhof Flower Planter. She was so glad she had gotten the chance to see all of this. She was excited she would have another story to tell at the kids back in Brambly Corners when they came to her candy floss cart.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Delilah in Brambly Corners

Delilah drove her mini bus through the winding roads in the county of Devon, along the English Channel. Her final town was a small place called Brambly Corners.

Her phone beeped, she was in Brambly. It was a small town, there were 3 buildings. An array of animals talked in front of all them. There were no humans anywhere. She drove closer to one of the buildings.

"Hi," said one of the animal outside.
"Oh, hi" Delilah responded getting out of the mini bus.
"I'm Lucy Yellow Labrador," said the animal smiling.
"I'm Delilah Dale, this is Brambly Corners, right?" she asked.
"Yep! Are you on vacation, here?"
"Not exactly, I'm thinking about moving here," Delilah replied.
"Really? Could I give you a tour of Brambly?" she asked excitedly.
"Of course, that would be great!"
"Oh, this is Berkeley my oldest son," said Lucy motioning to the boy next to her.
"Nice to meet you Berkeley," smiled Delilah.
"You, too," said Berkeley shyly.

"Well out here are the Giant Steps, they say this is where the giants used to walk," said Lucy.
"Neat!" 


They walked a bit farther to a gigantic tree, where the climbed to an area between two of the branches.
"This is the Brambly Tree, and this crack in the trees is the Brambly Canyon," explained Lucy.


After climbing down the Brambly Tree they walked up another Giant Step to a big stone wall. 
"This is the Brambly Mountain, it's been here forever," Lucy told Delilah
"Wow, it's so big!" commented Delilah.
"If you think this is big you should see the Brambly Forest. It's absolutely gigantic!" 

When Lucy finished the tour they made their way back to town where Lucy introduced her to some of the other women in town.
"Hi, I'm Raina Red Panda," said one of them.
"And I'm Stephanie Hopper," said the other one.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Delilah Dale" she responded introducing herself.
"Are you going to move here, Delilah?" Stephanie questioned.
"You'd be a great addition to the town," said Raina.
"Hmm.. I've been so many places, but none have been like this," replied Delilah.
"Where else have you visited?"
"I'm from London but I visited York, the Dales, Bath, and Dublin."
"Those are all human cities. Our little Brambly Corners is animals-only," answered Stephanie.
"Really, that's so cool!"
"Oh my goodness, I just had a great idea!" declared Raina.
"What?" they all chorused.
"Delilah, if you move here you should open a candyfloss cart. The kids have been begging for a sweets cart, and your fur reminds be so much of candyfloss!" she explained to us.
"That's a great idea!" commented Lucy.
Delilah contemplated it for like 0.2 seconds before saying "yes!" 
"So, you'll move here?" asked Raina hopefully.
Delilah nodded and smiled and they all cheered. 
"And you can live at Harebell Hall where almost everyone in town lives. It's the big house you met Lucy at. There is a room next to me that open," said Stephanie pointing to Harebell in the distance.



A week or so later Delilah had opened her Candyfloss and Sweets Cart and she was moved into Harebell Hall. She had found home!




Monday, July 16, 2018

Delilah in Dublin

"Wheels down, Dublin, Ireland" said the pilot as the plane landed in Dublin. Delilah had flown from Bristol (near Bath) all the way to Dublin.



The pigeons were still very loud in Dublin. Thankfully there were many cats around Delilah's AirBNB house to scare the pigeons away. There were 6 cats Delilah befriended; Dingle, Larry, Shamrock, Gael, Guinness, and Limerick.

Larry

Dingle


Delilah loved exploring Dublin. She learned a lot about the Irish History just by walking around the city.

Famine Memorial

Trinity College

Temple Bar Neighborhood 

Ha'Penny Bridge

Dublin Downtown

One day, Delilah decided to go explore the fishing town of Howth.



There she saw tons of sea lions swimming around in the Irish Sea. They were very friendly. 





Delilah loved all the flowers in Howth. 



Delilah even got to see one of the houses of the Olympic Ireland Committee.



Delilah loved the great views of the Irish Sea from Howth.




Overall, Delilah had loved Dublin/Howth but it still didn't seem quite like home to her. She had one last town.. she hoped it would be the right one.