My first entry of a week’s babysitting Yesterday’s News Today and I manage to bag a good one, and can quote from my favourite band. Babysitting can be fun after all:
Mitochondrial DNA Points to Multiple Killer Whale Species
Mountain lion believed sighted near Georgetown
Leopards and other big cats ARE on the loose in Britain - just don't tell a soul
Croc-like creature on the loose
NBC affiliate investigates Huntingdon lake monster
Beavers are back, thriving - and making it better for other species
Spray teams target giant hogweed
Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them,
Around every river and canal their power is growing.
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them,
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour.
They are invincible,
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering.
Long ago in the Russian hills,
A victorian explorer found the regal hogweed by a marsh,
He captured it and brought it home.
Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge.
Royal beast did not forget.
He came home to london,
And made a present of the hogweed to the royal gardens at kew.
Waste no time!
They are approaching.
Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter
Strike by night!
They are defenceless.
They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom.
Still they're invincible,
Still they're immune to all our herbicidal battering.
Fashionable country gentlemen had some cultivated wild gardens,
In which they innocently planted the giant hogweed throughout the land.
Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge.
Royal beast did not forget.
Soon they escaped, spreading their seed,
Preparing for an onslaught, threatening the human race.
The dance of the giant hogweed
Mighty hogweed is avenged.
Human bodies soon will know our anger.
Kill them with your hogweed hairs
Heracleum mantegazziani
Giant hogweed lives
Genesis: The Return of the Giant Hogweed (Nursery Cryme 1971)
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