Neslon 1: Nature 1

[neslon]

Nature has been risking it for a few years, but just escaping - rabbits, dogs, hare, deer, red squirrels- they all toyed with death but just dodged my wheels, until today. Coming home from work via the coast, a huge rat hoyed itsel under the bike and wez deed (a thowt see gannin on the skwaal from thi wifey ahind). Less than a minute later a seagull unloaded on my helmet (fnaar) leaving me to meditate on the Gaian nature of reality, and the fact that I still had an hour to go, covered in birdshit.

 

[Bollo]

Thanks to four years of schooling in Alnwick, I actually understood that. I've nearly been offed by a rabbit and two deer in the past few months, so nature can fik off as far as I'm concerned.

 

[hackbike 6]

That's supposed to be lucky.

Lucky for the bird as well.

 

[DJ]

Not much nature round here am fraid, however did s**t myself once when a rat launched itself at my back wheel!

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Is it the time of year or something? I've wiped out two rats in the last fortnight .. both ran straight under the back wheel: bump, squeak,

 

[mr_cellophane]

No deer round my way. Only wild life are the Basildon girls.

 

[potnoodle]

I so want to say some thing about girls from Basildon but it would be so wrong....

No deer round my way. Only wild life are the Basildon girls.

 

[BentMikey]

Roadkill everywhere around here at the moment. I've seen a dead pheasant, many dead squirrels, and a fox.

 

[J4CKO]

I rolled over a Squirell the other day, in preference to swerving over the corpse into the path of a car, a lot more solid than I would have imagined, like hitting a thick hose !

 

[Bollo]

thick hose !

Are we back to Basildon girls again?

 

[hackbike 6]

Roadkill everywhere around here at the moment. I've seen a dead pheasant, many dead squirrels, and a fox.

Well ride slower.

 

[Landslide]

Maybe as winter draws in, and food becomes scarce, altruistic rats scarifice themselves for the good of the community?
I had one make a bee-line for my rear wheel the other night.

 

[4F]

Kamakazi pheasants are my problem at the moment. Nearly offed twice last week by them.

 

[Origamist]

Kamakazi pheasants are my problem at the moment. Nearly offed twice last week by them.

Seriously, you don't want to get hit by one of them. I saw on some crappy tabloid TV prog a motorcylists who took a pheasant to the head (he did not have his visor down) and the injuries were very nasty.

On a lighter note, a conker fell from a tree and hit me a few weeks back causing me to swerve in shock. The perils of cycling, eh?

 

[fofo]

nearly had an incident with a Jack Russell this morning - could've been nasty