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« on: January 11, 2009, 04:32:03 PM » |
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We get loads of animals in our garden. No fence at the end of the garden & it leads straight onto the 800 acre estate we live on, so we get everything from foxes to deer to cows, (yes really), wandering in.
Also get all manner of winged thingies, from bats to woodpeckers to Jays to pheasants, although the pheasants usually walk in.
There's about a dozen ring necked Parakeets living wild on the estate & we get visited by them quite regularly. These two dropped in for breakfast this morning. They must be last year's hatchlings cos they don't get their red neck rings till after their first moult.
-Manky Attenborough.
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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2009, 04:37:30 PM » |
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Less welcome visitors. Got a family of rats living next door who come under the fence to feed on the grain dropped by the birds. They're big buggers, (about 10 inches long). This is about 20 feet from our back door. Just part of country life I'm told & to be honest they don't bother me at all, as long as they stay outside the house. We love watching the squirrels feeding. These guys aren't much different really, but don't have quite the same appeal.
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« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2009, 06:53:32 PM » |
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it looks like a fantastic place to live you lucky pair  |
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2009, 07:05:13 PM » |
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The hot water's packed up & it's cold, dark & muddy outside. Wanna buy a rat?
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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2009, 07:53:02 PM » |
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hahaha i get the picture now andy
nice views nice visitors but the rest sux lol
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« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2009, 08:46:32 PM » |
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Nah, I must admit it's great really. As a former townie it's taken some getting used to, but trudging round the grubby streets of Basingstoke every day, delivering mail to immigrants & benefit claimants, I can't wait to get home to the tranquilty of the countryside.
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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2009, 09:46:23 PM » |
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i know where ya coming from m8 i was born a townie and have lived in the countryside for 14 years and love it bedlam and the city is only a 20 Min's drive away if ever i feel the need for some hell |
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2009, 06:32:52 AM » |
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Rural retreats.
When I was a postie down in Marlborough, I had a big caravan at a Forestry Comission site, in Sevenake Forest.
Just wonder where the Brock is situated?
I used to deliver the High Street, all eight hundredweight of the stuff!!
and on the second delivery part of the London Road (was it called that?) and Elcot Lane.
I couldn't run to buy a gaff there, as the house prices had gone mental at that time.
Swindon was pulling in a lot of out of townies, as the old railway works was being offered up a low rates.
Therefore loads of London firms moved their (on London wages) management there.
The countryside properties were snapped up and the prices pushed up.
It was great, up the forest.
It is an ancient one.
I had some geezers next to me re rigging national grid pylons across Salisbury Plain.
If a thunder storm was coming they would be phoned to get OFF.
One day the were cooking a tin (beans IN the tin) of baked beans in a saucepan under a pylon.
Lightning hit the pylon, arcced across and fused it all together!!
My HOG pictured near where I stayed in Sevenake Forest.
An empty, but really Alice in Wonderland feel house, in the background.
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« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2009, 01:14:13 PM » |
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So you were the bad man that bought all my bills, High street.
Was Andy running the site when you were there ?
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« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2009, 04:16:29 PM » |
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Hi Brock,
Must have been about ten years back.
Now I'm in a drive all over the place at a legal 60mph town.
Milton Keynes.
We have some SERIOUS Landie playpits, and serious Landie/Range/Strangerovers up here.
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« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2009, 07:28:58 PM » |
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Ah! Milton Keynes the land of little boxes and concrete cows.
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« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2009, 12:00:32 PM » |
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Some squirrels from this morning looking very cute and fluffy
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« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2009, 08:59:55 PM » |
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Very fat too - you're obviously feeding them well!
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« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2009, 10:53:45 PM » |
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Like furry beach balls!
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« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2009, 05:58:13 AM » |
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Baggie in Canada says:
"Look what I saw in my back garden. We have more than America."
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