Have been housesitting for the last week (am now too - presently minorly abusing their broadband internet late into the night), thus the radio silence.

Have a look at this:



Alarming, no? Is it some sort of Da Vinci-style contraption, emphasising the symmetry of man? A Futurist work in which man is melded with machine? A gay sexual automaton?

No. Bizarrely, it's just an ad from Amazon.com:



I think I'll be passing on that for the time being. Good day to you.