Today's Animal Husbandry URL

In Sudan, homosexual activity is severely punished. However, this story shows that the Sudanese are kind to their animals, at any rate.

Today's Next-to-Godliness URL

It seems that loo-users in Japan have something more to be concerned about than cleanliness.

A horrible day

So guns don't kill people, people kill people. ... I'm just heartsick about the killings in Virginia.

We watched "Meet the Foxes" on Channel 4 tonight--it was a program about urban foxes. A family of four foxes and their mother was followed; only the mother survived the year. One was run over, one had terminal mange, two were shot (I think that was the scorecard...) HWMBO is the kindest heart around, and he just couldn't bear to watch some of it. Very graphic, especially of the shootings. The mother was run over but survived.

We have seen an urban fox in the garden, and I've seen another on Swan Street. So we do have wildlife other than squirrels.

Dream last night

I dreamt last night that HWMBO and I were in Vermont, and we wanted to get away. We were at the Burlington train station (I haven't been in Vermont to stay since 1964) and a train came with the header sign "MICE". I told him that meant "Massachusetts Institute of Chemical Engineering" and it was thus going our way. We got on, but there was quite a crowd, so HWMBO and his luggage wer standing on the step, which had no doors. The train lurched and his bag fell off, and HWMBO got off to get it back. I was frantic, but I couldn't stop the train. However, it did slow down so he managed to get back on. Then I woke up.

There is a building across the street from St. John's Waterloo that has "MICE....." in big letters on it, so perhaps that's where I got the "MICE" from. However, where I got "Massachusetts Institute of Chemical Engineering" from I do not know. Perhaps best not delved into.