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Agaa that reminds me of a holiday we once went on. A farm cottage in rural Suffolk in October. The evenings were getting darker although the weather was lovely and I had the kitchen window open. I went in there to make supper and there was this massive thing hanging over the sink, snorting and snuffling loudly.

I screamed my head off and people came running, just in time to see a horse making off with the bag of apples that had been on the draining board! Honestly, I thought I was having a heart attack.

The trouble with next door’s cat all stems from when he was a kitten and Gracie a puppy.

Kitten went missing.

Many neighbours search high and low for kitten.

Gracie locates kitten stuck between our shed and the fence, and loudly and enthusiastically barks at him.

Gracie roundly hailed as hero of the day.

But, what all the neighbours didn’t know, is that he wouldn’t have been stuck there in the first place if it wasn’t for Gracie.

Since then, it’s all come back to bite her, as next door’s cat as now definitely got the upper paw.

The horse and the apples made me laugh. ? Animals are so entertaining.

My neighbour’s cat insists on coming across the road to sit on the cushions of my garden. If you have a cat allergy like I have and then you knowingly sit on the cushion - say no more ?how do the allergens (is that what they call them) seep through my trousers to my nether regions, I dont know…..and then the itching starts !!!!!

Garden seat

FannyCornforth

I know!
I’ve been so tempted to Google ‘tractor porn’

Have you read A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by Marina Lewycka?

Funny but quite poignant just now.

I've got a red eye and it hurts. Conjunctivitis? Chemist is shut until Tuesday!

The Dodo was a very large pigeon. Given that I’m struggling to clean the pigeon poo off my car/windows/driveway etc sorry as I am that they’re extinct I’m glad I don’t you have them roosting near my house. I know they couldn’t fly but, knowing my luck they would probably have used ladders. I listened to a programme about pigeons that questioned why people didn’t warm to them given they had been war heroes etc and all I could think was ‘poo’. Which wasn’t mentioned….

aggie

It’s pouring rain here , I’ve stuff to put in bin ! Where’s my raincoat ?

Oh !!! and ######
It's refuse collection tomorrow, just remembered.
Will they come on a BH?

Oh - everyone - Pinch, punch, first of the month, no returns ?

I've spent the afternoon planting up the stuff that I was growing on in the greenhouse and I'm absolutely knackered.
I have been saying I needed to cut down on heavy work for years now but somehow I end up with loads of seedlings to pot up and plants to harden off. Is gardening an addiction do you think?

^I listened to a programme about pigeons that questioned why people didn’t warm to them given they had been war heroes etc and all I could think was ‘poo’. Which wasn’t mentioned^….

I'll mention the, there is poo at over the drive, the car, the paths in the back garden
And WHY do they come and drink and bathe in the birdbath then turn round and poo in the water?

They don't come on a BH …. it will be Tuesday

My spelling is atrocious, it's my dibber.

crazyH

They don't come on a BH …. it will be Tuesday

They did last time and caught us out!!
It must be double pay ?

My zero waste policy means that I often put food out for the birds. Of course, the pigeons eat most of it and then poo it out. I did feel sorry for one that the fox got, though.

crazyH

They don't come on a BH …. it will be Tuesday

I just checked - you're right!

Step away from the tractors, folks! My son-in-law is a farmer. The news about tractors has been very concerning for us
SIL too but they are more concerned about their own idiot politicians down under, although SIL can get very excited about tractors [yawn]

MayBee70

My zero waste policy means that I often put food out for the birds. Of course, the pigeons eat most of it and then poo it out. I did feel sorry for one that the fox got, though.

A sparrow hawk caught one once, we watched in horrified fascination

Dodos were pigeons?? Every day’s a school day on GN! I quite like pigeons.

Tomorrow, half of the schools in this area are closed and half of them are open. Baffling!

Cats really are awful creatures. It’s a good thing we love them anyway.

Cats really are awful creatures. It’s a good thing we love them anyway.

Cats really are awful creatures. Full stop

(Ducks for cover)

On a couple of days recently, I saw a blackbird with a twig or bit of grass in its beak, hopping about near my car.
I looked under the car, nothing to be seen.
Then I looked under the bonnet - the beginnings of a nest right in the middle of the engine!

I pulled (and vacuumed) out as much as I could and hope it's true that a bird won't come back to a 'nest site' if there has been human interference.

In our area, there will be no change to the refuse/ bin collection, according to the Council emails.

I've heard of an engine fire being caused by a bird's nest!

When my car had it’s last MOT they told me they had replaced a filter because something had been living in the engine.

We've had a female blackbird trying to build very untidy nests in inappropriate places but not under the car bonnet - at least as far as we know.

MayBee