Animals of October

Plastic Dinosaurs What must they think of us? Making little effigies of long dead reptiles out of toxic materials and then putting them on our doorsteps among potted plants like we think this is somehow cute? It is quite cute though. We found the T-rex, the Triceratops and the Parasaurolophus in a box marked ‘Free - Please Take’ outside a local house, so we took them to decorate our entryway and they’re a pleasing bunch of rogues, peeking out from behind pansies. But what must our fauna think of a display like this? If dinosaurs were to come back, Jurassic Park-style, would they pause a moment and recognise themselves in the moulded plastics and think; what in the prehistoric ages? What did we do to deserve this? We leave the house, all perked up for a run, and the dinos see us on our way, the T-Rex’s mouth permanently roaring in what looks more like a yawn than menace.  Cackling Magpies The cackling magpies swoop among the trees of the street, flashing their monochrome wings with ...