Giant Zombie Squirrels and the right shin mystery

[glenatron]

This weekend we achieved something. Our back garden, possibly the most dingy place in the world, was subjected to chainsaw, machete and flame. We cut down the spruce in the middle of the garden and the top 20 feet or so of the hedge at the end. For a while a ten foot square at he end of the garden was six feet deep in hedge cuttings. A large and rapid-burning fire managed to get through the whole lot and a bunch of unnecessary trellis in a surprisingly short time. To my astonishment it didn't set the rest of the hedge or the house on fire either.

Also, machetes are without exception the best gardening tool I have ever used.

I suspect I am beginning to get a cold - this is usually presaged by curious dreams and last night I found myself being pursued by a 20 foot high clockwork zombie red squirrel that was in some way related to my digital camera. I don't recall how. Definitely odd enough to count as a fevered imagining. I have also inexplicably injured my right shin. It feels bruised, but there is no bruise, just a big lump that really hurts if I touch it. I think this is a ninja-injury but I have absolutely no recollection of how I obtained it- it seemed like a really quiet training session. Most vexatious.

Hopefully neither of these will get in the way of Sequoia totally rocking when we play at West One Four in Kensington on Thursday night. It's an electric gig and it's in London and both those factors have added up to good shows in the past so hopefully they will combine to maximum effect and we shall be luminous with all-conquering glory. Or at least not completely rubbish at any rate.

You will have to excuse my flowery language- I have recently finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell and although there is much hype because people who read no modern fantasy (especially literary critics, who regard anything "genre" as beneath them) think it to be astoundingly original it is a very clever and enjoyable book. The writing was fun, historically accurate and dextrous and the whole thing made me smile. In fact, going to the web site I have just linked and reading the main characters opinions of the author made me laugh out loud.

Comments

[shiva-matimbres.livejournal.com]

those giant zombie clockwork squirrels are actually real so you best be careful

being a skellington and jumping out from behind curtains is fun

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

It's curtains for you, ms Matimbres!