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I really enjoyed this article in the New Statesman about taxidermy. It is very funny, and only a little bit utterly disgusting (how one empties the skull of its contents). I was going to add that I was glad not to live in her houseshare, but actually I would probably be an excellent housemate for an amateur taxidermist, as I do not particularly mind dead birds in freezers, though I would hope that she would clean up the stray stomach contents before I came across them. Maybe the smell would not be the most pleasant thing as well. Hmm. The author, Hayley Campbell, mostly only has reviews on the NS site, but I was delighted to find that she has a a blog. It would have been more helpful to have found it when I did not actually have things to do, but there you go. Can't have everything. (Also have just read a post of hers that is pretty horrible about breastfeeding older children. Really can't have anything.)