greetings fellow prosers! welcome to another installment of the randoms. what drove things to this, i shall nor say, what can be done against it, i can not answer. oh, how we came to this sad state...oh, well,just write what you want , using one, some or all of these topics (or none!! that's right who the hell am i to tell you what to do?!?!) and the topics are: 1) christmas trees in june. 2) Achilles the spider. 3) Xerxes, the fat labrador. 4) Atticus Finch opens an old-timey ice cream parlor. 5) the contents of Hillary Mantel's pockets. 6) clippy's suggestions on editing posts . 7) bangers and mash, in northern Bengal. 8) You have been raised up from Brutality, to kill the Brutals who multiply, and are legion.  9) Cyrano de nergerac' s thoughts on cornial transplants. 10) condiments and their application as approximation of bodily fluids. 11) Diet Gerchfuzzle (tootberry and kofflebottor) 12) the impracticality of it all... Caution: You are approaching the periphery shield of Vortex Four.