Bodmin Moor: Classic or Dud

http://www.bodminmoor.co.uk/

http://www.cornish-links.co.uk/imagesCL/Liskeard/cheese%20wring%20bodmin%20moor.jpg

Also: What beast!?

my mate just texted me, he works for a local park, that some couple have just reported to the police at seeing a huge black like cat on the grounds.

Okay we're talking about a park the size of a football ground in middle of a large town here, Warrington.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Big_Cats

Warrington though, that's nuts.

Why did Roxy want to know about Bodmin Moor?

I used to go to school in Camelford, I'm kind of astonished that there's a thread about Bodmin Moor.

fwiw my geography a-level project informs me that many interesting periglacial features are evident on the slopes of rough tor, and memory informs me that the rough tor run 10k is the hardest fucking cross country I ever did

Jamaica Inn pub on Bodmin Moor with talking PARROT in bar: classic! (to 5-year-old me on car trips back from Cornwall, I've no idea whether it's actually classic to people who take their pub-going seriously. I vaguely remember visiting more recently and finding no parrot, which would have been very old by now if it were still alive, but anyway)

There were some big cat sightings reported near here in rural Oxfordshire a while ago but I haven't heard of any for a while. Shame to think it might've died without anyone knowing what it was, but I guess BIG CAT MYSTERY is a more charming folklore than identifying them.

Parrots live a long time, it's perfectly feasible your parrot could still be alive.

Where in Oxfordshire?

Its no Bodmin Moor but there's always talk about big cats around the outskirts of melbourne. I dunno how big they mean, but I swear, I saw one myself some years back. It was a large dog sized cat, all black, I just assumed it was a feral cat to be honest. Damn it was big.

What a lot of upper-case letters in my previous post. Must have been coffee time.

Oxfordshire big cats: there was a "beast of Burford" (Cotswold Wildlife Park said it wasn't one of theirs but offered a reward for it alive) which had a few sightings and was on the local news a fair bit, and then there seemed to be one-off sightings from all round the county. I think I remember a report of one near Didcot.

I was very excited at the thought of seeing one myself as a teenager, thinking that my hours spent looking at wildcats in zoos would provide a crucial insight not yet provided by the experts. Never have...