If only Gollum had taken on the goblin laundry contract. He wouldn't have needed a mangle...

Even more embarrassing than I expected. VERY good reasons why I should have got this straight away. 😳 I know, I'll blame SAD.😄

I thought I knew these reasonably well, even the more obscure, exotic types, now seen as their own species... But been through them all... (Mostly unrecognised by the game.) It's going to be something obvious... 🤦‍♂️

Yes, sure

Compare and contrast with when, some years ago, a wild boar ventured into the Coleford (Forest of Dean) Co-op, was less than impressed, and charged out of the back entrance, without sampling any produce

One of my aunts suffered badly with repeated respiratory infections from an early age. As a child in the 1930s, the only thing that helped her was a special "cough mixture", prescribed by their GP. It contained Heroin.

I wondered whether any canid bones in the archaeological/paeleological record might have been attributed to wolves or dogs, as nothing else was assumed to have been here...

I had long thought it odd that, unlike Asia and the Americas, Europe appears not to have had a jackal/coyote type of canid after the last glacial. But my curiosity was further piqued by the spread of the golden jackal into Europe over the last decade or so.

Thank you!

I once said "Hello, pussycat." to a European Wildcat, some distance away, behind a chain link fence and it gave me a look which could cut hardened steel.