Every Inchie Monday: Door

Hello Folks,

Gotta love the doors (this week's word at  Every Inchie Monday) on the spaceship 'The Heart of Gold'.  As the sales brochure for the ship says: "All the doors on this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition.  It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."  Of course, Marvin, the depressed Robot, hates them and their "pleased little clicks and whirrs."  


Lots of different ways to go with door.  My first thoughts went to the Dormouse from "Alice in wonderland" (Tenniel drawing).  It's a little difficult to see the mouse between the white rabbit and the mad hatter, but I find these drawings so much more satisfying than the Disney version.

The words this year have been rather difficult for me to quill and once again my skill level couldn't cope with a door.  So instead, I made an opening door out of paper.  The paper on the outside of the door actually has a woodgrain pattern on it and there is a bead for a handle.   Not sure, however, what is on the other side!  Does it look happy?

Hope you run across many doors of opportunity this week.  Thanks for dropping by.

Every Inchie Monday: Island

Hello Folks,

So the Islands (this week's word at Every Inchie Monday) I can find in HHGG are the ones which are on the planet Damogran.   The spaceport where Zaphod arrives is coincidentally called Easter Island, which in "Galacticspeke...means small fat and light brown".   The other important one is where the Heart of Gold spaceshp is before Zaphod steals it.   (Can you tell I found my copy of HHGG?)

Well, my inchie islands have very little to do with the book!  First off is an island very important to Canada:  its smallest province, Prince Edward Island (where the Anne of Green Gable novels are set).

(Not an inchie - just a reference photo so you can see where P.E.I. is and how small it is in relation to the rest of Canada)

My quilled island is your generic desert island.  Have you ever played the game about what book would you want to have on a deserted island?  My answer has always been a copy of the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Hope you have a good week.  I'm really enjoying this year's words.  What would you read on a desert island?

Every Inchie Monday:Spaceship

Hello Fellow Inchers and other passers-by:

This week's word at Every Inchie Monday is spaceship.  

My first offering is a part of a spaceship:  the shuttle.  It is the Canadarm (officially known as the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS)) - the series of robotic arms that maneuvers cargo and astronauts around in space.  Designed and build in Canada, here it is proudly depicted on the  back of the Canadian 5 dollar bill.

And finally something I can quill.  Here is a generic spaceship on some sparkly, space-like paper:

I wish I could live long enough to see it when spaceships and space travel are as common as airplanes are today.  Have a rocket of a week.

Every Inchie Monday: Towel

Hello Folks, 

Ah -- one of the iconic objects in The HitchHiker's Guide - the towel.  I love that this innocuous this item is "just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar Hitchhhiker can carry".  I also love that the towels in the book come from Marks and Spencer.  And of course you know that towel is this week's word for Every Inchie Monday.

My first towel is drawn simply.  I know Don't Panic appears on the book and not the towel but it seemed appropriate.

Again a difficult thing to quill, so I resorted to paper:

And I couldn't resist another use for towels with Easter coming up -- bunnies!

Keep you towel handy this week in case an interstellar ship happens by.  Stay dry and warm.

Every Inchie Monday: Earth

Hello Folks,

 I love that Ford Prefect, that travelling contributer for the Guide, amends the entry for Earth from 'Harmless' to 'Mostly Harmless'.  It's one of my favourite moments in the novel.

I found this week's word at Every Inchie Monday quite difficult.  Once again I had to resort to a photograph because I felt my drawing skills were't up to depicting our home planet.  And I like this image:  

The extend of my quilling this week is the little blue planet itself with a very bad cut out of the Americas.

Two rather unsuccessful attempts this week.  I guess you can't have it every time.  Have a good week and be kind to the earth.

Every inchie Monday; Beer

Hello Folks,

Isn't it great to know that interstellar travel requires beer? (which is this week's word at Every Inchie Monday).

In Canada we are very proud of our beer, which is reputed to have more alcohol content than American beer (but which probably doesn't because it depends on how it is measured).  So I chose a picture of a sort of iconic Canadian beer:

(Hard to tell by the picture but it is one inch square in the original.)

And for my quilled inchie - a plain old brown bottle of beer:

Personally I think beer tastes like dishwater.  It's just a taste I never acquired.  Neverthless, here's to you this week.  Cheers.

Every Inchie Monday: slippers

Hello Folks,

Poor Arthur - he spends a great deal of time in "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" in his bathrobe and slippers, this week's word at Every Inchie Monday.  Dignity dignity.  So I thought I'd give him even more 'dignity' by drawing him some bunny slippers:

 For my quilled inchie, I made a pair of ballet slippers:

I confess that I am not one of those women who has a lot of shoes - I basically wear one pair all the time.   But I do have a number of pairs of slippers!  

Have a good week and wear appropriate footwear.