Halloween

Umbriel reporting:

We don't celebrate Halloween in Finland and the All Saints Day isn't until next Saturday.

But we love playing dress up, so we have put on our scary costumes and we are pretending to collect candy and scare people. Mostly just scare people.


These are the Natterer boys Luc, Wolfi, Vinski and Aldo in their Ninja Turtle suits. They have big paper bags because they intend to collect lots of candy.


Here am I in my Black Batboy costume which you can't see well because it is so black. But it's good camouflage because it's so black outside. Except it's not really so black because we had a winter storm. We got mostly rain in this area, and only a little bit of wet snow. But we are supposed to get more snow tomorrow or next week. So the black batsuit is not the best camouflage.

The other scary guys in this picture are Mikko dressed as the King of the Ghosts and Nalle as his trusty bodyguard wearing his medal of valor. If weather forecasts are accurate, Mikko and Nalle have much better camouflage suits than I have.

Sir Isaac Newton (my newt) declared that scaring people is not dignified and not a suitable pastime for an eminent scientist, so he did not come with us to scare people. To have some pets with me I put a couple of cardboard bats into my bag. If people refuse to give us candy, I can sic the cardboard bats to attack them.

Do you think we look scary enough? Would you give us lots of sweeties?

The Zumikloxians: Introduction

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Outsider: Excuse me. I think I must do the introduction. I don't think you can understand what the Zumikloxians are saying.

Here they are all in a group picture.

From left to right: Zeon, Zyp, Zoid, Zibob and Zap

They came here because their home planet, Zumiklox, ran out of Honey Puffs. But they are here illegally and therefore they are included in Honey Monster's secret files:


They are hiding in my place either because the Honey Monster can't find them here or because Mikko is feeding them cereal and Nalle is giving them honey.

They came here in a small scout ship through a worm hole that connects Zumiklox with Earth. Unfortunately the worm hole is so small that only a small scout ship could come through. I'm not sure if the Zumikloxians are not going back home because they cannot fit enough honey cereal into their tiny scout ship or because they like it here.

As the worm hole is so small, the Zumikloxians cannot help Umbriel to get back to Zumiklox either. And besides I think Umbriel does not want to leave.

It seems that all kinds of odd characters gather here. And nobody wants to leave. I wonder if they all are hiding from the Honey Monster or if they just like to raid my refridgerator.

Niks & Naks: Introduction

Naks: We are the Lucky Trolls.
Niks: Or Unlucky Trolls.
Naks: Don't be silly. Trolls can't be unlucky
Niks: You're silly yourself. Luck is luck. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.
Naks: You're bad yourself.
Niks: Whom do you call bad...
Outsider: Excuse me, you were supposed to introduce yourself, not start quarreling...


Niks: OK. Back to business. Here's our picture. I'm on the left, Naks is on the right.
Naks: We used to live in a big forest.
Niks: A huge forest.
Naks: An enormous forest.
Niks: But we got bored.
Naks: And hitchhiked a ride on a bird
Niks: But we were unlucky and fell off in the middle of a lake.
Naks: A frozen lake
Niks: An enormous frozen lake.

Naks: But we were lucky because Mikko found us.
Niks: And brought us home
Niks: And it's not frozen at all inside.
Naks: Not the least bit frozen
Niks: Except in the deep freeze.
Naks: But we don't go in there.
Niks: Not unless we are hungry...
Naks: You're always hungry.
Niks: But I don't live in the deep freeze all the time.
Naks: You're not making sense.
Niks: We were not supposed to make sense, we were supposed to introduce ourselves.
Naks: Well, I suppose we have done that.
Niks: Let's go and see if we find some food.
Naks: OK. Do you think there's something good in the deep freeze?