Escalation

Sunday: white estate car, one man in reflective jacket
Monday: ditto, but for longer
Tuesday: ditto, plus full-sized van (labelled FIELD SERVICES), plus additional white van (local electrician)

Siemens don't seem able to fix the bus lane terminating lights outside out front window.

Oh, one of them's off. Can still see slightly suspect ends of crosses (St Andrew's) over the lights, though. With the lights out and vehicles blocking the bus lane, it's a whole lot quieter here. If it weren't raining, we'd do some tidying of the front garden.

And this...

... Man descended from early aardvark boggles, somewhat?

Well, he wouldn't be descended from the one that came late, would he? Cackles, filthily.

"Equid"?

It's mentioned in Horseplay (EU stubbornness over equine passports) as the word the EU insists on using for horses, ponies and donkeys. Presumably, if the eurocrats are sticking to the OED's definition ("equid [ad. mod.L. equidæ, f. equus horse.] A member of the family Equidæ, which embraces horses, asses, mules, zebras, and certain extinct ungulates with undivided hoofs."), that'll be zebra, too.

Shades of "'As your minkey a licence?" if you get the pantherish (pink) drift.

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E-quids, however: we'll have a (virtual) pony of those--used, low denominations only (now how the heck to achieve those criteria online).

Sudden Drop in E-Quids

Well having done a random wander round the LJ news pages (any impression that the ravens are not having a constructive day is completely untrue: we've written, oh, sentences, at least. Or a sentence, at least.), we find the simultaneous info. that there are permanent accounts available and credit card payments are now accepted. How kind. That's the last of the ravens' Xmas money. Still, we like playing here.