The Sorbs , The Wends and Bertie Wooster

BOOJUM!'s Charter To Teach
     I'm willing to bet you never heard of either group before today, have you?  Well, these Eastern European peoples were hot stuff on the migratory front in the 6th Century.  They settled in what is now eastern Germany/Poland.  Their descendants are still around today to the tune of 100,000 people, mainly in the Spreewald area of Germany.
     Why mention this here?  Because the present is a palimpsest* of the past, dear reader.  As Albert Einsten wrote, every step appears as the inevitable consequence of the preceding one.  So!  We here in the UK can expect ramifications down the centuries from the hordes of Eastern European migrants now flooding across the UK in exactly the same manner as our storms.


That yacht is full of Bulgars ...

Caked No Longer Naked
     Yesterday's cakes are now clothed and can be taken out in public.

That's odd - I'm sure there was more of it before.  Could anyone - no, surely not!

 This is the frosted gluten-free carrot cake of yesterday.  Apparently it tastes every bit as good as the gluten-loaded version.

Then we have:

A tad messy.  Don't worry, we'll Photoshop it later

Lemony Olive-Oil Banana Bread (with chocolate chunks and sugar glazing), which is a bit of a mouthful.  More of a cake, to be honest, than a bread.  Baked solely to use up bananas and olive oil, which it did.  The fun part will be lifting it out of the carrying tin!

Jeeves
     Thirty years ago I moved into a flat with Steve, both of us students.  Amongst his books were several whose titles included the word "Jeeves".  I was curious.  What was a "Jeeve"? and why were there so many of them?
     The answer lay in the author: P. G. Wodehouse, who created surely the finest comic pairing in literary history - debonair playboy about town Bertie Wooster and his saturnine, calculating and infinitely intelligent butler, Jeeves.
     I lay this out before you because I got ten Wodehouse paperbacks before Christmas for the princely sum of £5 (instead of £70**) and am now reading "Right Ho Jeeves".  Indubitably frothy nonsense, yes - BUT! - it's the best frothy nonsense money can buy.
     No doubt in years to come some citric academic will lay before us Bertie's wartime exploits with 237 Squadron based at St. Quentin and how he met Company Sergeant Major Jeeves, late of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, and - actually - okay I wrote it first, it's my copyright!

Bertie and his first true love

 So - Tanks?
     Yes indeed.  Compare this picture of self-propelled machine guns:

Colour photography in 1940 - verrrry unusual!

With this self-propelled gun:

Freud would be oh so very happy reading this article ...

Truly Tanks Are Not The Same!

* "palimpsest" - an pattern composed of overlay upon overlay, rendering interpretation difficult or impossible
**  Wonder Wifey please take note

Tomorrow: Audubons Book of North American Surds