Baffling Reader's Letter Of The Day

From The Metro's Good Deed Feed:

A BIG thank you to my dad, who took a week off work to take me to London for my work experience.

Amy, Essex.

Essex?

The joke wears thinner as hole gets deeper

Here's a snapshot of the progress* that the fox/badger/muntjac deer/mole** has made since last Saturday:

* The hole/trench is over a foot across and extends about eighteen inches underground (beneath the plank).

** Delete according to taste/prejudice/phobia.

It was funnier the first time

The fox (assuming the miscreant to be a fox) dug yet another hole in the garden, sometime between last Wednesday evening and this morning. The hole was over a foot deep, a foot wide and the pile of earth that had been thrown backwards (which would be just off the bottom right hand corner of the picture) was about six inches deep and two foot across. Quite remarkable really:

Hole

Her Indoors* discovered this hole in her vegetable patch, which wasn't there a week ago. The 12" ruler is there to give an idea of the scale. Any thoughts?


* Obviously, Her Indoors was Outdoors at the time she noticed it.

Explain this

This pine cone appeared in the middle of our patio overnight. A couple of the 'scales' had been pulled off and were lying near it.


Our back garden is pretty big, there are no pine trees for at least fifty yards and the wind was not particularly strong last night, so I can only assume that a squirrel dumped it. But look at the size of the thing - it's about six inches long and it weighed in at seven ounces. Can squirrels really carry things like that?