Sirius's 3D crossword calendar

If you can imagine a cross between Spike Milligan on E(cstasy), James Joyce on G(uinness)  and Stanley Unwin on, well, A(nything), there you have Sirius, the inventor of the 3D crossword and the worst clue writer I have ever known, yes, even including Trevor.

As I have probably mentioned several times to my loyal reader Gladys Adlestrop, who lives in that posh rest home on the promenade and who's actually worked out how to get broadband on her Sinclair Spectrum (she's in the WI, you see), I have been working, and I use the word with my fingers crossed, for the past six weeks with Sirius on his grandiose project to raise a million quid towards a new school for blind and partially sighted children in Coventry.  The ups and downs of Sirius's project have already been documented ad nauseam on this lustrous blog, but I would like just to say that two copies of the finished product thudded onto my doormat at lunchtime (the post is early on a Saturday.) And what a delight to the eye they are, if you like purple.

The volume of e-mails between Sirius and Locum over the past six weeks is such as to have sent Tiscali* and Botswana-IT delirious with joy. There have been well over 200, most of them completely incomprehensible, both to recipient and sender.

Last night's exchange, for example, degenerated into a very boozy argument about pterospondees (like pterodactyls, but even better at handling stress).

Sirius and Locum are plotting the next project - the Dicitonary of Misprunts.

Meanwhile Mrs Sirius and Mrs Locum are planning to meet, having an awful lot in common.

Sirius's 3D crossword website is, if you remember, here.

Do have a look.

* A lie.  I invented it, to protect the virtuous.