“Stand still…” I placed the newly-found basis of a godly crown upon his head.
“I am not wearing a plant pot on my head!” To be fair, I should probably have waited until there was nobody else in this section of the garden centre, but we were on a mission. And I needed the right sized plant pot.
“No-one will ever know.” He had little cause for complaint… I’d be wearing one too, seeing as I could not have the glorious golden crown of ancient Sumer.
It would be my job to make sure that we did not end up looking like a latter-day Bill and Ben… but a little ingenuity and gold paint should do the trick.
“Well, our ‘Ben’ will be playing Gilgamesh…”
“…and Gilgamesh was called Bilgamesh in the Akkadian version of the story…”
“Wiki says that translates roughly as ‘the ancestor was a young-man.'”
“Or…
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Sun in Gemini 