h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Do you think it was those two hunting dogs that attacked your dog?

I have to admit that I find it kinda cute that the cat took them and packed them away in the larder.

In the larder where the cat food is kept, no less. Whenever his sister brings home a fat vole, she'll deposit it in front of OUR larder.

I have no idea who did the killing, but the thought of Morris the cat dragging a three-pound hare up the stairs - thumpety thump - opening the larder door (which is usually ajar) and stuffing it all the way in the back (maybe hoping the big scary vacuum cleaner would guard it), then going back to get the second one and repeat the whole procedure makes me wish we had a surveillance camera installed upstairs.

Lucky you're a zoologist! I'm sure you'll find out which primate is responsible before long.

A primate? Cats don't qualify, then. What about werewolves?

I'm sure he meant King Kong...

Actually, I have since found a third leveret - alive and well - sitting very still in a clump of grass in our pasture. They were obviously only just young enough that their flight reflex was still overridden by their instinct to stay put. I really had to poke this one with a stalk of grass before it even budged!

Sadly, that explains how its siblings were taken.

I've had an encounter with a ferocious bull which led to a vault over a stone wall. I won't tell you which of us was the vaulter and which the vaultee.

I just had a bat in my room. It flew a few rounds and then out of the window again.

Here's a sound piece of advice for you, KB...
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/funny-pictures-handy-bit-of-info.jpg

Errr, thanks Yarreau, I'll bear that in mind if I'm ever tempted to interfere with a bull's balls.

WJH: Was getting ready to head out for dinner with a friend when she told me she'd slammed her hand in a car door!

So dinner's off. But now I get to watch Ireland beating France instead

Just tried on my old riding boots and found I couldn't get them pulled up - all that walking has given me fat calves

Fattened calves? At least then we've the makings of a proper banquet to welcome you back to Ireland!

WJH: Saw the dullest football game I've seen for a long time, and decided I'm gonna be a Kerryman from now until September when they'll beat Dublin in the final.

I have fat calves too! Just back from the Mela in Botanic Gardens, where I met
1) My cousin who was on the PSNI stand at the entrance
2) A fellow trilogette who was making cranes for peace
3) the guy who wrote a report that is the basis for a big work project, and
4) his wife, who is a FB friend of Rog's but they'd never met in real life before.

I bought an Indian tunic/ trouser/ scarf type ensemble, but the trousers are skinny at the ankles!

Dammit no edit button!

5) the woman who showed us round Stormont at Christmas.

WJH? Smoked sausage for dinner

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WJH: Looked at post 45753, and realised that I'm not a Kerryman any longer - and that I really should stop counting chickens before they hatch. Remind me never to open a betting shop!

I was just unloading the shopping from the car, and saw a fox run down the centre of the street

I just heard that my dentist who abruptly disappeared a few years ago was in fact arrested as a pedophile and is probably still in jail. Oh the things you learn when you begin to dabble in local politics...

My dad just got home from visiting my mom in her assisted living and told me she's complaining that her clothing is disappearing. Well it did disappear because a few months ago, she told me that some of her clothing didn't fit and she wanted me to give it to good will. So I did. She's gained weight and I have to get her some new cloths, but new cloths will bring with them another host of issues. Dementia sux.