I LiVE In Your Skin

Don't Panic!
Your humble scribe has not turned into an hideous alien shape-shifting assimilating life-form akin to something out of John Carpenter's worst fever dreams.  Nor a cannibal seeking to consume your insides and wear your integument as a trophy.

About the only "cannibal" picture that was SFW and not too revolting

     Stick with me here, this takes a bit of explaining, and resort to metaphor.
     Because I don't like to take the pitcher to the well too often I thought it a bit ill-advised to try and bait traffic here with more snickering titles about "Organs", after having done it three times.  Not in a row, you understand, so there may be more baiting in the near future.  Not that you're not going to get more stuff about Autumn Shades - a LOT more stuff - because if I noted it then it will get written.  O yes.
     Ladies, Gentlemen and Those Undecided, allow me to introduce the Johannus LiVE:

It LiVEs in the showroom.

     "Why yes, Conrad," I hear you question.  "A high-tec church organ.  So?"
     Those banks of projecting knobs on left and right are the stops, which on a normal Johannus are switches, rather than physical objects.  Which is a bit bye-the-bye*.
     The really impressive thing about this organ is that it comes with 5 different pre-set sample ranges, taken from organs sampled by the Johannus technicians from organs across the world.  Not only that, you can choose where in the church you want the sound to come from - from right up to the pipes themselves to the very far end of the church, and Prof. Ian Tracey demonstrated this, to good effect.  The difference is notable.  And, when you change from one organ to another, all those little screens above the organ stops amend and update, and various stops blank out because they aren't relevant.
     Now, does that title make sense now?

"Okay Conrad - STOP right there!"

25 Things
I really can't be bothered to type out the rest of " - That The UK Does More Awesomely Than The US" because - BAH! - okay, okay, enough laughter at the modest artisan.  Here is one of the top 10:

     Brits as the bad guys.  Mike cannily pointed out that, if the bad guy isn't a Russian, he's  a Brit.  Sometimes a Brit playing a Russian.  It's a well-known Hollywood trope.  "The Last Action Hero"'s villain?  Charles Dance.  "Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade" = Julian Glover; "The Anderson Tapes" = Sean Connery; "Cliffhanger" = John Lithgow - yes, he's American PRETENDING TO BE BRITISH!; "Executive Decision" = David Suchet;

Dave, looking the business

 "Doctor No" = Donald Pleasance; "It" = Tim Curry; "Legend" = oh here he is again, Tim Curry; "The Lion King" = Jeremy Irons; "The Time Machine" = (the remake) = Jes again; "Die Hard 3" = oh it's Jes yet again.

Remember, he's a Brit playing a German

     Really, you'd think there was something in our British background that - I don't know, somehow echoed down the centuries as a reason to cast us as the baddies ...

Something - something really horrid?

The Steward Of Gondor
That's how I feel, entrusted to watch o'er that little four-footed scamp Edna, who even now is poking her nose into my thigh as I type this out.  She's not getting the attention she thinks she deserves, rather than what any human on the premises might think.  Here's a little photo-essay about her.

Despondent doggeh

     This is her pose when she wants to inform your humble scribe that he's a Neglectful Human.  Sorry, a Wicked Neglectful Human.  Apologies, Edna, my muse is calling.

Attendant doggeh

     She's not forgiven me, it's just that I have a packet of crisps.  She had been sulking in the kitchen, about her Wicked Neglect, until I rustled the packet open and then she was like the shop-keeper in "Mister Benn".

Despondent again

     Conrad knows how to break down the walls of this funk - "Edna, do you want to go WALKIES?"

Answer: yes

     Here we are on our morning walk, where I made the mistake of putting on a coat, as it was hot and sunny. 
     But wait!  There's more.  Edna gets an afternoon walk, too.  

Edna not returning the ball

     Here she proved that she can return the ball - if she feels like it.  Mostly she did not feel like it, and one has to suspect she was getting her own back for all that Wicked Neglect.

Enough cute doggeh antics!  Time to post this scrivel!




*  Or is it bi-the-bi?