Pure nonsense, from a book my daughter currently has out of the library. It makes a change - Mervyn Peake There's nothing makes a Greenland Whale Feel half so high-and-mighty, As sitting on a mantlepiece In Aunty Mabel's nighty. It makes a change from Freezing Seas, (Of which a Whale can tire). To warm his weary tail at ease Before on English fire. For this delight he leaves the sea, (Unknown to Aunty Mabel), Returning only when the dawn Lights up the Breakfast Table. This is accompanied by a delightful picture of a happy whale sitting on a mantlepiece, wearing a flowery nighty. Next to one of those valuable china spaniels. One would imagine that Aunty Mabel might wonder what keeps ruining her nighties though. Oh, I'm on my hols for a week now. Barring dreadful events that affect Devon, I will see you when I get back.

Um, my cornish friends are planning and annexation, that and doing Dreadful Things to makers and purveyors of so called Devon pasties, clotted cream, and rex cats...