Naked And Unadorned

No!  Wash Your Dirty Minds Out
For this is BOOJUM! where we cherish our SFW status, although we did once feature a female statue displaying her buttocks, except that counts as art, not nudity.  Finding a SFW picture of a female demon was quite difficult, too; the default assumption amongst artists, it seems, is that "Demon" + "Female" = "Slutty and/or underdressed".  Art?

Fortunately not showing anything below the neckline ...

     That above took a bit of sifting to find.  Anyway, demons and dressless women are not what I meant.  I refer - of course! - to the Cardamom and Caraway Seed Loaf that I baked last night.  Art?

     There it is, naked and unadorned, before Wonder Wifey slathered it with icing.  Note how well it has risen - no sniggering at the back - despite being made with Gluten Free flour, thanks to a generous spoonful of Xantham Gum.*
     Okay, time to throw the motley into a pool of liquid nitrogen and see what happens!

Why A Swimming Pool Filled With Liquid Nitrogen Is A REALLY BAD IDEA
First of all, it would cost about £60,000 to fill an average back-yard pool, so there's that to consider.  Secondly, because liquid nitrogen boils at -2000C, your pool is going to evapourate the instant you start filling it; to prevent this from happening you'd need to super-freeze the floor and walls of your pool with industrial strength elements.  More cost, I'm afraid!  If you're not careful about the evapouration, you could well asphyxiate, because nitrogen is inert - it isn't poisonous, you just can't metabolise it.
     Lastly, and this is the kicker, if you were rash demented enough to dive into it, the temperature difference would probably kill you outright via shock, as would the whole-body frostbite, although you'd freeze to death long before having to worry about that.
     So there you have it - all the cons and none of the pros of a liquid nitrogen swimming pool.

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

     There will now be a short pause whilst I go get some of that food stuff which is so essential to life.  Later!

     Much later - an hour and a half later.  Let the nonsense restart!

Ringing My Own Bell (Since I Lack A Trumpet)
I looked in at a post from this date 3 years ago, which had been thrown up on Facebook by default, and I append the link, if you care to go see BOOJUM! in full vintage form.

http://comsatangel2002.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/numbers-humbers-and-cucumbers.html

     It is more about numbers than the other two things, featuring me gloasting about how much traffic I'd had the previous month - nearly 900 hits!  Thanks to ceaseless self-promotion and keeping up an unending stream of drivel, last month in 2018 saw nearly 3,000 hits.  Whether this is a good thing or bad thing is entirely a matter of perspective.

Conrad, indulging in his favourite sport

     After all, Conrad's fans out there may have been slightly confused by the appearance on the South Canadian political scene of one John Bolton.  Art?

John Bolton

Conrad

     I strongly suspect that my superiors back home have seen fit to send out another alien-spy-in-human-guise, because they don't entirely trust me.  As if!

I Talk Of Harper's Duds
As you ought to know by now, Conrad has an obsession interest in the First Unpleasantness, and especially Official Histories of the various units involved, for there is little that is more interesting than reading about other people having a bad time.
     Thus we come to the 51st Highland Division.  Art?

Their insignia

     Since their commanding general in the First Unpleasantness was named 'Harper' and they did rather poorly to begin with, their nickname became 'Harper's Duds'.  Later, the uneasy Teutons called them 'Devils in Skirts' because explaining a kilt to a European was always going to be difficult.
     Latterly in that conflict they earned themselves another nickname, the 'Highland Decorators', because they scrawled their divisional insignia on anything they captured, including other people's captures, which is a bit naughty.

This one is okay, though

     I bring this up because that post from 2015 mentions reading their official history in the First Unpleasantness, noting that it lacked an index and considering creating one myself - 

     Dog Buns!  Whilst looking for pictures of the 51st, WHAT do I come across but a photograph of a Vickers gun mounting an emergency tripod beneath the barrel.  Why couldn't I find this when I created "Vickers Emergency Tripod"?  Art?

Bah!

     Right, back on track.  The Official History, Art?

As held in monopoly by the Naval & Military Press

     Well, I did create an index, broken down into:  Officers; Units; Places; Weapons; Captured From The Germans.  It took ages.  Now that I've got it, what to do with it?  I could offer it to N&MP - free! - but would they want it?  Because they'd have to create another edition, and are they even allowed to do that?  Who knows.  In the meantime I can look up any Scottish unit, officer or weapon and quote about them.**



*  Which is in reality a powder.  No, I don't know why, either.
**  Goes down great at parties.