Friday, April 6, 2012

Pterodactyl


Xavier posted a fantasy pic on Facebook which reminded me of a motorcycle I'd owned some years back, a very fast Moto Guzzi based on a Tonti-framed 850T which I called the Pterodactyl. It was the only bike I'd ever given a name to. Three nights later I put the TV on whilst cooking dinner and SBS were playing a Godzilla movie with scenes featuring a flying dinosaur. I sat down to eat and chose foreign language movie at random, one I had no prior knowledge of, titled Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec. And what should it be about? A tomb-raiding vamp, Egyptian mummies and a pterodactyl!