Good Morning Doggerland!

Spidery, spidery, spider spy, you're watching me as I go by, you hairy long-legged creepy thing, I know you wish you had some wing, so you could fly up here and bite me, you who are so troglodyty, think you're useful, you scary creep, it would make a hard man weep, to meet you in his bed at night, it would make his hair go white, to find you on his toothbrush, in his coffee, up his nose, but if he did, I suppose, he'd flail and stamp, and squash you dead, so stay well out of people's beds!

Arresting work of animation by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein that won the 1989 Academy Award for best animated short.

So! This is funny; Frankie Howerd's take on the Serge Gainsbourg breather...

At an exhibition I came across this series of brooches brilliantly crafted by the Swedish silversmith/craftsman Christer Jönsson. Each is a strange little asymmetrical world in itself- or rather a little stage- of intertwining branches of silver and gold from which hang little minature figures and ornaments. They are like little worlds, with bats and skulls and skeletons, comedy and tragedy masks and marionette-like human figures in flat silver. A profile page. The Jungfuhuset gallery.