Unexpted Stephen Maturin?

[tree_and_leaf]

Am off to Munich for the weekend - and on Monday I'm going to Colmar (but it will involve looking at mediaeval paintings, so that's work - right?)

I posted a whole lot of cards, including most of the lj ones. Apologies for the lack of stamps - I took them to the post office in the hope of getting nice stamps, instead of the horrid ones from the machines, but before I had a chance to object, the girl behind the counter stuck what look like parcel labels on them. Bah.

I keep walking past a poster for a talk by the forensic entomologist Mark Benecke, who I've just googled and who appears to have a fine conceit of himself, judging by his website.

However, that's not the point: the point being that the poster's photo - which is here, in a slightly differently cropped form, keeps making me think "...Stephen Maturin?", despite the fact that a second inspection shows that he's wearing a modern and probably very expensive trekking shirt. But there's just something very Stephenish about it somehow. Though I don't think Stephen would be conceited or humourless enough to describe himself as "The Lord of the Maggots"....

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I took an A5 envelope containing Christmas-related items to the post office at the Yarnton Gulf petrol station this evening, on the basis that I would like it to catch the last post. I, too, hoped for Christmas stamps, but instead a label was printed. A universal disease; Royal Mail could at least have festive labels for this time of year.