Over, once again to the divine Ms F. After a gap of a few weeks during which she has been about her studies, she is back and as charming as usual....It all started innocently, with me making my usual trip to the Adam and Eve pub in Lincoln for the pub quiz, I was wearing my new and very shiny shoes.
The questions were the normal mixture of ridiculously easy and horribly unfair, I was no help with the music round (I was ill the week they played the Ying Tong song), but then they asked which bird had laid the giant egg that was recently up for sale, of course I knew that it was the Elephant Bird of Madagascar, I even wrote the latin name, hoping for an extra point.
It turned out that we were the only team to get that question right, so I gleefully texted Max about it; texting Max whilst I’m tipsy is turning into a bit of a tradition.
A few days later my friends Jim and Catherine and I decided the day was too lovely to go to uni so we went to Newark instead, intending on looking at the ruins of the castle, we went to some of the many charity shops that were there, and found in the Oxfam bookshop a copy of the excellent ‘Searching for Hidden Animals’ by Roy P. Mackal, for £4 this was a major bargain and I did my now notorious happy dance all round the shop. In another charity shop they had several plastic dragons and cockatrices, and whilst I was rather tempted by these, I did not add them to my bag of purchases.
On getting home I realised that the Mackal book goes for upwards of £30 on Amazon, so this really was a cheap crypto find, I advise you all to check the shelves of your local charity shops.The next item in my week is rather sillier, I was perusing the amazingly hilarious Cake Wrecks site and found some amazing animal and cryptid cakes –
and dragon and unicorn cakes-
(you really really have to look at these, you won’t believe the top dragon one is actually a cake!)
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