Tuesday 31 October 2023

Series IV, Episode II

After an absence of near two years, Polly and her friends are back. Maybe they will make it to the end of the series.

The trolls, mostly off-screen to the left, have on this occasion been rather put in the shade by the zombies constructed for Halloween, two and a half of which are visible right. The ladies have been building a palace, possibly something to do with Barbies, visible in pink behind Polly. While Polly and her friends have been building a troll house, also off-screen to the left. In tasteful red, green, yellow and blue. Proper Duplo colours.

PS: in the margins I learned that 'Donnybrook' as well as being a Dublin suburb just in from Sandymount (which last features no less that twice in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'), was once licensed by King John to hold a annual fair. Along the way the word became slang in the Anglophone colonies - that is to say the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - for a public brawl or uproar. The New York Times, where I first came across the usage, offers the snap above. Nothing in the OED, but Webster's gives the word half a column inch between 'donnot' and 'donor'.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/11/series-4-episode-i.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnybrook,_Dublin.

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