Are you sitting comfortably?

Then I'll begin.^*

Out in the garden yesterday, peaceably hoeing and weeding and dead-heading and harvesting, I experienced a sharp pain in my posterior. Twice.

Upon retreating to the house to divest myself of my trousers, I found a dozy but disgruntled wasp. Not half as disgruntled as I was, however. And the lodger was also suitably perturbed. More than suitably, in fact, pressing upon me large doses of steroids and threatening me with the application of my Epipen. I managed to calm him down sufficiently to avoid the unnecessary Epipen, but did (I confess) acquiesce to the steroids just in case.

And I am not sitting comfortably this morning.

^{* This will be... if not meaningful, at least memorable... to anyone from the UK of a certain age.}

Shinies -- go see!

A while back I posted about a lovely necklace I bought at Wiscon.

Elisem, who made it, is having a sale . Go look! But don't buy the thing I want.... please!