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

*stomps off to Costume Hire to return near useless squirrel suit*

Random irrelevance - I have a 'Living World of Nature' book very 60esque, groovy clothing....

Do you have a cam Trin? You could film them...'The Badger Connection'

I don't have a cam, I'm sorry to say. I'm not sure it would pick them up in the darkness either - I'd probably need one of those hi-tech infra-red bedoobies.

If they ever come back, that is *sniff*

awwww...well that doesn't ever stop ufo spotters...



We could look at blurred dark images and oh and ahhh in awe...

*sniffles*

I'm sick today... *looks for sympathy*

*Carries a couple of buckets of raw sympathy over to Vix's place and looks for somewhere to put them* Over there by the hankies?

*Drops in some vids and freshly squeezed OJ for MV*

I'm off to bed *waves*

barrrrrrr.....bank bou...*big biffles*

bavve ba bood bight Bea!

*wonders if Trin's a tiramisu magnet now*

*looks forward to the natural history of tiramisu conversation*

en't that a little group of tiramisi romping in the patio?

Everything anyone could possibly want to know about Tiramisu :

http://www.heavenlytiramisu.com/

Now, there's a man who really likes his tiramisu. Also, Anna Maria Volpi's 'History of Tiramisu':

http://www.annamariavolpi.com/page38.html

Velly Intellesting!

Well, obviously it would be more interesting if there actually were tiramisi romping on the patio, but I've been keeping an eye out for a while now and I don't think it's going to happen. *Checks again* Nope. Maybe they won't come because they're scared of being eaten by badgers.

Yes dear

Just found the recipe on H2G2!

A472240

Badger pie!
*looks again*
Oh I see it's because it has stripes, not because it has badgers in it, like cottage pie being decidedly short on plaster and thatch.

I wonder if badgers like tiramisu? It's certainly worth a try - I shall put some outside

Any badger results from the tiramisu?

Right - time for a badger update.

Yes, there have been badgers. No, it didn't have anything to do with tiramisu, because ... I haven't got any. None at all. *Burp* Pardon me.

Actually, it was one badger this time and a real biggie at that. The family I haven't seen for a while, but having thought the young ones must be nearly full-grown, this new badger made me think again - a real whopper

Anyway, he or she has taken the same interest in the flowerpot, which is how I get alerted to the presence of badgers. This time I shone the torch down to the verge of the lawn and there's this big thistly thing (about five feet high) growing there and big badger was reaching up, grabbing it and nibbling it. After the badger had nibbled through whatever it was nibbling, the thistly thing went *ping* and flew back upright. At which, big badger would grab it again. It was quite bear-like as it was sitting there, grabbing things - and it moved much more slowly than the others, big and lumbering.

Anyway, I haven't seen big badger before, but that makes a total local badger population of five (that I know about)

Mebbe that's the daddy badger.