Feeling Blue?

Smurfing to smurf, you smurfity smurfers with smurfy smurf stuff? It's Global Smurfs Day, so don't feel blue, just remember all woads lead to Rome. Argh! I've now got the Esso Blue song stuck in my head.

The Smurfs, or Les Schtroumpfs, first appeared in a 1958 segment of Peyo's comic strip Johan et Pirlouit. Serialised in Spirou, that strip followed the Medieval misadventures of a King's Page, Johan, and his midget sidekick. It had been running about 11 years at that point and in an adventure called The Flute with Six Holes they encountered some strange blue creatures.

I'm wondering if this means that Gargamel and Azrael actually predate the Smurfs?

Meanwhile ...

So about that paddleboarding?

Dragon Man.

William Blake biography.

Watch where you walk in Wistman Woods.

Capture the Sparkle.

Which takeaway serves deep-fried tapeworm?

The most expensive cat.

Cats that care.

Just popping out to see In The Heights. Over to you.