Plain nuts

Just in case you thought I was being a little trivial today with the chicken sleeps on horse story - well, that was just a warm-up.

Because here we have a water-skiing squirrel.

I particularly like the way it says the woman's been training them since 1978. That's 30 years. Children have been born and grown up in that time. Nations have fought wars, fallen and re-built themselves. Populations have prospered, starved. The ice caps have melted away. And she has taught squirrels to waterski.

I showed the video to my squirrel-hating friend Robert. He tutted and walked off.