At 8:14 the Well-Dressed Albatross finished breakfast and left the dining room. At 8:17 Pim arrived at the dining room for breakfast.
Pim Comic Strip
How I came to write Pim
People often ask how I came to write Pim. It seems like a thousand years since I discovered Pim, or that Pim
discovered me. Thankfully I kept detailed notes and saved photos from that time. While I can’t swear to the
absolute accuracy of what you are about to read, I have done my best to capture the essence of how Pim entered my life.
At breakfast the WDA, expectant of a continued reunion, was distressfully alone.
The Heiße Zitrone had soporific properties. Returning to rooms 227,237, 329 and 425 the companions slept.
How to make Heiße Zitrone
And so the four were together again. With varied reactions to the coincidence.
Slim ski interlude ended abruptly when Slim encountered a snow drift.
After unpacking and donning a fresh suit of clothes the WDA was inclined to explore the dining room.
Pim suggested a remedy which was unlikely to make Gim feel worse.
The prudent WDA hovered a moment before final approach to assess his instincts. As he always did.
In what felt like seconds the ripple in space-time deposited Pim and Bim in a place familiar and close to home.


