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Ayup Brian, I think your reference to Greene king IPA could provoke a response from one of the members, I shall sit back and watch the outcome, by the way I keep a Greene King beermat at the side of my computer to remind me of the first time I met the other member ( nice bloke really) !cheers! Rog

Brilliant, wonder if i will see one flying over Coningsby!! I do like that though Kev Rog

Nice to see the site back on line, with such a lot of us no longer living in Nottingham this site is one way of keeping in touch with the old place and it would be such a shame to lose it, i know genuine Notts folk wouldn't behave like that anyway but why would non genuine Notts folk want to ruin things for the rest of us? Rog

My next door neighbour leaves those illuminated icicles hanging from the guttering all year but only switches them on at Christmas, looks like a load of snot hanging from the gutter to me Rog

I feel really sorry for Ray, firstly watching his friend suffer then helping him to die with some dignity, then going through life knowing what he had done and probably thinking about it daily must have been terrible for him, now in his twilight years he has come clean as it were to clear his conscience, he should be left alone to openly grieve for his lost loved one Rog

Nothing wrong with Mrs Thatcher Pete, probably the best PM we have had since Mr Churchill and about as determined, can't see Mr Brown sending his forces halfway around the world without uncle Sams help, She allowed us to own our own properties, have shares in public companies and walk down the road with our heads held high, unlike today when we hang our heads in shame at what our so called leaders have done to this great country of ours. I'll stick it out to the bitter end in the hope that one day the rest of the world can look at us and show us the respect that we the British people deserve f

Remember William Wales signature on the Blue Bell ceiling Ian? Bet he had a pint of Greene King while he was in there. Love the Royals, always have always will and rule Britannia, God save the Queen Rog

Never thought of that Ian, what about another theory whilst on the subject of a good mystery, It could have been Fritz looking for his 500 pounder that he left behind one night along with 7 others, spooky!!!! Rog By the way there's a book out called "Ghost Stations" about strange goings on at old airfield sites, I wont tell you about RAF Metheringham I'll leave that till our next aviation day

Strange this but here goes, Last winter when I was leaving work at about 17.00hrs I locked the main entrance gate and got in my pickup truck and drove to the end of the drive,about 20yrds my headlights were on as it was dark there is also no street lighting there, i stopped at the junction to turn right when something caught my eye just on the edge of my headlight beam, to the left of me about 6 ft in front was what i can only describe as a pillar of steam, about 5ft tall and maybe 2ft across, not solid but definitely a moving, see through, pillar of steam, it didn't take the form of a human

Snow drops,Daffodils, Hyacinths (sp) poking through the ground , buds/new shoots starting to appear on the goose gog bushes and the grass is still growing, Good news from Louth church, they have decided to leave the Peregrines alone, read about it on the "lincs bird club" website Rog

Pete, Check out the "lincs bird club" web site,click on "forum" all the info is on there Rog

It was only last week I wrote about the Peregrines on Louth church were looking interested in each other and that we were hoping they would breed this year, well the church authorities have put paid to any of that, they want the Peregrines gone, the reason, it would mean stopping the tours around the tower for a couple of months whilst the birds raised their young, the tower tours mainly occur in August (the holiday season) but the birds will have flown the nest by the beginning of July, anyway the church people are going to destroy any nest building activity to prevent these wonderful hawks b

Thats great news for you Ian, I will expect a few thousand pictures then. Roger's just turned green Rog

It's great to see these names back on the threads, welcome back Rog

Might be a coincidence Pete but aren't most of the buildings we are losing Christian, ie churches,chapels or just christian establishments?? Rog

Was Pugin responsible for the interior decoration of the houses of parliament? Rog

Woodpeckers drumming at this time of year is a good sign, it means they are marking out their territories, later in the season when they start drumming it will be for food, only seen one Great spotted woodpecker in the back field and he was drumming on our electricity pole, a couple of Green woodpeckers dashing about from the village pond to the small copse down the lane, was told yesterday that the Peregrines on Louth church are starting to look interested in each other so who knows, the Peregrines on Lincoln cathedral should breed again this year but I'm a bit worried for the Redstarts that

Hi Pete, plenty of fieldfares and Redwing in the next field as I saw earlier this morning while on me trike ride, but could'nt see them from my garden because of hedge alongside the field so I dont think they count, did notice this morning that the local mole has been busy during the night and there are plenty of new mole hills in the field alongside my fence, the blackbirds are dancing on them looking for grubs and worms, is this a case of nature working together? Rog

This afternoon between 14.00 and 15.00hrs out the back looking across the garden and the field produced 80 Chaffinch 9 Brambling 15 Greenfinch 50 Goldfinch 25 Wood pigeon 15 Starling 19 Pheasant (2 cock birds and 17 hens) 1 Barn owl 2 Kestrel 1 Sparrow hawk 2 Robin 6 Long tailed tit 2 Blue tit 4 Great tit 7 Blackbird 30 Great black back gull flyin over on way to Thurlby lake about 1 mile away 1 Buzzard soaring high heading east 10 Teal heading to Thurlby lake If weather permits I might head out to Frampton marsh tomorrow for a couple of hours to see the Brent geese and Whoop

Quite right Limey, Turdus migratorius, American robin, 10" long from beak to tip of tail,has the character of the blackbird with uniform brick red breast, dark grey head and back,bold white markings around the eye and white tips to outer tail feathers, a vagrant to England, Ireland and across Europe as far as Yugoslavia, very similar to Naumanns red throated and eye-browed thrushes. sorry for being a bore, info from Birds of Britain and Europe by Roger Peterson, Guy Mountfort and P.A,D, Hollom 1954 Rog

Ah Mr Robin, that iconic British garden bird, last weekend I bought a 500gram bucket of dead meal worms to feed our local pair of Robins but they get bullied off the bird table by the pheasants, Sunday afternoon there was 17 pheasants tucking into the meal worms while poor Mr robin looked on from the fence, guess I'll put another pot of worms out nearer the fence or put the pheasants in a pot Rog

Fantastic pictures Ian, most people only see spectacles like that on the TV or in books, I don't know why when all you have to do is look out of the window or travel a very short distance, Last year on Spring Watch they did one show from Bempton cliffs in yorkshire, looked great so the following weekend we drove up there and what an experience the sights,sounds and smells that just don't come through on the telly. good on yer mate ps your wildlife photo's are getting better as well Rog

Most of the snow has cleared now but our feathered pals still need a helping hand, the ground is soaked and so is what little food is lying about, the only wildlife that appears to be doing well at the moment is the predators, foxes, raptors etc so keep feeding the birds, today I bought some mixed seeds and a small bucket of meal worms and put some of them out on the bird table along with the fat balls and some pieces of fruit I also raked over a bare patch of garden to expose and insect life that might be about, I think there was because the bare patch was covered in blackbirds and a couple o

I'm really enjoying this series and warming to Mr Portillo (although I was a bit of a fan before) at least we are getting a variety of steam loco's, I also think he is beginning to lighten up a bit and look a bit more relaxed among us common folk. Carry on Michael Rog

Just finished building a couple more nest boxes out of old pallets, checked the spotting scope again that's trained on the bushes and old tree out in the field and there is a nice flock of Brambling in with the Chaffinches, Long tailed tits went along the bottom of the garden not long ago so they will be coming back the other way later today, Just one Blue tit at the moment on the feeder station but no Sparrows, might take a trip to Pennels in Hykeham in a bit to get more bird seed for the week and maybe some mealworms. Ashley, my gun is never far away, got to keep my eyes open for the Rats