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Simon’s initial thoughts

There are some absolutely marvellous things going on in and around the Holt at the moment, reports are flooding in from all of the departments every day! It is providing me with a vast amount of reading I can tell you, it is going to take me quite a while to get through it all!

Let me see, what have I read so far…

Well, there is some fantastic news from the Sea Otter Raft of Canada. They have several candidates from the pacific university who would like to set up an exchange programme with otters from the Thames university. This could prove extremely useful, the Pacific Sea Otters are brilliant engineers, and I am sure the Canadian fellows will help enormously in the design and construction of the top secret…. oh… er, no… I can’t tell you about that just yet apparently. Suffice it to say it will be extremely interesting.

The main focus of my reading has been about the Otterman Prophecy. Simon Swifttail popped in to visit me this morning and dropped off part one of his preliminary report into the contents. It is splendid reading, he has some excellent ideas that young otter, even if his favourite sandwich is anchovy. Strange little fish the anchovy, give me good honest minnow any day!

Right, enough sandwich talk, it is making me hungry, here are some excerpts from Simon’s fascinating report:

Otterman Prophecy: Report 1 initial thoughts.

Who wrote the prophecy?

The prophecy verses are written in ancient otter and have been lost for many centuries – the writer was clearly fluent in otter and had some poetic aspirations. There is a possibility that the prophecy was written by more than one otter. There is evidence of inter-species cooperation and the first three verses at least are told from a non otter perspective.

Prophecy timeline

We don’t yet know if the order of discover and translation is going to form the final chronology for the overall prophecy. There is a suggestion that the more celebratory aspects (gin & tonic, picnics etc) are actually from nearer the end of the saga being foretold, and provide an optimistic view on any conflict. However, this could be wishful thinking.

The otters of time.

This seems like extremely good news for the temporal research team. Otters of Time suggests that time travel becomes not only possible but controllable and normalised within at least some parts of otter society. They seem to have some connections to dragons and wildcats. As far as we know dragons are tricky creatures so this indicates that the Otters of Time are powerful. There is a possibility that the Otters of Time are some sort of time travelling peacekeeping force.

Marvellous stuff, marvellous indeed! I have still to read the remaining 12 sections of this preliminary report. He really does have a vast number of thoughts and words that Otter.

I’m going to sign off now and go in search of a minnow sandwich.

27 thoughts on “Simon’s initial thoughts”

  1. What a very industrious and hard working otter! Simon is clearly immersing himself in the ways of the ancient otters in order to understand their prophesies. The second I read the word ‘sandwich’ I had to eat one. Chicken, as it happens, but I would also choose minnow over anchovy. And what could this top secret thing be?! The mind boggles. I might have to have another sandwich.

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    1. Simon is very industrious, and I think he has many notbooks..I am surprised he managed to limit himself to 15 sections of initial thoughts… although I am not sorry as I have to be his writer…
      I think the top secret developments will put in an appearance after the Otter’s midwinter celebration and when the sea otters have made their way over from canada…
      I think another sandwich would be ideal…I would like one too… I think chicken sounds preferable to either minnow or anchovy…but then I am not an otter…

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      1. I am very much looking forward to meeting the Canadian otters, I’m sure they will be very fine otters indeed. A Midwinter celebration sounds good! No doubt there will be minnow aplenty and all sorts. A celebrating otter must be a sight to behold!
        It is a chicken and stuffing sandwich, fashioned from Sunday’s leftovers. I’m starving today, must be the cold 🙂

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      2. I am looking forward to the Canadian sea otters, they will be exceedingly furry and, I have recently discovered, can be between 4 and 5 feet long…this is much larger than I thought!
        Its definitely the cold! I am hungry too, I gymmed before work and have no food other than a bar of galaxy…it might have to be eaten!

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      3. I am about 5 feet long! That is very big for an otter! I like their furriness, this is a good thing. I don’t expect they will want a cuddle, but if they do, I am here for them!
        Gosh, where is your food?! I am worried, now. You must eat the galaxy at once for sustenance. Steal the food of others, if needs be. I am happy to share my sandwich, if that helps!

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      4. It does seem very big for an otter… I think they should want to cuddle, all extremely furry things should, particularly sea otters and snow leopards. Although the probably shouldn’t cuddle each other!
        I was extremely sleepy this morning and left my lunch food at home 😦 I will have to forage for my lunch. Although probably in waitrose, not hedgerows…
        I will snaffle the galaxy forthwith!

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      5. When I am PM, there will be a law that all furry things must cuddle me (and you). They can cuddle each other as long as they don’t eat each other. This seems reasonable to me.
        Please do not starve to death, we have adventures planned for later this month!!

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    1. I just had to re-read my post to see if I had left the bit in that I almost added about them wearing hats akin to those of mounties…
      I have concluded instead that you are a mind reader… (or I am predictable in my hat choices)

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      1. No, no, I can’t read minds. I struggle with joined up letters on a page, for heaven’s sake. I was just making an assumption about their hats being large (Canadian otters being large), since all otters wear hats, of course.

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      2. Aaah…well yes, they will have large hats for that reason, and they may well look like the hats of mounties 😀
        As for not reading minds, that is a shame, you could read mine and then tell me what it says…

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    1. Wouldn’t that be nice 🙂
      Simon is extremely hopeful that this is what is going to happen too!
      There will undoubtedly be some of each…it is foretold!
      I can’t guarantee it will all be gin and picnics mind you…

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