My car dashboard is adorned
by a bit of a menagerie that began with Chip the nodding tortoise, acquired
circa 1995 from Chester Zoo souvenir shop, and augmented over the years as
various other natural history attractions were visited – Kevin the snake from
Jersey Zoo is coiled round the rear view mirror, Spud the spider monkey
(provenance forgotten) lounges in the quarter-light, and a salamander
(Dordogne) and frog (Menorca) are tethered just above the hi-fi controls; with
December arriving a festive addition has been made in the form of a robin, to
be named Raby, from where, in a moment of pre-Christmas excess, he was
purchased on Saturday.
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