Boxes

I'm moving house, you see.

This means I could think of a lot of things to write about cardboard boxes. Also packing tape, bubble wrap, tissue paper and polystyrene packing peanuts.

But that would not. Be very. Interesting.

Unfortunately.

If paper had never been invented, I'd have nothing to move. It's all books and music, here. Oh, also things are stored in my brain but that is quite light.

Unfortunately!

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That's it. No more tonight!

More soon if I survive.

Hope you are surviving! Or doing even better than just surviving, why not.

Love, Philip

Foggy Night

It's so foggy tonight.

"Cor blimey, guv, it's a real pea souper and no mistake!"

Translation: "Goodness me, my dear sir, it is awfully foggy I must say".

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Everyone was transformed into monsters and creatures from scary films. The monsters were all frightened too because they were seeing scary visions themselves.

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Actually, there is a lot of craziness on Monday nights. I don't know why it is, but all the loonies seem to come out then. Can it be that Monday is really a Moonday, like it says in the name? Then we could see why the lunatics all make a special appearance on this lunar day. It certainly doesn't happen on other days.

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London fog is not at all the fog of "In the Mists". The mist there is much healthier on the whole, and finds time to move back occasionally, as the sunlight warms it and its water runs clear.

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My favourite lunar piece of music is "Rusalka's Song to the Moon" from Rusalka, by Dvořák.

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Is it always the same moon that floats overhead? Is it the same face that watches us and sends us to rest?

It could well be. I have seen her many times, shining on me quite kindly. I wonder why I have not gone mad like the others? Perhaps the dreams she sends me are kinder. Or maybe I just remember to turn off my "panic" alarm system. After all, there is no panic really. Not for any of us. Not any more.

Mystery Solution

The answer to the mystery quiz question "What links rainbows and Kentucky Fried Chicken?" is: Corbin, Kentucky, USA is the home of both Harlan Sanders's Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise, and of one of the world's only (according to publicity) natural night-time rainbows. Another place you can find a nocturnal rainbow is Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

The night-time rainbow is also known as a moonbow and appears white to the human eye, because we don't see colours in the dark.

I can't confirm that there is such a thing as a moonbow, or that there are only two examples in the world (? Both located in North America, by some chance). But there you are, there is your answer. Nobody got it, by the way. Lucky there wasn't a prize!

The only connection or link I can see between the two is thinking of the rainbow, seeing its colours, and thinking of the same colours you sometimes see if there is petrol in a puddle on the road. Then it is just a short step away (in organic chemistry) to the infernal amount of grease you get on K. F. Chicken...

There is another rainbow bridge for you, from heavenly shimmer to hellish glistening! Luckily the bridge runs both ways. So when you see a KFC fast food place you can think of the moonbow in Corbin - something that was there a long time before.

Good luck for everything you do today. Please be happy and shine in rainbow colours, thank you!