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Annb said:
My brother's Satnav is one that came with his new car just the week before the lockdown in 2020. He hardly drove it because of the lockdown and then he had his heart surgery and is only now feeling strong enough to drive any distance. So his car is as good as new, although it is 3 years old now. It manafged to take him all over the contryside when he was going from Swindon to Lancing (roadworks screwed everything up).
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When first going with the van, we had a Garmin(?) Sat nav, that was about five years old! It was useless, but the guy who owner it wouldn't pay the fee to upgrade! So we tended to get lost regularly or he didn't use postcodes, or he didn't put in the right destination and obviously incompetence! For example we were playing Maidenhead Utd which is on the west side of the M25(ish) but he input Maidstone! Now that is on the M20, on the way to Dover, East of the M25! Safe to say I was sure awake and caught it as we approached the M6 toll.
The club bought us a sat nav which was unbelievable in its accuracy and the information you could get from it including lane closures, diversions and new roads or non existent roads now and also updated every quarter hour!
And the most important was it was so easy to put in where you were going without going through the list of things you didn't want on it!
What you want is for the quickest safest route to actually get you there without sitting in your vehicle all day!
 
Annb said:
There's something odd happening with the birdlife on this island and I don't think it has anything to do with local pollution. Our sewage goes through a large kind of septic tank down by the shore. From there, relatively clean water is pumped out to sea. The same system is used all over the Island. It's not an ideal system, but better than pumping raw sewage directly out to sea. Our rivers are not in the right positions for any waste to be discharged into them. The land is not, in general, adulterated with chemicals because we mostly only grow grass for a few sheep; there are no factories to speak of - just a few mills. Nevertheless, our bird population has been drastically reduced. We used to see all sorts of birds from our windows but now it is just a few crows, a few starlings, a few sparrows and a family of greylag geese (about 8 of them). The occasional heron visits from the nesting site in Stornoway and there is a blackbird skulking around occasionally. The swans have stopped coming, the lapwings have disappeared, no more shrikes, even the corncrakes seem to have given up, no waxwings eating the berries from our cotoneasters. No idea what has happened unless it is something to do with climate changing and causing their food sources to dry up.
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I live in a built up area of the peninsula and the only open area other than gardens, nearest farm is about five miles away, is football pitches. The wildlife is abundant, I'm not a twitcher, but it is thriving gulls, pigeons, blackbirds, rooks, sparrows, black and white magpies, we even have a resident hawk(?) And geese layover, with the odd foul pops in to say hello! So many more that I don't know names of!
A rooster is always crowing from the allotments but it is the growing number of silver birds that leave white streams in the sky and are very noisy! That is if the cloud cover abates!!!!I
These are known to roost on long concrete paths and have many variables in colour, they can be factory farmed but are poisonous to the atmosphere. Known to cause delays especially in the holidays!
 
I meant to include in my other posts, that the reason I'm still here is that once again, is the daily rain fall!
When was St Swithins?
Managed to finish the gardening, I'm just so p....d off with the weather!
I want a bit of heat!
Is it too much to ask for?

Hi @jjraak welcome back mate!
 
Annb said:
There's something odd happening with the birdlife on this island and I don't think it has anything to do with local pollution. Our sewage goes through a large kind of septic tank down by the shore. From there, relatively clean water is pumped out to sea. The same system is used all over the Island. It's not an ideal system, but better than pumping raw sewage directly out to sea. Our rivers are not in the right positions for any waste to be discharged into them. The land is not, in general, adulterated with chemicals because we mostly only grow grass for a few sheep; there are no factories to speak of - just a few mills. Nevertheless, our bird population has been drastically reduced. We used to see all sorts of birds from our windows but now it is just a few crows, a few starlings, a few sparrows and a family of greylag geese (about 8 of them). The occasional heron visits from the nesting site in Stornoway and there is a blackbird skulking around occasionally. The swans have stopped coming, the lapwings have disappeared, no more shrikes, even the corncrakes seem to have given up, no waxwings eating the berries from our cotoneasters. No idea what has happened unless it is something to do with climate changing and causing their food sources to dry up.
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Hi Ann
I think there are problems with all wildlife but particular species are affected. Waxwing are an irruptive migrant which do not need to migrate so far in winter as the UK, most years
D.
 
