Is a Red Squirrel a Rat with a Tale / Rodent?

[Blackdogblue]

Just asking for my mate Jimmy 🤨😀

[griff]

No, that’s the invasive, non-indigenous greys.

Hope that’s useful. They just can’t stop talking.

[Chauncey]

They just can't stop talking Griff?

Red squirrels are mythical creatures dreamt up by the Cumbrian tourist board to get tourists up there FACT!

[griff]

Well apparently they tell tales. You'll never see a red Chalky, they're all hiding round my place.

[Chauncey]

There's no more red squirrels at your place than there is fairy's at the bottom of my garden,it's just a ploy to get innocent southerners to spend their cash on Kendal cake and boat trips on lakes and don't say that you can give proof because I happen to know that you are on first name terms with a really good photographer
The Loch Ness monster, fairy's and lepricorns are all things that people have believed in the past (according to QI) and red squirrels will be next on the list

[Bumble]

definitely a Cumbrian myth

[Chauncey]

I'm not denying that it's a wonderful photo bumble and the fact that you can mock up a grey squirrel to look red shows how talented you are,did the Cumbrian tourist board comission it?

[Bumble]

Both taken within walking distance of my house (and anyone who knows me can vouch for the fact walking distance isn't very far from my house at the moment). If it wasn't raining I would go and take a pic of one right now, but I've only just got my cameras fully dry from Saturday.

[Chauncey]

Sooo,you are saying that you can just walk out to your gate and take a photo at will eh bumble and yet I've travelled thousands of miles and spent hundreds searching for the ginger arsed gits and never seen one? I suppose that you will say that they meet down there for a chat just like Les Dawson did in those sketches with Reg Holdsworth back in the day,it's no coincidence that the squirrel looks like Les eh?

[griff]

I used to go to the osprey viewpoint beside Bassenthwaite where there were RSPB wardens who fed the other wild birds and red squirrels used to come regularly to nick the peanuts, tripping over the la’al buggers I was.