Posted: 24^th September 2012

September in the Rain

What's that, you say? Oh, only an old painting we picked up in our research. It's this week's Oddity, so you can read about it below. That fisherman (try magnification) is lucky: he's got a nice autumn day to work with. If you're like us, you've been enduring an unfair amount of rain – which, we are biblically informed, falleth on the just and the unjust. Also parking lots.

We've got some firsts in this week's Post: for one thing, Willem's expanding. In addition to his informative wildlife paintings, Willem is sharing his talent and encyclopedic knowledge in a new horticultural series. Phyto-Philes will help you understand plant life. We're looking forward to more.

Moving from the sublime to the ridiculous (a specialty of ours), we also inaugurate the cartoon adventures of Rodney and Reggie. Rodney and Reggie are trying to get the hang of night fighting. In the First World War. This work of appalling genius comes from the fertile brain of Prof Animal Chaos.

It came about this way:

Prof: I have this great idea for a cartoon. I know I can't draw, but I can do the balloons.

Editor: Prof, we can't use a Word document with balloons. Can you use the Paint program?

Prof: What's that when it's at home?

(Sigh.) This is why Rodney and Reggie employs the Editor as technical assistant. You'll laugh, we promise. You will also groan, but that's your problem.

Our next first is Austerity Era. KB's re-enacting the culinary deprivation of the 1940s. Come commiserate with him, and understand your grandparents better. We're pulling for him not to waste away on only 50g of cheese and three-and-a-half rashers a week. He's dieting for victory.

Our regulars are back, with poetry both profound and amusing, cinema, kayaking, notes on caring, and the usual quiz. Please browse.

Have a good week, and don't forget your umbrellas!

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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  Rodney and Reggie


Who turned out the lights?

• The Post Quiz


Visit these restaurants by night.

• Big Churches in Little Europe


PT takes you indoors again.

• The h2g2 Poem


MVP is never in the dark.

WHEN NO ONE WEPT EXCEPT THE WILLOW

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  Colours of Wildlife


Meet Mr Toad.

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  Phyto-Philes


Willem's beautiful tree.

• The Very Verst of jwf


Orange you glad we have these poems?

• Kayaking for Beginners


Deke up (down?) the river.

BUT THE DAYS GROW SHORT WHEN YOU REACH SEPTEMBER

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  Oddity of the Week


Autumn on the Wissahickon (where?).

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  24 Lies a Second


Awix at the movies (where else?).

• I Couldn't Care Less


The things you don't see.

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  Gheorgheniplex


The ISS gets creative.

• Austerity Era
  


KB re-enacts a diet.

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  Writing Right with Dmitri


Writing out of time.

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