Crazy like a fox

We were marshalling an event overnight on Friday and a flippin fox stole my rucksack!

It had been sniffing around earlier and was totally unafraid of us and could probably detect my beef sausages from the other side of the mountain. I only had a one man tent and couldn't squeeze my rucksack in with me so left it outside. When I got up it had gone. It turned up about 20 meters away in a dip with some suspicious bite holes in the lid.

pmsl at Jonno, just don't tell the Daily Mail or we'll have the right wing idiots like Boris calling for Fox Hunting again!

Aww beautiful creatures, love em! I bet you can forgive such a wonderful thing.

Hi Jonno...good weekend was it not?

When I was on my ML assessment, another ML group camped up and trolled off for night nav.  Came back to find their tent trashed and Reynard just exiting.

Hang on a second....how come you got to go to bed on Friday night?  

 Hey Simon,

We'd a top time though 50 hours with no sleep was a new experience for me. I did get to lie down between about 130 and 310 but no sleep unfortunately!!

Simon Barry wrote (see)

Hi Jonno...good weekend was it not?

When I was on my ML assessment, another ML group camped up and trolled off for night nav.  Came back to find their tent trashed and Reynard just exiting.

Hang on a second....how come you got to go to bed on Friday night?  

Ha...serves you right for even trying to lie down!

I got three seats all to myself on the plane back...cant think why as I had had a bit of a wash in the airport toilets.  Might have been my socks...cacks...base layer...or just me as nothing had been changed from 6am Friday!

Bet the dinner on Saturday was interesting - did anyone fall asleep in the soup?

Ha, I was inbed asleep by 9. I had dinner and 4 beers and the wife had to help me to bed

Simon Barry wrote (see)

Ha...serves you right for even trying to lie down!

I got three seats all to myself on the plane back...cant think why as I had had a bit of a wash in the airport toilets.  Might have been my socks...cacks...base layer...or just me as nothing had been changed from 6am Friday!

Bet the dinner on Saturday was interesting - did anyone fall asleep in the soup?

Plane was delayed - I only took off at 9-00pm.....got home just gone 10pm

being a naive city boy i always thought of foxes as some wildlife to be seen padding along the streets early in the mornig.

Then i moved to the country and found that everyone wanted to kill them.

> On Portland - could so easily have been bunnies, not rats, since they're the local vermin.

Unless they were belay bunnies, I think not...

The stibbar were unmentionable because they undermine the quarry workings, causing collapses, not because they eat your sandwiches on sea-level cliffs...

> They must have a lot of fun though, eh?

<notes 'mistake' in Linnaean naming...>

What you get up to with your pets is up to you...

I was always a real stuff up at taxonomy, same with taxidermy which isn't so bad.

Rabbits as pets? Perish the thought. They're food aren't they? I was always taught never to play with my food.