A good friend of mine (Hello, Red!) has been invited to attend a fancy dress party – in a costume which, according to the invitation, must be of someone or something beginning with the letter ‘E’.

Amongst other suggestions, I put forward that she might want to go as Elvira, until she pointed out that… well, I think you can guess from the accompanying pictures what she feared the misinterpretation might be.

Fair comment; one is a creature who only seems to come out at night, and the other…