i only came to say hello...

not coming home any time soon

Oh, hi there! It's been a while since we've seen you!

a finial example to us all...

for all of this season's couples... in particular, M+S, T+J, D+D, and L+A. well done all of you, you're certainly doing better than these guys. maybe it's got something to do with this old thing.

still looking forward to S+S later this year, and of course Ch+S coming up sometime soon too!

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oh yes, and a finial in architecture is a decorative knobby thing on a balustrade, or detailed ridge cap on a roof. it's also what you call the twizzly bits at the end of curtain rods, and the flourish at the end of a calligraphic stroke! neat, eh?

not today, clue balloon. not today

and so ends clue balloon's first crime-solving adventure...

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

clue balloon: gets a call

oh dear - poor clue balloon. perhaps everything in your hunt for clues is not quite as expected...

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ... and more!

clue balloon: gets carried away...

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ... and more!

Update: apologies for yesterday's early release! hang in there - this narrative arc might get bumpy!

clue balloon: uses literary devices

oh clue balloon! deploying 'would' where a plain 'will' ought to suffice. it's a very trendy literary device, which lends a hint of subjunctive mystery with that whiff of the counterfactual... poor clue balloon - getting a bit caught up in narrative devices, and not concentrating on CLUES!

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ... and more! Update: apologies for today's earlier incorrect posting - gotta keep the story in order ;)

clue balloon: keeps an open mind

oh clue balloon, you are clearly gathering all the relevant clues to solve this crime...

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... and more!

clue balloon: casts a broad net

ah, clue balloon, speculating wildly in your hunt for clues... not a little influenced by the grimy monochrome underbelly of the other place over at cambridge noir. here's lookin' at you, d.

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 ... and more!

clue balloon: seeks connections

oh clue balloon! how i love your spectacularly tenuous sleuthing! colin dexter would be proud... or perhaps appalled.

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3 ... and more!

wot! crime? quick - send up the clue balloon!

following on from yesterday's post, a new solution to the colin dexter effect! cynan's genius idea. crime fighting, now solved!

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3 ... and more!

another triple murder in this sleepy city?

hmmm... clearly lewis + gin = unique approaches to fighting crime. A necessary response to the colin dexter effect: a murder rate more becoming of some (i.e., any) groaning metropolis, rather than little-old oxford. Stay tuned...

clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3 ... and more!

stra~nge storm comin' in...

pennants for moonday

an idle celebration to kick off the start of the working week...

voracious library

christmas-do for streetlights

telling secrets to the moon...

view from above the clouds

the best way to travel to the circus...

...camel-ride to the colosseum!

Great works of art and vapour: thinking big...

Rodin's Thinker started life as a study for a small figure to sit on top of the Gates of Hell.