My Boss came in late today, she usually does. It's her way of saying she's Boss. She's not really Boss, but the Real Boss is largely excluded from the day-to-day running of the business, so the Boss is in charge.

First thing she did she came in and she shouted at the New Guy. New Guy's been here about a month now, and he doesn't know who drinks tea and who doesn't drink tea at the morning meeting. Either that, or he's just being polite when he asks who would like to drink tea.

So he got shouted at and copped a scaly tail swing to the head. The Boss missed with her first effort, knocked one of the cups of tea off the table. Second time round she swung her tail twice as hard. Whoosh (miss), crack (cup of tea), sploosh (tea emptying), wallop (New Guy's head), whimper (New Guy). She hit him so hard she left a big red bruise on her tail.

Now every time she sees that big red bruise she reminds herself she should be angry about something and her whole tail glows red all over and she starts lashing out at things in her office. Bang crash gnash GNEuRFGh whizz whee crash krash etc etc. It gives the office a weird kind of avant-garde, percussive soundtrack. Not altogether uninteresting but a little unsettling. Who knows when she'll break through the walls.