Posted: 15^th October 2018

What Colour Are Your Mushrooms?

There! Finally something non-automotive to beautify the Editorial with. Unfortunately, that's all I've got. You'll have to admire the antique tractors from last weekend's show. NT Hoggett is justly proud: he won another trophy for his still-running 1949 Case. NT will go far: we expect him to be repairing machinery on Mars someday.

The mushroom is from all the rain we got all the festival week and last weekend. It came down in torrents. Then the sun would come out and the temperature would shoot up to 28° Celsius. Welcome to autumn in Pennsylvania. It rained on our parade, literally. I also rained into everybody's Chinese takeaway meals. Then it stopped, and we got sunburnt watching the bands and floats. The mushrooms were just free decoration.

This week, more than a dozen reporters, writers, reviewers, and photographers weigh in at this venue to show you the world as they've seen it. Reports come from all over: South Africa, Spain, the Isle of Wight, Pennsylvania, to mention but a few.

Here's a rundown of the highlights:

• Find out why a shoebill's called a shoebill.
• Speculate on the Cows of Burton Mere.
• Ooh and aah at the variety of eggs produced by the Hoggett poultry.
• Visit wildlife: There's a bird onna stick, and the chipmunks star in a video. Revel in their witty repartee.
• Find out what film Awix has seen, and what he thought of it.
• In other entertainment news, get Bluebottle's insider report as he treads the boards in culturally rich Southampton.
• Don't miss the video extra this week, courtesy of Prof Animal Chaos and Prof Junior! We think he deserves a medal for athletic achievement.
• Test your mettle with the quizzes. Of course, you know all about the heckelphone, everybody's favourite instrument.

• Want fiction? Minorvogonpoet has some. Read about 'Mad Carrie'. There's a message here.
• Want to know the facts? A certain Dr Alcott tells us how to make a missionary. Muse over the dangers of oversleeping on Sundays.
• Photographers have been there, done that, and snapped more: Superfrenchie has found the only public statue devoted to Lucifer, while Freewayriding saw a giant. (More on that subject in next week's issue.) Paigetheoracle visited Great Yarmouth. MMF spotted another Really Odd Thing in a museum. bobstafford's captured another stunning vision. You get the idea.
• Want good advice? Go elsewhere. But you might want to read the writing column, anyway, if only to complain about it.
• There's humour. If you look hard enough, you will find it.

October Create Challenge: Friends and Neighbours

Quote of the Week:   Other people in the world apart from me? What an utterly strange idea. I know you are a figment of my imagination, but I must say that I have had some strange dreams lately, where there are people claiming to have a separate existence from me. Of course, I wake up screaming.

Paigetheoracle

Dmitri Gheorgheni

• Colours of Wildlife:
  Shoebill
  

• More Wildlife:
  Bird Onna Stick
  

• Video: Adventures
  of Chippy and Tami
  

• Caption Challenge:
  Cows Watch Back
  

CINEMA, THEATRE AND QUIZZES

• 24 Lies a Second

Cinema.

• Bluebottle's...

Board-Treading Blog.

• Post Quiz

Heckelphone lore.

• Picture Quiz

From the toy chest.

GODS AND MONSTERS

• Freewayriding Reports:
  Giants in Merseyside!
  

• Superfrenchie Reports:
  Fallen Angel in Madrid!
  

• Caimanraptorelk's Masterpiece!
  Artyfact
  

• Paige Plays Suzie Q!
  Yarmouth Rocks
  

• Video

Accomplishment!

• Farm Report

Duck eggs are edible.

• Photography

Fields of vision.

• Suzie Q on the Move

Why Suzie didn't take the bus.

• Art History 101

Science-minded.

• Gheorgheniplex

Storm warning.

• Literary Corner

The making of a missionary.

• Create October

Mad Carrie.

• 
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For submissions and editorial feedback

• Writing Right
  with Dmitri


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