The Girdle of Melian

un times! I guess you could call this a hodge podge post, but I lost track of the numbering of those a while ago. No, wait, I seem to have organised myself last year, with Hodge Podge 16 . Here we go... Kiddo designed two crossword puzzles last week! An Animorphs crossword and a Rhys Darby crossword Then we have... A t-shirt from the Crowded House forum! Swan ! I have this book! I need to look at this... I love this "...my God what is that thing" Chekov! And yes, I read Eats, Shoots and Leaves for the first time! Meanwhile... It's Rhys Darby as Pabu-chan! All drawings by the seven-year-old! Signing a wish for peace Gorgeous cards by Monica Byrne Last swim of the season! A funny line from Montgomery Schnauzer book 2 ! Snail! Cornu aspersum The best grapes I've ever tasted A funny bit from The Last Kids on Earth series Art cards of my Our Flag Means Death crosswords! Gorgeous crochet octopi! Octopodes! Octopuses! Jeff's Inn by the Sea OurFlag Means Deat...

ibrary! We recently moved house in the village, and gained library space! Here's how the unpacking went... Library stickers designed by a friend A place to relax in between all the unpacking One empty shelf... ...one empty attic The movers lined up the boxes so tidily that it didn't seem like a lot, ha ha! A musical interlude! It begins... The view! Still working, even during Oxonmoot ! A wee display of our books! Starting on the Folio Society collection... All the boxes are empty! There's no floor space! The Tolkien shelf is done! The comic books and photo albums (some) Still more! This isn't even all the boxes! AND IT'S DONE! Folio, history, mysteries, international books... Tolkien, Lewis, and the Inklings... King, Martin, humour, sci-fi, thrillers, etc. Poetry, plays, Celtic, Norse, art, Bukowski, Maugham, etc. Fellow bloggers and author friends! And research and Türkiye and cookbooks, etc. I couldn't fit all my postcards and art cards onto the corkboar...