A whale-moose, a moose-whale?

How would that work?

And where would the Santa hat go?

Ummm, nowhere, cos Santa uses Reindeer not Mooses/Moosi(?)

But you could make a jigsaw, Ecar

That looks like a job for a sharp pencil.

Thankfully, I've got this on hand...

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Ah....a squale............WT?

Heh, heh, heh... You guys are "kraken" me up.

I had an idea for a whale marionette.

It's nothing too complicated; hold the stick in your hand, move it in a rocking motion and the flippers and the tail move.

At least in theory.

I made a test whale out of cardboard but it's too light, and the whole thing jiggled and danced around, rather than doing what I wanted. It was unexpectedly amusing.

I'll have to find some blu tak (spelling?) to stick on the body to weigh it down a bit, so I can see if it'll do what I want it to do.

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Young MacBeth had her "suitors" round to play, euphemistically, around the end of April.

That was a noisy couple of hours. It seems that charging around at speed is somehow a vital part of the courtship process.

Or they all like running around like maniacs, ha ha.

I saw her last night and there's a bulge, but it's not a three months along sized bulge. There's something there, but it's not that big.

Maybe all the running around tired everyone out, and the evening wasn't quite the success they'd hoped for.

No worries, it was entertaining to have a ringside seat on an event that I'd otherwise probably never witness.

She knows the place, she knows there's food on offer, she knows that the worst that'll happen is that her Mother will go "Grumpy! Grumpy!" at her, if she sees her, so there's a reasonable chance I might yet get to meet my great grand possum.

Wouldn't that be nice? Ha ha.

If I say four months for the little one to be big enough to be out and about, at a conservative guess, that takes me up to the end of the year. That's good. The weather's kinder, as a rule, then. Good for little possum watching, ha ha.

Beautiful picture.

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It's a good shape, too.

It got me thinking, I could run a string from the nose, and from that little tiny dorsal fin to the ends of a stick, that way the whale could rise or dive.

Then there's a second stick, with requisite strings, that controls the movement of the fins and the tail.

That way the whale can swim along, moving it's fins, and tail, then it can rise, or dive, as it sees fit.

Just past the dorsal fin is a good place to put the hinge for the tail.

Even if the tail droops, you can lower the whale's head and it can swim along really slowly saying "I'm not really a morning person..." in a deep, whale-like voice.

See? How much fun is that? The toy isn't even made and already it's fun to play with.

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