tick

[perlmonger]

tick
Originally uploaded by perlmonger.

distended with blood, and flipped over onto its back on a book (sorry ianmcdonald, but it's what I'm reading and it was handy); it detached itself from Iggy, having presumably had its fill, only to end up splatted on the patio steps, next to the gobbets of the local population of exploded molluscs.