lindisfel said:
Hi Ann
I think there are problems with all wildlife but particular species are affected. Waxwing are an irruptive migrant which do not need to migrate so far in winter as the UK, most years
D.
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I've realised, as well, that we don't see gulls any more either. We used to see herring gulls, black backed gulls and another gull which I couldn't identify. I haven't seen any of those for about 2 years.
 
Fbg 6.7

So cold and wintry yesterday. Needed a couple of extra layers on.
I need the rain to abate so I can go in the garden.
But as long as it's not raining in the 'wrong direction', I can at least sit on the swing with cat Midnight for a bit...

Wildlife video
Cat Midnight - doesn't that Badger ever stop running around?
Those badgers are like speeding trains all night, they definitely are powered by Duracell batteries...
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Creative is a photo of this honeysuckle today. Despite the weather being gloomy and rainy yesterday, these honeysuckle flowers shone brightly all day.

Have a good day

Time for a coffee

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We were fortunate much of the day in Cumbria was dry and it got up to 20deg C in the Sun yesterday but again the rain came come nightfall, now it is a drab morning but a new day of life at 84 is a gift, even if this body is limited, my mind is as free as when I was as a youth.

The fact that doctors are now striking is beginning to fill me with me with revulsion, they are breaking the trust that patients have put in them. Ultimately people will die and they will have the responsibility for it. It is no excuse that the government is obdurately opposed to their pay rise.
D.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all. The 5.7 Swipey offered up doesn't fit any samples the labs analyse or 8 years of data from yesterday's food but it could obviously be accurate (ish). I've got 99 problems and that ain't one of them. Now, if'we had no tea or salad...... @dunelm and @gennepher thanks for sharing the wonderful art and hugs for car issues. @Krystyna23040 hug for #emailgate. @SlimLizzy glad you are home safely and can preserve the bounty from your hard work. Happy birthday to granddaughter. I take it #3 girl arrived safely in UK. Have a good day..
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Thank you @ianpspurs
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

So cold and wintry yesterday. Needed a couple of extra layers on.
I need the rain to abate so I can go in the garden.
But as long as it's not raining in the 'wrong direction', I can at least sit on the swing with cat Midnight for a bit...

Wildlife video
Cat Midnight - doesn't that Badger ever stop running around?
Those badgers are like speeding trains all night, they definitely are powered by Duracell batteries...
49secs


Creative is a photo of this honeysuckle today. Despite the weather being gloomy and rainy yesterday, these honeysuckle flowers shone brightly all day.

Have a good day

Time for a coffee

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Lovely honeysuckle, enjoy that koffy
 
jjraak said:
While on the subject of technology....

Informative, and an early heads up for any using Tele care services, maybe ..mmhh

news.sky.com

How will the landline phone switch work and what do you need to do?

The old copper phone network will be switched off in 2025 and phones will instead use the internet to make calls. That doesn't mean you have to only use a mobile phone - but there are some changes coming. Here's what you need to know.
news.sky.com news.sky.com
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Thank’s for the info @jjraak
 
Grey squirrel came to our feeders again, will have to get the squirrel catcher to come, trap it and clobber it.... He hits them with what I call his Pope! When he caught them before he bagged them and hit them over the head with with a round heavy stick and fed them to his ferrets.
I said to him, I see you have a 'Pope' , he looked at me gone out...but don't you fishermen have a Priest for fish? Then he laughed.

It's the only way we can keep our Red Squirrels in Cumbria. We don't have enough Pine Martens and Goshawks.
D.
 
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