Bobbing for Lake Monsters

[monkeyparts]

-  The following are excerpts from some of the emails I sent to Connor while I was in Scotland.  I figure I ought to have a proper travelogue for the journey, rather than just that mish-mash of mystical mumbo-jumbo, so here you go:

"Today we found a slowworm (legless lizard- not a snake, by damn nothing so sensible as a snake; a legless lizard) in

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[thousand_son]

You should have told me, you could have crashed on my square foot of land.

[daisydumont]

>It's very important to either venerate the hell out of tiny disgusting creatures or hit them very hard.

haha. this is wonderfully written, ben. i didn't know you'd gone to scotland, so i'm delighted to read such a pleasurable travelogue.

>Sometimes you've just got to go all the way through Being Sensible and Doing The Right Thing and come screaming out the other side at six-hundred miles an hour hitting the tarmac in a wheeze of sparks and Just Fucking Do It...

i did things like that at your age. maybe i should begin again. :)

[plesant_rose]

i like reading of your travels. more please?