Less Boomtown, more Rat.....

Tuesday, 10pm

Thought for the Day - The only day I leave my mobile phone in the car is the only day in which I receice more than one phone call

Pug Status - Trying to catch flies, and whuffing in annoyance when she misses

Just watched the end of a TV programme called 'Lost Land of the Volcano', which rather suggests to me that the volcano concerned is a little bit absent-minded and has a similar problem with land as I have with car keys. Anyway, it was about a group of scientists discovering new species of animals in Papua New Guinea, and it ended with some footage of the biggest rat I have ever seen (politicians and traffic wardens excluded).

Now, this rat was a fair size. I understand that you are never more than six feet away from a rat when travelling on the London Underground but for one of these big boys to live down there it would actually have to be driving the train. I swear it actually straddled the International Date Line at one point. There's no way you could keep one as a pet, unless you rented out a spare lion enclosure at London Zoo and equipped it with the London Eye as an exercise wheel. We could actually put a saddle on it and give Obi Pug Kenobi riding lessons....

Our Princess Pug has spent a happy afternoon trying to catch daddy-long-legs, who have just started to make an appearance in the garden and will soon be making a brief attempt to take over the world once more. I read somewhere that these insects carry one of the most deadly poisons known to man, yet lack a mouth part with which to administer it. With Mother Nature giving these poor creatures that amount of luck from birth it's no wonder you never see any of them buying a lottery ticket....