After a prolonged discussion with Karl Shuker on Facebook lat night, there seems to be very good reason to suspect the security of my Blogger account, and all of my other computer accounts, including Facebook, have been severly compromised. I am currently unable to pass new posts through Blogger, all I get are error messages. The matter is under investigation and the computer is going into the shop for a thorough going-over ASAP
And now the news:
Looks fun:
I have been collecting animal-themed stamps ever since my mother and grandmother introduced me to this fascinating hobby when I was still a small child in the mid-1960s. One of the first sets that they bought for me was one from North Vietnam, issued in 1965, which featured a selection of six unusual Asian mammals, and included the very striking species featured above. I had never previously heard of it, but its exotic image on that stamp has remained in my mind ever since I first saw it all those years ago. Little did I know, however, that one day I'd be writing about this selfsame species, and that it would prove to be the identity of a very sinister-sounding beast of the East.