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I remember my Dad trying to dig the veg patch and having to keep stopping because a robin insisted on investigating every spadeful as he turned it over.

 

That little fella has got one dark red breast. Cute.
They're brave little buggers.

 

Need a bit of advice here. I've got an early IPod Touch, which was given to me years ago because it had apparently broken, and which I finally got around to buying a USB cable for, and then found out there was nothing wrong with the IPod Touch, save for its obviously previous faulty charge cable. Incidentally, it charges fast and the battery retains its power surprisingly well.

Anyway, advice please. Do you have any idea why iTunes would deny me a free podcast? Interestingly, it was involving someone interviewing Edward Snowden. It said something like "this Edward Snowden interview cannot be heard on this IPod Touch"
Is that iTunes getting political or is it mainly technical? I can download anything else. Strange.

 

That's how I started out with this one. Every time we went out to the garden it would appear and get really close, more so than the other robin that shares it's territory.
It would only fly away if you got too close and then not far. I noticed that when there was bread on the kitchen window sill it didn't fly away when I was at the sink so I opened the window and held some bread in my hand. Eventually it became brave enough to come up and take some.
The other robin is completely different, it does take food from the window sill but flies off as soon as anyone comes close. One may be male and the other female but there is no easy way to tell them apart by plumage alone.

 

https://www.itv.com/news/london/202...ted-armed-kidnap-medal-to-be-sold-at-auction/
A man who received a George Medal for thwarting the kidnapping of Princess Anne has put his medal up for sale. When you get to my age there are many incidents that you forget with time despite the incident being front page news at the time. I knew people had got shot, but forgot she was saved by an unarmed member of the public who bravely tackled a gunman after others had been shot. Brave man indeed. Reminds me of the recent terrorist incident on London Bridge...ordinary people can be heroes. Hope he gets a good price for the medal and enjoys using the money in his old age.

 

I like stories like that. Sometimes they just do it because money is needed, but I'd like to think people also do it so the story carries on.
When you watch programs were people sell Celebrity stuff at these Pawn shops. I'd say;
'I'm going to let you rip me off with the price, but damn well stick my story on it when it goes!'

 

I've met Ronnie (he was Team Manager of the opposition at Poole Speedway on numerous occasions) and he's a really nice, unassuming guy. Despite this quote - "I hit him as hard as I could - if he had been a tree he would have fallen over", he always reckoned he didn't really connect with his punches!

 

Am I the only one who would have torn the page with his photo out of the passport, left with the gun, and flushed it away?

 

Yes.

 

Film legend Kirk Douglas has died aged 103.

 

Wow! I honestly didn’t know he was still alive!

RIP Kirk

btw I am Spartacus.

 

103, impressive. The family seem distraught, calling the death tragic. Must be some bloody good genes to be disappointed with that age!

 

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It is sad, but the thought that i will be here for another 53 years does distress me more....

EDIT: By here I mean on the earth, not this forum

 

53 years? I don't think you will make 123

 

Except bells are horrid for cats. Imagine having that acute hearing and a sodding bell around your neck. Would be like the worst tinnitus ever

 

We've lost a massive % of garden birds in the last decade. A Cat with a headache is a price worth paying. There's just too many, wiping out everything for fun, its the least we can do.

 

Unless you have a white cat, which are almost always congenitally deaf.

 

Glow in the dark deaf cats.......hopefully that is the future.
(i'm not the guy who kills cats btw, I just love the little things in nature that everyone has forgotten about)

 

Wow 103! That is impressive especially when you think of all the gun fights he got into.