As I write this, I have just returned from seeing the EverReady Big Band Orchestra perform-
a number of tracks, ranging from seventies Jazz fusion to soundtrack classics ranging from Indiana Jones' theme to Wicked.
The lion's share of the performance however, and the chief advertising drive, was watching Wallace and Gromit- 'The Wrong Trousers', with the band stepping in for the soundtrack (and doing a marvellous job of it!)
I was grinning ear to ear practically the whole time, and beneath that an internal complex of joy grew in a steady pace to what I will reservedly describe as complete delight, a holistic, enchanted feeling akin to a soul with a full stomach.
It isn't just the big band, nor the big band hooting along to Wallace and Gromit (though it is a sensational movie and anyone who hasn't should absolutely watch it. It's only half an hour!)
but also experiencing the movie in a room of other people, adjoining laughter confirming all those little moments you know to be funny- and you find other moments funny too, with the crowd taking unexpected detours into chuckles for moments that one didn't until now were sensationally charming.

Until recently I had the idea that Nick Park's first of the series- Wallace and Gromit- 'a Grand Day Out' was sculpted in the late 60's.
It was probably the mix of relatively primitive claymation, the designs of both Wallace and Gromit being less refined, And the association with space-age technologies that was all the rage for that time just before The first American boot was printed on Moondust.
In another world, mayhap we could have had Wallace bumping into and jamming out with Major Tom, and probably putting a smile back on his face.
Maybe it's also that 2000AD, another Blighty-Made love of mine, came out in the late 70's, and was at first resplendent with themes that are a lot more action-packed and less mature (in that it knowingly flaunts the juvenile extremity that is a cornerstone of the medium, the target audience is both younger and older in this respect).
However, it is actually the case that Wallace and Gromit a Grand Day Out is a graduation Project from the 90's, and has endured with Nick his whole life, in much the same way as so many people have lived within Judge Dredd and 2000AD.

What does this have to do with incestuous dogs?

It should be noted that both the protagonists or Riverside are extractions of myself, roughly existing as versions of me before and after a long stay in Hospital. Isabelle and Oscar represent different sides of a life that could have gone in different directions, and a sort of maturing process that I am still coming to terms with. Riverside is not, however, the thing that I want to do most. It is not The 'Wallace and Gromit', nor the 'Judge Dredd' I want to typify me, but as my art stands at the moment I don't feel ready to begin that other thing.

So, basically, Page will be out hopefully towards the end of next week. Still skittering around finishing bits, and I'm paying more attention to the dialogue and what specifically I want to say and how.
Thank you all ever-so-much for your continued patience!