Well, On The Plus Side…

… we've just saved ourselves about £5 in taxi fairs.

Admittedly, we had to trudge through heavy rain, up about half a mile of bypass – with no pavement, and whilst having to step up into the sopping marshland by the roadside every time a car came (which was alarmingly frequently – and then along a further half mile or so home.

I am absolutely bedraggled. My trousers are soaked as far up the leg at the back as my knees, and covered in mud. My shoes are soaked. My socks are – randomly – also sopping wet. My hair is dripping down my back.

But, it's all good because we saved a fiver.

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'Ball Of Foil': Myth Or Reality?

It would seem today that there is now considerable doubt not only as to the presence of a piece of scrunched-up foil somewhere inside the delicate inner workings of Hiccups the ferret, but also with regard to its existence in general.

Nobody can really be certain that it was ever actually there in the first place.

Perhaps the whole event was imagined.

Who can say? Apparently no-one.

But, for now at least, Poo Watch is scheduled to continue as usual.

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Meanwhile, Biscuits (also The Ferret) last night appeared dissatisfied with the comparatively small amount of concern regarding his inner workings and decided to express his disdain with a bold attempt at eating the plug for my computer. Out of the wall. Whilst I was using it.

I'm pleased to report, however, that he was apprehended in the act, his ingenious plan was thwarted, and there were no resulting consequences, hilarious or otherwise.

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Reconstruction: The infamous 'ball of foil' – fact or fiction?

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Did He Or Didn't He?

So, the big question today:

Hiccups the ferret – did he, or did he not, eat a scrunched up piece of foil last night?

I gave him an enormous dollop of hairball laxative right before putting him to bed, and some of it seems to have worked itself through. He's not up to speed with his brother, though.

Now, is that just because he's smaller? Is it because he eats less in general? Or is it because he's eaten a rolled up piece of foil that may or may not have been on the coffee table last night?

The foil isn't there now. But is that because it's been eaten by an inquisitive ferret, or because it was never there in the first place?

Who knows?

All I do know is that much of today is going involve one or both or us poking through sloppy ferret poo with a stick.

We should really be less careless in future. I'd hate for a fire to break out.

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Castle (Mis)Adventure

Over an hour in the car to find a castle that we'd seen on t'Internet, to find out that there's no public admittance.

Private, eh? That's a great idea.

I've decided that one day I too shall have my own castle. With a drawbridge, portcullis and everything. And a pirhana-filled moat…

Although, I bet that nasty man from Everest will still turn up and try to sell us double glazing.

Anyway, so no castle-viewing today, but the tale does still have a happy end: we stopped at a tiny petrol station and got a dangerously overpriced packet of crisps before coming home again. Rock on!

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