Dormice

The prediction comes as campaigners paint a bleak future for native species such as dormice and bluebells. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This means that in terms of protecting and enhancing biodiversity they do a far less effective job than larger, contiguous woodlands; for instance, while birds can easily fly, ground-based mammals, such as dormice and hedgehogs, aren't able to negotiate their way across roads and farmland so easily. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the distance stood Vesuvius, still a sleeping volcano in those days, its hills green with pine and beech trees, its orchards overflowing with apples and with grapes that made wine good enough for a senators table; its soil teeming with hares, dormice, and moles that the locals favored as hors doeuvres. ❋ Barry Strauss (2009)

But fifteen minutes later Sarah Montague introduced a further segment on dormice by saying their decline had been partly due to "cool summers". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ironically, the ultra-modern solar-powered weasel would appear to be some form of very powerful and incomprehensible magic to those actual denizens of the Stone Age who had to make do with napped-flint powered chickens and crude wooden pedals to drive their dormice. ❋ David Hadley (2009)

Social dormice may want to rely on a colleague, but clinging on to allies won't win any accolades from the bosses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In answer to your question - yes, I think that an gladiatorial scene is a must have - even if it's in the background at a dinner party where the guests eating their dormice! ❋ Carla (2008)

BTW, dormice and larks' tongues are genuine, not a medieval invention. ❋ Carla (2008)

Is an arena scene compulsory, like larks' tongues and dormice? ❋ Carla (2008)

Especially when you get the type that are shaped like stuffed dormice and the jam filling looks like jellied hamster turds instead of golden dollops of sweetness. ❋ Eeleen Lee (2008)

It sounds like a dreadful cliche but you do not want to be saddled with jars of stuffed dormice, riot pellets and shattered love letters after Chap Goh Meh. ❋ Eeleen Lee (2008)

Edible dormice are so named as the Romans ate them as a delicacy, and in fact fattened them up on chestnuts and acorns inside clay pots called glisaries (and the genus concerned is called Glis). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

So if Sumatran rhinos should be regarded as ‘living fossils’, why aren't bottlenose dolphins, blue whales, edible dormice, sitatungas, gannets, barn owls or peafowl ever referred to as such? ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

I think I speak for everyone when I say, "Edible dormice???" ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Follow that up with a bout of Roman style puking to make room for some more stuffed dormice in honey and another amphorae or six of the finest wine. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)