A Brief Interlude

Something to read over coffee or tea

I had an idea. Several actually.

This is nothing new. I don’t mean to sound boastful, but I have ideas the way some people have mice.

Me in the throes of an idea. In this case, it was the idea that I should put some stuff away in the loft where, incidentally, we have mice.

So the idea was to write a midweek post each week under the heading of Happy Humpday. There was a fad a while back of calling Wednesday Humpday because it was that hurdle in the middle of the week that must be leaped over.

But I was busy working on the manuscript of my latest Devonshire Mystery, and then I had to go for a run with my club - a running club, you understand, not a large cudgel of any sort. The upshot was that there was no time to post even a letter let alone a piece on here, and that sort of thing might happen fairly often, so the Humpday title must go the way of all things.

Pending the arrival of another idea, this Brief Interlude thing will do for now.

What is a ‘lude‘, by the way, and how does one move from one to the other?

Anyway, I’m going to round up some of my recent notes in the hope of raising a smile, so here goes:

Crumbs on your desk? Tempted to dab them with your fingertip and eat them?

I’m obliged to point out that:

a - you don't know how long they’ve been there, and

b - they might not be crumbs.

Thank you for reading this public service announcement. Have a jolly day.

Typo of the day - ‘power curs’. So much more exciting than the power cuts I was trying to write about.

Detonition of the day. NB A detonition is similar to a definition only more likely to explode.

Henceforth, the gap between collections of recycling will be known as a binterval.

Nobody likes to see discarded drinks cans on the street, but where do you stand on banana skins?

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Mikey