03 October 2009

surreal moment of the day: check

I wandered up to the tea shop today, as I so often do on weekends, and as I walked home, shivering in the suddenly cold air, a bicycle rode past me with a trailer on the back. On the trailer was a big dog cage, the sort that you picture in the back of an SUV for a German shepherd. "Hm," I thought, "that is an interesting way to carry a dog around, but I guess if you don't have a car, that's what you have to do." Then the bike passed me and I saw that the cage did not hold a dog but a little white goat, peering out at me.

It's been a long time since I saw a goat transported by bicycle, and never in this country.

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