Very beautiful indeed, and thank you both. There's nothing like a bit of rioting Rococo to cheer one up...🙂

Or this:

bsky.app/profile/mari...

This one is wonderful... although having her standing in the corner of the sitting room might be slightly on the surreal side of intensely creepy. And what might she do when switched off?

NB I wouldn't try eating it - it's probably made of toughened pterodactyl hide.

I think that, like small children, if she can't see anyone, then technically she isn't there...

That is certainly an argument in favour of HVIII over the Trumpeter, although I shouldn't have cared to be a female at the former's court. Well, nor at the latter's, either, but presumably I might in that case have had more security for my head...

I feel we’ve pointed much energy at trying to decide whether Trump is Caligula or Nero, whereas I think he is probably Idi Amin. Though with much worse tailoring.

...and much oranger... Possibly with an element of Genghis Khan (without the charm), and a strong thread of Henry VIII (without the pieces of cod).

That's very hard to believe, so I won't. 🙂

Dear Penny, thank you 🙂

I am v. in your debt, thank you... and sadly I know very few of anybody, ungrammatically speaking...

Tee hee! Brilliant! Why are you not ruling the world, and confounding the crowd-born 'charisma' of Trump, Farage & Putin (also see Hitler and various cult leaders) with your wit and sense...?

Probably my main audience is amongst those who appreciate the smartypants approach to Trump, Farage, and the general Decline of the Roman Empire state of world politics (including knowledgeable comparisons to Caligula and horsine senators), so, yes, please... 🙂 🙂 🙂

It's not because I say much of interest, unlike you; but the dissimilarity between Twitter & here is that I was away when a movement last year onto BlueSky meant a way of getting your newly-arrived Twitter followers was open - and I missed it! & it's dispiriting to have to build it all up again...