Precisely.
Bill
> On 18 Jan 2014, at 10:00 pm, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> An unbostonian red snox perhaps?
>
> db :)
>
>
>> On 18 January 2014 08:49, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I can see you are an observant thought fox, Dave. The heat here has
>> cooked out any residue of perception in my battered self. Like the idea of
>> the snobby fox. Could he perhaps be a snox?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>>> On 17 Jan 2014, at 8:07 pm, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> 29 overnight! we're having a heatwave too as it's forecast to hit 6
>> degrees
>>> at 2 in the morning. I only know a little about urban foxes, but am an
>>> urban animal myself too. I suspect that the ones we see by the flats are
>> a
>>> succession of young inexperience males recently turfed out by mama: two
>>> years ago on Christmas Day I came across one as road-kill (outside a
>> former
>>> arts cinema!) and could see it was male while another time I even saw one
>>> sleeping, curled up, in the open, on the grassy verge of a nearby
>>> recreation ground (next to the prison actually - these foxes choose their
>>> spots) and a third time one came right up to the entrance door of the
>>> flats, sniffed, then turned away as if overcome by snobbery. Though
>> perhaps
>>> it didn't have an entry fob. I doubt if any of these (including becoming
>>> road-kill) is the mark of a practised Reynard.
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