Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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10 August 2010
21:1464851#1
Any one know what this may be?
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 August 2010
21:1764855#2
Looks like sandstone ?
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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10 August 2010
21:1764856#3
easy one ian, an economy pack of walnut whips.
you did not mention what the prize is.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 August 2010
21:1864857#4
My wife thinks in a rock or a animal,but I think it is wool.
Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 August 2010
21:2264860#5
Is it a beach fossill?
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 August 2010
21:2364862#6
Well Ian,come on tell us please.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 August 2010
21:2464863#7
Wasps nest.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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10 August 2010
21:3664867#8
Phil you are such a smart arse aint ya.
I was going to pan out bit by bit but you got in straight away.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 August 2010
21:4364871#9
Well I recognised it because I've got a small long-dead nest in my loft! The fine banding of paper layers is quite distinctive.
That is an amazing size though! Is that local? That must have contained a good few thousand wasps. Please don't tell me it is in your garden?
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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10 August 2010
21:4764872#10
No way pedro.
I was working in the roof space at school last week, in the dark with just a torch.
when I saw the size of this thing I got out of there VERY quickly as you can imagine, the guy that sorted it left half of it behind and this was all that was left.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 August 2010
21:5164876#11
Well done IAN I just hope that the wasps were not killed off because at this time in the right place they are needed.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 August 2010
21:5364878#12
Blinking heck - I would have got out of there quick too! Amazing thing is that these nests are so light when you pick them up.
Did you see Britain's largest ever wasp nest in the news last week? It was found in a pub in Southampton, was about 6 foot across and contained half a million wasps!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7923457/Britains-biggest-wasp-nest-discovered-with-half-a-million-wasps.html
I saw a hornet in New Romney last Friday.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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10 August 2010
21:5964882#13
the thing is that once they leave a nest they never return.
have a huge one in my loft too, a wasps nest i mean.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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10 August 2010
21:5964883#14
good lord Ian.. thats HUGE!! I bet it was somewhere by the library.. i used to regularly get stung whilst working in there.. many moons ago.. infact nearly 8 to 10 years... or more...
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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10 August 2010
22:0164886#15
NOW that is wierd Jen, it was in the roof space next to the library.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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10 August 2010
22:0264888#16
lol... so when i used to avoid the library in the summer i was doing the right thing.. I must have known!!
And come on Ian, when was the last time anyone had been in there before you did.. ? Years.. easy..
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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10 August 2010
22:0764892#17
I've only been there 2yrs hun so god knows.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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10 August 2010
23:1864898#18
There was one about twice that size removed from the roof space at Westmount AEC in the late 80s after wasps startred appearing in the top floor rooms, very impressive and they had it on display in the foyer for a while.
Guest 695- Registered: 30 Mar 2010
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11 August 2010
01:0264903#19
Ian
That is certainly an impressive sight - just who were you packing it up for posting to?
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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11 August 2010
08:4064924#20
Mrs JHG cleans there at the school,that will stop her buzzing around
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