And then there was one.

The last Hobbit remains.
This is not a fragment statement of the presence of the remains of the last hobbit (or would that be hobbitess? hmmm.) but rather a complete sentence relating to faithful readers that there is only one hobbit left in the Hobbit Hole. And she is cleaning. And there are no more Gingernuts. And there is a massive pile of rubbish outside the front door. And She notes that it is good.

Further notes on today's activity:

*The postman pointed out that the doorbell has been stolen and is not merely dead, as I had thought.

*Fabiana and Alessandro left in a rather full taxi with an alarming amount of luggage to navigate through a train change in Manchester. More power to them!
*Meeting with supervisor went well -- have one week to complete whatever part of paper in final form we want scanned for silliness. And we do want it all scanned, don't we, so we had best get ourselves into gear.
*Our mother has informed us of devious plans to embarrass absent family members (namely me) with horrifyingly precocious pictures at the upcoming Strain/Jones/etc. reunion in the coming weekend. I request that any readers in attendance will refrain from raucous mockery. If there are pictures of any small girls in ruffly dress and foolishly lacy socks (white, of course. how silly! I mean, in theory "how silly!") sitting on top of a mud pile, those would be images completely unrelated to my distinguished past. As would any images involving the consumption of paste.
*Anyhoo, Paul has alerted us to the fact that there will be no Quidditch in the OoTP next summer. If you are feeling a bit low about your life at the moment, you may want to review comments posted in reference to this news item on the link above and know that you have a perfectly fine, NORMAL life. These people haven't one.
*Eamonn has alerted us to innovative new developments in Dutch golf. Those crazy Dutch.
*And a bit late, as this was sent last week... Matthew informs us of linguistic singularities of the Bovine kind. See comment re: OoTP fans above.

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AM out. Moooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!