The hunting of the alternative arrangements

Today's news is that the government has set up a working group to track down that elusive solution to the Irish border problem. I think I know what their methodology will be:

[They] may seek it with thimbles - and seek it with care;
[They] may hunt it with forks and hope;
[They] may threaten its life with a railway-share;
[They] may charm it with smiles and soap -

but none of this will help them if it turns out - as I fear it may - to be a Boojum.

( There's more: )

Howl's Moving Picture Gallery

durham_rambler sent me a link to this gallery in the Guardian. The Folio Society, in a clever piece of self-promotion, is holding a competition to choose who will illustrate its forthcoming edition of Howl's Moving Castle, and these are the finalists. I'm not at all sure that I approve of this entire enterprise, but there are some very pleasing pictures here. And how often do you get a gallery of DWJ fan-art in the Guardian?

ETA: fjm e-mails to point out a fuller selection, and how to vote.

Where did she go? Out.

The Graphic Novels Reading Group I attend is not as other reading groups, as I explained when our theme was 'Comics of the Ancient World'.

And now we have moved on to something completely different: Space Opera! ( Whatever that may be... )