Gin and a moat

[paxillin]

Not by one of the Queens this time... But we can drink here.

Maybe there's hope for you yet - after all, Richard Coles went on to have a regular slot on Radio 4, much more my cup of tea. And he has excellent taste in dogs goo.gl/images/ZeeSjV

Woof, woof!

Oh dear, he wouldn't look so great in a metallic catsuit. The dogs might.

Grrr catsuit grrr

Don't give the Strictly costume dept ideas.

Shame we didn't keep the scales of those legfish, what lovely sequins they'd have made for the catsuits! And yes, catsuits, even if worn by the dogs. Nobody wants to wear a dogsuit.

Schadenfreude did, she kept them! They're in the stationary cupboard.

I jus googled 'dog in a catsuit' to see if I could persuade Colin ...er, no. Not quite what I was expecting.

I did not anticipate those results.

Oh dear, I stupidly googled it too, now .

Is there anything that is not in that stationery cupboard? Such a treasure trove.

The internet is no place for innocent dragons and random royalty - I've had to start using Flora on my toast since a foolish google.

I thought the life size pictures were adverts for whatever you were breeding in there. So as a responsible citizen, naturally I felt compelled to neutralise this awful threat to our peace and prosperity.

That's a very reasonable explanation Dragon. I absolve you.

Schadenfreude did, she kept them! They're in the stationary cupboard

Damn you!

This are my scales - I bred them, shaved them off, dried them out and sprayed them with metallic paint for just such a sentient-glitterball-infested occasion as this!

At Richard's pictures - wow - He's punching well above his weight with his partner, isn't he? Lovely dachshunds though.

And dog-inna-catsuit - HELL'S BELLS!

Don't google dogs in catsuits with any youngling running about unless you wish to have a discussion about niche rain wear.

But if you kept the scales for this occasion, we can sew them onto the catsuits?

Whiiine not that sort of a dog!

Oh, didn't know you could still do absolutions, I thought you'd quit from poping. s'pose its a job for life?

Well, you know Dragon - you can taketh girl out of the Pope, but you can't . . . .

Ask anyone - once your priested, that's it - you can be de-frocked , but that just means you are a holy person in mufti - a bit like plainclothes police - but you aren't really supposed do priest stuff.

But absolving dragons is ok.
Probably.

I'd be willing to bet that there is no rule against Popes absolving dragons.

What happens if you get excommunicated? Or is that the same thing?

Who? Don't think a pope can be excommunicated. Maybe dodgy female ones who can't even keep their title straight can be? She can't actually do it to me on account of me being an atheist dragon hence not incommunicated, as it were, in the first place.

I see... can someone be incommunicated against their will? Asking for a friend.

Mormons can baptise the dead. No reason we should seek consent before incommunication.

Or more obviously, babies by just about every sect except Baptists.

However, I don't think anyone has ever been foolish enough to try to dunk a dragon.