My Skeleton Whose Name Is Erin
This is my skeleton.
His name is Erin. He was a present from my parents for my twentieth birthday. I think the only thing that can really top him gift-wise is the beautiful violin I got for my eighteenth. I love my skeleton - absolutely love him to bits. This is his winter outfit, and that hat is a genuine Victorian antique that I bought for him especially on Ebay (sometimes I use it as a hiding place for my Siamese’s toys if she’s keeping me awake by playing with them on my back when I’m in bed). Erin is a gentleman of quality - he wears only the very best. In the summer he wears an outfit that is worth a grand total of five hundred pounds (I let him borrow my Ralph Lauren sunglasses when I’m not using them).
The point is that not only is Erin exhibit number three in my Wunderkammer, but he is also my invaluable writing aide, friend and confidante. Seriously, I can tell him anything - he’s very discreet. And if I’m having a problem with whatever book I’m writing then Erin is sometimes able to suggest a solution. Of course, he only talks to me at night when the rest of my family have gone to bed, and even then he only whispers. It’s only when he decides to go downstairs in the middle of the night and start playing on the baby grand piano in the dining room that my parents and I have . . . had words about him. But I’ve told them both before: Erin goes, I go. It’s as simple as that.
Most importantly of all, he gives me an excuse to buy silly hats - because I’m not really buying them for me, I’m buying them for him.
Tags: Dead stuff, Erin, Wunderkammer
March 29th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Hi Erin,
Cool scarf! But tell Alex she needs to let you get out more, you’re looking a might peaky there
Suzanne xx
p.s. we want puppy pics!
April 1st, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Puppy pics will follow very soon
April 28th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Hey Alex. I love your Blog. I live in NZ and will have to keep an eye out for your books. Anyway after seeing your fantastic skeleton I thought you may wish to peruse the Deadringer Jewelry Website……awesome jewelry (your bracelet is fab that your Mum got you by the way (-: ) their webb addres is: http://www.skullrings.com
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:34 am
Hi Hayley. Thanks for the link! Their jewellery looks gorgeous
May 4th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Mmm….yes, well as I keep notoriously late hours Erin and I are often wandering around the house around the same time and sometimes bump into each other. I’m getting used to it. In fact I often pass him around 3am as I’m on the way upstairs to bed. He’s always so polite, tipping his hat and whispering “Goodnight Sir,” and flashing me that special grin of his…..as I quicken my speed towards the bedroom door with a hasty “Goodnight Erin,” in reply.
May 4th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
It’s true that Erin has impeccable manners. And an intolerance for rudeness, as some have found out the hard way . . .
May 17th, 2013 at 1:56 pm
cool head…i have a real one just like urs..i call him Mr RED