Posted: 12^th June 2017

What We're Doing in Our Copious Free Time

The cat over there's not doing anything in particular. It's just there because the Editor worried that you might go into cat withdrawal. For this week, we have no kittehs. We have plants, all sorts, and a sort of snake-y lizard from Austria, and an impressive tortoise. We also have a wide assortment of quizzes, humorous sallies, and thoughtful essays. You're sure to enjoy this profusely illustrated issue.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Awix has sallied forth into the cinema again, and emerged with a thumbs-up on the Wonder Woman movie. Superhero lovers, rejoice. (The young folk in this neighbourhood had good things to say, also.)
• Bluebottle is back with more wordcraft from the Isle of Wight. Sharpen your wits with his quiz, then take on Weird Canada, and try to figure out why your English ancestors were wearing Erasmus Hats.
• Nature blooms splendidly in this week's issue. Not only is there a giant tortoise, but Tavaron is here to share what she found in her garden. It's colourful and interesting. Superfrenchie's sent us a double rainbow. In France, even the sky is more fashionable than elsewhere.
• Last Sunday, our Robbie Stamp was invited to speak at the London TEDx event. His talk on the subject of grief was so moving that we've prevailed on him to share it with our readers. We think you'll agree that there's a lot of food for thought in what he said.
• There is, as usual, a fair amount of filler here. But we protest that, unlike that sausage you Brits ate for breakfast this morning, our filler is nutritious. Groove on the snark. Enjoy the singing cubesats. Think about that Kandinsky painting, and write a caption. It will do your grey cells good. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
• Your Editor has decided it's time to have The Talk. So you get a pictorial lesson on reproduction. As long as the Moderators can live with the uncensored photo of a pregnant walnut. . .
• If you have garden photos, feel free to send them in so that readers can share in the beauty. This offer does not apply to Prof Animal Chaos, who does his home gardening with a flame thrower.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

• Colours of Wildlife

Abracadabra, the Aldabra
Giant Tortoise.

• Dr G's Science Lesson

Where baby walnuts
come from.

HELPING YOU STAY AWAKE AT WORK

• 24 Lies a Second


Lasso Lass, at last.

• The Post Quiz

Weird Canada.

• Picture Quiz

Where did you get that hat?

• Written in Black and Wight

The magic of B.

CELEBRATING NATURAL EXUBERANCE

• h2g2 Traveller

Scene: An Austrian garden.

• h2g2 Traveller

Scene: A French sky.

• Art History 101

Wardrobe malfunction.

• Gheorgheniplex

Harmonics.

• h2g2 Literary Corner

Projects.

• h2g2 Caption Challenge

Improvisation.

• June Create

Change one thing.

• TEDx Special

Robbie discusses grief.

• Writing Right with Dmitri

Writer agnosticism.

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