Brad, At 07:43 21/09/02 -0400, you wrote: (KH) >> Please continue to get up at 4.30am. I didn't realise my postings were so >> eagerly awaited. (BMcC) >I often wake up with ideas. It's going to work that >gets in the way.... > >In Japan, it is (or used to be...) Autumn moon viewing time. > >Here's a picture from my back yard, from yesterday evening. I do have >a gravel area (which is where I set up my camera), but, unfortunately, >the gravel is not Japanese dry garden (Ryoanji etc.) grade. > > <http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/cgi-bin/vuImag3.pl?i=165>
Is there no end to your versatility? I've given this photograph close examination (it doesn't, of course, doesn't prove that the moon is spherical -- it could be a plate that your neighbour is throwing at you). I notice that an alien object is approaching the moon from a five o'clock direction. Or is it departing from the moon and attacking us? Or is it a red cat-door in your fence? Please enlighten. The fate of the earth may rest in your hands. (BMcC) >How's the Great British nut hunt going? > > <http://www.greatnuthunt.org.uk/> > >God save the Queen's hazel doormouses! I hope other FWers will visit the above website with its delightful denizens. As far as I'm aware, the Great Nuthunt is proceeding satisfactorily. By coincidence, now approaching my own extinction (as per half the dormice in England), I gave a donation to the local Conservation Trust to help buy 500 acres of natural woodland with many hazel trees a couple of days ago, so you can regard me from now onwards as a Dormouse Benefactor. Many thousands of grateful dormice will now remember me for ever even if FWers don't. Long may their genes reign undisturbed by man. (BMcC) >[Do you have any hedgehogs on your property?] Strangely enough, we *do* have a hedgehog. Or, rather, it was visiting here a day or two ago. He/she was first noticed about six houses away a week or two ago, munching slugs in their garden. Then he/she appeared in the adjoining garden, and then the next . . . He/she is doing a systematic job of pest clearance along here. We're all leaving out saucers of milk by way of reward. For such a roundish, apparently ungainly, creature he/she is surprisingly agile and is obviously climbing the 6-10 ft high stone walls between our properties. Long may his/her genes survive too. Do you have moles in America? -- I don't mean spooks burrowing into your CIA, but those small creatures with beautiful black fur. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Keith Hudson,6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
