Warding off Evil Spirits
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Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 5 Aug 2007
A brief splash of "disinfectant" to ward off foot and mouth. Fortunately the outbreak was distant, at the other end of a neighbouring country - the risk all but non existent. At time of writing the outbreak seemed to be under control - fingers crossed (about as effective as the illustrated activity which had something medieval about it)