Patrick Read

And that's the end of superworm.
On its merits not one of the best frommthe combo of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
But some part of me really enjoys it for how ridiculous it is, the sudden escalation and the boldness of rhyming ant and aunt- something which I somehow mispronounce everytime

Superworm comes back and shows all the things he can be for the animals.
Of which the most worrying is an acrobat.
A concept/profession the toddler is fascinated by and anow dangerously wishes to emulate from various pieces of furniture in our house.

The lizard surrounded by animals in a sticky net. The book writes the web is strong the web is tough the web is plenty big enough. The wizard wakes this isn't funny I'm wrapped in leaves and stuck with honey.

Thankfully all the garden animals are au fait with DnD, so plot a strength based trap for the wizard while he sleeps.
The lizard bad minmaxed his stats so with a -2 strength save he is unable to get out of the honey net.

The slugs also eat his flower robbing of his spell focus

A moment of heaviness as the crow threatens to eat our hero if he does not find some treasure for the wizard (who have just noticed has the Disney fantasia hat on
Which leads to an uncomfortable moment of me stating that the worm is juicy fat and firm

Frankly, the reveal of Wizard Lizard is amazing.
Whose main ability appears to be mind control and so binds Superworm to his service.
To which we're told 'superworm is very cross to have a lizard as his boss'

Superworm speaking for us all here.

A lizard wearing a big wizard hat carrying a large flower talking to a crowd

So far Superworm seems to be a bit like Plastic Man- using his body to act as various objects.
And you think it's going to just follow this pattern for the next few pages

But no, things escalate and Wizard Lizard appears to ruin the day
This also marks the point where my wife noped out of this book

A beetle falling into a well. Text states beetle's fallen in the well! Is she drowning? Who can tell?

Soon an even more enjoyable casual rhyme about a drowning bug comes.
Just an entertaining nonchalance about the events here but think that comes with Superworm being about.

I've read this book about 20 times now and I laugh everytime at that first line.

Is it the use of Major Road? The blissful joy of the baby toad? The three beetles acting like a British family and trying to walk on by?
Or maybe nervous laughter triggered by memories of the animals of Farthing wood?

Help! Disaster! Baby toad has hoped on to a major road. A very happy toad is about to jump in front of a bicycle while his toad parents look on in horror

One of those books I never thought we'd grab but the toddler was obsessed with the moment he saw, and hey he likes books so not going to be a snob at what he reads.

But opening the page and what, to me is probably the funniest rhyme in any of these books comes out on page 2.

Superworm a book with a large worm surrounding by beetles, bees spiders and a cricket. A dog reclines in the background.

A bit knackered from night shifts and a toddler with his first tonsillitis so going to share thoughts on what to me is the most delerium inducing Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffer book.

Superworm

The brightly coloured cover to Wyrd Science 7. A pair of techno-barbarians & their mutant alien wizard friend are exploring an underground base, once home to am advanced civilisation but now only DEATH LIVES HERE

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We all know the Hunt for Gollum films will be awful.
But think also underappreciated that probably 50% of the film is just going to be Legolas doing even more ridiculous CGI stunts.

The TUC and women’s organisations have today joined forces to welcome the government’s flagship workers’ rights bill which they say represents a “significant step forward for gender equality at work” & called for the Govt to override the Lords' watering down of the Bill (e.g on zero hours contracts)

A metal Chimera statue from side view

A large orgnstely designed Celtic shield

Rewatched the start of the fellowship of the ring today- and the ring was lost for 2500 years.

So for us it would be an artefact older then the Rosetta stone.

But we can still see so many things that age and older!
The ring would be the same age as the Etruscan Chimera and the Battersea Shield.

Do have to question, in putting forward the argument that HP is a world about finding love, why would you choose to accompany this with a picture in which a teenager is being tortured by a female authority figure with whom he disagrees?

And honestly he seems more upset that he never got digital ID cards introduced then that he invaded a country for no good reason

This tweet is the funny version of this absolutely terrific Pomegranate essay. Almost all of the people who complain about the need for “childfree” spaces are, frankly, babies.

Also, extra amusement when the toddler asks why is that child crying. As if they've never shed a tear in their life and weren't doing the same thing about an hour ago over something equally/even more minor

One of the greatest joys of parenting is hearing someone else's child cry and realising that this one time it's not your problem, truly a magical moment each and every time

Personally I hope they bring back another season of Deagol and Smeagol: Gone Fishing.

Personally I hope we find out that what Gollum was doing while wandering about looking for the ring was either solving a series of cozy murders (Precious We Wrotes) or performing in an incompetent hobbit amateur dramatic troupe (The Ring that Goes Wrong)

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Still amuses me that she decided to resign at the point of minimum impact which has made her pretty irrelevant.

Does make me wonder (and this might be nightshift brain talking), if we hadn't forced dogs to do so many specific things what would the quintessential dog look like?

My heart says something Labrador like but my brain thinks it would be something more spaniel sized.

Definitely feel that sadly wouldn't be a German Shepherd/St Bernard sized dog. Feel that size would shrink down to improve function over time

Does make me wonder (and this might be nightshift brain talking), if we hadn't forced dogs to do so many specific things what would the quintessential dog look like?

My heart says something Labrador like but my brain thinks it would be something more spaniel sized.

A three panel meme of a scowling little boy dressed very nicely for professional photos in different poses but glaring at the viewer, captioned "Nice. Congrats. Happy for you."

Me a Dragon Ball fan seeing One Piece fans celebrate a good live action adaptation and casting

Honestly so many fantastic moments from a show that I have not been able to share with anyone but it's worth every minute of your time.

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