Some interesting and inspiring things...

...that with a bit of luck might keep us going til the sun comes out again come Spring.

Geoffrey Haberman's metal insects (mostly creepy brass mantids, SO COOL).



John Paul Miller's irridescent enamelled insect-themed jewellery



(More photos here)

Food that is more like some kind of sculpture at the soon-to-be-dead El Bulli
(more pictures and descriptions here)


This is "snails on a tin", apparently snail eggs/caviar on a metal plate.

More metal insects and other metal sculptures by Elizabeth Goluch.



More insectoid (this time fin de siecle) jewellery by Lucien Gaillard.



Bizarre Japanese imaginary dead things that never lived.



And special mention to Wesley Fleming whose gorgeous glass critters got me going on beadwork and indirectly my beetles ages back now.



I've quit FaceBook and feel better for it (and I think nobody noticed, hehe), work is by turns frustrating and invigorating but always exhausting. Final draft of my trefoils paper went out to co-authors today, for submission to Gastroenterology. Think it will liklier end up in J Pathol or Biochem J but meh, beggars can't be choosers.

I just need to keep going 'til the sun comes back.