Pwned!

Blind Possessed Choirboys

Laughing is, in my opinion, one of the top three or four sensations available to human beings.  This makes me laugh like a drain even after many viewings.

Unrelated visual: new hanging basket

Happiness ...

... is in your own hands

Lux salis

... of which more later

Pimp Mah Pavilion

Apricot

Awoken at 4 of the morning clock by the rustling of plastic bags (in which are stored hundreds of beads and semi-precious stones). Turning on the light in order to remove whichever cat has decided they are playthings, I see the cat simply staring at a bag moving, so it appears, of its own volition.

"Oh shit, they've brought in a rat", was the first thought and so I threw a heavy cardigan over the bag, took the whole lot outside to the river bank and out fell a tightly-curled up adult hedgehog! No way the cats could have dragged Mr Tiggywinkle in so he must've wandered to my bedroom under his own steam.

No photo of the actual beastie alas, as camera batteries on charge. Here is a very similar critter. Note: cardi straight in the wash; hedgehog fleas are vicious - I'd tend not to put them on the kitchen scales either.

Horological Horror

So we were talking about magic, crystals an' all that malarkey. "Well they put quartz in clocks, don't they and a digital watch would have seemed pretty magical in the mediaeval Weltanschauung", said young Jenkins, who's a bit of a True Believer. It then became blindingly obvious that the great witch-burning craze was all down to an epic communications FAIL between some time-travelling dude and the locals.

Time Traveller (who may, or may not, be a doctor): "Good morrow, yeomanly-but-simple village folk, what time is this?"

Villager: "Time? What's that then?"

TT: "Why, time is that which I may know by glancing at my watch." (Displays somewhat ostentatious chronoscope.)

Villagers (all): "A WATCH!!!! Burn him!!!!!!"

Easy mistake to make, that. Hence the necessity of Good Enunciation.

As a public service, this blog is happy to offer the following handy reference material:





WITCH

WATCH