i will be staying tonight, and hopefully seeing nanna or at very least you for our famous late brekky tomorrow... How are you? Excuse my crappiness of getting in touch this week, I ave been behind on some things and trying to catch up. How is work, and the 2nd Empire indulgence of home? I hope you are not, like me at times, feeling a little remaindered and redundant?

I had a dream... many, in fact, most of them horrifying, but on this occasion I had a dream with a sparkling interlude; I dreamed we developed a new 'cultivar' of ladybeetle. We had an ordinary red ladybeetle with black spots, and grafted it on to the legs of a bee. When the grafted bee/beetle had babies, they were not red with black spots but instead were yellow with black stripes (and some with black spots). It was sort of beautiful - the dopiest thing about it being, of course, that there are already yellow and other colours of ladybeetle, so we weren't even doing something wild - just a variation on a theme. They thrived at the back of a garden, brightening shadows.