Better late than never..
It all kicked off with my deciding it was time to set up a Web site. I needed a theme and a name, but being unable to conceive of anything I knew that others may find useful - or even entertaining - I followed pure whimsy in making my decision. I suppose Guinness have to take most of the blame, but whatever,
http://www.fishonabike.com was the end result.
The initial version of the site went "live" on 1st April 2000, which may or may not have some significance.
Despite some fairly grandiose intentions, I haven't done much with the site since then.
Sunrise, sunset, a bit of fiddling on the roof..
Meanwhile in sunny Awadia, much as an analogy is drawn where one isn't strictly necessary, the
Simile Fred was bearing strange fruit. You can all blame
wsieber for first mentioning a fish on a bike in
a post way back on 15/7:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Board=miscellany&Number=3572After a short delay, lots of
Ayleurs got in on the act, and you could hardly move for piscine peregrinations.
Enter
tsuwm, with
a suspicious mind and a reference to my Website:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Board=wordplay&Number=5790It could still have ended here but for my dear, occasionally scary,
Auntie (Anna)Strophic who Emailed me some basic info about AWAD and invited me to swim around and have a butcher's (
+ hook = look. Though probably it should be "fishmonger's" here) some time. For some reason she thought AWAD may be of some relevance to us
pisces bicyclata.
How wrong she wasn't.
Anyway, I made my first post on 11/10, and have had many exciting adventures here since then, under a fair variety of guises. The delicate matter of my parentage still hasn't been resolved, although the delicate matter of my gender has been. Pretty much.
Which planet I'm on is another matter entirely.
It's been great fun!
FishonaBike/Shona/Fishman/Fisk/Floppy Fiskette
P.S.
shanks must be credited with
the first use of 'Shona':
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Board=miscellany&Number=5856
