Octopus vulgaris

I noticed a pair of octopi, roosting in the large oak behind our garden.
This maybe good news, last year we had a couple of squids, nesting in our hawthorn, but the magpies got their baby, so they didn't return this year.
I know the common octopus is nor usually found this far north in the spring and is usually seen in Kent only, but I guess that's global warming for you...
Anyway, I was so delighted, I wrote a poem about them...


Spaghetti:

A lovely pair of Octopi
were roosting in a tree
and it was not just any tree,
it was a tree near me.

Whenever they held tentacles
they seemed, at dusk at least,
to be one hexadecapus,
if there was such a beast.

When baby octopus was born
they did look to the eye
like one Duodecaquadropus
or two Dodecapi.

I'm not too good at math, you know
'cos this is what I see,
when I look at that mess up there:
Spaghetti in a tree.