The Aventures of Alvin Part 1

I've not been blogging this week. I've been working. However I have also been enjoying my new hobby, Blipping.  Last Friday I notched up my 100th consecutive day of posting a photo a day on Blipfoto.So many of my family and my friends are also members of Blipfoto but I was reluctant to join them. I didn't think I would have anything interesting to take a photo of every day. Working from home a lot with only the dogs and cat for company I worried that my photos would only be of my keyboard and my pets. But it has been ace. It's like my friends and family have also started blogging. Check out DaisyGlaisy, Beefy Lorelei, Meesterfeature , Ben's View, It's A Dobb's Life,  BillyTheKid and JannyLou my blip pals for heaps of ace pics. DaisyGlaisy and Beefy Lorelei who happen to be my sister and brother in law have even had their pics chosen to be on the National Museum of Scotland brochure through Blipfoto!

I'd recommend joining Blipfoto to anyone.

This week, with all the snow I got a little bored of taking photos of beautiful snowy landscapes like everyone else in Scotland, so I enlisted the help of Alvin to re-enact great scenes from film history which took place in snow. I'm going to keep going as long as the snow lasts. Here are this week's:

Can you guess which films the scenes are from without cheating and hopping over to Blip to check?

Day 1:Man it's treacherous out there. 

For instance, look at his situation I encountered today. It could get tricky. On trying to climb one of South America's most dangerous mountains these lads have got themselves into a bit of bother. Lucas the dog (below) has lost his footing and has fallen over a precipice. Poor Alvin (top) is roped to his climbing mate but is being pulled down into the crevasse by his weight. Alvin, having had no reply from Lucas for nearly 20 minutes now assumes the fall has killed him and is debating whether, in order to save his own life, he should cut the body of Lucas free.

Day 2:Snow can be romantic.

Look at this nice couple who are hiding from the revolutionaries who would enslave them both. The winter is all they have. Holed up in an abandoned house in the Russian snowbound countryside they have a passionate affair. As soon as spring arrives Barbie here will be found by her evil master Komarovsky and Dr Alvin will return to his wife and their affair will be over. 

Day 3:Alvin here thought he had landed the perfect seasonal job.

"Hotel caretaker wanted" read the ad. 

 "Just the thing for an aspiring writer," he thought, solitude in a mountaintop resort, free board and lodging, all the food you can eat, and time to write. the wife would love it- the kid would have a blast running around all those big old hallways.

Things didn't go according to plan. In short, Alvin went a wee bit mad, tried to slaughter his whole family with an axe and ended up here, as you see him, frozen overnight after chasing his wife and son around a maze in the hotel grounds.

Day 4: Look here at Alvin who is enroute from a rugby tour in South America. 

Unfortunately Alvin and his team's aeroplane went down in the Andes leaving the survivors stranded and, crucially,short of food. Unless of course you discount the dead bodies of their teammates, like Roadkill Bunny here.

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