Quiz Results: What's wrong with this picture?

Let's be honest. The quantity of quiz responders was a bit dissapointing this time round, although I must admit the quality was quiz-tacular. (Megan made me write that.) In fact, your answers were so creative, albeit farfetched, that I deam the quiz a draw. You may all claim your prizes* in person within the next 12 days.

Our answer lies in the squirrel. Almost upon arrival to this country, we have been bombarded by squirrel-news here in Britain. Squirrels are apparently a British national treasure under threat. In the 1870's grey American squirrels were introduced to Cheshire, and it's all been downhill from there. The native red squirrel just couldn't compete with the larger, more ferocious grey, and for reasons of competition, reproduction or disease (reports vary), the red squirrel has become increasingly rare. Rare enough, in fact, to warrant signs in some areas in the North warning motor vehicles of their presence in the area. Those darn Americans; always trying to push their way into the British consciousness. (I will admit... the red squirrel is a tad bit cuter.)

Thus, we were taken aback that Kew Gardens, a national treasure itself, would be so vile as to show a GREY squirrel on their sign!



On a squirrel-related side note, a recent news story reported that a traveling nurse in County Durham was attacked by two squirrels, and nurses are now warned not to walk alone in the woods. Funny enough. But this sentence in the online article takes the cake:

'Last year, inventor Mike Madden ended up with whiplash after a squirrel leapt on him as he tested a head-mounted bird feeding tray in Huddersfield.'

Now that would be a funny photo.


*Prize is a caramel shortbread slice from Vennels in Durham. Worth the trip, you three...