Scenes we'd have liked to see

From this weekend's proto-Nycon:

occams_pyramid, explaining how Immanuel Velikovsky was mistaken: "And this cave has the night sky painted on it, but it's the wrong way round, which he says is evidence that the passage of Venus [through Earth's orbit] flipped Earth's axis upside down. (beat) You try turning a gyroscope upside down."

ZANDER nips upstairs, finds his gyroscope in its box, takes it downstairs and wanders through living room turning it this way and that and looking bemused.

ZANDER: "I don't see the problem."

And if I'd only been able to find the frodding gyroscope, that would totally have worked. (Yes, I know he meant while it was spinning. Le cheap joke, c'est moi.)

Marion and I got out to do the food shop around noonish. The Countess wanted to come and would have been invaluable, but having had a hypo in the night and a panic attack thereafter, wasn't feeling up to it. I finally got to bathe and change my clothes at around six o'clock this evening, after making a very late lunch of sausages and burgers for people. Then at eight, we watched the excellent "Morris: A Life With Bells On," which is definitely going to be a getter when we can afford it and it's out, and switched over to catch the scoring on Eurovision. Dinner was pizza and very nice, and bed is happening as I type.

And tomorrow is another day.