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An unexpected acquisition

tikitu — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:51:05 +0000

I went into Scheltema this morning. I wasn’t even looking for a book… but I got sidetracked (it’s a five-storey bookstore, in retrospect it was inevitable). I got caught by this.

That’s Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. (It’s actually “Volume 1″ of “The Complete…”, projected to run to five volumes, which to my mind is a bit of dodgy advertising, but whatever.)

My day is complete.

Pre-coffee

tikitu — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:57:50 +0000

This morning at the breakfast table:

—Do you need the milk?

—No, there’s no cereal left.

—It’s very good with the biscuits. But I will not tell you, so I can eat them all myself.

Punk ducklings

tikitu — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:34:02 +0000

Just down the canal lives a family of meerkoeten. They’re nauseatingly cute.

Mama takes good care of them.

Sea-moomin!

tikitu — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:00:58 +0000

Pharyngula calls this little fellow “Piglet” but we (and, to be fair, plenty of commentators) know better.

(Genuine update coming Real Soon Now, with pics from the weekend and the visit of the prodigal brother.)