Different @#$%, different day

Perhaps it was the shot of whisky before bed or merely the decent night's kip, but the main body of the Phlegmite army has decamped and marched down into my lungs. Goodbye aloe vera-infused snotrags, hello Salty The Seal bark. Also, a twitch of the curtain reveals it's raining steadily. There goes my audacious plan of spending this Sunday moving between the city's galleries and museums, viewing no less than five temporary exhibitions. I won't be setting flipper outside the unit. Consolations include toasted turkey sandwiches and random entries from the entertaining "It Looked Good On Paper - Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters And Engineering Follies" (2009), edited by Bill Fawcett. There's even one, in the "Exit Stage Left" section, on the ill-fated "Everway" RPG. "Here's a pretty picture - OK, everybody role-play."