Jiggety-jig

Back Chez Hedgehog, after a flight that was not too bad, apart from the seat which either didn't go back or forward at all or did so with a huge jolt, so that when I reclined it it spilt the wine of the person sitting behind me; he seemed relatively laid back about this but the incident did not put me in the kind of strong moral position I would have liked when he kept his reading light on long after everybody else in the cabin had turned theirs off: I would have liked to have asked politely if he could follow suit. And someone at the opposite end of the row of seats decided to open the shutter on their window... Nevertheless, I managed to get a couple of hours of something resembling sleep.

The food was, indeed, fairly revolting.

There were problems with the luggage carousel at Heathrow which meant a certain amount of standing round staring at the unmoving piles of luggage already on it and waiting for it to start up again so that the rest could debark.

And when my case did appear, I discovered that the zip on the front pocket had broken - it was gaping a bit but I don't think anything has actually been lost. This is rather annoying as I haven't had that case very long.

But otherwise the journey was pretty smooth.

*Waves at new readers, and will be more contentful and coherent in days to come (I hope).*

Feral wallabies in the UK

Because these came up in several conversations my sojourn in Minneapolis, further details.

From Wikipedia on Wallabies

A number of wallaby breeding colonies in other parts of the world have been established at times in the past, but only one proved viable. The two principal populations were those of the island of Inchconnachan in Loch Lomond, Scotland and in the Peak District of England. The Peak District population was established in around 1940 by five escapees from a local zoo and lasted until at least 1993. At its peak the population numbered around fifty individuals. The Loch Lomond population was deliberately established in 1975 and unmanaged has achieved a viable population of around 28. Restricted to the island of Inchconnachan there are occasional escapes to the mainland when the loch freezes over. Other populations in the United Kingdom that for some periods bred successfully included one near Teignmouth, Devon, another in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex and one on the island of Bute and Lundy.

There is also a small population on Lambay Island off the east coast of Ireland. This group was introduced by Dublin Zoo after a sudden population explosion in the mid 1980s.

Other sources suggest that the Peak District wallabies may still be around but retired to more remote areas. There have been unconfirmed sightings since the mid-90s.