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Post by cheeesfreeex on Oct 21, 2016 11:49:08 GMT
St. Luke's 'Little Summer' in full swing. A pair of blue tits around the back of the house this morning looking like they were specing out a nest site. Andy King Weather Without Technology is predicting a long, cold winter {frosts and cold temps from nov-march,} with loads of snow after xmas. We'll see.
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Post by felonious on Oct 21, 2016 17:44:08 GMT
Not long back after taking Gnasher for his late walk on the fields. He was prancing like a dog at Crufts on the lane and there she was a couple of hundred yards ahead....nothing like the smell of a bitch
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Post by chuffedstokie on Oct 21, 2016 17:49:06 GMT
Gave myself a sweet and fluffy gold star today. Stopping to allow a family of ducks to cross the road. Just in time. No road sense to speak of, just walk out and to hell with the consequences. All crossed safely and away we went. Marvellous. 😊
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Oct 23, 2016 17:14:15 GMT
Been to me mum's for sunday dinner, a fascinating near perfect waxy imprint of an owl on the kitchen window in the sunlight. Quite surreal, couldn't capture it on a photo. Two perfect wings with flight feathers splayed, approx 2ft wingspan, and a big round owl face. Something must have spooked it for it to have misnavigated. No sign of feathers or body, so thankfully it must have dusted itself down and fecked off. Previously seen a similar pigeon 'image' on the same window, puzzling to see an owl.
Reminded me of this.
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Post by bathstoke on Oct 23, 2016 17:28:17 GMT
Been to me mum's for sunday dinner, a fascinating near perfect waxy imprint of an owl on the kitchen window in the sunlight. Quite surreal, couldn't capture it on a photo. Two perfect wings with flight feathers splayed, approx 2ft wingspan, and a big round owl face. Something must have spooked it for it to have misnavigated. No sign of feathers or body, so thankfully it must have dusted itself down and fecked off. Previously seen a similar pigeon 'image' on the same window, puzzling to see an owl. Reminded me of this. Funny, cause we've got the same on our bedroom window, but it's a waxy pigeon print. Not sure what he was trying to catch a peek of, but he will have been disappointed
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Post by felonious on Oct 23, 2016 17:40:54 GMT
I was stretching out after this morning's run on a 5 bar gate. The field was full of calves who came over to have a nosey and one of them started licking the bottom of my running shoes.
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Post by NassauDave on Oct 23, 2016 18:05:22 GMT
I was stretching out after this morning's run on a 5 bar gate. The field was full of calves who came over to have a nosey and one of them started licking the bottom of my running shoes. Fucking pervert.
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Post by felonious on Oct 23, 2016 18:20:38 GMT
This last week I've been spotting a storm petrel on the flooded part of the local field.....not sure if it's the same one or a succession of them on the migration routes. Took me until this morning to get close enough to one to work out what it was.
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Post by felonious on Oct 23, 2016 18:21:45 GMT
I was stretching out after this morning's run on a 5 bar gate. The field was full of calves who came over to have a nosey and one of them started licking the bottom of my running shoes. Fucking pervert. Weird buggers. I assumed it was there for a sniff until the tongue came out
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Post by Northy on Oct 23, 2016 18:30:23 GMT
great running along the canal this morning, sun out, blue skies, windy and the leaves coming down like a snowstorm
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Oct 23, 2016 18:49:57 GMT
Brill time of year {as they all are}.. crisp mornings leaves turning, fruit and boooze and burn ups. Thinking more about the owl 'print'. One of Andy King Weather Without technology website says that Tawny Owls hunting in daylight is one of the predictors for a harsh winter. Perhaps it was dazzled by the window or thought it could fly through in daylight, rather than it being a night time incident. Worth a look at his November/winter predictions. www.weatherwithouttechnology.co.uk/forecasts.html
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Post by felonious on Oct 23, 2016 18:55:31 GMT
Brill time of year {as they all are}.. crisp mornings leaves turning, fruit and boooze and burn ups. Thinking more about the owl 'print'. One of Andy King Weather Without technology website says that Tawny Owls hunting in daylight is one of the predictors for a harsh winter. Perhaps it was dazzled by the window or thought it could fly through in daylight, rather than it being a night time incident. Worth a look at his November/winter predictions. www.weatherwithouttechnology.co.uk/forecasts.html"Spring was indeed cheesy"
Bit too technical for me.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Oct 23, 2016 19:01:57 GMT
Brill time of year {as they all are}.. crisp mornings leaves turning, fruit and boooze and burn ups. Thinking more about the owl 'print'. One of Andy King Weather Without technology website says that Tawny Owls hunting in daylight is one of the predictors for a harsh winter. Perhaps it was dazzled by the window or thought it could fly through in daylight, rather than it being a night time incident. Worth a look at his November/winter predictions. www.weatherwithouttechnology.co.uk/forecasts.html"Spring was indeed cheesy"
Bit too technical for me.
Haha that made me chuckle. Me granddad and Dad were massive fans of the 'nature signs'. Throughout me life I've a bit of a cynic, attempted to find holes in 'em. Not always successfully. Andy King has an interesting approach, a layered theory. Technical meteorological base with some natural folklore on top. Cracking stuff.
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Post by murphthesurf on Oct 23, 2016 20:37:18 GMT
This last week I've been spotting a storm petrel on the flooded part of the local field.....not sure if it's the same one or a succession of them on the migration routes. Took me until this morning to get close enough to one to work out what it was. Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch with a cinema usher with one of those ice cream trays hung round his neck - naturally the flavours were Pythonesque: He stands there shouting 'Albatross!' 'Albatross!' Then he goes on to shout the other flavours: 'Lark's Vomit', 'Crunchy Frog' and 'Stormy Petrel on a Stick'. C.1969. Great stuff. And he did say 'Storm y Petrel', btw.
