Jill Sparrow
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Hedgehogs are listed on schedule 6 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981), which makes it illegal to kill or capture them with certain methods.
Humans, on the other hand, are highly edible. Apparently, they taste like pork. I'm a vegetarian and have far too much respect for animals to eat them but if anyone wants to eat their fellow man, that's fine by me. After all, man seems to subject his fellow man to just about every other indignity and cruelty he can think of, so why not eat him? It was, for many years, rumoured that Captain James Cook RN was eaten by the Hawaiian Islanders but that is not true. They merely cooked (no pun intended) him until the flesh separated from his bones. Their culture attributed magical powers to bones. I don't doubt that the flesh was gobbled up by other creatures who were looking for a meal. Waste not, want not.
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I tried some last year, Rog. They didn't seem keen and opted for their mixture of cat biscuits and mealworms.
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Yes @MRS Bit was a good night for hedgehogs. Mine were very hungry and scoffing kitten biscuits. Lovely to hear the crunch of hogs enjoying their food.
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Friends in the King's Lynn area of Norfolk report seeing them quite regularly.
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Yes, I hear they are quite widespread but I hadn't seen one before.
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Ah, Audrey is one of my favourite people, ever. As a child and teenager, my sister looked very like her. I got heartily sick of people telling my mother how pretty she was!
There was a special aura about Audrey. For anyone who cares to look into her background, she did not have an easy life and suffered horrors during the war years when she and many others almost starved to death.
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Sadly, I saw one lying dead at the side of the road as I drove past, quite close to home last week.
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I had a peacock visit my garden regularly when I lived in Brinsley. I named him Percy. Percy the peacock. He was quite friendly but could never be persuaded to display his tail feathers for me. I just wasn't the sort of female he was trying to impress, I suppose.
As a child, I remember the peacock at The Arboretum. He was a real exhibitionist and fanned his tail for anyone and everyone but, even as a child, I didn't like the fact that he was caged.
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Skiving again, young Trogg? You'll catch it when the boss finds out.
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It's remarkable where Marsden's opened branches, isn't it?
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I think it's quite widespread among homo sapiens, sadly.
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I wouldn't, Ben, you'll get soaked. Just had a hailstorm and now more rain. Poncing about in the rain ain't much fun.
By the way @benjamin1945 I think one of your foreign conquests has been posting messages again.
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I've always said that I should have been a hibernatory creature. I think it stems from the fact that, being born at the end of November, the weather was so bad that I didn't go out in my pram for two months, according to my mother. Spent all that time snuggled up in my Moses basket and clearly acquired a taste for it!
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Hedgehogs need all the help they can get, @Beekay
Like most other creatures, we've fouled up their habitat. We owe it to them to make recompense.
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Most probably it is. You fed it royally in 2023, so why would it go anywhere else. Good thing they're not sociable creatures or it would be telling all its friends about your hog restaurant!
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I'm pleased to hear that Mr Mayfield is still alive and kicking...with both legs.
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Surely, not you Ben?
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@MargieH I thought it wasn't my imagination. Hope there is nothing amiss. He's not having his other hip replaced, is he?
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Is it my imagination or has @philmayfieldbeen AWOL lately?
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I don't know whether there would be a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer five times a day but if I were a resident of the nearby care home, I don't think I'd be too pleased about that.
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Little beggars are hungry. Rutting season approaches.
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5 hours ago, benjamin1945 said:
lot......even saw a sign for planning permission for a ''Mosque''.
The proposed site appears to be land on Occupation Road, off Cinderhill Road. Former colliery land, possibly? The locals are considerably less than keen but, apparently, have been advised they have no chance of stopping it.
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Had a look on Street view at the former Peter Barrie premises. The frontage has been altered and it looks very different now. Many years ago, I bought a short evening cape from there. It was in the sale. The original price was eyewatering! I still have it.
The other shop may have been nearer to Pearson's than Clumber Street. I'll have to find a 1950s trade directory and see whether I can track it down.
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Excellent news, @MRS B They know where to go for humans who run hedgehog restaurants.
How's your day?
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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That's fine by me. It's only a body. It isn't really me!