Recently I had a wonderful dinner with Una and Lynn, who are my other, unofficial family.

Una has written a great children's book called Mango the Elephant. I've only read the story once, but it's instantly memorable. Short and punchy, and written in rhyming couplets. There's one couplet to each page, and each page has been beautifully illustrated. One of those pages, featuring Mango, is now available as a mousepad. Even better, I'm now the proud owner of one of those mousepads.

Lynn pointed out that the well-known enmity between elephants and mice. I like that. Mango is now sitting on a trestle table in close proximity to my mouse. Mango seems calm, so I'm hoping that calmness will do something to shake up the mouse. Really, I'm just trying to make the computer nervous. I'm not sure it's working, but I'm enjoying trying.