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Hissing Sid

Posted Jul 5, 2000

My first journal entry. I thought it would take a lot longer before anything noteworthy happened but against all the odds an event has occurred in the short time since I started my association with the Guide. It was a humble little event but since bugger-all ever happens to me I'm writing it up – just in case nothing else ever happens again.

I took the dogs for their lunch time walk today and as we stepped out of the front door I was almost instantly smothered in pollen beetles (an indication that some local farmer has just harvested a field of oil seed rape). I should have known better than to wear a yellow T-shirt – it's that time of year, beginning of July – what did I expect? So it was horrible. We'd walked about half a mile and damn me if I wasn't set upon by a swarm of thunder bugs. I don't know what triggers thunder bug attacks – low pressure and high humidity I expect. Anyway, we went another half mile or so and I was feeling itchy and irritable – crawling with bugs as I was and paint me pink if my barking loonies and I didn't spot a snake.

I haven't seen a snake for about 2 years. They seem to be getting very rare. I live in the country – where better to see the little slitherers if there are any left? It cheered me up ever so. I'm very fond of practically anything alive (with the exception of some humans and I can even like some of the more obnoxious specimens of us if I think of them as monkeys). That's it. That was the event. Made my day.

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