Comments on: It’s not exactly the Discovery Channel, is it?

By: Stella Jones

Stella Jones — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:41:07 +0000

Yes, I’m learning fast too. My hubbie told me that possums can play dead in the road. It must be some kind of defense mechanism. The first time I saw a dead one, I just had to get out of the car and take a close look. It was the first possum I’d ever seen!
Blessings, Star (in Tennessee)

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:44:11 +0000

Why, Brooklyn – you are just incorriging me to badger you yet some more, with otterly familiar word-play …

And, yes, knowing that, even as I do, some of the readers of this blog will phylum away for future use …

Does such further punishment not indeed fit the ferreted-out so-called crime ?

(Or is that latter risking being too pungent for delicate sensibilities ?)

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:37:51 +0000

Brooklyn – I cannot ban on puns alone, whether committed in the heat of the moment or in cold blood. Indeed, anybody with the bravery to use the phrase ‘stoatally different’ should possibly be applauded.

The double bracket usage I’m less keen on…

Milo – I was born in Chester but brought up in Clwyd all my life. Aberystwth’s much posher than our way though.

Cocktails – as Almost American rightly says, hedgehogs are extremely flea-ridden, so don’t get too excited about the idea of having one in your garden. Preferable to an adder, clearly…

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:20:54 +0000

Dylan:
In light of Alasdair’s post: Does “A Brit Out Of Water” have a banning policy? If not, should it?

Alasdair:
“(even I am blushing, right now ! (grin))” makes it worse since it is evidence of a knowing crime.

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:36:28 +0000

Silly Almost American !

Don’t you realise that you can tell the polecat cousins apart trivially because, not only are they weasely distinguishable, they are in fact stoatally different ?

(even I am blushing, right now ! (grin))

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:20:39 +0000

Oi, I didn’t know you harked from N.Wales too? As was I you well-bred old stick! Aberystwyth in 1976 in my case.

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:47:15 +0000

My special one swears that there is a hedgehog living in our back garden. I’ve never sighted it so obviously I’m suspicious of this claim. At least you can actually see those overgrown gerbils!

By: Almost American

Almost American — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:31:29 +0000

Gerbils? I'd always thought possums etc looked more like overgrown rats. Of course, gerbils are rather rat-like, so I guess we're on the same wavelength! I miss hedgehogs. Mostly they were dead on the road, but we did have one living in our garden that had babies. Very cute, but flea-ridden. Lots of wildlife around here and I've blogged about a lot of it. I'm notorious for misidentifying it though. The family joke - "What a funny looking donkey! Oh, sorry, it's a moose!" The fisher cat I saw this week didn't look anything like a donkey, but enough like a weasel that I had no idea what it was and had to Google it when I got home. There are lots of animals that look like weasels. Which of course bear more than a passing resemblance to rats, what with the pointy faces and sharp teeth and claws . . .