The Day Before May Day - Hooray!

Why The Sheer Unwanted Exuberance?
Well because today Wonder Wifey returns from her beano abroad, and thus responsibility for Edna Wunderhund also defers from me to WW.  Thus no more double walks per day, and apparently when she demands to play Tuggy-Bone for half an hour or longer, one ignores her, and you ignore when she sits next to you and whimpers, and she's perfectly happy getting out of the Crate to lie on the bed and going to sleep again - I suppose she's been a bit spoilt.
     Farewell freewheeling hound!

Is there a Latin word meaning "love of mud"?   Because Edna ...

Conrad Is Up For "Sounds From The Other City"
What is it?  A music festival in Salford - Salford being the Other City that's not Manchester* - that takes place over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend.  The Third of May in this case, which was rather earlier than he expected, and can offer proof of:

  

As vacant as his mind

     As you can see, Sunday May 3rd is blank, which means no event exists for Conrad on that day.  Fortunately The Kites** mentioned SFTOC on Facebook, and after a bit of wrestling with the internet, this is the result:

E-tickets.  Wave of the future.

     Given that the whole thing lasts for at least 6 hours over loads of venues, with bands and DJs and video presentations, this might well generate a bit too much info for the blog to post that same day - as you know, Conrad is rarely short of things to shout about - but what the heck, attending an all day music festival on my own doorstep that begins at a decent time - I can put up with that.

Edna!
Don't expect to see a lot of photos of Edna until more dogsitting duties come up, so make the most of these ones of her as an unwilling passenger in the car:

Not feeling or looking happy

A study in "Pensive"

Awww!  That cute little face!

     This is on the way to drop off Darling Daughter, who had dogsat for me whilst I went off on my jolly to The Ritz.  Edna was a very bad passenger, nervous and whiney all the way to halls and on the way back.
     On the other hand, whilst en route to collect Wonder Wifey, Edna was the very model of good behaviour.  No photos as Conrad is a responsible driver and won't handle a mobile phone whilst in charge of a motor vehicle.

"Agents of SHIELD"
Up to Episode 8 of this series from 2013 and I like it.  It balances the Glamorous Young Things that TV studios have to have in the mix, with a couple of oldies, and it manages a fair bit of humour against the drama, and the ingenue against the veteran.  Nor does it restrict itself to America - we've had operations based in Peru, Malta and Norway.
     There's a nice cameo by a very, very angry Nick Fury, railing against extensive and expensive damage to "The Bus", the giant aircraft that the SHIELD team operate from - "Six days!  SIX DAYS!  That's all it took you since you took charge of this aircraft to get it totalled!"

Read the middle sentence

     I have to wonder at whoever thought it necessary to add in "The characters and incidents portrayed are entirely fictitious". Really?

     WELL OF COURSE THEY ARE!  NEW YORK HAS NOT BEEN TRASHED BY AN ALIEN INVASION FORCE***!

     Sheesh.  For what it's worth, I reckon that the Arc for this first series is the search for "Centipede".  Not the insect but a group of positively eeeeevil people.

The Material Rewards Of Being A Man Of Your Word
Looking after Edna was, naturally, it's own reward, but a little practical appreciation is also welcome, and here we have it:

Stand-alone tea strainer, Ninja strainer cup and Lapsang Souchong

     The stand-alone strainer works very well, so efficiently that I didn't realise it at first:

Presto!
I realise this is in fact both sad and dull, but - well, that's my life

     Oh and here we have an insulated container from the ship:

Insulated!  Container-y!

     Keeps cold things cold and hot things hot.  Probably tepid things tepid, but I don't intend to test it, not even for you, dear readers.  Reader.


* Nor is it Vladivostok, Ulan Bator or Truth Or Consequences.  Just so we're clear
** From The Kites of San Quentin, to quote their full name.
*** It might look like it, but that's just the day after New Year's Eve.

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