Have you ever walked into a shop, only to be totally ignored by the sales person?
You walk around looking for something and the young guy or girl behind the counter keeps chatting on the phone, chews gum or listens to their ipod - while studiously avoiding acknowledging you.
First the Echidna in our back yard. For those of you who don’t live in Australia, an echidna is a sort of hedgehog with an Australian twist. It is a so called monotreme, or an egg laying mammal, one of only two species left in the world.