Gadgetry

The benefits of marriage include the Portable Phones Couple Plan, whereby I attach my purse to Sir S's telephone account and get a flashy new phone with twinkling lights and brillo gadgets for much less than my old phone!

My new, shiny red portable telephone now includes a Print Club feature (where one can add amusing backdrops to the photo and plop silly hats, moustaches, antlers etc upon the heads of unsuspecting photographic subjects) and a Changing Seasonal Animation feature (which includes a country lad dinkying his young love on the back of his bike - a common sight here in the Nippon - whilst whizzing by the seasonal scenery of the day, the various Folders bobbling above their heads on balloon-strings).

For the latter feature, my phone automatically set itself to autumn. Apparently, in the winter scene the cycling couple battle a blizzard; in spring, cherry blossom petals drift over their path, and in the summer installment, my pamphlet shows a picture of the couple struggling with heatstroke, whilst being confronted with the horrors of head-on cicada collisions.

Note that I have Print Club'd my photo of Sir S in such a manner as to stylize him as the Spirit of Anti-Christmas.