Comments for Go forth

Comment on Meep meep. by Hawthorne

Hawthorne — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:55:19 +0000

Sorry, but they aren’t roadrunners. Your only option is to take everybody out of the house for the weekend, and call in a tactical strike.

Spreading rumours that they’ve struck oil ought to do it…

Comment on Feline groovy. by Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:07:33 +0000

Yep - I’m now just above the shredder and under the copier in rankings. It means I can cut things up, but not in the same way twice.

Comment on Feline groovy. by Hawthorne

Hawthorne — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:53:46 +0000

That’s brilliant - although it does mean you’ve moved one slot down in the office intelligence ranking

Comment on The right stripes. by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:09:59 +0000

Well then, surely the answer is to dress the wasps up as chickens so the foxes eat them. See? Logic in action.

Comment on The right stripes. by Hawthorne

Hawthorne — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:29:20 +0000

Aaaaarrrgggghhhh - I so didn’t need to see that, and I only watched the first 5 seconds!

I’ve heard that chickens will eat wasps - so chicken-keeping was my plan until I spent a happy half hour watching Mama fox and her nine half-grown cubs playing in the garden the other night…

Comment on The right stripes. by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:13:23 +0000

Well, as you know, I’ve had more than my fair share of run-ins with them in the past too, the nest in my bedroom wall being the most memorable.

But she’s been quite benign so far, although I’ll be interested to see if her progeny also visit the bench for building materials. A seat covered in munching wasps is not the most inviting of buttock receptacles.

I’m reminded of Nicholas Cage’s gloriously terrible acting in the Wicker Man remake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmp-SRMwF3E

Comment on The right stripes. by Hawthorne

Hawthorne — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:33:08 +0000

Erk! While I appreciate the theoretical wonder of wasps, and the good that they do, I have real problems with the practical side of their existence.

Then again, our annual ‘find where they’ve built the nest this year’ hunt around the garden, peering at the walls of the house, may go some way towards explaining that.

Comment on What lies beneath. by Hawthorne

Hawthorne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:57:22 +0000

Now I have to resist the urge to go and dismantle the kids’ toys - I’d live to see what’s inside the animatronic chimp thing.

Comment on Two musical oddities. by Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:27:28 +0000

You can’t say I didn’t warn you! I managed to track down a copy of the original recording which gives much higher fidelity bum didi bums.

The song starts going round my head when I’m trying to get to sleep too.

The thing is, it’s really pretty impressive from a musical point of view, particularly when they start to go into a swing rhythm across the beats.

Comment on Two musical oddities. by Hawthorne

Hawthorne — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:03:59 +0000

Do you know…I keep coming back to hear that song.

You’ve done a bad thing!