I haven't:
- Been on a safari (amazing I know, but looking to redress it at Xmas)
- Seen a wild African elephant (well I have, but it was out of the back of a car window and we were late for a meeting so we didn't have time to stop)
- Heard wolves howling in the wild, or seen then dancing (which they do, according to David Bellamy with whom had to spend a - very long - day with once [ he is really dull and really really right wing])
- Hung out with cheetahs
- Seen mountain gorillas in the wild (which apparently is a complete head-fuck, because the male silverbacks weigh in at about 63 tons and can blow your arm off by just glancing at you)
- Bred ducks or geese or pigs or goats...or anything
- Stared down a bear
- Been on a huskie-powered sledge
- Or made sausages
- Stroked a rhino
- Touched a dolphin (physically rather than emotionally)
- Eaten fish that I have caught (a truly important primeval experience)
- Scratched a pig
- Been offered horse tartare
- Been bitten on the back by a horse (not on the same night as the tartare offer btw)
- And snorted vodka with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Horses for courses I guess (baroomba).
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Hhn there is a good article on Wormeries in today's Independent. So time to take a break from the usual Grauniad drivel perhaps.
Actually I think I am going to buy one o these wiggly home things. Definitely.
I hope to add catch a lobster and eat it to the list when hhn comes on safari in suffolk where the roads are paved with hedgehogs and everyone makes sausages. bad
hhn, be honest, I'm sure you touched that dolphin spiritually too
Aren't voles like big ratty shaped things?
Oi, achei teu blog pelo google tá bem interessante gostei desse post. Quando der dá uma passada pelo meu blog, é sobre camisetas personalizadas, mostra passo a passo como criar uma camiseta personalizada bem maneira.(If you speak English can see the version in English of the Camiseta Personalizada. Thanks for the attention, bye). Até mais.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die, Rodrigo.
Is this T shirt advert thing some kind of revenue generating tool hhn?
Or is someone trying to leverage off the high quality of hhn readership?
As a Scandinavian porcupine specialist, I feel I ought to point out that the Danish word for hedgehog is actually 'pindsvine.'
Hhn, I think you should reward all of your regular readers with a personalized hhn t-shirt ... and I know just the man to provide them
简体中文版 = Chinese for Hedgehog
over ear in the land of the mighty baguette and the strippy chemise we call what you call hedgehog a hérisson
I'm going to Norway for a few days next month. Ideally I'd get to see some wolves in their natural habitat but failing that I'll try to get hhn a picture of a Norge pinnsvin.
WARNING: This is an unabashed self-serving plug. But while you are talking about: "Badgers, stoats, foxes, voles, ferrets a plenty." I feel I must let you know about this great new book I am publishing next month: Each Day A Small Victory. It is in a new genre I like to call "Rural Noir" and has been described by Jake Arnott as "Pulp Fiction meets Wind in the Willows." It is written by British Comedy Award winner, Chips Hardy. So if you really want to know what happens behind the hedgerows and with hedgehogs (pincefiends in Denmark) you can find out more here: Rural Noir or here: Each Day A Small Victory And if you would like to be invited to the book launch, send me an email with, Book Launch, in the subject line to: Lord Steed
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