The church bell just struck eight times. When I closed the shutters, I noticed the stars were out in a clear night sky. Unless a huge load of misery comes knocking at my door, I’m now officially into down time until tomorrow. I don’t know if the beautiful piece of Japanese cloth in the illustration I’m posting represents radishes, turnips, or medusa fleeing in panic/setting up for their version of the lobster quadrille – you know, the one that begins with:

‘Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,

“You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.”

As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose

Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.*

Call  the illustration a Japanese cloth Rorschach, and call me silly. Then,  be as well as the current state of your metabolism allows, and don’t do anything foolish unless it’s totally irresistible.

Back to reading, writing or napping, as the spirit may move.

Over and out for now.

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*Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland