A real fox. I got very excited and tried to take a photo of it with my phone, but the other thing i was doing with my phone was listening to music. So what I ended up doing in all the ensuing Excitement was wrenching my headphones out of my ears, then out of the phone, which makes the music start playing straight from the phone, and sticking my hand out the window in order to play quite loud classical music to the fox. It hated it and ran away. I didn't even come close to being able to take a picture. But that's okay. Foxes are everywhere these days.
What is quite weird is how long it took me to work out that it was a fox. Like there is that ridiculous Lie that says that when Christopher Columbus's ships hoved to on the horizon, the indians who lived on whatever island it was couldn't actually see them, because they had no frame of reference for them. So the idea is that they just saw nothing, because they couldn't understand what they were seeing. Obviously this isnt true, but I remember it making sense to me when I first heard it. And it makes sense again now. Because I looked out the window and saw the fox, and went:
1. oh look at that thin orange dog.
2. that's definitely not a dog.
3. look at that huge, huge cat.
4. I don't think that's a huge cat.
5. look at that terracotta pot running across the lawn and weeing on it.
6. oh its a fox.
I hope I see lots more, and get used to recognising them instantly.
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