> I appreciate your very articulate further elaboration, Lawrence.
"Reddish"
> immediately brought to my mind the poisonous black widow spider and the
> possibility that the bird was bitten by its prey, but then I discovered
> that species probably doesn't exist in the areas you traverse.
> Barry Alpert
You're right, Barry. We have very little here that does us direct harm. I
think we may get a few as the climate heats up. There's a little sod of a
minute insect that hangs around in bracken and does your head in if youre
unlucky. That worries me as a lot of my walks head through bracken. But one
is careful anyway given the bracken being carcinogenic... But generally
spiders and insects and snakes etc do us little harm except among the young,
old and sick...
We have rumoured escaped big cats of course. I have had such an experience
but don't trust my brain to have told me right. There seems to be evidence
of mauled animals around Bodmin - Bodmin Moor in the east of Cornwall. A
friend I trust usually said she saw a puma out of her window, but that was
Camden Town, just north of central London and I am disinclined to believe
it. Big eels in the river perhaps...
I hadn't thought of the effect such half-description might have on a global
list; so thanks for pointing that out. The only danger, apart from mad
drivers, that I am used to is falling off cliffs and down open mines
Lawrence
btw I was so surprised by _articulate_ - I don't feel it - that I reread
what I had written & I noticed that the Simms method of lizard capture
should have included not looking, just reaching out and taking
and that as much as anything seemed relevant to poetry
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