New Avatar

I am in the process of removing any copyrighted photos from this blog and copyrighting my own photos. In the circumstances I can't really go on using Dear old Robert Newton Calvert as an avatar.

At the moment I will be using this photo of my cat  Bebe as my avatar

Ceci n'est pas un chat!

And the final guest avatar

Meet Greebo the , ahem, delightful little kitty-cat so beloved of Nanny Ogg in the Discworld books. Perhaps the most violent, smelly and downright unpleasant feline ever to grace the literary world he has would be quite prepared to give Mary Bale some cat counselling. Ted is mild by comparison!

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Sadly Beelzebub had to buzz off. Lord Vetinari, tyrant of Ankh Morpork, has stepped into the breach. He will be assisted by his dog Wuffles

And the next avatar is...

Is beelzebub, but only for a very brief period as the Lord of the Flies has a busy schedule, mainly involving a lot of buzzing

This week's avatar is...

We must say farewell to Sergeant Pluck, who has spent far too mch time away from his crusade to save us from becoming part bicycle adn welcome our new avatar, Cthulhu.

He may be dead but dreaming but he has graciously accepted the temporary post of avatar, if only to enable him to eat our souls and sit in triumph on a throne made out of human skulls...


"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

This week's avatar is...

the inimitable Sergeant Pluck from Flann O'Brien's "Sistine Chapel" The Third Policeman

Sergeant Pluck is a man with a mission and that is to save the world from the awful consequences of Atomic Theory -the intermingling of human and other atoms. As Sergeant Pluck says:

"The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycle."

Sergeant Pluck dedicates his life to confiscating bicycles form the people of his parish. It is for their own good after all!

He should have been guesting for Robert Calvert last week but had to deal with an urgent outbreak of velocipedes in my home town of Corkadoragha, We thank the Sea Bishop for finding time from his busy timetable of terror and standing in at short notice

Guest avatars

It being the summer hols and the silly season and all that I thought I would give Robert Newton Calvert a little break and have a few guest avatars between now and the start of September

the first guest 1 is Josef Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek's glorious creation. Sadly I am closer in build to Josef S than I am to Robert C!