I can’t remember the example; if it comes back to me I’ll put it in.
There is a character in High Fantasy whose name is Prince Aileron.
(Philology?)
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Philology is it, of course. But it lacks the weight of ‘taken to extreme fantastical levels’. Fantaphilology?
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Guy Gavriel Kay, the Fionavar Tapestry series. Many people who aren’t me think his books are wonderful.
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did you just make that, Hedgers? Here’s an extra 
in case you did.
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Nah, seen various versions of it before. I is asleep really.
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Taking my name in vain, Gus?
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So it would seem. Will there be Consequences?
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Oh dear and here’s me flinging extra heartiwossits around. If you want to convince people of your asleepness, ram head back under wing pronto. No tseeping.
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The general course of life, Gus.
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Nazgûl with a bad dose of piles by the looks of things.
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Today we have finished a slightly hell-job. Or at least, one which was quite frightening and very necessary.
The man who lived here before us built a gazebo-like shelter in the garden: a square roof sloping down from the centre, on four stout 5"x5" beams, with a floor. It’s reasonably large: 10’6" square.
He had roofed it with some sort of stiff hollow plastic felting, over which he put those twigs-for-hedge bundles to look like thatch. The pigeons stole the twigs to make nests with and we had a bare plastic roof, which then degraded in the sun until eventually large strips of it came off and the shelter ceased to be in any way waterproof.
So in July 2015 we had a roof made of shingles put on instead, never heeding the fact that it would weigh rather more than the original. And a week or so ago we noticed that the whole structure was now sagging visibly in one direction, away from the prevailing wind, and might gather speed at some point and come crashing down.
Panic was followed by decision: it was still square in footprint, because it has wooden cross-braces at each corner, but two of the edges were becoming parallelograms. So we needed to put bracing in the other two orientations as well, and make every vertical corner square with the square of the roof.
Sixteen brackets http://www.diy.com/departments/abru-steel-heavy-duty-bracket/173355_BQ.prd?icamp=recs&rrec=true were bought, bolts and nuts were bought, longer bolts were bought because muggins measured the wood and forgot the depth of the brackets needing to be added, a long drill-bit was bought, and yesterday and today sixteen 5" holes (the horizontal ones) and sixteen 6.5" holes (vertical) were drilled, and bolts put through them holding the brackets in place, and washers and nuts fitted onto the bolts, and all the corners are now staying square. The first corner was the really difficult one, because it had to correct the tilt on one of the legs and we just prayed the other end of that beam would then pull the other upright to vertical. It worked.
Altogether, yay us, I feel.
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Bloomin’ 'eck.
Even more impressive when one bears in mind this was achieved with fins (2) and wings (ditto).
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One day you shall see it and marvel.
One day I shall
a] learn how to take a photograph
b] learn how to put a photograph up here
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Here it is during and after the roof-fitting:
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Ooh, there’s clever! Thank you.
omigawd, that far-left upright looks as if it is bending!
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It’s the Angle of Dangle, surely…
Carinthia.xx
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I’m hoping it is just the way that the plant is growing up it. But I had to go outside and look at it anxiously too.
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Now of course you have the sparrer’s eye view
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That’s true, and very distorting and disorienting it is!
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Not to worry. Too me it looks like foreshortening in the photo. Otherwise…ker-poing or suchlike.
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