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» When Animals Attack
Owl outrage
After a typically drunken student night out I was walking home down a rather dark road lined with trees. Receiving a sudden blow to the head I turned around to defend myself to see... nobody at all. Shrugged and carried on home.
Woke up next day to a pillow reminiscent of a butcher's slab, so I ambled off to the doc to be told that I was one several owl-attackees in that road. Anway, the head-slashes didn't need stitches, just antibiotics. Messy though, glad I'm not a mouse.
I've also been bitten by a mole (long story) & spat on by a llama.
Some people have a natural empathy with animals - but not me.
(Thu 24th Apr 2008, 20:12, More)
Owl outrage
After a typically drunken student night out I was walking home down a rather dark road lined with trees. Receiving a sudden blow to the head I turned around to defend myself to see... nobody at all. Shrugged and carried on home.
Woke up next day to a pillow reminiscent of a butcher's slab, so I ambled off to the doc to be told that I was one several owl-attackees in that road. Anway, the head-slashes didn't need stitches, just antibiotics. Messy though, glad I'm not a mouse.
I've also been bitten by a mole (long story) & spat on by a llama.
Some people have a natural empathy with animals - but not me.
(Thu 24th Apr 2008, 20:12, More)
» Pointless Experiments
Vodka disaster
At 14 or thereabouts,I read that one could make a drinkable vodka substitute from discarded potato peelings. Cue disastrous distillation experiment. Having no spuds to hand, I settled for sprouts and cooked these up with other bits of vegetable matter until I had a green gunge, which I then attempted to ferment in the garden shed with some yeast nicked from Mum's baking cupboard.
After a few days, I reckoned that there must be enough alcohol in the bubbly green soup to justify distillation. With a home-made still made from a metal bike bottle & plastic tubing, I put my first batch of voddie on the kitchen stove.
Sadly, as soon as it got hot, the (very bright)green sludge blocked the tubing & the resulting pressure blew out the top - along with a pint of boiling gloop which coated the kitchen ceiling and dripped everywhere.
There followed a panicky hour cleaning up & repainting the ceiling tiles with dap whitener before the parents came home. I couldn't believe they hadn't seen , but they said nothing - thanks M&P...
(Thu 24th Jul 2008, 20:11, More)
Vodka disaster
At 14 or thereabouts,I read that one could make a drinkable vodka substitute from discarded potato peelings. Cue disastrous distillation experiment. Having no spuds to hand, I settled for sprouts and cooked these up with other bits of vegetable matter until I had a green gunge, which I then attempted to ferment in the garden shed with some yeast nicked from Mum's baking cupboard.
After a few days, I reckoned that there must be enough alcohol in the bubbly green soup to justify distillation. With a home-made still made from a metal bike bottle & plastic tubing, I put my first batch of voddie on the kitchen stove.
Sadly, as soon as it got hot, the (very bright)green sludge blocked the tubing & the resulting pressure blew out the top - along with a pint of boiling gloop which coated the kitchen ceiling and dripped everywhere.
There followed a panicky hour cleaning up & repainting the ceiling tiles with dap whitener before the parents came home. I couldn't believe they hadn't seen , but they said nothing - thanks M&P...
(Thu 24th Jul 2008, 20:11, More)
» School Trips
Abandoned on the M1
Not quite school - Uni first year so close.
On the way to London to protest against 'Thatcher the milk snatcher' (you have to be a certain age...) and so busy playing pinball at Trull services on M1 that me and mate got left. Hitched to London, much more interesting, especially lorry driver who like to have his wife dress up as schoolgirl...
(Sat 9th Dec 2006, 19:04, More)
Abandoned on the M1
Not quite school - Uni first year so close.
On the way to London to protest against 'Thatcher the milk snatcher' (you have to be a certain age...) and so busy playing pinball at Trull services on M1 that me and mate got left. Hitched to London, much more interesting, especially lorry driver who like to have his wife dress up as schoolgirl...
(Sat 9th Dec 2006, 19:04, More)