Mundane News

[potsy]

Are you still here?

No.

 

[Fab Foodie]

We ‘re on a cultural and historic tour of East Sussex....

 

[Fab Foodie]

It’s a little known fact that during a break in fighting at the battle of Hastings that the Saxons and Normans played a game of footballye refereed by the Bishop of the Abbeye. We know this as the ball is still on the pitch and has Mitre inscribed on it...

 

[TVC]

That's got the walls painted inluding, I estimate, over 60m of cutting in. I think those who went on brewery tours had the better idea.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Am always amazed watching the Boat-Race how rowers can still outrun motorboats....

 

[TVC]

Am always amazed watching the Boat-Race how rowers can still outrun motorboats....

It's always the same two sides in tbe final each year too, I think it's fixed.

 

[Speicher]

Why are the team called light Blue wearing green?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Was Reg in the light blues’ boat?

I’m sure he’d fancy a ‘blue’ on his boat-race....

 

[Fab Foodie]

No cox jokes please

@Hill Wimp has already made the small cox joke...

 

[MikeG]

So, you're digging in the garden, and you uncover a rats nest. Four blind baby rats, mum scarpered through the hedge. You've got a spade in your hand, and a problem with a rat getting in your roof. What are you supposed to do?

 

[potsy]

So, you're digging in the garden, and you uncover a rats nest. Four blind baby rats, mum scarpered through the hedge. You've got a spade in your hand, and a problem with a rat getting in your roof. What are you supposed to do?

 

[Reynard]

So, you're digging in the garden, and you uncover a rats nest. Four blind baby rats, mum scarpered through the hedge. You've got a spade in your hand, and a problem with a rat getting in your roof. What are you supposed to do?

Let the cats sort it. Well, that's what happens here.

 

[MikeG]

I've inadvertently opened the nest completely, and driven the mother off. That means the babies can't survive. They'll starve to death. I ask again, what are you supposed to do?

 

[MikeG]

Let the cats sort it. Well, that's what happens here.

Cats!? I'd rather have rats than cats. At least rats don't decimate the local bird population. Indeed, I don't put poison down for rats because of the buzzards and kestrels, even barn owls, that take rats around here. If nature were left to take its course, there's a small chance a crow might have been first on the scene and dealt with the babies, but much more likely they would just have starved..

 

[Reynard]

Actually, that's a rather common fallacy that cats are one of the primary reasons for bird population decline.

I don't put down rodent poison for similar reasons though. Not just for the wildlife, but also because my two girls keep the local rodent population in check. Birds are a rare prey item here - it's usually wood pigeons drunk on rotting windfall fruit...