Just one question.. does your mum want a tortoise?

It'll be fine - get a tortoise - hollow him out and use him as a mold.

I see your and raise you a

If she decides, a week or two hence, that she does not in fact want a tortoise, can we have it on loan? We also think we might like a tortoise and are trying to borrow one to see if this is a fad or not - TIA

So... here is the finished article !   I helped by mixing up the food colouring to give a dark green and made the eyes out of smarties

Catfish did do a splendid job of his toenails!

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(Stead.. I believe we spell it 'mould' - you may be sympathising with our American counterparts with that spelling)

Catfish - looks wonderful! I particularly like his toe nails :)

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Excellent work chaps - that looks very cool -

I stand by my spelling of Mold because I googled it so there....

Heh heh heh. Well, I googled 'Jonny is rubbish at drums'. So it must be true!

That's a very cute tortoise! I mean the real one, not the cake, even though the cake was very cute too :)

Rochester wasn't being a coward.. he was stalking his prey :O

Also how old roughly is that example?

How long do they live for?

Do you really stick them in a box over the winter?

if so, when do you take them out again?

I accept that the answers to these questions could be found by googling 'tortoise care' but I'm also kinda trying to guage the JDK's parenting skills ;)

-- Edited by Short Santa at 16:39, 2007-05-07

-- Edited by Short Santa at 16:40, 2007-05-07

Presumably you mean the JDK's parent's parenting skills?

My little brother did all the hard work locating the tortoise - popping out to the glapagos islands with a net and all that. Turns out after his long and arduous trip back (avoiding customs and everything) that he could have just popped into his local reptile shop (about 2 minutes walk from his house) and bought a 1 year old tortoise and all the stuff that goes with it - a big tank, heat lamps, heat pads, stuff and things for the princely sum of £400. I don't know how much of that was the tortoise itself. Quite an expensive set up, I think you'll agree.

He's a bit small to go outside unattended, but he wanders around the house just fine. You have to build them a run for outside or they burrow, apparently.

I don't think you need to hibernate them if you keep them in a well regulated temperature.

-- Edited by ddvmor at 20:58, 2007-05-07

ddvmor wrote:

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Presumably you mean the JDK's parent's parenting skills?

My little brother did all the hard work locating the tortoise - popping out to the glapagos islands with a net and all that. Turns out after his long and arduous trip back (avoiding customs and everything) that he could have just popped into his local reptile shop (about 2 minutes walk from his house) and bought a 1 year old tortoise and all the stuff that goes with it - a big tank, heat lamps, heat pads, stuff and things for the princely sum of £400. I don't know how much of that was the tortoise itself. Quite an expensive set up, I think you'll agree.

He's a bit small to go outside unattended, but he wanders around the house just fine. You have to build them a run for outside or they burrow, apparently.

I don't think you need to hibernate them if you keep them in a well regulated temperature.

-- Edited by ddvmor at 20:58, 2007-05-07

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Ah but the JDK's parent's parenting skills are beyond reproach - after all they produced the JDK

How fast does it move?

Ermm, by my reckoning that'd be a round an hour per hour then! Of course it'd cover 2 hours distance in 2 hours!

did you call Sharon's brains small... silly man!