How the hell does nature come up with stuff like this?
I don't know, but I often wonder about it. A duck, a sunrise, a tree. Why does it move us so? Why do we find it beautiful? Why do we care?
Why does it give us so many great moments
Yesterday at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
It had taken almost an hour of patiently sitting and gaining their confidence to be so comfortable to take from her hands and even allow her to stroke them.
Geo
That was very brave of the young lady, Geo, much as I adore squirrels, they have very sharp teeth, & can inflict a nasty bite.
One got trapped in my office in Derby many years ago, &, a little scared & disorientated, hid behind a filing cabinet. My PA, a young & innocent girl, maybe 19, put her hand behind the cabinet to grab the squirrel, notwithstanding me shouting "DON'T DO THAT". Too little, too late, she screamed as the squirrel got hold of her fingers, & cut three of them to the bone.
As an aside, she was unable to work for some time, & eventually pursued a claim against the business for "negligence". Well that kite was never going to fly, she lost the case, & left in something of a royal huff. Rather a shame, as it happened, as she possessed some interesting skills & a keen will to please.
She did receive a couple of small nips to begin with, no blood drawn though.
We had just been to the Loch in Holyrood park where she had been comfortable with the pigeons sitting on her hand eating the seeds she had for them and sked if she would be able to get the squirrell in the gardens to do the same. So off we popped, bought some peanuts and she sat patiently coaxing them with a few placed on the ground to initially entice them in.
The Chinese group spoilt it a bit as she had just got them into the routine when they bumbled over to take their pics then called their kids over. This started to frighten the squirrels so I sat them down alongside Ailee and gave them handfuls of nuts. Unfortunately the elder one (about 10) thought it more fun to throw the peanuts at the squirrels and to start chasing them so we had to to give up.
Most annoying when the parents didn't even attempt to control him or stop him, I hate ignorance me.
Geo
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