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Post by murphthesurf on Oct 23, 2016 20:42:01 GMT
Can't find the exact clip from the original TV programme - just one from what looks like some sort of repeat show, and the sketch is cut short as it doesn't mention the various other flavours:
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Post by Northy on Oct 23, 2016 20:50:43 GMT
saw a flock of curlews (if they do flock) and a little egret in a field the other day
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Post by Northy on Oct 23, 2016 20:57:13 GMT
Brill time of year {as they all are}.. crisp mornings leaves turning, fruit and boooze and burn ups. Thinking more about the owl 'print'. One of Andy King Weather Without technology website says that Tawny Owls hunting in daylight is one of the predictors for a harsh winter. Perhaps it was dazzled by the window or thought it could fly through in daylight, rather than it being a night time incident. Worth a look at his November/winter predictions. www.weatherwithouttechnology.co.uk/forecasts.htmlhis october prediction wasnt exactly great
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Post by bathstoke on Oct 23, 2016 21:00:37 GMT
saw a flock of curlews (if they do flock) and a little egret in a field the other day !?!?!?!?!
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Oct 25, 2016 17:37:40 GMT
Brill time of year {as they all are}.. crisp mornings leaves turning, fruit and boooze and burn ups. Thinking more about the owl 'print'. One of Andy King Weather Without technology website says that Tawny Owls hunting in daylight is one of the predictors for a harsh winter. Perhaps it was dazzled by the window or thought it could fly through in daylight, rather than it being a night time incident. Worth a look at his November/winter predictions. www.weatherwithouttechnology.co.uk/forecasts.htmlhis october prediction wasnt exactly great Certainly not infallible, he predicted severe weather, we did indeed have a storm of biblical proportions and buckets of rain. He lives in Sussex so he his a southern focus, regional and localised variations apply. I find the website interesting rather than reliable. I'll be tracking his predictions.
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Post by harryburrows on Oct 25, 2016 18:28:43 GMT
This last week I've been spotting a storm petrel on the flooded part of the local field.....not sure if it's the same one or a succession of them on the migration routes. Took me until this morning to get close enough to one to work out what it was. Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch with a cinema usher with one of those ice cream trays hung round his neck - naturally the flavours were Pythonesque: He stands there shouting 'Albatross!' 'Albatross!' Then he goes on to shout the other flavours: 'Lark's Vomit', 'Crunchy Frog' and 'Stormy Petrel on a Stick'. C.1969. Great stuff. And he did say 'Storm y Petrel', btw. You forgot gannett ripple murf
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Post by murphthesurf on Oct 25, 2016 18:58:38 GMT
Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch with a cinema usher with one of those ice cream trays hung round his neck - naturally the flavours were Pythonesque: He stands there shouting 'Albatross!' 'Albatross!' Then he goes on to shout the other flavours: 'Lark's Vomit', 'Crunchy Frog' and 'Stormy Petrel on a Stick'. C.1969. Great stuff. And he did say 'Storm y Petrel', btw. You forgot gannett ripple murf Ooooooo, you little monkey, 'Arry! You made that up - it wasn't in the original sketch!
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Post by Skankmonkey on Oct 25, 2016 19:07:42 GMT
Anthrax ripple and crunchy frog "lightly killed, fresh, from the Iraqi marshes" are a different sketch. I'll find it just now.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Oct 25, 2016 19:12:19 GMT
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Post by murphthesurf on Oct 25, 2016 19:13:26 GMT
Anthrax ripple and crunchy frog "lightly killed, fresh, from the Iraqi marshes" are a different sketch. I'll find it just now. Ta ever so, Skanks, and that's a new one on me. Will look fwd to seeing that! And I bow to your superior knowledge!
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Post by Skankmonkey on Oct 25, 2016 19:19:10 GMT
Anthrax ripple and crunchy frog "lightly killed, fresh, from the Iraqi marshes" are a different sketch. I'll find it just now. Ta ever so, Skanks, and that's a new one on me. Will look fwd to seeing that! And I bow to your superior knowledge! A mis-spent youth to blame mate.
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Post by murphthesurf on Oct 25, 2016 19:24:52 GMT
BRILLIANT, thanks! I don't remember that at all! "Crunchy Frog - Don't you even take the bones out?" --- "If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?" Cockroach Cluster! (Our last posts crossed, btw.)
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Post by murphthesurf on Oct 25, 2016 19:28:24 GMT
Ta ever so, Skanks, and that's a new one on me. Will look fwd to seeing that! And I bow to your superior knowledge! A mis-spent youth to blame mate. (**She blushed**) Same 'ere!
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Post by harryburrows on Oct 25, 2016 19:29:35 GMT
You forgot gannett ripple murf Ooooooo, you little monkey, 'Arry! You made that up - it wasn't in the original sketch! Just listed again it's gannet on a stick
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Post by murphthesurf on Oct 25, 2016 19:36:14 GMT
Ooooooo, you little monkey, 'Arry! You made that up - it wasn't in the original sketch! Just listed again it's gannet on a stick Ah - yes! In the latter sketch, 'Ram's bladder cup' was another of the chocolates. Oh, bluddy 'ell!
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Post by Northy on Oct 25, 2016 21:20:55 GMT
nice run in the dark around the bird wading pools with headtorches tonight, could hear all the noise from them but couldnt see them
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