Only took you 3 days to notice, too!So, Chilcs has changed the thread title without running it past me first. It’s ok.
Not that important, not like that is my main job on here or anything.
That’s fine, honestly.
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Only took you 3 days to notice, too!So, Chilcs has changed the thread title without running it past me first. It’s ok.
Not that important, not like that is my main job on here or anything.
That’s fine, honestly.
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No, I was just composing myself before mentioning it.. I am feeling much better now, thank you Judas, er, Chilcs.Only took you 3 days to notice, too!![]()


Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.

Well done Tom, that is a fantastic achievement.Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.
Well done, Tom. You all should be very proud of yourselves.Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.
Some misguided twit in the village where my daughter is living has started putting out meat for the kites and now there are literally hundreds of them. So, people are beginning to complain and I reckon it won’t be long until someone starts talking about shooting them as pests again
Honestly - why can’t people just leave nature alone and let them find their own food?![]()
Just a quick cameo for me (I know it's closed season but needs must).
Our daughter's college keeps all their notes and revision information online, so she needs a laptop to be able to access them while revising.
Her laptop has had a fatal fit of the vapours and will need extensive (and likely expensive) repairs.
If you're within ten miles of Southampton (or so) and have a laptop that you'd be prepared to lend for a fortnight while hers is rebuilt, you would help to save her exams and prevent her being branded a failure then ending up a broken shell living off government handouts for the rest of her existence (that's how she currently views the matter).
Any spec would do - I know we all have odds and sods mouldering in corners but chez Vin there are no laptops. Hopefully there's one lurking somewhere in someone's attic.
Please let me know if you can help.
Vin
Try Freecycle or Freegle. If I lived nearer she could borrow mine...Just a quick cameo for me (I know it's closed season but needs must).
Our daughter's college keeps all their notes and revision information online, so she needs a laptop to be able to access them while revising.
Her laptop has had a fatal fit of the vapours and will need extensive (and likely expensive) repairs.
If you're within ten miles of Southampton (or so) and have a laptop that you'd be prepared to lend for a fortnight while hers is rebuilt, you would help to save her exams and prevent her being branded a failure then ending up a broken shell living off government handouts for the rest of her existence (that's how she currently views the matter).
Any spec would do - I know we all have odds and sods mouldering in corners but chez Vin there are no laptops. Hopefully there's one lurking somewhere in someone's attic.
Please let me know if you can help.
Vin
Don't they have them in library's that she could use,trying to help not be a smart arse.
Try Freecycle or Freegle. If I lived nearer she could borrow mine...
I'm in all day tomorrow...I'll have a look - thanks. Or I'll pop over to your gaff and borrow yours...
Vin
There was a successful Red Kite reintroduction project in the Chilterns in the late 1980's and now the numbers are up to 1000 breeding pairs. It's quite likely what you saw were Kites. They have moved south (and elsewhere) from the Chilterns and it's common to see them along the A34 and M4. We see them now and again where I live near near Marwell Zoo.
http://www.chilternsaonb.org/about-chilterns/red-kites.html
They've been feeding Kites at Gigrin Farm in Wales for well over 25 years and I've seen "feeding stations" at other sites, some official and some not.
http://www.gigrin.co.uk/about-gigrin-farm/
I'm not too sure how I feel about it but lean towards it being ok, afterall most of us put food out for garden birds to help them through the winter. The problem is that the birds become dependant on human intervention and their population is condensed into a relatively small area.
You are right about people talking about controlling numbers of what were endangered birds as more than once I've heard people say there are too many buzzards nowadays. Country folk eh? Any thing that gets well established and they want to shoot it.
Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.
Just a quick cameo for me (I know it's closed season but needs must).
Our daughter's college keeps all their notes and revision information online, so she needs a laptop to be able to access them while revising.
Her laptop has had a fatal fit of the vapours and will need extensive (and likely expensive) repairs.
If you're within ten miles of Southampton (or so) and have a laptop that you'd be prepared to lend for a fortnight while hers is rebuilt, you would help to save her exams and prevent her being branded a failure then ending up a broken shell living off government handouts for the rest of her existence (that's how she currently views the matter).
Any spec would do - I know we all have odds and sods mouldering in corners but chez Vin there are no laptops. Hopefully there's one lurking somewhere in someone's attic.
Please let me know if you can help.
Vin
Ah, Kylie and I share a birthday. I am, of course, far far younger though![]()
Happy 50th Kylie....
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