Mundane News

[tyred]

It's dry but stormy. Lots of leaves blowing about and my neighbour's wheelie bin has blown over.

 

[classic33]

Bl@@dy rabbit droppings

Rabbit has internal problems!

 

[biggs682]

Lunchtime stroll completed

 

[PeteXXX]

Lovely 7 miles around Pitsford Res with Bonnie this morning, followed by a shortish ride as she had a snooze on the back seat of the car.
She didn't notice me sneak an ice cream & a coffee as she slumbered away

 

[Tenkaykev]

Woken by the sound of my phone clattering across the floor as I dozed off reading some forum posts…

 

[woodbutchmaster]

Polecats are native and naturally wild; feral cats are unfortunately not so ... and are successful in almost any environment such that they can/will both hugely damage the native wildlife AND compete very successfully against smaller native predators who have evolved in a 'balance' with their prey. I love the mustelid predators - the best household pets I've ever had have been a pair of ex-working ferrets. Mind you the second best was a specific cat.

A well-managed TNR scheme will reduce the cat predation gradually over a period, thus allowing reestablishment of both native prey AND native predators, and neither will become a real nuisance unless of course you are a gamekeeper rearing and releasing targets for your employer.

If only we could train up feral cats to hunt invasive vermin only ... this is why the neutered semi-feral schemes can be so useful - it pushes them into a living situation where in effect their hunting is for the benefit of man and the main prey species are nuisance species. But of course it relies on their being some regular interaction with humans and is of no use to the truly feral cats of eg the Australian bush. Or of the French woodlands, by the sound of it!

I live in the Lot ( Occitanie region) and since we are talking predators these are the ones l would dearly love to see. I know they are around but they are so wary of humans....and who can blame them. https://www.connexionfrance.com/art...in-Lot-confirmed-where-are-they-in-France-now

 

[KnittyNorah]

I live in the Lot ( Occitanie region) and since we are talking predators these are the ones l would dearly love to see. I know they are around but they are so wary of humans....and who can blame them. https://www.connexionfrance.com/art...in-Lot-confirmed-where-are-they-in-France-now

oh how wonderful! When I lived in the UAE, on the border with Oman, I was instrumental in helping to rescue an injured Arabian wildcat (and scanning it, as it had epileptic seizures) and when I lived in Saudi Arabia, I went on a wonderful road trip in the far south west of the country where we saw leopards and baboons on the tracks through the mountains. Of course this was all 50 years ago and those wild tracks and unexplored gorges are probably 8-lane superhighways - or landfill sites - nowadays ...

 

[Grant Fondo]

Just had a scone, jam and clotted cream, with a nice strong brew.

 

[postman]

Walk over to the Roberts park, half moon cafe at 1.30pm and I'll buy you a coffee!!

The cafe in the mill is good too though.

At 13-30 i was sat munching on a burger and chips in Cafe in the Opera.A very strange name,but the food was good.Anyway how would i find you,i could not walk from table to table calling out,Nighthawk calling London,Nighthawk calling London or even good afternun i was just pissing this table amd wundered if you were on CycleChat..Again thanks for the offer.

 

[Ripple]

Strained my wrist so badly that it's out of use atm. And it really hurts.

 

[biggs682]

Time for the green and brown bins to go kerbside

 

[Jameshow]

At 13-30 i was sat munching on a burger and chips in Cafe in the Opera.A very strange name,but the food was good.Anyway how would i find you,i could not walk from table to table calling out,Nighthawk calling London,Nighthawk calling London or even good afternun i was just pissing this table amd wundered if you were on CycleChat..Again thanks for the offer.

You would have struggled to miss us a large group of a dozen oddballs who nicked all the chairs!!

More than welcome to join us!

Also if anyone is free our cycling group is restarting weekly from dockfield road, (opposite ase gates) Shipley 10am next Wednesday.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

oh how wonderful! When I lived in the UAE, on the border with Oman, I was instrumental in helping to rescue an injured Arabian wildcat (and scanning it, as it had epileptic seizures) and when I lived in Saudi Arabia, I went on a wonderful road trip in the far south west of the country where we saw leopards and baboons on the tracks through the mountains. Of course this was all 50 years ago and those wild tracks and unexplored gorges are probably 8-lane superhighways - or landfill sites - nowadays ...

Superhighways and landfill , just about sums up our "progress". l feel very sorry for the young generation of today ,they are so unaware of the freedom they have lost all in the name of progress. Hells bells l sound like an old codger.....hang on, l am an old codger

 

[biggs682]

Our tea smells scrummy

 

[mybike]

Still not moved. Another 177 has caught up and overtaken us!

Update, we're moving but the bus has decided to terminate early. Grrr!

You bin down the Old Kent Road or Woolwich?

Well, we overtook the 177 that had overtaken us and then a third 177 bus arrived from somewhere unknown, the 177 I was on changed its terminating stop for a third time and we were directed onto the 177 we'd just overtaken. But this bus was jam packed so I ended up walking half the way home anyway. I did see the bus I was on later on though. It was in the car park outside Sainsbury's. The 177 doesn't go there./styles/default/xenforo/smls/wacko.gif

They don't make busses like they used to, I remember, when they introduced the Routemaster, saying it was the beginning of the end. (I don't & didn't, but it's a good line.)