Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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15 September 2010
21:1171004#1
Whilst out walking this afternoon (and very enjoyable it was to) I got the feeling of how the evenings are drawing in, sunset being 19-17hrs. I thought i would take this as I walked along and not a person in sight.
Rounding the end of the next wood and finding everything ploughed over it reminded me that winter is just around the corner.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Keith Sansum1
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15 September 2010
21:2071007#2
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Jan Higgins
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15 September 2010
21:4671019#3
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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15 September 2010
21:4871022#4
At the moment sunrise 06-35hrs.........sunset 19-17.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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15 September 2010
21:5571028#5
looking at the first picture, ian is clearly about to shoot someone.
in my opinion this is a rerun of the "day of the jackal", i would hazard a guess that the holy father will be the victim.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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15 September 2010
21:5871032#6
HOWARD
That top picture thats what I thought.
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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15 September 2010
22:0271034#7
Out shooting Howie, Iv'e got a bigger one than BWS.
This has got to be the worst year Iv'e seen in a long time for Myxomatosis. It's absolutely shocking.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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15 September 2010
22:0871038#8
pity you were not around when "watership down" from next door was eating my oriental lilies.
my moggie used to watch the antics with amusement.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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15 September 2010
22:2171045#9
A bunny tale.
My elderly neighbour (20 plus years ago) used to keep rabbits and wondered what happened to the babies that were born. One day out of my kitchen window I saw my cat scrambling up through a hole in my neighbour's shed roof with a tiny baby rabbit in his mouth.
We never owned up to what we saw but helped him repair the hole, he always blamed the rats.
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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15 September 2010
22:2471046#10
OOOOOHHHHH Jan, how could you.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
15 September 2010
23:5871053#11
Ian, if the badger culling request gets approval you will be able to fire off to your hearts content. Aparently cows are dropping like, erm, flies through some bovine disease those dastardly badgers are spreading.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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16 September 2010
08:3571073#12
Oh dear looks like I might be in the minority on this one???
I got into politics because of my passion for wildlife.
At the time the Tories were gassing badgers.
I did write to the 3 main parties at the time (Sid no indies about them days lol)
Tories as good as said they would continue
Lib dems sat on the fence(nothing new there)
Labour said they would look at it.
Sadly although the gassing of badgers did stop, the culling of badgers continue as it did under laboiur which i have always opposed.
Scientists have identified the disease is not certain to come from badgers, in fact in could come from domestic pets.
I'm interested on views on the BALANCED views of posters on the culling of my friends the badgers
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 September 2010
08:4671074#13
Interesting how you have to politisise everything keith. 'Tories gassing badgers' a somewhat unnecessary party political comment, specially as you later said it continued under Labour (and rightly so).
Labour gassing badgers.... is what you might as well have said, it would be just as accurate. Or better still just talking about the badger gassing issue without party politicising it - explain your opposition to it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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16 September 2010
09:2571078#14
the issue of badger gassing is a complicated one, different scientists say different things.
i heard yesterday that they had instigated a cull in one area some time back and it made little difference to the rate of cattle t.b.
i hope the propose cull does not go ahead, we are losing enough native species without that.
16 September 2010
09:3571084#15
Sounds like you don't have a problem with cattle dying then Howard? We don't eat badgers or get milk from them, but they do look cute. If culling badgers saves cattle I am for it, but, it would help us all if the scientists could agree on the main cause of bovine tb.
16 September 2010
10:2171092#16
I believe research is taking place on the success of innoculating badgers. I caught an item where a badger had been painlessly trapped and was being innoculated. I can't remember where it was but there is definitely a move afoot to address the problem. Badgers are a beautiful and integral part of our wildlife. Do we really want to lose them? Enough are killed every year on the roads. It used to break my heart to see these beautiful creatures as roadkill.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 September 2010
10:3071095#17
Dont get me wrong, I do agree with you Diana but until scientists find alternative, perhaps more effective, methods then better to go along with a cull.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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16 September 2010
14:3771132#18
It is very sad to see the cull is going ahead ,our poor wildlife is slowly going there will be nothing left in 25years.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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16 September 2010
16:0971164#19
Re post #11.
I wouldn't shoot a badger if I was paid Sid.
TB infection has yet to be proved, unwise to cull anything without proof.
Whats the human equivelant..........Innocent until proven guilty. Give them a break mate.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
16 September 2010
17:4671184#20
Weight of opinion seems to be that cattle are suffering as a result of the unchecked growth of the badger population. Something has to be done.
I too wouldn't willingly kill any animal of the non-human variety, heck, I don't even kill spiders!
As for badgers, well this website sums up how I feel about them, bovine tb or not:
Nice pictures by the way. 