The neighbours next door are having a party. They're an Indian Muslim family and probably that's why HRH (okay, we: dog + humans) hasn't been invited because she's not going to mingle too well with the guests. She is protesting by alternating between low growls, shrill barks and muted woofs at their comings and goings that she can hear through the front door.
It's a big split-level party. They've laid out the food and some tables at the common deck area downstairs, and some chairs at the stairwell landing next to us so there are people are wandering up and down the staircase to get food, people spilling out of the flat to stand about at the stairwell. HRH disapproves of it all.
The party started mid-morning and crescendoed to a buzz at lunch time. It's now died down and a lot of people have left, but others are starting to arrive. Looks like it's the wave for tea time. Karaoke has just started but far from being perturbed, L is highly amused because someone is attempting Elton John -- his favourite singer of all time.
L thinks we should be neighbourly and wander over to mingle. I wonder if they need help with the leftovers. :)
2 comments:
I never really understood why dogs were considered not acceptable by some religions? Can anyone shed some light? I remember when I was working in advertising and watching the ICI paint ads from the UK which featured a lovely English sheepdog, and asking why they couldn't use the same ads and I was told that some people would find it offensive. Sorry ... I'm finding it hard not to sound offensive. I totally respect people's religious rules etc. - just want to get some elucidation.
A Muslim friend once told me it wasn't so much that dogs were offensive but the wording of the law was that they were not to come into contact with the wetness of a dog's snout. I think like a lot of laws, like dietary laws in the Old Testament for instance, it probably stemmed from health and hygiene issues. Staying away from unknown dogs and their snouts probably prevented you from catching rabies in suspect times.
A lot of ads have been localised here, we don't have the Taco Bell chi, or the Andrex puppy.
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