{"id":15451,"date":"2024-02-14T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2024-02-11T21:11:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T21:11:22","slug":"blogathon-14-24-vd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15451","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 14\/24: VD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, it being a DolManSaxLil-esque<\/a>* conspiracy of shoe-buying proportions, but for gift-card-buying not shoe-buying. Obviously. Anyway. Today is Valentine’s Day, the day when Saint Valentine waded out into the middle of Lake Windermere and slayed the Kraken for his beloved spaniel SmellyTrainer (for it was he).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find myself being drawn to Douglas Adams’ Great Work<\/a>, because it was he who introduced me to the concept of the Four Part Trilogy and this is something I shall always treasure. Anyway, back to VD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After The Blessed Saint Valentine had viciously slaughtered the Kraken, he did, as you will recall, venture into that deeply, dankly, demonly pit of sloth and despair, Somerset. And ’twas in Essex that young Valentine encountered his Great Nemesis: Adge Cutler<\/a>, the leader of the marauding tribe of slayers of trolls, The Wurzels<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway. Somerset, as many of you will know, was the place where Clanks Shoes (who some mistakenly called Clarks Shoes) was born. And Clanks were the original found father of the Dolmansaxlil empire And lo and behold, we have come full circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy VD to those who celebrate it. And happy VD to those who don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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