poohbear

I've got aviaries full of birds so I recognise behaviour more than most. Didn't follow the eagle incident.

At least when an eagle chick got fishing line round a leg they intervened and removed it....fed it then put it back in the nest.

Looks a bit forlorn on it's own...

Not good once the adults stop feeding. It may adapt and the leg will heal...but still stiff it will hamper the very important first few months when it will have to hunt for itself. Chicks that age are prone to failing to learn the skills necessary without having a handicap.

I'm afraid that one has a broken left leg carni....I was watching it earlier and it could hardly hop around....not good when it has to hunt for itself.It was holding that leg all stiff and keeps raising it's foot.

Yes the girls took the left hand shortest route...used to keep us amused watching the crumpet passing by...there were just two that were well endowed and gained a fan club ...Blimey nowadays they are all well built. There were indeed sand pits between the schools,and a small greenhouse that I never saw the inside of...shame really, gardening lessons would have helped me more in life than ruddy logarithms. Do Ellis cyclists remember that we were not allowed to ride a bike down Bar Lane? we had to walk bikes down...you were only allowed to ride up the hill...rumour had it that some kid got

Correct...and one rule was that girls could walk through Ellis to their school...boys couldn't be trusted to behave so no short cut for them...they had to walk round by road.

I went to Ellis '55 and the allotments were there then...in fact my Dad had one.Those to the right of the school disappeared shortly after to houses.

Zoos have this mentality of wanting a natural look without bars spoiling the view...all very well but it just isn't safe.A simple mesh barrier could have saved the life of a boy who died after falling into the African Wild Dogs enclosure at a zoo a while back.Kids will climb and don't see the dangers...come to that neither do some adults. Someone somewhere decided whether or not this area was safe for a public audience...I'd like to know who.....Health & Safety, who we often treat as a joke (This isn't about playing conkers)...or do the zoos decide for themselves? If this was a school p

I could use the single phase motor...but not the rest...

A guy some years back left a strange smell at the breakfast table... "What the heck is that smell?" said the wife "It's that new deodorant spray you left in the bathroom!" "That was the dogs 'Anti Mate' we got from the vets!"

I spent most of the fifties in some of those villages,I recognised many of the roads and buildings,and even some of the trees.Magic!.

A very vulnerable part of mans anatomy.

Conversation in the pub the other week....strange how Tommy has stayed working all his life but somehow avoided the great God television.Wonder why?? He's 80 now.

So much for the data protection act if any private individual has knowledge of my location at a set date and time.

I'm aware of that...but I'll be damned if I'm going to assist them.

Local shopping center...Lidl,Matalan etc.had the car park machines...you know the type...you get your quid back at the checkout. Now new machines...no ticket unless you enter your registration details. If they think I'm entering information like that to a private outfit...most of which have iffy reputations... ie Where I was,at what time,in which vehicle.They've got another thing coming. They can stuff their shops up their Jacksies. Talk about Big Brother. Cameras are bad enough but this is beyond the pale....The Gestapo or Stasi would've loved it.

A fascinating couple of pages of life on the market written by someone who worked there when photo 1 on this thread was taken. EVERYTHING could be bought there in those days....thousands of small traders all making a living without big business paying peanuts and taking all the profits. http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/nottinghammarketplace/marketplace1.htm

Most bubble packs are designed to stop thieving..it's harder to swipe a piece of stiff card with the goods attached than just the contents.Poly bags can be puntured with fingernails,,,,bubble pack plastics are much harder.

I'm sure if I tell him I've got hold of some secret tapes,Tony Blair might put in a good word with his old mate Cliff and get me a free stay at his pad in Barbados.

Id love to see the Pyramids and visit places in Turkey...but not nowadays. Not that I could afford it anyway...the state pension doesn't allow for holidays..

With terrorism rife in parts of the world and the news of the Egyptian air disaster I'm quite happy to stay within these shores. To hell with airports and international travel....I'm here on this planet just the once and I intend it to be the longest stay possible. Come to that you can keep London too....

Script??....Plumber fixes sink...housewife gets her kit off and jumps on him! That's not a script....thats fantasy. We all know it is 'cos the milkman was already banging away there at 7am.