The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

[Yorky]

(I watched too much Downton Abbey)

I had to look that up. Is it any good?

 

[Morning Glory]

I had to look that up. Is it any good?

If you like 'upstairs, downstairs sagas' then yes.

 

[Yorky]

If you like 'upstairs, downstairs sagas' then yes.

I can't remember seeing much of that, if any of it.

 

[Yorky]

Did you know that Australians have an aristocracy?

Anyone who can trace their lineage back to their father.

 

[Lullabelle]

Poor you!

Have stuff planned for the weekend so hopefully it will clear off soon so I can breath properly again.

 

[buckytom]

If you like 'upstairs, downstairs sagas' then yes.

I think it was much better than Upstairs, Downstairs. Far less stuffy, better plot lines.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Well, paying someone to come in and chook sit was not as paranoid as my husband thought. Mr fox paid is another visit an hour before they arrived. it was the 3rd visit this week I'm not impressed or happy
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[Lullabelle]

I think it was much better than Upstairs, Downstairs. Far less stuffy, better plot lines.

They have plot lines

 

[sidevalve]

Was it delivered to you by a guy in white gloves on a silver platter?

(I watched too much Downton Abbey)

Possibly not - like most of us it is often better to give the poor people a day off once in a while [unpaid of course]. It saves time on the floggings.

 

[classic33]

Well, paying someone to come in and chook sit was not as paranoid as my husband thought. Mr fox paid is another visit an hour before they arrived. it was the 3rd visit this week I'm not impressed or happy
.

Can you "engineer" his approach at all?

 

[mybike]

Well, paying someone to come in and chook sit was not as paranoid as my husband thought. Mr fox paid is another visit an hour before they arrived. it was the 3rd visit this week I'm not impressed or happy
.

Clearly he has found the restaurant to his liking.

 

[Morning Glory]

Clearly he has found the restaurant to his liking.

Well, they are very well fed (probably tasty) chickens! Sorry @SatNavSaysStraightOn...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Can you "engineer" his approach at all?

Sadly no. Is difficult to even contain the chooks. All I can do is ensure the opposite. That they can scatter in 3 dimensions making it harder for him to catch any. I suspect the cockerel who was caught was out alone and off guard.

Clearly he has found the restaurant to his liking.

Sadly I think it is.

Well, they are very well fed (probably tasty) chickens! Sorry @SatNavSaysStraightOn...

I have no idea how good they taste because the cockerel he took had been to go back that they with my friend. It was one of hers originally and having been positively identified as a male had a limited life. I would just preferred a different death for him. Sadly foxes like rabbits are not native to this land and have no home here. Mind you rabbits are not native to the British isles either but it was the Romans (as I understand) that introduced them to the UK and they are now accepted as part of the landscape. Here they are trying an eradication again which started a few weeks before we started having fox issues...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

So I find myself sitting outside in 2C wrapped up protecting my flock from Mr and Mrs Fox

Before I left for the chook enclosure this morning. Luckily no frost today but there is also no sunshine either. I'm looking forward to breakfast and a bit coffee in front of the slow combustion stove shortly.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I'm being watched





By a kangaroo...