Is that where you want to be?

By the time she gets to the bottom of the stairs a light evening shower has sprinkled magic in the streets and all over town, releasing the perfume of freshly crushed rain. On

And here we are. Chapter 100. Cause for celebration. A feat of resilience, example of endurance, a grand folly, one could think.

Soon, very soon, chapter one hundred. Ah, but these are merely numbers. Days come and go. Surely, it’s what we do with them that counts.

There is no indication of what lies … ahead, just a step or two away.

The current protagonist is released into the outside world, there in all its glaring and glorious splendour. (Image: Photo of wall detail in Gaudí's Casa Vicens, Barcelona, 1885)

The title says it all, really. Where would we be without a touch of humour. Where? (Image: Photo of wall detail in Gaudí's Casa Vicens, Barcelona, 1885)

Something about animals, in particular, a dog, what it (does't) think and does. Ending with a song, "Animal" from the album "Moving Along", 2006. For your listening pleasure.

Who rocks the boat, who pulls the strings, unleashes the dragons, and makes the butterfly wings. (Song from "Sea-shanties for Landlubbers")

Taking stock can never be a bad thing.