Good to know my inner Cranky Old Lady is never far from the surface and even better to know that she gives way to the inner Scifantisist (because I don’t have an inner Geek) at the turn of a head! Princes Square in Launceston is a beautiful park: oaks, fountain, hydrangeas, statue of an anaethetist, all overseen by that gothic beauty Chalmers Church, but this morning it looked a bit tawdry due to chalked hopscatch and general scribbles. Oh, my inner Crank was grumbling and grrr-ing away quite happily until… neither of us could make out the word from our angle/speed. We had to slow down, skew around a few degrees, squint-

BADWOL

Squint some more, adjust the spacing and-

BAD WOLF

Aha!

A Dr Who reference! Made my day.