Captain Luminescence and the Mighty Umb-Ra

...fighting crime* across a small range of illuminatory conditions...[/i]

Vigilantes rather than superheroes, this pair defeat nefarious villains in two ways: Captain Luminescence will speed to the scene on his bicycle (after removing the head-torch, fitting his bicycle helmet, replacing the head torch, clipping the rear lights to the brackets then popping back for his spare sets of batteries), leaps off his bike then starts slapping his face, legs and arms to get rid of the clouds of moths, midges and thunderbugs attracted by the bright lights, yellow clothing and the special component in his blood which fashionable midges simple can't do without. The Mighty Umb-Ra will watch from the shade of the nearest dark-but-backlit tree or close shaking his head very slightly from time to time. The villain will distractedly observe the commotion for a couple of seconds giving the victim time to shake themselves free and run away.

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Doesn't the working day go past nice and quickly when you've been given a huge big list of stuff to investigate and fix? Tomorrow promises to go by even more swiftly with not one but TWO meetings in the morning and a promise to myself to go for a proper hour-long walk along the river at lunchtime to get rid of some of my huge stack of flex. The past couple of days I've been trying to avoid the changing room when it gets infested by the large and boisterous squad of lunchtime runners (who seem to abide by an unwritten law which requires them to spend at least half as long again drying their ballbags as they spent running) and their unpleasant shouty smelliness which makes even the simple task of changing work-clothing for proper walking-clothing unpleasantly sweaty and annoying and have thus had barely half an hour of outside each day this week. They do not seem to run on Fridays so it should be safe and I can spend an entire hour or more not being annoyed by anything much apart from the builders on the opposite bank of the river and their amazing swearing mouths.

I quite like the idea of the link-to-an-hidden-gem idea thingby a few people have started up but can't find anything so instead here are a few forgotten or departed treats.


*I shouted at a couple of pavement-cyclists this afternoon on Lothian Street.