THESE PLUCKY LITTLE BEASTS (yes! from Australia) are the ones that emerge from burrow, have fight with funnel-web spider (and slay it), go off, tackle scorpion, crunching it stingless for breakfast... then mating season arrives and the males are so exhausted they all DIE within 2 weeks... and soon a new generation of dunnarts arrives to carry on the fun...
We breed 'em tough here...
ReplyDeleteThey are so cute-- why such hard lives?
ReplyDeleteThey have long tails! Did I tell you I don't like things with long tails? :(
ReplyDeleteThe look on their faces is fascinating. Fear combined with sadism.
ReplyDeleteHi Gled.
ReplyDeleteI'm familiar with your blog and comments from Molson's Hiking Colorado blog.
Hey, you heard from Molson recently? I haven't and was just wondering if he's okay. He usually comments over at my blog but I haven't heard from him in quite some time. I put a comment asking him same on his most recent post but haven't heard anything.
Thanks.
Pussinboots: aye!
ReplyDeleteTeaNCrumpet: that's what "the wild" is like, I spose... (sad though, when you think about it...)
Akelamalu: which is why robos are so much cuter than sewer-mice!
They do need those tails for counterbalancing, or, in the case of harvest mice hanging onto things ("prehensile" tails)... which is why compared to mice, hamsters are such enthusiastic and yet crap climbers...
Gorilla: I never saw it quite that way but hey...
ReplyDeleteMinx: that's weird, innit..??!?
DD:
Hi Gled, I haven't been reading much lately, sorry. Nic and I have gone through a rough patch and we've decided to each go our own way this year. Probably in December. At least we're still good friends.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are well :-)
I thought something might be going on... I hope all turns out well. Be lucky my friend...
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ReplyDeletewonder whether that means anything...?
What kind of radio stations do you think they can get with those ears?
ReplyDeleteThose beasties are beyond cute! This is pertaining to your last post, I was fortunate enough to catch the pilot episode of #1 ladies dective agency last night. Even though I was a bit worse for wear (Espanola strikes again) I enjoyed it immensely. It was on 2X in a row so I managed to see what I missed the first time round. I was impressed and have decided to run out and purchase the books straight away.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of costume dramas, I re-watched The Madness of King George the other day and it was every bit as entertaining as I remember. I was somewhat disappointed in The Duchess but that's probably because I read the book. As is usually the case, the film omitted tons of details but on the whole it was ok. One of my favorites has to be Quills, I adore Jeremy Rush!
Oh and have you read A Treasury of Royal Scandals? It's hilarious and disturbing all at the same time...but then the best things usually are.
~Melody
Gled,
ReplyDeleteNothing, huh. Gee I hope all is okay with Molson. thanks. stay in touch.
what ARE these things, Gled? I mean, what are they called, dunnarts? or is that slang where you're from? i know nothing, enlighten me :)
ReplyDeleteEileen/Reeny: a lot of 'em!
ReplyDeleteDD: no I heard nothing. I didn't leave the comment intentionally blank; just got distracted before posting it and had to run, hence a blank space...
Melody: I looked up the trailer of the Duchess ~ it looks good. I know it "from the book" because they read edited highlights every night for a week on BBC radio 4... I'm reading one of Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser. She's done a shit load of research to get that lot pasted together. I wish I could write books like that!
Telly: no they really are called Dunnarts and live in the Australian outback... unfortunately Youtube didn't have the spider-and-scorpion-tackling scenes... only dunnarts in a Japanese PET SHOP!
My latest tat says Madalynn, it's my daughter's name.
ReplyDeleteThat Marie Antoinette,is that the same that the movie was based on a couple years back? As far as that movie goes, it was visually stunning but I don't know that it held much historical accuracy. I would reccomend it just for the beauty of the costumes and scenery though, that alone made it worth watching.