There isn’t really a great deal one can say about the lesser spotted bat-winged bum-licker
lesser spotted bat-winged bum-licker
except to be profoundly grateful that it doesn’t want to snog you
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My interests range from ancient greek to tudor periods, and I tend to be an artisan rather than an academic - not that I don't do research, I just prefer getting my hands dirty.
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I can’t help but wonder what the heck the illuminator was eating/drinking/inhaling (whether by accident or not) to come up with such a little beastie. Was it pointed at a comment that someone made about someone else or something? Was it commentary on some figure of local or greater renown or something that just crept out of a nightmare?
who knows, but he isn’t even the wierdest of the things that lurk in the lutrell.
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heavens…! the artist musta been smoking his sour socks…that or horribly mad at someone superior!
you think thats some one he knew?
probably his boss :p
He looks slightly fed up about the whole thing too.
wouldn’t you be if you had to lick you own bum all the time?
The medieval mind is really rather disturbing, isn’t it… Positively bewildering!
disturbing and disturbed