the local Japanese restaurant, I think

Useful and productive day, but rather tiring. I am beginning to get the pre-holiday jitters. Also the pre-holiday grins at work.

Will be catching up with my mother for supper tomorrow. She's coming up to York for a meeting over the next couple of days, and is arriving in Leeds the day before (ie, tomorrow). It'll be nice to have a couple of hours with her.

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There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse’s hooves: if one of the horse’s hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there’s probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you’re looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse.

-- I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett