Narwhals versus Giant Octopuses.

[The Peepmaster]

Like Roger I will act as the straight man.
Why Deborah the Whelk.

It was a female whelk, of course.  :

I know but why not Wendy or Wanda but Deborah she should be the dolphin.

  I just liked the idea of a whelk called Deborah. (It's not a common name with shellfish).

When I was in the Philippines, we spent a few days on the small island of Boracay, off the larger Panay Island. I booked a chalet near the beach, and one evening heard the sound of a creature clattering across the paved area outside. I took a photograph.

Meet Helen, the Land Hermit Crab. (People actually keep these as pets in some parts of the world).

[peter]

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  I just liked the idea of a whelk called Deborah. (It's not a common name with shellfish).

When I was in the Philippines, we spent a few days on the small island of Boracay, off the larger Panay Island. I booked a chalet near the beach, and one evening heard the sound of a creature clattering across the paved area outside. I took a photograph.

Meet Helen, the Land Hermit Crab. (People actually keep these as pets in some parts of the world).


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I think it should be Lady Helen Crustacea.

[The Peepmaster]

I don't think these things have surnames, Peter! What a bizarre concept.

I just realised that the way I wrote that piece earlier made it sound as though the Land Hermit Crab was already named Helen. It was actually the name I gave it. I've no idea whether anyone had previously named it. For all I know, I may have been the only person ever to have seen it. This was a wild one, not one that had been domesticated.

[Mince]

That's Matilda! I thought she was lost forever.

[peter]

That's Matilda! I thought she was lost forever.

No she had been to the dance.