Outdoorsy Shite Top Trumps: March

[Slubberdegullion]

Flora or Fauna.

Extra points for a photo.

Handicap will apply to those in Forrin. Monthly win will not automatically go to, for example, a Cougar spot. The Cougar will need to be doing something awesome, like fighting a bear or doing sudoku.

harbour porpoise

I think you need some sort of marine handicap.

I was thinking that actually. Maybe I should be disqualified. I will only do terrestrial things.

Noo, a sea-spot is as valid as a land one, surely? More valid, even, because an expanse of sea is usually less forthcoming of spots than, say, a wood.

I saw a bee today. Average fatness, no catkin.

But where would you draw the line? I think marine should not be excluded but maybe same handicap as forrin?

What's the forrin handicap?

I am on the sea an awful lot.

None of these rules and handicaps are really what you would call clearly defined. The handicap might just take the form of having to put up with me muttering jealously at you for a bit.

What was the porpoise doing, anyway?

dancing a foxtrot with Anton du Beke Swimming and eating fish of course.

Ariel, I'd love to know what you do that has you 'on the sea an awful lot' at this time of year

Please let the answer be 'I'm a pirate'.

Yes, I am in fact a pirate

I'll PM you both as I'm in serious danger of outing myself. Because of couse, there are millions of avid readers of Outdoorsy Shite hiding in World Cup 2010 who are dying to know exactly who I am.

Nah! Smuggler.

She dances on a cruise ship. Longest legs in the home waters.

I can keep a secret, suffice to say she definitely needs a handicap.

(Most famous pirates are handicapped come to think. They could put in their own Paralympic Team High Seas.)

Yup, re handicap. But I reckon a watery spot set in verse could cancel out the handicap.

I do like hearing the marine spots. Gives me hope, during another dark day of sparrows.

"Will you walk a little faster?"
Said the whiting to the snail
There's a porpoise right behind me
And he's treading on my tail.

I wrote that. Honest.

Be nice or she'll tip us the BLACK SPOT. AAAARRRRRRR that she will.

[chinny reckon]

Pirates not well known for their honesty.....

Ooops

GREAT ditty Ariel. You so win.

Thanks Lewis Carroll

I must go down to the seas again
To the lonely seas and the sky
Where Ariel's writing poetry
Or perhaps that's a big fat lie

[getting in the Masefield before anyone else I hope]