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.
> >
> > best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >> On 16 January 2014 11:30, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks Dave for the clarification. Foxes we get here occasionally but
> none
> >> I know would claim them or know their habits as well as you appear to.
> >> Dusk's throats driving us crazy tonight. 44 done, minimum 29 overnight
> and
> >> dogs barking echoing up and down the valley. Foxes are at least quiet
> >> killers.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Bill
> >>
> >>> On 16/01/2014, at 10:15 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Ta Bill. Here the weather has been not quite zero in the daytime and
> the
> >>> coasts have been reminded of being an island in northern winter. We
> went
> >> by
> >>> train one day to Nottingham last week and the Soar in its lower reaches
> >> was
> >>> waterlogging the grazing fields of north west Leicestershire while even
> >> old
> >>> Grand-Father Trent had been disturbed and some of the lakes at
> >> Attenborough
> >>> had overflowed their banks. The fox was a problem: I changed the 'our'
> to
> >>> 'the' back and forth several times. I also had 'foxes' and both 'vixen'
> >> and
> >>> 'vixens' as well as 'scatter/s' for 'hide/s'. a little explanation part
> >>> one: although I live on the edge of a city centre in a tower block
> >> between
> >>> two arterial roads 'we' do have 'our' resident fox. or rather the
> >>> impression of 'one'. Said fox might be a succession of ones,
> particularly
> >>> if male, but possibly less so if female. Vixens do retain their
> territory
> >>> while males are ejected upon adulthood. It is estimated, I understand,
> >> that
> >>> about one third of Britain's fox population dies each winter, with
> >>> mortality at it's highest among the young males. Explanation part two
> - I
> >>> was using externals to write about interiors - I am a kind of
> >> philosophical
> >>> materialist who also likes Bishop Berkeley and more. Thanks again for
> >> your
> >>> kind words - the question of ownership did trouble me, but it was one
> of
> >> an
> >>> image only :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> best
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 15 January 2014 19:40, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd like a bit of hush to the weather in my pillow thanks, David. 44
> >>>> dagger degrees expected today here in Melbourne after previous days of
> >> 43
> >>>> and 42. The wind is saving its argument until tomorrow apparently when
> >> full
> >>>> throated fire risks gape. I love Primitive. One query about the sense
> of
> >>>> ownersip of foxes.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bill
> >>>>
> >>>>>> On 16 Jan 2014, at 3:53 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I like the 'as if' of it all, David...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Doug
> >>>>>> On Jan 15, 2014, at 3:37 AM, David Bircumshaw <
> >>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Haven't done one of these for a while, so here's a little exercise:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> * Primitive*
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> All night the rain has argued with the wind.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A balloon turns at its mooring, as if adrift
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In the hushed pillowed weather of my head.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Our foxes hide as the dawn’s throats wake.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
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> >>> --
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
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> >
>
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
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