Friday, June 23

A long and happy life

Charles Darwin's tortoise has just died aged 175 years. The same age as Belgium. Spooky, no?

Here is a picture of Charles Darwin's late tortoise. I think a minute's silence would be appropriate. I wonder where it will be buried. And what music will be played at the funeral.

I think Eric Idle's "One foot in the grave" might be appropriate.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

They could have a reading from the poems of Shelley.

(As a child I had two tortoises at different times. They both seemed extremely unhappy and then died. I'm not lucky in tortoise.)

Daphne Wayne-Bough said...

What does a happy tortoise look like?

Anonymous said...

Hard.

The Aunt said...

With a daisy hanging out of its mouth.

Or some asparagus.