24th March, 2005

I was given a bit of a hard time - and I thought rather unfairly - for going on about hunting in my weekly email. I'm sure I've only mentioned it twice and bearing in mind how upset I am about this ridiculous bit of legislation I think I have been remarkably restrained. Anyhow the talk - over a curry in Edinburgh - continued on about foxes and their voracious propensity to kill poultry. Long term readers may recall how my chickens would be picked off at regular intervals causing me much grief. Anyway one of our party then remarked how he had seen a dead duck on the road as he drove to the office that morning. "Huh", I said, " it was probably a fox ". " No " came the reply, " it was definitely a duck. " It may be this loses something in the translation or perhaps it needs half a dozen Kingfishers but I don't know.... these townies! Have a good Easter.