"Ooph"

Ooph?

According to U&lc Online, it's the Phoenician word for monkey, also their name for the letter Q. We're never going to be able to stand in line again without visualising everyone ahead of us as monkeys swinging their tails.

Sign of Spring, or Not?

Is it proof that Spring's here that the annual ant incursions have begun (most seem to be arriving somewhere near the cat bowls and promptly drown themselves in the water-filled one)?

Or is it an indication that's it's bl**dy freezing out there again and the poor things are coming in for the warmth?

"Fox News and NPR have just announced that Napoleon will be here tomorrow"

Know thine enemies, eh? (From the Grauniad.) Sighs deeply. Off to the shops, humming "The Marseillaise".

Sorted

Was finding the pair of bookworms on Beeb 2 encouraging us to nominate our favourite book increasingly annoying and troublesome. And finally, we've realized why.

They're sad, bloated and very grey, these worms. Evidently suffering from some kind of deficiency. But then if they persist in sticking to a limited diet of one favourite book, what else would you expect?

Best-loved book? Singular. Huh? Paint us polybibliophiles* and unfaithful with it. Well, you should see the queue we have by our nest.

How about nominations for the favourite library/collection instead?

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* Ouch that's one of those dreadful mixed portmanteaus tangling its Latin and Greek roots.