Daily photo theme 3

Time to do the DPT while I have my coffee.  Today it is: 3. Where you keep your sweeties/chocolate/candy. (Suggested by Mickey)

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone

When she got there the cupboard was bare and so the poor doggie had none.!

You’ve got it my cupboards are bare!  I don’t keep sweets, chocolate or candy in the house.  I don’t even have biscuits unless I am expecting visitors.  I used to have them when I was first married but I soon discovered that if I have them they don’t last long because I eat them!

I am just sitting here with my afternoon coffee and I have no desire for a biscuit or sweet.  However if I had them in the house I would quite likely eat 3 or 4 biscuits with my coffee.  Not good!

So what can I show you?  Well despite the old Mother Hubbard rhyme my doggies cupboard is not bare. It is a usual extremely well stocked with a variety of biscuits and chews so that is my photo for today.  Doggie treats!

Tomorrows theme is: 4. Something silver.

Do you know the origin of Old Mother Hubbard?  No neither did I. Old Mother Hubbard refers to Cardinal Wolsey. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was a statesman and churchman of the Tudor history period in 16th century England. Cardinal Wolsey although he was a faithful servant upset Henry VIII, by failing to secure the King's divorce from Queen Katherine of Aragon.

The reason for seeking the divorce and hence the creation of the Old Mother Hubbard poem was to  enable him to marry Anne Boleyn with whom he was passionately in love. In the Old Mother Hubbard song King Henry was the "doggie" and the "bone" refers to the divorce (and not money as many believe) The cupboard relates to the Catholic Church although the subsequent divorce arranged by Thomas Cramner resulted in the break with Rome and the formation of the English Protestant church and the demise of Old Mother Hubbard - Cardinal Wolsey.