Disruption Plans

The next few weeks will be patchy for the Quirky Muffin, as conferences and holidays conspire to make it all very difficult. As a result I, the culprit, am making some plans to avoid a total cessation of Muffineering, both as a challenge to myself and as a form of torture for anyone who might actually be reading this nonsense. Go away! Eat a real muffin! Get a turtle!

In any case very very soon you will be faced with a succession of posts labelled 'Pre-planned for holiday cover' or something similar. They will for the most part be reviews and stories and non-typical pieces which don't require continuity or topicality with the ongoing travails of life. The stories won't be fully equipped with the links, sadly, but they will go up. There won't be any shortage of material after the disruption at least, even if it's only moaning about hitting the awful thirty-five years of age and the accompanying panic. (Many many nights now without panicky tremors and little sleep.)

"What holiday?!" you might ask, if you're permanently removed from other more worthwhile distractions and rather out of your mind. "Where could YOU possibly be going?! YOU?!!!!" Well, if we pass over the customary response of a raspberry and a blindfold the answer would be to conferences and to Amsterdam to cycle like a maniac while the parents have their anniversary holiday there. As co-sponsor I have to go and make sure they don't trash the place or hold up too many banks. Also, and note this well, Amsterdam forms part of the 'Beiderbecke Trilogy' sequence of trips begun by Edinburgh, continued by this trip to Amsterdam and ultimately to be concluded by a visit to Leeds. Sadly, when I went to Leeds for a conference previously I did not even consider making the Beiderbecke connections!

The Amsterdam trip is preceded by a mini-conference and a day visit to Cardiff, and succeeded by a theoretical trip to Nottingham so lets hope that the disruption is kept to a minimum. Chaos must not be allowed to dribble into a vacuum left by a lack of Quirky Muffins. The world could shudder to a halt. Film Bin could descend into chaos. Orcas could start wearing bucket hats and whistling. None of this can be allowed to occur, even if the blasted Clomp is smiling at the prospect.

Blasted Clomps. Mutter mutter. I should really do a reminder on who exactly the Clomp is. Hmmm... an idea occurs...

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