Once we thought about the canoe, as is often the case on Thursdays. Even so, it was not often we thought about the canoe on Thursdays without a fully-consensual stickleback ponder session in the gazebo.
Of course, it does – so often – in these days of austerity mean that any fully-fledged consideration of almost every mode of aquatic (or in the case of the hovercraft semi-aquatic) transport does entail at least some – however fleeting – consideration of the stickleback.
Especially – as has already indicated in the House of Lords – on Thursdays.
Back in earlier days, however, it was often quite normal for the stickleback and its feelings about having its personal space violated by humans and their callous disregard of stickleback rights.
These days, of course, we live in more enlightened times... so we are told. Consequently, any violation, unthinking or otherwise, of the current nostrums of correct thinking will get us just as banged up as was the case when caught thinking the almost direct opposite a few short decades ago.
Most will – if they ever bother to think about it, will not waste much thought on the matter. Especially if they feel that the sticklebacks may have some sort of case for keeping their lifestyles free of unwarranted intrusion by canoes and – in some places – coracles.
However, we should all realise that what is the right thing to think today, may not be necessarily the right thing to think tomorrow.
So just be a bit careful with your canoe, because next time it may not be just the sticklebacks you are inconveniencing who take issue with you.
[Books by David Hadley are available here (UK) or here (US).]
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