[Vwoolf] Foxes

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Gwendolen.  I had no idea there were any foxes in the country.

Cecily.  Oh, foxes are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London.


Not true  We hardly ever see foxes in the country, not like in London.  The only fox I’ve seen is the one I killed at 70 mph one night.  I think it was trying to commit suicide – perhaps like Mrs Carlyle’s Nero.

Stuart


From: Margaret Tudeau 
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 8:44 AM
To: Toni McNaron 
Cc: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf Google doodle

The leaves are nice, but if the Google dwarves had dug a bit deeper they might have found some more interesting images, as in this beautiful 'birthday' extract from the diary, 88 years ago to the day :


Sunday 26 January 1930

I am 48: we have been at Rodmell — a wet, windy day again; but on my birthday we walked among the downs, like the folded wings of grey birds; & saw first one fox, very long with his brush stretched; then a second; which had been barking, for the sun was hot over us; it leapt lightly over a fence & entered the furze — a very rare sight. How many foxes are there in England?


Foxes are of course flourishing today in London. Woolf would, I think, have enjoyed the recent TV shot of a fox slinking through Downing Street (on the day Boris took another side swipe at Theresa May.....).


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