Footprints in the butter

Unless you’ve been hid­ing under … well, an ele­phant since about June, you’ll be well aware that the superb word­smith and web per­son­age known as xTx has declared this to be Ele­phant Sum­mer. Since you’re all clever people who went through school, I’m sure you don’t need me to remind you what ele­phants are. That’s right — the big grey things, long trunks, flappy ears, use­ful for hos­ing down amor­ous nud­ists. For the past couple of months, just about every inter­net writer worth their buns has writ­ten a story about the afore­men­tioned ele­phants, each of which has appeared over at xTx’s place. And now it’s my turn. Meet Mer­rick.