for Betsy - may she remain in light

Tell her she's here in my thoughts

where sleep has no border

tell her that under the tent flap, the doctor

is always played by Alan Alda

that Philip K. Dick sees a ray of light

that radio is beautiful especially at night

that the Earth below, you know, really is just flat

and there's always a chance - just ask Schroedinger's cat
and love is eternal as light
and that's that.

thought for food

Today was an unexpected adventure into the realms of food...

Incident at Victoria Sponge:

Trawling the Sunday markets i spied a copy of the BBC 1981 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on dvd which i greedily snapped up (David Hemmings – mixed reviews, i care not a jot). Naturally the contemplation of Stevenson’s classic of unrepressed appetites took me off in search of cake.

The cake in question (i.e. the one that had my name upon it and which, just to make sure, was winking at me from the silver dish) was a ginagantic slab of Victoria Sponge, big is such a small word sometimes.

In which the Plot thickens – or possibly ferments!

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