let me take you to a better place

[pensnest]

I'm glad I stayed up last night. There were many satisfying moments.

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Squirrel Report: Our new metal pole did not defeat the squirrels for long. Or at all, really.

Beast put a piece of drainpipe over it, and the squirrels climbed up it as though it were a tree. There was one by the fat ball dangler earlier today, just taunting me. Hanging by its feet and nomming a chunk of fat ball.

Tree rats: 2 Humans: 0

But the slinkies arrived today. So we have hung one over the metal pole, and hope to confound the little blighters.

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Beast and I spent Monday at Roarr! with nopseud and her family, including nearly-three-year-old nephew. I felt I needed a plausible excuse to visit a dinosaur park. It was great! If we ever have Camp here in Norfolk we shall have to visit the dinosaurs and frolic in the water play area.

We got to visit next-door's house, which is done up beautifully (not that we saw much of it) and has a delightful garden. Their senior cat (who apparently keeps the six sausage dogs in order) was friendly and vocal. We were talking about the most recent planning permission notices to come out... there was planning permission on one of these areas before we moved here, nine years ago, so it's hard to foresee action being taken for a while yet.

Wednesday, I met up with my uncle and we had a very nice lunch together, catching up.

Trotting down the road to vote on Thursday, we did see quite a few pedestrians, at least one of whom was clutching a polling notice, but there wasn't an actual queue at the polling station. I really don't understand why so many people do not bother to vote. Hmmm. Wonder if Boy voted?

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Squirrel update: YES!

We lurked until a peckish squirrel decided to have a go at the pole. It jumped up about its own height, was utterly confounded by landing on the slinky, and flew off. Joy!

Comments

[dine]

congratulations on confounding the squirrel! hopefully that works on all of them

it sounds like you've had a pretty great week - here's hoping you find good times in the coming week as well

[turlough]

I'm now eagerly waiting to hear how the squirrels manage to circumvent the slinky :-)

A dinosaur park sounds like an great place to visit during Camp. We are all definitely childish enough to enjoy it.

Your neighbours have six dogs?! The cat must do its work excellently because I've never heard barking when I've visited. I'm now curious how their house looks inside. Their garden is absolutely stunning.

There was no queue when I voted in the European poll a month ago, but that might have been because I was there before nine o'clock in the morning.

[minoanmiss]

Six Sausage Dogs?!

[watervole]

Me, I always vote, but I understand some people believe that their vote, no matter which party, will not make anything better.

[wenchpixie]

Excellent news about the slinky in the Squirrel War :)

The generally low election turn out seems to be accredited to either apathy or anger (and, actually, anger seems to make a bit more sense, although it would have been a better protest in that case to return a spoiled paper).

[ephemera]

I am visualizing squirrels boinging off the slinky, or running frantically as it spins like a horizontal hamster wheel - both are amusing!