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Dublin Zoo: the animals seem to be either mostly endangered and involved in conservation projects or things that are happy enough in the restricted environment.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:53:54 AM EST
I was cutting the roses on my balcony back - lovely sunshine, but now I have to go back to work and teach two yoga classes. :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:55:33 AM EST
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Spike Milligan Poems -- Poet Seers
In the land of the Bumbley Boo
You can buy Lemon pie at the zoo;
They give away foxes
In little Pink Boxes
And Bottles of Dandylion Stew.


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 01:25:50 PM EST
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Literature at last.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 02:25:24 PM EST
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"It is the pigeons which alight
on Nelson's hat that make it white"

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 03:54:01 PM EST
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Apparently we have some very unhappy tarantulas.

Here, in the Britain the Tories claim is in the  grip of a wave of violent crime, in a city of 160,000 people, elements of this story made it to the front page of the local newspaper.

CONCERN is growing for the welfare of five baby tarantulas contained in a parcel stuck in the huge backlog of mail at a Royal Mail sorting office.
The tiny spiders, which grow to become very large and hairy, are a gift which was due to be delivered to the Stead family yesterday.

But following a power cut, the exotic package joined the thousands of items of unprocessed mail at the Royal Mail centre in Papyrus Road, Werrington, Peterborough.

May we have many more news days as slow...

by Sassafras on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 04:15:57 PM EST
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Power cuts and postal sorting offices... An old unionized order still holds Britain hostage... And babies suffer!

Well, just tarantula babies, you say?

That's biodiversity we're talking about there. Precious species threatened by shadowy men in cloth caps. Industrial action kills the planet.

You obviously haven't been green-dipped yet.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 04:41:33 PM EST
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Electricity is, of course, a free, competitive market, leading to higher efficiency amd lower bills.  Had it still been state owned, the power shortages would be severe enough to affect puppies as well - possibly even kittens.  But fortunately, whichever company the post office electricity contract is with, it's Probably Owned by the French.  So we can safely blame them, and not the creaking infrastructure that privatisation has mysteriously failed to put right.
by Sassafras on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 06:08:09 PM EST
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Zut!
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 at 01:49:55 AM EST
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Colorado Springs has a climate somewhat like East Africa, and the zoo has a tremendous exhibit of Giraffes...


http://www.cmzoo.org/animalsPlants/animalCams/giraffeCam.asp

by asdf on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 08:04:44 PM EST
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