CHAT - ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MINERAL - Weekly Challenge 27th Nov - 4th Dec

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CHAT - ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MINERAL - Weekly Challenge 27Th Nov to 4th Dec 2016

This week's theme is Animal, Vegetable OR Mineral, if you feel inspired all 3 – interpret the theme as you wish, you can have more than one of the 3 in your picture so lets see how creative you can be

No restrictions on PP.

Pictures to be taken between now and Sunday 4th December 2016, 23:59.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23:59pm Monday 5th December 2016.
Poll will be up Tuesday 6th December 2016.
Winner to be announced Saturday 10th December 2016.

The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to

Post a topic on the Sunday (or sooner) following your declared win
Create an entries thread
Create a chat thread
Create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(if for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted wins.Modify message

[jinky]

Had a lovely trip to Donna Nook seal colony in North Lincolnshire the last few days. Absolutely magical. Fell in love with all the pups there again. Well worth the trip this time of year - cold as it was!

[Oldboy]

I'm in  with this:

Animal, Vegetable and Mineral:



Water isn't a mineral but Ice is. 

The first three general characteristics are less debated than the last two.[2] The first criterion means that a mineral has to form by a natural process, which excludes anthropogenic compounds. Stability at room temperature, in the simplest sense, is synonymous to the mineral being solid. More specifically, a compound has to be stable or metastable at 25 °C. Classical examples of exceptions to this rule include native mercury, which crystallizes at ?39 °C, and water ice, which is solid only below 0 °C; as these two minerals were described prior to 1959, they were grandfathered by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA)