Graveyard scene/Blondes/Character's ages& codes/Dormice

[dungrollin]

> Pip
> ::sliding gently back into the bottom of the teacup for another
> snooze::
> 
> C- Now where is Dot, our resident ecologist? She'd know all about
the 
> hibernation habits of dormice.


She's limbering up for the 100m deadline hurdles, (the object being
to avoid meeting any deadline in your 100m lane without undue show 
of energy, extra points for good sailing style, showy near-misses 
penalised).

I believe there are a number of species of periodical dormice, 
which, unlike their cicadid namesakes, have a variable periodicity, 
and emerge after any prime number of days/weeks/months*. Correct 
identification is almost impossible without detailed dental records, 
though tea-drinking habits can be used to rule out a number of 
cryptic species. 

Dot


* Tempusfugit & Glisglis (2003) argued that with only three
interacting behavioural rules a chaotic pattern of emergence could 
be displayed, such that contact with the dominant parasitoid (as yet 
undescribed, but for the moment coded HPfGU-cat, specimens deposited 
in YAHOO coll.) is almost perpetually avoided. They were attacked 
vociferously in a number of high-ranking journals, yet their basic 
premise remains to be discredited.