The Pumpkin

A day trip down to Gateshead - brilliant sunshine all the way, even if it turned out to be a bit nippier there than in Edinburgh. Another crisis seems to have been averted, to some extent at least.

In the evening we went up to the Tourmalet to meet up with SB and the newly arrived etherghost - how nice to see her again! We celebrated by offloading our surplus allotment produce on them - we thought that surely an Arkansas gal would know what to do with a pumpkin! After we had admired it, it sat on the table as we talked, drank and ignored it. It was doubtless quietly brooding and probably planning its takeover of the entire planet.