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[Grade E cat]

"Welcome to Iceland. If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes."
-- A souvenir I saw in Reykjavík a couple summers ago

Emil: May I just point out that with the comic's pace, that's like ten pages?

PS: I did see Thursday's page on the stream, I'm just writing Emil as being his overdramatic self.

[Róisín]

GradeECat: anent towns shaped like, if not a rune, a magical pattern of another kind: check out an ærial photograph of Adelaide. Our Founder, Colonel William Light, was a pretty serious Mason as well as a soldier. While some of his innovations, such as the parklands that surround the city being a cannonshot wide, were purely military, others were not. Consider the pattern formed by the squares and fountains. He also incorporated the native sacred sites into his pattern, centred around what became the fountain in Victoria Square, and including the old sites of springs that became the fountain in Light Square, the fountain near Tandanya, the lake in the East Parklands, and the gardens at Montefiore Hill. Fascinating to see such an early attempt at combining traditions.

[wavewright62]

GradeECat: anent towns shaped like, if not a rune, a magical pattern of another kind: check out an ærial photograph of Adelaide. Our Founder, Colonel William Light, was a pretty serious Mason as well as a soldier. While some of his innovations, such as the parklands that surround the city being a cannonshot wide, were purely military, others were not. Consider the pattern formed by the squares and fountains. He also incorporated the native sacred sites into his pattern, centred around what became the fountain in Victoria Square, and including the old sites of springs that became the fountain in Light Square, the fountain near Tandanya, the lake in the East Parklands, and the gardens at Montefiore Hill. Fascinating to see such an early attempt at combining traditions.

Here's a map of Adelaide for reference (I hope it helps illustrate):

[Grade E cat]

Thanks, both of you. I'll give a second look at Google maps when my brain is a little less tired.

[Róisín]

Wavewright, thanks for the map!

[Vulpes]

"Welcome to Iceland. If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes."
-- A souvenir I saw in Reykjavík a couple summers ago

Commonly used in Atlantic Canada, as well. A variant I like: If you don't like the weather outside the front door, go look out the back.

I think cats subscribe to that notion - back when my cats went outdoors (they have a 'catio' now, too many neighbours snare rabbits plus I like birds in the yard) they would peep out the cat door, find it raining, and then come yell at me to let them out a people door... and then seem annoyed that was raining there too!

[Róisín]

It's certainly like that in Melbourne. I remember my husband's astonishment the first time he went shopping with me in Melbourne. We entered the big Myers store from Bourke Street Mall in blazing sunlight, walked through the store toward the Little Bourke Street entrance where we could see rain bucketing down and flashes of lightning, and looked back to the main entrance which was still in dazzling sunlight. Ah, microclimates!

Seen the same thing in the Scottish Highlands, sitting on a peak in brilliant sun and looking down at the storm in the valley below.

[thorny]

 . . . but now Onni's going to be alone. That's not right!

[peeweevireo]

Yup, 42 pages into the second adventure and we already have a page that tore my heart out. :')

[Grade E cat]

Strangely enough, while Onni's words were kind of sad, what opened the waterworks for me was seeing Sigriður dote on Lalli and Emil, because one of my semi-subconscious headcanons is that neither of them got cared for like this by someone who wasn't simply earning their salary in quite a while.

[Vulpes]

Strangely enough, while Onni's words were kind of sad, what opened the waterworks for me was seeing Sigriður dote on Lalli and Emil, because one of my semi-subconscious headcanons is that neither of them got cared for like this by someone who wasn't simply earning their salary in quite a while.

Interesting point, particularly likely in Emil's case from what we've seen of his past... and yet he still has his mouth open, probably complaining! "We dragged ourselves all the way up there, harrassed by those wretched animals the whole way, and then it started pouring, is it too much to hope for a nice view..." ad nauseam.

[thorny]

Kitty: Wait a minute! You're not leaving me here!?

-- that's almost exactly the look I got from a young cat as the vet carried her into the back room to be spayed. I had a lot of trouble not running after them and taking her right back --

[peeweevireo]

Hehe, Kitty seems pretty content with herself now (Also, one month seems very short for teaching a little kitty how to hunt trolls. I wonder if Minna will ever explain what exactly goes on in the training program...)

[thorny]

Minna's comment right under the page says that the info pages at the end of this chapter will have more on the cat training process. I'm looking forward to it.

-- Kitty seems to have been a lot happier with her schooling than Reynir is with his.

[wavewright62]

I couldn't have borne it if we had any pages with Kitty pining for her crewmates, so I'm glad she was in one day, out the next.  But now we missed out on seeing the crew partaking of midsummer celebrations.
Summer is well along now, mid-July in-comic.