I have no idea at all what sort of creature these eggs belong to. I was hanging out the washing first thing this morning, after realising last night that you needed mountaineering equipment to get into the bathroom with all the washing needing to be done (partly from my trip and partly because I’d not done any for a week or so before going). So, before I could find my way into the bath last night, I was faced with grabbing an armful of dirty clothes to stick in the washing machine! I really needed that….. I don’t think!

So, when I realised it was gorgeously sunny this morning, I nipped out to hang the stuff I’d washed on the line and found these eggs had been laid onto the line by something. This is, as they say, the tip of the iceberg! There were absolutely hundreds, maybe thousands of eggs along a section of line about six inches long. Each egg was smaller than a pinhead.

Today I have had something of a breakthrough. I don’t mean to sound ungenerous but it REALLY pisses me off when I find out someone has knicked one of my shots and placed it on their own website without even so much as a ‘by your leave’. I’ve been in the forums (an almost unheard-of event in my life) and asked whether there could be a hit counter for recent hits as an early warning for this and was delighted with the new stats pages.

This has meant that I spotted a hitherto very neglected (in terms of hits) shot, posted a couple of years ago and buried in a gallery that I’ve not touched since last year, that suddenly appeared in my ‘most hit pics’ stats today. Guess what? When I clicked on it, I discovered 90 ‘direct links’ – so another theft then eh?

So, I reposted the pic with a big text box across the front with a request that anyone who is viewing it in any website other than pbase to drop me a message in my pbase guestbook (as you will have seen if you've followed my link) and a F*CK YOU message to the site administrator if he/she gets there first.

So now I sit back and wait and hope that someone out there looking at the photo will 'do the decent thing' and let me know who's knicked it.

Thanks Slug for making this policing of our images possible!

Last year, DM was on his way to Le Mans with Gary