Calling All Axolotls ...

It's A Type Of Salamander
     I used the name because it's so rarely seen out and about in public, and it combines consonants and vowels in the most delicious way.  After all, when was the last time you saw "axolotl" on the printed page?  Lumberjacks do not count*.
     You know how this works by now, dear reader - first the text, then the inevitable photograph.  Viz:

Friendly little chap, but frankly no oil painting

Bundooks

    No, not to be confused with yesterday's "Bundok".  That was Tagalog**, this is Hindi.  This is, in fact, British Army slang for a gun, taken - as Conrad already supposed - from the Indian word for gun.  Here below the Barrett Light 50, the most inappropriate name for a gun evah -

Sigmund Freud, where are you when we need you?

 - and the very definition of a Big Bundook.  Thank you.  Here endeth today's foreign language lesson.

Johan Sebastian Bach Meets Freddy Kruger

     Not, I hasten to add, in Conrad's opinion!

     What happened is that I put on my CD of Classical Organ Masterworks during the drive to work.  Since Darling Daughter Super Sally was in the car with me, I got the inevitable comment:

     "Is that your creepy organ music, Dad?"

     It is not creepy!  It is not!  Granted, some film and television people have traduced Herr Bach's good name by purloining the Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor and slathering it over horror/slasher/hasher/slosher films and television programs, but that does not make it intrinsically creepy!

Lazy media folk would have the Tocatta playing in the background of this brooding Gothic pile

Whereas, in this shot of BOOJUM! Mansions, I would favour a light, tuned-percussion tinged jazz soundtrack

This Will Make Sense On Facebook

     Yes, that unholy synergy between Facebook and Blogger!

     Here is an Abercrombie:

And here is another Abercrombie:

Take note that this means the plural:  Abercrombies.

Pertinent Reading Material

     Doting Dad thoroughly approves of Darling Daughter's book club choice:

Scary, eh?  The book's frightening, too.

I mean, we can't have those shambling undead taking over when there's an alien invasion fleet on the way, can we?

Extreme Sports Of Our Time

     May I present - Car Wrestling.  Here the human team have won Round One

A technical knock-out

Finally!

     Congratulations on reaching the end of this blog.  Have a nice happy picture of some cuddly animals as a reward

Ah yes - "cuddly" the euphemism for "fat"

*  Lumberjacks. As in "Today, shall I axe a little or axalotl?"