Ha ha ha you're welcome :D
On 04/11/2020 14:18, Helen Nunn wrote:
Ugh! Thanks for the thought! H
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, 14:15 Ann Welch, <ann.welch123@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ann.welch123@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I should think you have a neighbouring cat that thought you'd like
cheering up during lockdown and so brought you a present Helen lol.
Many years ago when I was a horse riding instructor the farm cat
would bring "presents" for us and generally leave them inside out
riding boots in the porch lol. Riding boots are quite close
fitting so often need a boot jack to remove them....not fun when
you push your foot into your boot and feel a squashy dead frog in
the bottom....or worse a "half dead frog" LOL.
Don't have nightmares lol
Ann
On 29/10/2020 17:10, Helen Nunn wrote:
Hi Paul
I love that wonderful hive!
And the cat - it should close its eyes, then it'd be invisible.
Here is a riddle which I would love solved. Last week in our
dining room I found a corpse. A headless mouse, very bedraggled
as if it had been drowned as well. Our back door, which is
usually closed, but may have been open briefly while I cut the
lawn, is two rooms away from the dining room. We don't have a
cat, (or dog nowadays). Immediate neighbour's cat died a year or
two ago. Other cats are not welcome - I shoo them away on sight.
How did this mouse get into our dining room? A dead mouse is one
thing. A headless dead mouse is quite another.
Any ideas?
Helen
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 16:52, Oxnatbees <oxnatbees@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:oxnatbees@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Here's another exotic hive type for the radical
experimentalist wing - Der Schilftrog, an evolution of the
Einraumbeute using reeds for insulation:
https://www.kleine-holzbiegerei.de/schilfrohrbeute/
<https://www.kleine-holzbiegerei.de/schilfrohrbeute/>
Also, I attach a fun picture "in_the_bush". Can you see the
cat?* I don't know how long the neighbour's cat has been
using this bush as a rain shelter, I just spotted them
sneaking in today. This made me reflect on how I have seen
cats sleeping on top of (flat topped) hives but bouncy dogs
sometimes have problems round hives, when they stick their
noses in the entrance. And then an aphorism popped into my
head: "near the hive, glide like a cat, don't dodge like a dog."
Paul
* Black cat, ground level, about 12 inches to the left of the
hive entrance.
