Ming the Merciless adjusted her new red felt landskin scarf

found along with velvet offerings in red and brown

and also several in chiffon silk

at Aspects Gallery, Kings Park, Perth

"are you sure about this?" she mused

and then ducked off

to mend her spectacles

using the trusty guide from the Reader's Digest of 1970something

all of which translates as a gibbering sigh of relief

because

my mother has again eluded the undertaker

i've finally delivered an order for the West [see first image]

and

i've nearly finished that manuscript

and just for the record, the tag with the question

came from a tea-bag