Comments on: Inspiration: or, frequently asked questions.

By: Anita

Anita — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:21:07 +0000

Something very sad about a jar full of moles–all those little pink feet—! A sight never to be forgotten. Can’t imagine a good reason for it myself. It’s nice to know that you’ve (virtually) freed one of them to roam wherever your imagination will take him. Maybe you’ll even bring more along soon?;-)

By: Freyalyn

Freyalyn — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:22:28 +0000

Poor moles – their little hands up against the glass makes it look as if they went in live! I’m so glad that one of them is – at least metaphorically – out and free. That is certainly a very magnificent sand castle!

By: Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:28:51 +0000

I love your mole post card, and James Mayhew’s lino is brilliant too. Your moles in a jar story reminds me of going to the great museum in Prague with my grandfather every Sunday morning when I was a child. It was a tradition. But we never got out of the first floor mineral section because that’s what he loved the most. I didn’t know there were taxidermy specimens and moles in jars there till I turned 32 and had a chance to return!

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:02:26 +0000

Wow! A jar of moles!! There’s just something surreal about all those little hands and feet in the photograph, poor moles. So maligned and hated by farmers and gardeners alike. My brother once came across a dead mole and cleaned and dried it and gave it to me years ago, I treasured it. His fur was SO soft and silky I had him for years on one of my shelves until one day my eldest daughter brought a load of her teenage boy friends home and later on after they’d all left my little mole was missing. I never did discover who ‘nabbed’ him, but I’ve missed him everyday since!
I wish I could get to visit the Pop-up Festival and also the Grant Museum.

Jane

By: sandy snowden

sandy snowden — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:40:57 +0000

oh goodness. I could have done with my imagination rather than an actual photo! No wonder it stuck in your mind. Oh, do please free the moles.

I still remember stages of a chicken egg development -about 7 something like 3 days between – from science when about 11 or 12 all those years ago. Living on a farm, it really bothered me that they hadn’t let the nearly hatched ones finish hatching a few more days.
Sandy in Bracknell

By: dinahmow

dinahmow — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:25:28 +0000

Ugh! That jar of moles gives me the creeps! And I’ve worked with a taxidermist, with vets, with injured animals. But this?
I’m glad you managed to liberate one poor mole.(Perhaps, now, he go messing about in boats with Ratty.’-) )

By: lynn

lynn — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:10:36 +0000

I love the idea of setting the moles free ‘off to mole heaven.’