[Jerome Betts]

Sphereans adding lustre to LUPO’s Autumn 2021 issue include Melissa Balmain, Jerome Betts, Terese Coe, Martin Elster, Max Goodman, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Jan D. Hodge, Chris O’Carroll, Martin Parker and Wendy Videlock, plus new members J. P. Celia, Julia Griffin, Bruce McGuffin and Karen Petersen.

Their topics embrace aerated bread, an anagram challenge, Beethoven, being a parent, bookplate bile, a canine gastronome, Cher, Damien Hirst, Days (no connection with PL’s) evolution, family fights, the Fates, Him Her or It Up There, the inter-webs, James T. Kirk, Joseph P. Kennedy, a lipogrammatic octopus, Oklahomage, a Persian cat, rhyming youth, a rural dean, springhares, and Tirso de Molina. The times are black, so may all their efforts let in a little light.

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[F.F. Teague]

Congratulations, everyone. And congrats, Jerome. Another fine issue from you, I'm sure! I shall peruse <(:-)

Best wishes,
Fliss

[Jerome Betts]

Apologies to anyone experiencing difficulties, hopefully brief, in accessing the site in the next few hours. LUPO is in the process of migrating to a new hosting site.

[Melissa Balmain]

Is the migration complete? I've had no disruptions while reading the issue--which is, as usual, a delight. Thanks, Jerome!

[Jerome Betts]

Thanks, Melissa. Yes, the migration seems to have gone off without too much downtime.


Your bill and hit-topping Being A Parent in Issue 55 has provoked a Radacanuesque surge of attention to the quarterly gallimaufry and you too should be awarded a big (virtual) silver urn to kiss (or do they call it a jug over there?).


Looking forward to the imminent next Light.

[Melissa Balmain]

A virtual silver urn? Pour moi?
I am virtually--and actually--flattered.
(I think most people here would just call it a trophy... or maybe a cup--as in loving cup.)