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Co. Wicklow, Ireland - 2nd April 2021 🐙


"His companion began to be a little disappointed. Doc's enthusiasm for the octopi [sic] indicated he was not as flexible as she was. And no girl likes to lose centre stage to an octopus.” John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (but lifted shamelessly from Simon Barnes' exquisite History of the World in 100 Animals) 

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