Shakira in the Year of the Horse

Dog's Breakfast

In the beginning, there was the word. For me, it started with this dictionary.

(Actaully it probably started with Dr Suesse, but that's a digression that threatens to lurch into rhyming verse.)

So this dictionary, a handsome Oxford volume which I would like to be able to show you in its former, entire, glory, today literally and not proverbially, became the dog's breakfast.

insult - the thing you add to injury...