1.02022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Bloghttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022Marinahttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022/blog/author/admin/Dead Moles in little dresses<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://exploringnostalgia.wordpress.com/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4434/72/40/574166202/n574166202_3244655_453712.jpg" alt="artwork at Allenheads, Exploring Nostalgia" width="395" height="591" /></a></span></p>
<dl class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 405px;"> <dd class="wp-caption-dd"><span style="color: #000000;">Artwork at Allenheads, "Exploring Nostalgia," photo by Sharon Bailey
</span></dd> </dl><span style="color: #000000;">Crazy... Moles are traditionally nailed to fences - it's a way of counting coupe so the molecatcher gets paid. More on this after I visit <a href="http://www.acart.org.uk/" target="_blank">Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA)</a>, an arts centre in the moors of rural Northumberland. </span>
<span style="color: #000000;">Just for context, I looked into molecatchers and found this gent "<a href="http://www.molecatcher.co.uk/" target="_blank">Jeff Nicholls the GRASS SHARK HUNTER</a>. " Of course he's in the Guild of British Molecatchers:</span>
<span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.guildofbritishmolecatchers.co.uk/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-866" title="wpe57341" src="https://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022//wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wpe57341.gif" alt="wpe57341" width="196" height="181" /></a></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">He's written some eponymous books that <span style="color: #333300;">have met with rave reviews -- </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">"Anyone who suffers from moles will find Jeff Nicholl's Molecatcher a long awaited lifeline."</span>
<span style="color: #000000;">But I haven't found too many technical pics on his web site, except this one, tugs at the heart strings (especially after petting a very soft, dead mole at the taxidermy studio of Eric Morton):</span>
<span style="color: #000000;"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-869" title="2008_0313mole0001" src="https://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022//wp-content/uploads/2009/06/2008_0313mole0001-1024x768.jpg" alt="2008_0313mole0001" width="439" height="329" /></span>
But this is what I was looking for:
[caption id="attachment_871" align="aligncenter" width="510" caption="Dead moles on a barbed wire fence 3 km from Whitley Chapel, Northumberland, Great Britain. Copyright Les Hull "]<a href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1264625"><img class="size-full wp-image-871" title="1264625_cc651c83" src="https://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022//wp-content/uploads/2009/06/1264625_cc651c83.jpg" alt="Dead moles on a barbed wire fence 3 km from Whitley Chapel, Northumberland, Great Britain. Copyright Les Hull " width="510" height="382" /></a>[/caption]
<span style="color: #000000;">I'm of two minds about this - it's traditional warfare between cultivator and cultivator; and it saddens me, to see them hung by their nosies.
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