It's funny the way things happen isn't it? Until two weeks ago I had never heard the word spork before. Now they're everywhere - I don't know what's going on. I saw them again today in a shop window at lake Windemere. I have obviously seen them before and also used them but I never knew their name.
Another repetitive theme of late has been road kill. Last Sunday on the walk to work I was shocked to see a cat on the side of the road which had been hit and killed by a vehicle. It's legs were stiff and sticking up in the air, there was blood and meat coming out of its side and the poor thing's face was split right open. It was, as I have written, shocking. The next day its appearance had changed. It was now missing anything that resembled a head and now looked more like meat and less like a cat. There were bones clearly visible - strangely lying separate from the rest of the body - and almost a smear of ginger fur over the double yellow lines. Bit by bit the cat has disappeared over the week. I think it's very sad that somebody's pet just didn't come home one day.
Since last Sunday I have seen a flattened fox, a stiffened squirrel, a run over rabbit and a splattered seagull.
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too much information on the roadkill, I want to vomit!!!
If the spork tickles you then check out the spife!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spife
thats what the streetkids are slashing each other up with at the moment. Having used one myeslf it was very effective on a kiwi fruit - like openening up an eyeball.
p.s. My earliest memory of being handed a spork was in spud-u-like, it is now part of their corporate logo!
Well I've just googled the spife and I'm not sure that I'm very happy with it really...
i know them as splades.
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