Definitely Pin The Tail On The Tiger.

I mean, I don't *dislike* the fella, or have anything against him. But from 1st encounter (big sister's pencil case, way back when) I required further info before I could feel like I had a handle on him.

Then - each new bit of info required further research - hang on, what's this about his auntie?

Breakfast. You were doing breakfast - Christmas breakfast! The bestest of best meals.

Do it some more!

Whoever you are, whatever's up - it's good for what ails yer.

Whaaaaaaaaaaat. I missed this news. Say it ain't so!! 😭

Amy, you've been a delight on 6, and will be so much missed. Best of everything in yr future endeavours - I look forward to our encounter Xxx

There's more info waiting to be dug out there if you NEED more than a cute rendering of a girl cat.

If not, that needn't stop you from any further enjoyment of the IP, either as mere image or as the most lightly delineated 'character'.

Spider-Man needs a bit more explanation.

Yes. She's a beautifully blank canvas in the shape of a cat. There's *just* enough there to clearly signal a few clearly defined qualities - cuteness, catness, femininity, benignity - if that stuff and her aesthetic appeals to you, then that can be yr minimum or maximum committment to the character.

She was created by Yoko Shimizu &is named Kitty White.

She weighs the same as 3 apples.

She lives with her papa &her mama &Mimmy - she's her sister!

They're an itty bitty pretty kitty family

But - even though they're kitties - they're [allegedly] like you and me!

Spiderman? I don't know her.

Both.

#3. This Transylvanian gingerbread. Not sure if it's technically lebkuchen, but it's deffo lebkuchen adjacent. Mmmm.

(packaging translates to 'gingerbread from Sibiu'; looking it up, I find out that the Romanian city of Sibiu is situated in the Transylvania region. So.)

#preChristmasSanitySavers

#2. Very much likewise. Sometimes you need an emergency shot of pure pop joy to the heart, and good God but this did the trick just now. Thanks Riley & Coe, thanks BBC Radio 6 Music. The licence fee: I love to pay it.

youtu.be/5yLOJb751Jo?...

The House of ELIOTT, damnit. Wot, no typo fixes? Curses!

I was born too late to see Jean Marsh starring in Upstairs Downstairs, which she co-created w/ Eileen Atkins, but just in time for their later tv series The House of ̶I̶d̶i̶o̶t̶ Elliott (1991 - 94), to which I probably owe much of my own enduring fixation on the modes/music of the 1920s. Thanks, Jean ❤️

Or, indeed:

youtu.be/HFXcirSidnY?...

I mean, this would have made more sense.

youtu.be/iBHbyW3sth0?...

I've had this stuck in my head since, which is no bad thing, if not entirely reasonable.

youtu.be/7TimBgWOCv0?...

(We scattered his ashes on Sunday, that sister and I. Thanks Dad for giving us such a good grounding in all sorts of music, &for going above & beyond w/ the tech support when e.g. my attempts to find Pulpinfo on the early WWW - via his workplace - yielded info about wood pulp and the paper industry)