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| doganjo |
A murder has been committedI have been advised that there has been a murder committed in Cambridgeshire. The murderee was as yet unnamed I understand, but was removed from its natural environment by the murderer in the unhappy belief that it had expired, and the creature was consequently unceremoniously 'dumped' in a place one reserves for items of no value - the rubbish bin. As a result of being out-with it's natural environs the poor unfortunate creature really did expire!
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Well this post just goes to show that your admittance of not knowing your geography is completely true. This, despite the fact that the home county of the said perpetrator of this so called crime, is plastered ALL over the avator  Not that there is any proof that a crime was, in fact committed, as the 'creature' had been given mouth to mouth and did in fact expire on it's hospital bed  The funeral will be held later this week, after the coronor's inquest, and all donations should be made payable to the 'Ghillie Comfort Fund' care of me
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| eddieh |
You had me worried there. I was sure we'd swept the case of the hibernating hamster successfully under the carpet. Is it the case that snails, unlike cats, have only two lives? | ||
| Ghilliegumdrop |
Hamster, what hamster 
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| doganjo |
Perhaps the forum member in deepest Hertfordshirewould like to explain what happened to the poor thing?
(I have always said my geography lessons were a complete and utter bore - all I can say is thank dog for TomTom  )
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| eddieh |
It wasn't really so much hibernation as him becoming sluggish and lifeless following an accident with a pet toy. We had one of those toys which is powered by the hamster, like the balls are. One of these
http://www.petdiscounters.com/Habitrail-Playground-Dragster-p8768.html He was happy playing in it but we thought he'd spent enough time in it and took him out. He didn't like leaving his toy and was trying to get back in so we let him have one more run. That was a mistake. He sped across the living room floor but a fault in his toy caused it to swerve violently and go out of control. It ended up being upside down with the poor hamster inside, quite lifeless. We nearly gave up on him, but he eventually recovered and became as annoying as ever before. |
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
We had a gerbil that died. I think it just wanted to shock us into giving it luxury food. I had read somewhere that if you warmed them up they tend to recover, so, just to be on the safe side we stuck it under the grill [switched off after we had made toast and right at the bottom] It was so annoyed at being brought back to life that it came out and bit every one It lived for ages after that 
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| Lin Dyke |
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| doganjo |
But what about snails
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| Lin Dyke |
So Wilbert's demise was a suspicious death  or maybe an assisted suicide  Where are Poirot, Morse, and Rumpole when we need them
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Apparently alive and well and living up north. | ||
| Lin Dyke |
Surely that's Miss Marple
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| johnhod |
Surely if the accusation comes from north of the border there should be a lot more "R"s in murder | ||
| Ghilliegumdrop |
Daft bat cannot spell either
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| doganjo |
Ok, so WHO's the DAFT BAT!!!!???? At least I would know that if a snail was tucked up cosy in it's little shell it was still alive and wouldn't chuck it down the loo or wrap it in kitchen paper and get my dog to put it in the bin! And we aren't talking about Wilbert(ina) We are talking about their Anniversary gift - Wilbert(ina)s replacement I suspect that Wilbert(ina) may not have been dead either
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| Pippa's Pack |
Stand back everyone - it looks as if it might be pistols at dawn. 
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| eddieh |
I can get to deepest Hert's by dawn. Anybody want pictures? | ||
| doganjo |
Handbags more like Don't worry, it's ONLY a snail - plenty more where he/she came from
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
a. We are not in deepest Hertfordshire, in fact we are only one mile from the border with Cambridgeshire.
B. Braeburn and his/her predecessor, Wilbert/Wilbertina were neither chucked down the loo nor wrapped in any sort of paper and otherwise disposed of. C. He/she was rolling around on the bottom of the tank being used as a marble by Wilma, one of the goldfish. As this had been going on for 5/6 hours, on and off, one could be forgiven for thinking that the b....y snail was dead. However we are awaiting the results of the post mortem so I would advise everyone to stop speculating till they come through as certain persons could very well be wrong AGAIN
D. As I remember someone also had a fish tank and lost fishes so someone should not be so quick to point her finger in this direction, bearing in mind that someone is expecting to have a bed for three nights very soon
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| Patricia |
Jan, can you enlighten us of what other" strange" creatures you've got ? " What on earth do you do with them they deserve to be owned by...you 
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Wellllllll there's Mike, Merlin and Ghillie. Then there's Wilma, Willybrand and Wallace the goldfish, Bob the Plec and Worm the gold weather loach.
That's the lot for the time being
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