Thomas and Gordon, two very special and very important trains belonging to Zak, went missing. This resulted in a major rescue operation. Where could they have gone?

Hellooooooooooooooooooo! And welcome to the 74th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

We have such a wonderful treat for you today! This is Lion Toaster! It is a cautionary tale about a cat who bought a Lion brand toaster, believing the hype, thinking it would be the best toaster he could get. But his beautiful toasty dream was not to be. Oh no. What lay in wait for him was sorrow beyond imagining. Watch, listen, and learn, my friends. Learn your lesson about the cruelty of this world in which we live. Learn through the magic of song.

http://rathergood.com/toaster

It's tragic isn't it? Really so very very sad that such things can happen in today's world. But HAPPEN THEY DO! Let this be a warning to you!

I whacked a bunch of photos up on flickr if you're into looking at photos and stuff. There's some pretty amazing things going on there- you can see ME OFFERRING ZAK A PIE! A HOME-MADE STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE! Can you imagine it? I actually bought some stewing steak and some kidney, and I TOTALLY made a pie with it. Zak went totally BONKERS for the pie. He was shouting LOOK AT THAT PIE! LOOK AT THAT PIE! I WANT IT! I WANT TO EAT IT AND PUT IT IN MY TUMMY!

I totally got Jacqui to photograph the pie, and photograph me offering Zak the pie, and then I put those photos, (along with other photos!) on the internets on flickr where you can see them and gasp in amazement and astonishment at my PIE!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelveitch/

I asked Jordan about the rumours that she has an unusual method of playing pinball with Pete:

http://rathergood.com/jordan

We've got BRILLIANT Lion Toaster tshirts available, with a glorious picture of that wonderful toaster on them! You can get them here:

Lion Toaster Tshirts!

Because of magic, that link should take you to a shop in America if you are in America, or a shop in the UK if you are NOT IN AMERICA! And that is MAGIC! I think there may be some SCIENCE in there as well making it go, but mainly it's MAGIC.

I've totally got my head around this whole twitter malarky you know, and now I'm twotting all over the place! YEAH!

http://twitter.com/rathergood

How's about THAT then? YEAH! Feels GOOD! I've been blogging on the blog and stuff as well - so far the new regime of regular bloggering is working beautifully and I'm really enjoying it. So that's good. I'm even going to blog this newsletter.

I think that might be about it, except to let you know that I love you. I love you so much that it makes my teeth hurt. They really really hurt! In fact there's a big hole in one of them, and it's gone black and there's puss leaking out of it and it hurts so badly I can hardly think straight and that's ALL BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU!

Superhugs! Mwah! Mwah! Darling you look so gorgeous I could eat you all up! Really I could! Would you mind? Any bits you don't need? Just a finger or a slice of shin or something? Mmmmmmmm delicious!

Yours sincerely

Joel Andrew Veitch MA

I had a music day today. The Skankhammer came over, and immediately complemented me on my teapot. It makes a musical sound when it pours, and I'd never noticed. The two great loves of The Skankhammer's life are tea and music, so this for him was a wonderful moment.

We whacked out a vocal line for the soon-to-be-techno classic "My House That Looks Like Me" and pretty much polished off recording a samba number about my happy goat, which is looking like it's going to be one of my all-time faves. It is so very very happy, and goaty. I get to go Uuuuhuuuuuh, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, GOAT! This can only be a good thing.

We also had a crack at recording on the video camera a little ditty about the rooms of the house- a kids song - not a proper studio recording just a little fun thing- with Zak in it. He wasn't in the kind of mood I was anticipating though and instead of dancing around gleefully, which is what we had in mind, he shouted "STOP DADDY" every time I started playing. We would start again... twang twang "STOP DADDY STOP IT NOW!" - I'll see what it looks like when I've got the footage off the camera, but I think it might be even lovelier, if somewhat more shambolic, than what we were actually planning to do.

Today I have eaten my home-made pasta (lunch) and my home-made steak and kidney pie (tea) as well as various other things. I shall be making more of these things and I shall also be trying making bread in the near future.

Here is a photo of me showing my glorious home-made steak and kidney pie to Zak, while he evaluates it carefully, with the approach of a connoisseur of fine wines testing an exquisite vintage.

I have carefully constructed this educational diagram to help you learn about the fascinating life-cycle of MANWASP.