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jjraak said:
@gennepher

Neighbours have an issue with foxes, may not suit your situation, but thought I'd mention, just in case

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Nah...not for me thanks.
Initially, years ago, I tried everything I could stop the Fox and the badger coming in.

I have tried most of the deterrents and none of them worked for me. I did everything to deter the badger and so his final answer was to tunnel into my garden, allowing my dog to escape many times. You cannot deter the fox from coming in by looking for an entry point. Every point is an entry point, this fox even climbs on to my potting shed roof and my garage roof. High pitched noise supposedly inaudible to humans...that is a laugh, this deaf person has a very high pitched audible range in her right ear, hence I can hear bats, and other devices with a high pitched noise supposedly inaudible to humans. And I can detect an aeroplane coming long long before it arrives with my totally deaf right ear. I just don't pick up any of the normal useful human ranges with my right ear. (Left side has the implant). Solar powered...wouldn't work in my overgrown garden, you need the sun to reach it for it to work. Around 6 months of the year I do not have sun reaching low enough down to activate that thing.

Doomed to failure from the start for me @jjraak

I do have some single lights in the garden. Like an eye so to speak. I moved them around. Foxy didn't come in for awhile, but he is smart, and is not going to be fooled for long. Whoever has bought that device and considering buying more, will soon discover that they have wasted their money...

A fool and his/her money are soon parted...
 
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Oh well.

TBF I hadn't considered the pitch of the sound, my bad.
 
So Sir Elton is headlining Glastonbury with some songs 50+ years old. Plenty of the crowd are bopping to songs obviously from their grandparents era. How many of us would have done that and how often were we told they’ll never last like the old ‘uns?
 
The duchess has been watching it. I may be a miserable old Meldrew but it's not really my cup of tea.
 
jjraak said:
Oh well.

TBF I hadn't considered the pitch of the sound, my bad.
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I am just not normal...

Very few people have this ability to hear those high pitched sounds which are out of normal human hearing range. I have been tested by a team of people at the hospital for my 'ability' in this.

I don't know if you remember, but a couple of years back the neighbours dogs were driving me bananas with with their incessant barking. Fort Knox Fence neighbour got a new dog, an Alsatian, who barked and barked, thus setting off my neighbour's dog on the other side.

And so I bought a couple of ultrasonic preventative dog barking devices which were supposed to deter the dog barking. It worked. I had one set up for each side of my garden. It was advertised that it was out of the human range of hearing.

But the only snag was that I could also hear the frequency come on, and so it stopped me barking as well...

The frequency however, only came on the moment the dog started barking. Eventually, the Alsatian dog which was the one that was troublesome in its constant barking, stopped barking as much, which was my aim to stop, and so I stopped using the anti-barking devices, because this is a point to a dog barking for an intruder or something like that.

I presume the fox one you showed, has more than one frequency you can change it to. Because if it has only the one frequency, the fox will get used to it and possibly manage to attune it out or get used to it. My preventative dog barking device had several different frequencies or pitches, whatever you call it, so that you could change it if a dog got used to it @jjraak
 
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Fbg 6.8

Wildlife nighttime cameras
Magpie in the morning & Magpie in the late afternoon watched by Cat Midnight....Magpie is less than a metre away from the cat...


Creative is a kaleidoscope of a wild flower in my garden. I call it Fox&Cubs
So bright and cheerful.

A bit of a disaster here. I have/had one of those Easy Arm Chairs, electrically operated, until the day it stopped working. The problem was I was lying virtually flat on it. No way of getting back up again. Because of my arthritis I wasn't able to get out of it, until someone arrived to free me. But hat was over 10 years ago. That chair got put outside for the council to collect, but despite a neighbour repeatedly phoning for me, they never came. So that chair remained outside in all weathers, and I sat on it a long time, and then the seat was unsafe, also the cats slept on it. Finally I planted some plants on the seat bit.

Last night, some wild beast (fox or badger?) ripped the back material, pulled all the stuffing out of the back of the chair. And here is a photo of the mess. This wild beast appeared to have slept on the stuffing in the night.



So, I am putting the stuffing in a bin bag...it took 2 bin bags...
And then I am thinking, hey I can resurrect Big Ted now...he is still in his sorry state in the potting shed from when that badger KissyKissy pummelled and soaked him. I don't have time yet, maybe an autumn project...

Busy busy today.

Maybe time for a cuppa.

Have your best day!

 
Krystyna23040 said:
Maybe, you are just too nice a person. Although, of course, there is nothing wrong with being a really good person.
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I can only try.

It's back to being a 3 layer day today. The sun is out but, so far, there is no heat in it.

Got to bed at 11.45 last night but suspected that I wouldn't be there long - too achey. I did get to sleep. but woke again at 1.30 and had to get up. Managed to sleep upright in the big kitchen chair and have dozed off and on since then. BG has been higher but now is 11.1 and I'm on my third cup of tea.

Bin day today - recycling and compost bins. This is now every 3 weeks, if I have understood the very complicated schedule so we'd better not miss it. I think Neil is still asleep though, so I hope he wakes up in time to put them out.
 
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Beautiful kaleidoscope. That chair will rise like a phoenix - well, maybe a Big Ted.
 
Every three weeks is quite some time. I put ours out the night before (we have room to do that) - can’t risk sleeping in
 
Good morning everyone on what promises to be a bright and sunny day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.1 this morning after a rather large avocado salad. We also had a green bean salad with chopped ham, parmesan and balsamic vinegar - I need more protein than half an avocado can give. Sumac - we are running low - what a disaster. Deluge late afternoon after the blistering heat earlier in the day. Gardens watered, tick! Car washed, tick! Drive hosed down, tick! Velux windows washed, tick! So many jobs completed. Art bit, a little more done. Hope today is a cool one. Must finish my koffy and get on with the day.


 
Cooler here too thank goodness. A deluge as well that knocked a lot of fruit off my trees...
Apparently another deluge is due tomorrow!!!!
Sketch coming on nicely @dunelm
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and nearly all who inhabit this the third rock from the sun on its journey through the universe.

Blood sugars this morning we a 5.0 .

On grandchildren sitting duties last night, we had to get the eldest grandson to come downstairs and change the idiot box channel over so we could watch the coverage of pensioners reunited or as it was billed Glastonbury. I don’t suppose the artists chosen would be to everyone’s taste, but majority seemed to be well into their seventies.

The television cameras showing crowd shots showed just how diverse the audience were, also how the younger generation have embraced woke and all it stands for. Draw from that what you will.

Mrs J who is still asleep is / has plans to trim my beard today and will probably mutter something about the length of my hair, in my day, I shall repeat that in my day if you went or watched pop concerts you had long hair and did we not watch a pop concert last night will be my retort.

Mrs J does not take prisoners so I expect my dinner will be a diy concoction..again.

Time to go said Zeberdy said Florence.

Stay safe all and if all else fails don’t be afraid of wearing odd socks.

I wonder where I left my sanity pills?
 
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