SHERI MYLER: Day 2

Sheri Myler, our student who is doing a series of placements with us over the next year or so is back for her second stint. Once again, I am putting her to work and she will be blogging each day about her time here...

 Sunday’s work began slightly later than usual for me, as all Sunday work should, when not abolished altogether. I didn’t need to do the animal rounds, though there was still some observation of fish feeding.

The majority of the day, approximately nine hours solid, consisted of type-setting the Eberhart book. “D” and “G” were the two largest sections, so were naturally delegated to me. (Cheeky Little Ratbag JD) We got some way through “I” before putting this task to bed for the night.

This was followed by a two and a half hour lecture on cryptozoology. This included the various types of mystery hominids (Orang-pendek, Yeti, Bigfoot and Almasty), which cryptids we think are most likely to exist and why, and the running abilities of different types of monitor lizards as a theoretical basis for the reports of Megalania.

After the lecture was concluded, the cat hunt was very short as there was very little petrol and nobody fancied walking home in the dead of night. A quick skip through the woods and I was back at my B&B. when I called the talk a “lecture”, it was as formal a lecture as one can have with a brew in one hand and a dog using the other as a pillow.