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I was referring to the two posters above who both said that they had to be in a different position on the road than they would normally have been because of vehicles parked too near corners (presumably affecting their view round the corner). I obviously wasn't suggesting that every fake "accident" is caused by that, but in those cases it presumably made it easier to make it look as though the "accident" was at least partly the car driver's fault. And my reference to it happening all the time round here was about the parking too near corners. Many many decades ago I got a fine for doing that, and I presume it's still not allowed, for safety reasons.

I didn't say anything was "a fact". I said it was "hardly likely" 🙄 Do you seriously think someone would go out of their way to harm or kill an unusual animal? Even assuming they ever actually saw it? And then you deleted your post. Did you not want people to see what you had said?

One of the issues is cars and vans parking too close to a corner (presumably on yellow lines?) It happens all the time round here.

Well why don't you read the posts on this thread suggesting humane ways of deterring them from your garden, and do something constructive about it, instead of moaning? As for culling - how do you think that should be done, exactly? And yes, as said above, they control rodents. Would you rather be overrun by rats?

It's hardly likely someone was going to kill him just because they knew about him 🙄

They don't "crap everywhere". Do you call dogs (or their owners) "pests" as well? I see more dog mess on the streets round here than anything produced by foxes.

But in those distant days, there was no other means of communication for most people. There was semaphore, then morse code, then telegrams, then landline telephones (no idea of dates or what order they were invented or introduced). Actual written letters might be carried around the country on horseback or in stage coaches. I'm so ancient I remember it was a big deal to get a birthday telegram on my birthday, and my parents didn't have a phone for ages. Now many things are done by email or other online methods, and most people (at least in this country) have mobiles. And if something needs a physical copy, it can usually be printed out at home (or at a print shop if you don't have a printer). So actual physical post is becoming less and less important for the vast majority of people. I'm pretty sure the idea of first and second class post was originally in terms of the time taken between posting and delivery (first class next day, second class longer) and nothing to do with the time of day things were delivered, but I stand to be corrected. If the changes mean we get things like new bank cards and random items we've ordered online quicker, then great, but otherwise I can't see it's going to make much difference to most people. Even things like hospital appointments are dealt with by apps and/or email these days.

Please don't call them "pests". They are animals who have as much right to be here as we do. Which doesn't mean we can't use humane ways to keep them off our crops, like fruit cages and netting.

Sorry, post deleted, I misunderstood.

I wasn't suggesting they should be used as a fox deterrent service! I thought I had explained that in my post. I posted information about them and what they do because you had posted about The Fox Project!

No idea to both! Though I seem to be being allowed to react again now 👍 I'm working on it 😂 It distracts me from the many many more important things I have to do 🤣

No, because I've had no reason to use any kind of statistical analysis for about fifty years, and I've forgotten most of what I ever knew about it. But are you suggesting that they have somehow used the wrong methodology (if that's the right word)? That would have been picked up by someone with the relevant knowledge when the findings were published, surely. I think straws are being clutched at now.

It's just describing the method of statistical analysis used, isn't it?

Foxangels Fox Angels will help if you find an injured fox or need help to remove a fox from your house. https://www.foxangelsfoundation.org/ They have locally (to ED) based volunteers and in my experience are very quick to respond if you message them via their Facebook page. I sadly had a dying fox in my garden one year, and no other organisation I tried could help. Fox Angels took him to a vet (sadly he couldn't be saved)

I sincerely hope that isn't true 🤣

I just tried to "like" a post and I got a message saying I could not add any more reactions today. Is this a new rule, or have I just been more restrained in the past?! No idea why that last bit is underlined . ..

I'm waiting with bated breath here too.

Oh. I see Neil Coyle was involved. These concerns about the election were raised a bit late in the day, weren't they? I hope somebody didn't wait until James McCash had resigned from his primary school teaching job before raising them, because on the face of it that would seem really vindictive. 🙄

That doesn't sound very hygienic. I would like to start swimming there again, but that has put me off. Why would anybody be taking tissues into the water? Who is responsible for the quality of the water? Surely there must be some sort of public hygiene regulations relating to this?

Fair enough. I misunderstood your post.

Thank you for this. I've got three large holes dug by foxes in a very small garden! I haven't seen any actual foxes or any other sign of them. I think it's possible they may have been after ground nesting bees, as one of the holes is in a place I had white tailed bees nesting in the past. I've ordered some Scoot (found it cheapest on eBay with free delivery). It would probably drive everyone else away as well, though - I like to sit in my garden!

I am bowing out of having anything to do with the community notice board issue now. I just went back to the beginning of the thread to read it through again, because I couldn't remember how the whole discussion started. I then saw that the OP appears to have recently been right through the thread they started in January and added various emojis to posts, including a quite inappropriate laughing emoji on a post concerning their own editing and/or deletion of at least one very nasty post about at least one other forum member. It seems a bit ironic that that should be on a forum thread they started about an issue supposedly to benefit the community. And they have also put "confused" emojis on some of my posts which seem perfectly clear to me. I imagine that when they read this they will go back and remove the emojis. Hopefully they now have enough information from Pugwash about the keys and the location of unlocked noticeboards to finish their original excellent quest, which apparently started well over a year ago when they began emailing councillors, because I no longer have any inclination to spend more time on it.

What would be helpful, Jazzer, do you think?

Not as exciting as the death cap mushroom case 🤣

I think everyone else was too 🙄