Nature Watch.
I now live in an area where deer regularly bolt out of nowhere in front of cars and vans (my driving instructor’s warned me this might happen, and not to spaz out and swerve off the road if it does. It's also good training for brake reaction if a schoolkid runs out into the road clutching a munchy box). Saw a fresh dead Bambi by the roadside a couple of months ago. Nobody bothered to remove the cadaver: passed it the other day and it’s still there, looking like a rotten, damp welcome mat -it's decomposed into mulch. Weird, I thought its skull and ribs would be visible…maybe somebody took them for their mantelpiece?
Despite their reputation as cowards, there’s always one sheep who’s game for trotting over to the edge of the fence and noisily cussing me out as I walk past. I just think: “You’re better off with me than stuck in there!…see you in a pitta bread soon”. Haven’t worked out the colour scheme but I think it means “for the chopping block” when the farmers spray-paint their arses red. God knows what green and blue mean. You know what farmers and their kind get up to…some funny-looking kids round here too.
Highland cattle look like bulls in Afghan coats with emo hair.
There’s a tree at the bottom of my back garden and I thought a load of birds were flocking around it late one night, but apparently they’re bats? Which is cool – or would be if I could see them properly, but it’s too dark now.
I was blissfully unaware of either when I lived in London. But yeah, they're a thing up here 🙁 But I tend to repulse mosquitos through alcohol abuse, so hopefully the booze is warding off the ticks too...
Despite their reputation as cowards, there’s always one sheep who’s game for trotting over to the edge of the fence and noisily cussing me out as I walk past. I just think: “You’re better off with me than stuck in there!…see you in a pitta bread soon”. Haven’t worked out the colour scheme but I think it means “for the chopping block” when the farmers spray-paint their arses red. God knows what green and blue mean. You know what farmers and their kind get up to…some funny-looking kids round here too.
Highland cattle look like bulls in Afghan coats with emo hair.
There’s a tree at the bottom of my back garden and I thought a load of birds were flocking around it late one night, but apparently they’re bats? Which is cool – or would be if I could see them properly, but it’s too dark now.
I was blissfully unaware of either when I lived in London. But yeah, they're a thing up here 🙁 But I tend to repulse mosquitos through alcohol abuse, so hopefully the booze is warding off the ticks too...
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ver$hy ver$h
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My dad did this with a badger he found. He didn't stick it on his mantelpiece, but he took it home and took the skeleton out. He just saw it as some sort of project. A continuation of his Zoology degree.
woops
is not like other people
i thought this was so the farmers don't get their flocks mixed up, like a bandanna in Dr Dre land
Oh, maybe. The red ones belong to the Morrisons, the green ones belong to the Gunns. Makes sense.
Though I actually think the colour coding means: red=slaughter next week; green= fatten it up a bit first; blue= friends with benefits.
Forgot to mention, Iron Maiden are inexplicably popular up here, it's the only band T-shirt/car sticker I've seen. Fortunately I had Killers when I was 10, so I hope to assimilate further.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Rural British version of the famous San Francisco handkerchief code.
Leo
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in anti-nature news
www.nytimes.com
Lab-Grown Meat Receives Clearance From F.D.A. (Published 2022)
In a first step toward cultivated meat reaching dinner tables and restaurant menus, regulators said that a start-up company’s chicken was safe to eat.
Clinamenic
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IdleRich
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Walked down to the river to catch some air this evening - it is starting to get warm in the evenings and it was really sweltering in the day - and was momentarily taken aback to see a couple of sparks floating through the air a few centimetres from my chest. As they sputtered out and relit etc I realised that they were actually fireflies. I guess I have seen fireflies before but these were particularly beautiful - wikipedia says there are over 2,000 types so I guess some are prettier than others - and they really did look like floating embers from a fire. Didn't expect them to cross in front of me on a path by the river like that, though I suppose I have no idea where they live or how they behave.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
That's a bit grim. Why string them up like that? Pour encourager les autres, or something?I've seen this sort of thing before but not quite to this extent - 13 moles! and hung by their noses!
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Tripping off his nut on liberty caps, dancing madly around a muddy field, caked in cow shit and mole-blood, head filled with fantasies of appeasing the chthonic gods of death and rebirth with sacrificial offerings like an Aztec priest, his ceremonial obsidian dagger a battered Victorinox penknife.
luka
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the secret is not what’s above ; it’s called the Nibiruian cristal temple ; it’s a complex of cristal that connects earth to another 24 temples of cristals ; it’s also called the NET ; this is a major secret since the ancient times ; those temples were put there artificially to create a link between earth ; parallel earth that’s the anti particle contra part of our planet ;the sun ; and a planet called nibiru ; these cristals are the reason we lost our memory as race ; and what’s put Atlantis under the ocean .
i've no idea but i think it's basically like display of trophy? can't see how it would put the other moles off
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Yeah, I was joking - they're not known for spending much time above ground or having great eyesight, for one thing.
