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Post by sweetpea on Oct 25, 2019 13:48:34 GMT
One of the cats brought in a little prezzie as they are wont to do. Maureen reckons it is a young mole and at first I thought it was a shrew but now because of the white underbelly I think it might be a Water Shrew. Any ideas welcomed.  |
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Post by grindle on Oct 26, 2019 3:35:54 GMT
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Post by SueA on Oct 26, 2019 9:15:18 GMT
Definitely a shrew, I think it is a water shrew as you say sweetpea, probably didn't taste very nice as it looks in one piece. |
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 26, 2019 10:14:06 GMT
Thanks folks.
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Post by steve on Oct 26, 2019 12:36:33 GMT
Yes I agree looks like the welsh water shrew tafficus shrewdicus
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 26, 2019 15:45:43 GMT
Yes I agree looks like the welsh water shrew tafficus shrewdicus And it is also dead |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 31, 2019 10:42:29 GMT
Yes I agree looks like the welsh water shrew tafficus shrewdicus And it is also dead OK then. tafficus shrewdicus mortus !  |
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Post by steve on Oct 31, 2019 12:28:48 GMT
That’s the one!  |
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 31, 2019 17:37:38 GMT
steve knows about these things. He's a fount of knowledge so he told me 
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Post by steve on Oct 31, 2019 17:49:37 GMT
I can’t look at it without thinking of one of those tools you use to clean the weeds out in between patio slabs, is it just me?
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 31, 2019 23:55:39 GMT
I reckon it is just you steve Should have gone to specsavers. |
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Post by SueA on Nov 1, 2019 8:50:00 GMT
I can’t look at it without thinking of one of those tools you use to clean the weeds out in between patio slabs, is it just me? Err… yes, just you! |
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Post by Cherry on Nov 3, 2019 10:56:24 GMT
This has turned into a hilarious subject! I wonder what keith thinks of all this. In Australia, Welsh people are often called ‘Taffy’; more so than they are here. |
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Post by keith on Nov 4, 2019 2:54:33 GMT
Cherry It's a new one on me. I don't think I have every known a Welsh pe I checked the Aussie Slang and Taffy not found en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_was_a_WelshmanThe term "Taffy" may be a merging of the common Welsh name "Dafydd" (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈdavɨð]) and the Welsh river "Taff" on which Cardiff is built, and seems to have been in use by the mid-eighteenth century.[3] The rhyme may be related to one published in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, printed in London around 1744, which had the lyrics: Taffy was born On a Moon Shiny Night, His head in the Pipkin, His Heels upright.[2] The earliest record we have of the better known rhyme is from Nancy Cock's Pretty Song Book, printed in London about 1780, which had one verse: Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't home; Taffy came to my house and stole a marrow-bone Keith |
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