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  • Started 7 years ago by I were right about that saddle
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  1. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Good seasonal reminder from the BBC;

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-39192645

    for those of us who venture off-tarmac. I've got ticks cycling in the hills, obviously, but I also got one from a passage through Greenroofer's railway snicket, which prompted me to hack its vegetation back in 2015. There are herds of roe deer wandering around suburban Edinburgh and you now need to watch out pretty much everywhere.

    My doctor is insistent that tick-borne encephalitis is heading this way quickly, and formally forbade me from hill-running on the continent without full body cover.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  2. ARobComp
    Member

    My wife found a tick in the freezer that I'd removed after coming back from the islands somewhere. Had frozen it incase I got ill and it needed sequencing!

    I had however just written the symbol "✓" on the bag and she was rather confused as to why I had such a bag containing almost nothing in the freezer.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. dougal
    Member

    Could have been a root in the bag? Maybe some kind of insect radical?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  4. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @ARobComp

    There is a bag in our freezer labeled 'Mole Intestines. Do Not Eat'.

    If I kept all the ticks I've had I'd need a small Tupperware box.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. Frenchy
    Member

    Could have been a root in the bag? Maybe some kind of insect radical?

    Very good.

    There is a bag in our freezer labeled 'Mole Intestines. Do Not Eat'.

    You don't get to tell us this without telling us why (and why not).

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Frenchy

    Madame IWRATS is a leading proponent of extreme knitting and crochet. She recently made friends with an extreme taxidermist who has spare animal parts aplenty. This, inevitably, lead to a 'you couldn't knit that could you?' challenge. Well you can, and the result is oddly attractive. Not likely to catch on as a mass-market textile mind.

    Posted 7 years ago #

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