More about the bowed psaltery ...

Having three strings to replace, St. Anley was seriously considering giving up playing the bowed psaltery.

A diligent research, however, led him to this image, a sketch by Daniel Gabriel Rossetti:

Now St. Anley will replace the strings and invite such players to join a new orchestra!

SCAM ...

Some aashole has hacked into my googlemail account.

Perhaps cleverly, this pseudo-person has changed my password and altered my security ‘secret question’ to “what is your library ticket number?”

"Huhh?..."

This malicious nutcase has successfully sent a message to all my e-contacts, ingenuously purporting to come from me, suggesting that I am stranded, penniless and incommunicado in Madrid.

He/she even invites you to send me money.

However welcome your donations might be, that message did not come from me.

I have never visited Madrid.

Login and recovery of my virtual address book is now denied, so I have lost all my friends!

Work in progress #3

Now I have two feet and legs.
(Digits will be replaced/added later.)
I have begun work on the underbelly:

I think I will have to seriously consider the centre of gravity of this artistic work.
I will also need to go and buy some glue.

"Two more packs of Swan Vestas matches, please ... and a tube of UHU!"

Work in progress #2

Now, about that 3-dimensional swan:
I have made a start with one foot.

Three toes point forwards, one backwards.
I believe there should be a fifth digit, (perhaps vestigial,) somewhere higher up the limb that remains to be constructed.
The other foot should be easy.

I will enrol for a course in avian anatomy tomorrow.

I googled for an image of the real thing:

These birds can break an arm with one swipe of their wing.

I was very frightened, so I searched again and found this:

Now I am petrified!

Must go to the shops now; I've run out of matches.

Experiment

Embed codes seem to have stopped working from youtube, so I thought I'd try this one ...
Beware - adult content!



It works!

Work in progress #1

I seem to have acquired a considerable collection of empty match boxes.
I was wondering how to use them creatively.
Here's my first attempt ...

I AM A SWAN!!!

Eventually I hope to make this three-dimensional, but I will have to burn a few more matches first.

On Being Whelmed ...

Today I have been considering this word:

Overwhelmed.

Some of us have been there, and there is a credible dictionary definition.

If you watch the Eurovision Song Contest, you might be underwhelmed.
Now, that last word does not appear in my English dictionary, but spell-check seems happy with it.

My question is: what is this verb ‘to whelm’?

That’s not in my dictionary either, and it is unrecognisable by spell-check.

I think it might be good to be continuously whelmed, don’t you?
Or, maybe, just occasionally.