A crate of ammunition

The good news is that the two young masons have pulled out of a shallow nose-dive and are making a decent job of the carving. The bad news is... I cannot think of any bad news. Today the sun is out and my glass is half full.

I always have a plan for the run-up to Christmas. This year is to finish making the badger, then keep popping in to guide the young masons until around January the 15th, when I am due to pick up the fox and pheasant in bronze. I can cope with that level of urgency.

I just commented that this end of the blogosphere is very dog-heavy this morning, when traditionally the rest of the internet is saturated with cats and kittens, interspersed amongst a sea of writhing flesh and pudenda.

With all this talk about cyber-war and whether or not we should counteract the alleged Russian stations with cyber warfare of our own (as if we don't already), I have come up with what I believe to be a simple, inexpensive and effective strategy to disable the Dark Net, from where all those terrorists buy weapons, drug dealers sell drugs and slave-traders sell slaves.

MI6 and the CIA spend a few thousand dollars on overloading the Dark Net with pictures of cute kittens until it collapses under the weight. Job done.