You are very wise, Maud. I knew someone who kept chickens in Sarf London, and the consequences were very traumatic. I used to see foxes as almost a daily/nightly ocurrence when I lived south of the river. Don't seem to be so many up here though.
Hello RunningMinxie. I am still relatively new here and yes, the thread is rather bafflling to begin with! (I still have no idea what all the bishops and bisons stuff is about, for example.) But it's a lovely place all the same and one of the great things about it is that in many ways it echoes the norms of nice people in RL, ie nobody is going to start being incredibly rude or insulting to anyone else, which is quite a blessing on MN really.
I myself have one little chap (RBoy) who is three and a half or thereabouts and, like Norman Price on Fireman Sam, is Mummy's Little Treasure. And makes me go all gooey on a daily basis. But then I am a rather gooey sort of person anyway.
Scout - eek eek eek! Poor you and poor TS. But v glad it sounds as though things are calming down. And please don't fret yourself about SS, like everyone else I really really can't imagine this going anywhere near that territory. Children do fall over and hurt their heads quite a lot, unfortunately, and that's just that.
Unis, that Rutter link was lovely.
Must must must get to bed. Serpent, living in London may afford many opportunities but in my case they are pretty much never taken. Even before RBoy, MrR and I hardly had a scintillating social life, and now... well. Actually, I don't have any great yen to go to gigs any more. Did a lot of that stuff way back when and my hearing is still recovering, don't want to make the tinnitus any worse than it already is! . V impressed by Maud and her RA business tho!
Going to the zoo, zoo, zoo....