If, like me, you've been bewildered by Fundamentalist signs denouncing "ankle biters", wilder no more: according to Routledge, "ankle biter" isn't just US slang for "children", but also for "petty, narrow-minded bureaucrat". Now you know.
Spent the whole day doing re-writes on Letters to the Dead (now Riding Sunshine), looking at crap on Flickr and Tumblr, and role-playing a couple of talking snakes. My eyes are melting.