[Jerome Betts]

LUPO 66 for June 2024 is now up with a coruscating complement of Sphereans staffing its slots, viz Brian Allgar, Melissa Balmain, Jerome Betts Michael Cantor, Terese Coe, Max Gutmann, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Chris O’Carroll, Martin Parker and Gail White, not forgetting new members Damian Balassone, Bruce Bennett, Dan Campion, Barbara Lydecker Crane, Julia Griffin, Steven Kent and Bruce McGuffin.

Their topics include deathbeds, divorce, Irish island-yearning, light verse, the famous Flaco’s fate, goats’ udders, auricular osculation, oysters, sick-bags, spiders, Shelley, cuspidors Tennessee and dancing in the Louvre, in the cause of providing some distraction from the ever-encircling gloom of the times.

https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/i...e-66-june-2024

[Melissa Balmain]

Thrilled to be called "sizzling" at my age--and to be in this issue! Many thanks for another bouquet of laughs, Jerome.

[Jerome Betts]

Thanks, Melissa, and likewise to you and the team for the recent Winter/Spring edition of Light with its tributes by A.E. Stallings to the late Anthony Harrington, Daniel Galef featured and spotlighted, the first reviews from Barbara Loots and work by 50 lighterati old and new, including many Sphereans.

[Jennifer Reeser]

A sweet inclusion,
The Muse's Delusion.