animals

our friend kate was complaining there wasn’t enough real animals on funkypancake. so here are some from last year which you haven’t yet seen

i think part of the problem is that i don’t come across animals much in my daily life, other than stuff which whizzes past as i drive to/from work.

i thought this was a squirrel, but jane thinks a rat. there was a red kite flying above our heads when we found this and i was hoping for some swooping action. but none happened whilst we were there.

can you help me identify the dead thing to settle this marital score ?

bother-in-law kev knows all about catching crabs.  first you attach a fish head (or bacon) to a hook

 then you dangle it off a pier

 then everyone gathers round and waits

 until you pull the line up with a crab attached to the fish head

 when you’ve got a bucket full (we had 20), display them proudly

 preferably against a moody sky

 and finish off with a nice crab race

here’s a nice seal (worth clicking the picture to see in a bit more detail)

there was a big pile of them on a rock

and it’s always nice to see some oil refinery type thing behind wildlife

i like the lack of urgency in ‘move out of the way’.

pictures i never got round to publishing from monkey world a while back.

when jane and i were in vienna last year we saw the lasagne ponies. and they were very good.