Body parts

[ChristopherSea]

Keith,

"a goblins" shouldn't this be possessive? "a goblin's"
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"but guilt is at my stomach,
scratching away like a rat trapped
in a heated copper pot strapped
to my belly."

Seems an inordinate long way to go for a description, also "Stomach" and "belly" seem a bit redundant.
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Where is it illegal to eat wild bird eggs? Not that I want to. I've never heard of such a thing.

dale

Collecting/blowing wild bird eggs became a crime after the banning of DTT. Legislation, such as the Wild Birds Protection Act 1954 and Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in the United Kingdom, has made it impossible to collect wild bird's eggs legally. In the United Kingdom, it is only legal to possess a wild-bird's egg if it was taken before 1954; selling wild–bird's eggs, regardless of age is illegal. Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, allowed for six months imprisonment for the possession of the eggs of wild birds and, since it came into force, a number of individuals have been imprisoned, both for possessing and for attempting to buy egg collections. The Joundain Society continued to meet although membership dwindled after 1994, when a dinner of the society was raided by police, assisted by Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. This resulted in six members being convicted and fined. Despite this, some of those who engage in egg collecting show considerable recidivism in their activity. One, Colin Watson, was convicted six times before he fell to his death in 2006, while attempting to climb to a nest high up in a tree.Another individual has been convicted nine times and imprisoned twice and a third has been convicted 51 times, imprisoned four times and barred from entering Scotland during the bird breeding season. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has been particularly active in fighting illegal egg collection and maintains an investigative unit that collects intelligence on egg collectors and assists police in mounting prosecutions on them, in addition to investigating other wildlife crimes. At one point, RSPB staff were being trained by soldiers from the Brigade of Gurkhas in camouflage skills and in surveillance, map and radio techniques, to better enable them to guard nests of rare birds.

Hi Chris
I guess you have posted this for Dale. Thanks but I feel I should share my real name Colin Moriarty Watson