Bin day here is every day.
Rubbish taken away by two donkeys with paniers, one of whom wears a tie!
Moroccans are horrified when I tell them the developed world only has a once weekly collection of rubbish, or less on a bank holiday week.
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Rubbish taken away by two donkeys with paniers, one of whom wears a tie!
Moroccans are horrified when I tell them the developed world only has a once weekly collection of rubbish, or less on a bank holiday week.
Last orders, please, ladies and gentlemen!
The Drunken Penguin will be closed as soon as possible.
The Leprechaun One-Legged Pirate Substitute will be out on his ear and the One-legged pirate returned to his duties as doorman and server of drinks to Roommates, especially new ones.
Montgomery is a mobile coffee table, not a server of alcoholic drinks.
Golly.
Number 14?
Aha!
She is dangerous (if she exists) .
Roommates have vanished and never returned, sometimes we have found an odd shoe or scrap of clothing (not woolen) other times peoples jumpers and socks (woolens) have just disappeared in the night. Those who may have encountered her, like Dan and me, have hours of memory loss, sickness and itchy woollen pants.
Stay away!
I can't believe how many arsonists there have been in so many countries this summer! (including Morocco)The only red in our sky since last week has been from the flames sweeping across two local hills.
Apparently two 14 year old girls have been arrested for starting at least one if not both fires.
I cannot post what I think of them
I think the fire fighting teams are gaining control but still smouldering going on so it could flare up again.
The local community has been donating supplies to keep the firemen/women going, they have been incredible in difficult and dangerous circumstances.
What sad (can't possibly type a word here, as far too impolite for the Forum and a replacement word wouldn't express what i think)
Not just plants and animals, but people have died in some of these terrible fires.
Will they?
I think they are quite likely sociopaths and are only sad because they've been caught. No guilt, only a shame function.
Here, some of the bergies make quite a mess too. So do cats and the dogs that are let out at night to scavenge. But the bins are put out after 7pm every night (I put mine out at 2 am and) the mess is gone by the morning. These people take things for recycling, use what they can and sell what they can. I sometimes put out little no longer needed items that I know they can sell for a little extra money.
That is a BRILLIANT emoji!!!!!!!!Well, the comments seem to have just petered out, rather.
But thank you, carol for organizing the World Cup thingy, it was great fun.
And congratulations to Todd for being so good at his predictions to win the thing.
I operated a thread over on the Fossil Forum with a person representing each country in the competition and getting points for the results, predictions and games and quizzes and questions about football, fossils and even a few on tortoises.
I had thirty two players, one representing each country, a mix of males and females from about twenty countries with an age range from teenage to late sixties. Much more cosmopolitan than the real world cup! Lots of other people joined in too!
It received 4.658 posts and was viewed 41,622 times, the biggest thread in Fossil Forum history!
Here is the Tidgy emoji they made for me.
And :
Great, hey?
The half hour is very odd. Perhaps it's a compromise between the old time zones they used to have. China covers five time zones but also has only one actual standard time that is used for the whole country. But no odd half hour!
In future, ask her for the wine in advance.
Hmmm.
The post is slow here.............
Well done, your Most Royal Mightiness.
What a good-looking chap you are, Your Royal Handsomeness.
Good idea!
Very interesting, Bea!Actually, that appears not to be the case. The Audubon Zoo is a member of the American Zoo Association which sets out rules and guidelines for all aspects of the animals' care as well as crisis response. The AZA says our zoo notified them promptly, appropriately and is doing everything by the letter.
Our local newspaper is full of this story because the zoo is so popular; and especially because of the jaguar breeding program and other breeding programs aimed at saving species that are slowly going extinct in the wild.
It now appears that
I was a little unnerved about his apparent killing spree: murdering other animals but not for food, since they are all well fed. [Others have died of their injuries, so the total death count from Valerio's misadventure is now 9.
I recently read a book by an Australian who worked as a safari guide in Africa. As soon as he got off the plane to learn his new job, one of the very first things he was told was, when faced with a predator- even one that is charging- "Whatever you do, DON'T RUN!!" He was told anything that runs registers as prey for the apex predator and will be a target. This was valid advice and he describes times where he shocked clients on safari when a lioness charged him- and he stood his ground. The lioness veered off. The only time this DIDN"T work was when another safari guide had unknowingly stopped his jeep of sight-seers right next to where a young lioness had hidden her first litter of cubs. Happily, he survived the mauling, and married the guide who applied first aid! The book is titled "Whatever You Do, Don't Run."
My response to hearing that Valerio may have continuously gnawed a steel cable (for who knows how many nights) until he broke it, was "why does he want out so badly?"
Does he want more space? Evict the zoo neighbors, bulldoze their homes and plant whatever trees he wants!!!!!!!!
Does he want more than one "girlfriend?" Send personals ads to the other zoos "Lonely hunky jaguar seeks willing harem of cute jaguar babes!!!"
Does he want different food? Place a to-go order with Commander's Palace for prime rib (done rare)!!!!!!
I know from my own experience with Tigers, never to run or even turn your back. They will back off.
Usually.
Yup, when I was a lad and we lived in the country we kept chickens.
One night a fox got in and killed about twenty before we chased it off.
I waited night after night until it returned and then shot it.
I still feel bad about this, but we were poor and it had to be done.
Can I be Will Scarlett?Hmm, and I am Robin Hood. Be aware of me.
I`ll take all your money, gold, pearls and whatever you own and give it to the poor ones.
Will I get a nice hat?
