900 - WOMAN

George's Anger was well known. If he caught a child stealing some fruit from his orchard the child was in trouble. "I am going to spank you with this lamb shank bone.", he would say. A few brazen children were keen to swank about the event, but most didn't. The orchard did have lots of avian visitors which drew no reaction from George. But one day he spotted a beautiful young woman in the orchard sitting at her easel. He went to talk to her and, to tell a long story short, they fell in love and they were married within the year. From that first meeting, George's anger gradually abated and children no longer feared the orchard.

1860 Political Cartoon

899 - YOUNG

He came home from a tiring long day at work and just wanted to collapse into the armchair. But he'd forgotten it was his daughter's birthday party and the house was very noisy. He tried to go in his bedroom, but the loud music and running around made it impossible to relax. His wife found him to bring him some food but he was grumpy because of the noise. "It's only one evening and they're only young once", she said.

Noisy Party

898 - WORST

TRevor enjoyed going on coach tours. But on the latest one he hurt his wrist when hanging on because the driver was so jerky. And then, to cap it all, the tour was cut short when the coach ran out of fuel and the occupants all had to catch 3 buses to get back to the start. "This is definitely the worst tour I've been on", remarked Trevor to one of the passengers. Several passengers agreed with him.

Shoddy tour operator

897 - ADAPT

GAbriel enTered the pub desperate for a drink; he put a £5 note on the bar. "Thank you, barman", he said and then he took a gulp. It was only then that he realised that this evening most of the folk were dressed in pirate costumes and were enacting scenes from books and films and making quite a spectacle. "Avast there!" cried the one dressed as a captain, quoting from the book "The Mucker". A bit later, a discussion arose amongst them as to how they should adapt their proceedings to be more PC, but most of the party said it would spoil the whole event. Another round of drinks took their mind off this debate and they returned to their re-enactments!

Pirate Re-enactment Society Meet-up

896 - GENRE

It was HallowEen again now that OctobeR was drawing to a close. You frequently saw people dressed in eerie costumes, including some  that would come out each year for reuse. The TV was dominated by the genre of films and shows referring to witches (friendly or otherwise), broomsticks and spider webs. I avoid anything of that ilk as I would rather celebrate good than evil.

Eerie Haloween costume

895 - TAKEN

There is much bAnTEr when the workplace has its get togethers. Ryan is always trying to show anyone he can his pictures of him with his tamed snakes. Tonight Sally gets so frustrated with Ryan that she creeps up on Ryan from behind and tapes his mouth shut and everyone cheers! Instead Sally shows some pictures of her own taken in Iceland with beautiful scenes of volcanos and the aurora borealis which were enjoyed much better. Meanwhile the chasened Ryan is trying to ease the tape off his mouth without too much pain.

Ryan with one of his snakes

894 - RESIN

(Unlike myself), FERdinand had come to enure himself of the effects of his heart protection medication that had the side-effect of draining his energy when starting to walk. It had been suggested that this side-effect was a result of his kidneys producing the wrong level of renin enzyme, though this was never diagnosed. But he could still enjoy with his other hobbies. The first was looking after his captive flock of serin in his garden. His major interest was knowing all about the reign of monarchs of all sorts of nations. Some people, who knew him superficially, felt he was rather nerdy with his regal interest. He also had a bit of time to do his other hobby. When the weather was suitable and when he felt up to it, he would go into the nearby conifer forest and harvest resin from tree trunks which he processed into rosin in small batches for the local chordophone players.

Structure of renin