tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post4819730444191468762..comments2023-10-14T13:18:37.330+01:00Comments on angels in marble: Bugs and Bunnieshatfield girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-13294365569488371512012-07-04T01:18:26.073+01:002012-07-04T01:18:26.073+01:00About thirty years ago we had a three week holiday...About thirty years ago we had a three week holiday on a hill top south of Florence. We talk of it still. Bloody marvellous.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-43455584442083728142012-07-03T10:31:47.627+01:002012-07-03T10:31:47.627+01:00Knew I shouldn't click on that L. (and Elby ...Knew I shouldn't click on that L. (and Elby you cannot seriously want to take Lilith to live in a large roof with almost no house under it). I don't mind snakes, Elby, they don't come in, and outside it's live and let live - except for the hares who will probably get it in October and we'll eat pappardelle alla lepre (but their young will be left for next year; very eco-conscious hunters here - they're mostly the men who help over the year so they know where everybody is, including us, and don't shoot just for the kill.)<br /><br />It is the inside-outside thingy, Nomad, that governs a cautious 'good day', or a shriek and a dustpan and brush (or the boot). Outside stuff indoors offends a profound sense of order I suspect - otherwise I'm merely neurotic, which I wouldn't want to be.<br /><br />And I may have wanted to win, Dearieme, but I can't claim such subtlety of imagery, despite Calfy's kindness.<br /><br />Rain forests, Mr Q, drop huge leeches onto unwary passers by. You know that because you'll have incredible detail of the Asian wwII theatres at your fingertips. (One of my anthropology professors was Edmund Leach, who fought the Japanese in Burma, raising a guerrilla army among the Shans; so I've heard about rainforests though would never want to go to one.)<br /><br />I'm on a hill top south of Florence, Jeff, with temperatures that belong in the tropics though sans dog. There are snakes, they can be poisonous but they are all beautiful and, sensibly, live in the woods, so that's all right.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-30277983806979417852012-07-02T13:14:22.232+01:002012-07-02T13:14:22.232+01:00Well..I say rainforest, just to annoy her. Its act...Well..I say rainforest, just to annoy her. Its actually one of the Caribbean Leeward islands. <br />Still, nearest non-island landfall is Venezuela. And the hurricanes frequently whip across the whole place and all the animals and insects are poisonous or bite. Or both.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-33947849030434147852012-07-02T12:04:57.654+01:002012-07-02T12:04:57.654+01:00Bill,
One of Lilith's great-aunts had a ranch...Bill,<br /><br />One of Lilith's great-aunts had a ranch in the Guyanan rain forest. It is mentioned in one of Waugh's travel books - which I had read long before meeting Lilith, and recalled immediately she mentioned it.Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-7720481585470834142012-07-02T11:51:04.282+01:002012-07-02T11:51:04.282+01:00It took ages before the penny dropped and I realis...It took ages before the penny dropped and I realised that you were speaking figuratively about the Spanish footballers.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-28481135926980437992012-07-01T21:37:11.026+01:002012-07-01T21:37:11.026+01:00Yuk! Ma Quango lives in the rainforest. The beauty...Yuk! Ma Quango lives in the rainforest. The beauty is rather offset by the oppressive heat and the armoured,poisonous centipedes.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-41512905069742812182012-07-01T20:17:55.027+01:002012-07-01T20:17:55.027+01:00"Sally-Ann Spence of Minibeast Mayhem provide..."Sally-Ann Spence of Minibeast Mayhem provides educational fun with invertebrates and brings the extraordinary life in the undergrowth to meet you face to face!"....lilithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011676751221508167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-80774531116715942942012-07-01T20:17:01.189+01:002012-07-01T20:17:01.189+01:00Clearly HG you have not been properly educated see...Clearly HG you have not been properly educated see <a href="http://www.minibeastmayhem.com/" rel="nofollow">here</a> :-)lilithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011676751221508167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-90455697428543176622012-07-01T08:13:42.841+01:002012-07-01T08:13:42.841+01:00Yes, HG, but it has an acre and a quarter and a po...Yes, HG, but it has an acre and a quarter and a polytunnel and is in an exquisite part of West Cork!<br /><br />Adders are very beautiful. Saw one a couple of years ago in the Mendips, curled up in the warmth of the sun. And as for hares - I wish I saw them more often, as they are indeed magical.Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-53976712867802621332012-06-30T16:06:34.846+01:002012-06-30T16:06:34.846+01:00Elby, that looks like a wendy house- a dark, damp ...Elby, that looks like a wendy house- a dark, damp one! It hasn't even got a chimney. <br /><br />The story of the two-headed whip snake made me shiver, though last week I was not at all un-nerved to watch an adder basking on the compost bin in my friend's garden.Calfynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-50169143757388491682012-06-30T15:42:29.322+01:002012-06-30T15:42:29.322+01:00Why were you not scared? Simple conditioning - bug...Why were you not scared? Simple conditioning - bugs bite, bunnies don't.Nomadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-8154381864174028562012-06-30T14:13:34.828+01:002012-06-30T14:13:34.828+01:00All the more reason to move to Ireland...
http://...All the more reason to move to Ireland...<br /><br />http://www.daft.ie/searchsale.daft?id=532972Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-46707437630710506932012-06-30T13:34:50.400+01:002012-06-30T13:34:50.400+01:00Those first two paragraphs were obviously deeply f...Those first two paragraphs were obviously deeply felt, HG. I don't know where you are, but it is the same here in western Toscana.<br /><br />My lady shrieks and yelps, and her cousin, who next week visits from London, will be worse. Some of the creatures look formidable (our vet says of our dog: Protect him as if you are in the tropics) and I generally put those in a plastic box to chuck'em outside. Others I just catch with my hands and scoop them out in one movement.<br /><br />It's the snakes which bother me most. They all seem to be biters and some are poisonous. Last year, two identical heads reared out of a bush and regarded me balefully. European whip snake, but I cannot decide whether it was two coiled together to mate, or one snake with two heads: that happens.Jeff Woodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-73041675495847231502012-06-30T13:31:01.675+01:002012-06-30T13:31:01.675+01:00You blog beautifully!You blog beautifully!Calfynoreply@blogger.com