character-a-day – Page 5

Drained

Very tired lately. Also, been watching vampire movies.

It’s tough being a hair monster when you have no gel

Bob is sad because he’s run out of hair gel.

No, don’t offer to help, he makes it out of half-digested children.

Extreme craft may involve explosive substances

Bullet hole buttonhole.

An old codger in some spiffy red longjohns

More sexy than catching the flu.

What’s brown and sticky?

Lives in the woods. Likes to scratch your tent in the middle of the night while you’re trying to sleep.

Blunder bus, a 17th century cavalry weapon, or a clumsy bus

Those low bridges are a killer.

Yummy toffee. It was from Marks & Spencers too, verrrry nice

To the lady who offered me a toffee in a golden wrapper on the commute home last Friday: Thank you, it was yummy.

Spider struggles with four knives and four forks

Spiders are messy eaters. It’s really hard to manage four sets of cutlery.

Red glasses on a very square jawed robot

Glasses. The first step on a slippery slope to becoming an android.

I hope.

Alarmed clown, perhaps they fear loneliness, or being ignored

Everyone fears clowns, but what do clowns fear?