Six in the morning, I drive into work.Traffic lights turn red as I approach a pedestrian crossing in the centre of Caversham.
Grudgingly, I hit the brakes and prepare to let this early-bird cross the road.
A fox.
It is a fox, strutting across the road like it owns the place. Strutting across the road and up the stairs to the library.
A library which is closed, maninly because it is a) six in the morning and b) a bank holiday. In your face, Reynard!
I am impressed. Not because you don't usually see foxes that close up unless it is going for your throat. No, urban foxes are becoming an ever more common phenomenon these days. I am impressed for one reason only:
How, in the name of buggery, did it manage to press the button?
Edit: I wrote a poem about it ---
In your face John so-called Betjeman.
I saw a fox
and it crossed the road
Bugger me sideways
it used the Green Cross Code.
And now it's gone
To teach its cub
All about
The Tufty Club.
13 comments:
I live in an area where there are a lot of urban foxes. Or I believe you call them 'milfs'.
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From Taichung,Taiwan(台灣)
Well spammed sir! I, too, have an interest in protein modification in the Chinese language, and WILL BLOG ABOUT IT IN DUE COURSE.
Saw one as I was walking up the hill at 7am during the week. I stopped, it stopped and turned around and looked at me, and this continued several times! Not sure who was more confused. Didn't follow him home though, he jumped in the bushes.
Wang.Trying to Taiwan On since 2011.
Got one living under the floorboards at present.
Thinking up nice ways of getting it to bugger off without calling in the council who'd probably kill it.
Any suggestions on how to get rid of it, it does my head in when it wakes me up through the night bouncing off the floor joists.
That's a fox by the way, not some mad Chinese spammer
Probably related to this one:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70C5Q620110113
Kill it with fire*.
* May result in complete destruction of house
Better an urban fox than an urban spaceman. Baby.
Did it have socks?
Was it on a box?
Were there any chicks with clocks and ticks and tocks?
Hey AC - the state of this house, fire would be an impro ement.
The best way is find out how the fox get under there and block the entrance. Otherwise leave it to live...foxes are nice creatures and recently everyone is just trying to kill them.....horrible....you'd be sick how though.
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