Eight-legged groove machine

( WARNING: contains arachnid encounters, Stephen King spoilers, song lyric allusions, crap dialogue, and zeugma )

Badgered again

Opening some mail which turned up a few days ago (okay, okay, the house is a mess, my life is a mess, mail sits around unopened for days) I found that somebody had sent me the first-day-covers of a series of stamps featuring woodland animals, which included -- you guessed it -- a very cute badger.

Why do people keep sending me anonymous gifts? It's lovely of them but I wish I knew who to thank!