Sue

lousmith Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw the very thing on you tube here: > > An adult rat is obviously more of a challenge and > the outcome is touch and go. I won't spoil the > end. > Pelican eats pigeon is worth a watch too. xxxxxxx OMG :))

Don't you mean "whaur's" ?? :)) ETA: And "wis" ??

lousmith Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > how big are they? last year's frogs will be still > pretty small like a monkey nut or smaller. The hot > weather will bring them to water. They won't be > ready to breed for a few years yet.Still got your > plant trays btw, can't remember your house no. > I'll drop them off if you pm me. > > xxxxxx Some of them are quite big. They don't look full size though. One is about monkey nut size, and very clearly much smaller than the others. I wonder where they can have come from if they're not last year's? I had damsel flies in my garden yesterday and today - possibly hatched from the larvae (not the right word) that came with the sadly eaten frogspawn (R.I.P.)

Hey, I went out tonight to water the garden (with a can - many of them :-S ) and saw FROGS in my tub! There are at least three of them! Can these be ones that hatched from tadpoles last year? I thought they disappeared and didn't come back to their place of birth for a few years???

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > well, someone has to say it: > > STONE THE CROWS! xxxxxx Sorry PGC, somebody already did, on the first page :)) Though not in capital letters .....

I'm sure a beekeeper has posted on the forum in the past. Maybe if you did a search for "bees" something might come up?

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sure I heard house martins today, but I didn't see > them. xxxxxx I heard a (very annoying!) bird yesterday which sounded like the squeaky wheel sound of the Great Tit only very very very much louder, interspersed with what sounded like radio interference :)) Never heard it before, and it went on for ages!! I took my life in my hands by standing on a rickety garden chair to try to see the bird, which sounded like it was in a garden a couple of houses down, but no luck :))

Only me! - that's so interesting, because for me it's the other way round. The fat balls get eaten the most, particularly by a family of Great Tits. After that the peanuts. I have some sort of seed mix, can't remember what, which has only just begun to be eaten by what looked like a baby sparrow, but not sure - keep meaning to look up whether they have speckled breasts when young. And the niger - not at all :-S I have Blackbirds, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Robins, Wood Pigeons, Sparrows. Used to have a Wren and also Starlings, but haven't seen either lately. Never seen a finch of any kind nor a Jay in my garden here, but would love to (hence the niger for the finches - I live in hope!). My favourite garden visitors are Woodpeckers and Long Tailed Tits, but I don't think it's likely I'll get either where I live now. I used to get Mum, Dad and Baby Great Spotted Woodpecker coming down to the peanuts. The most unusual bird I ever saw from my window was a Tree Creeper, but that was when I lived on a farm.

There have always been sparrows in ED, I have them in my garden. Very jealous about the goldfinches though, I've never seen one here even though I have a niger seed feeder in the hope of attracting them!

Too late now, but you could also get a 40 to the Elephant and then the Bakerloo line to Oxford Circus. Because the Elephant is the starting station for the Bakerloo, you'd be almost bound to get on easily, I'd have thought?

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi Sue, > Can you upload the photos or a link to them - > please? xxxxxx Will do later, busy at the mo :) Some other people were taking photos too :)

Absolutely brilliant craftsmanship by the guy painting the "SLOW" etc signs on the road! Like something out of a history book. White paint dribbling from a little can with total accuracy. I took some photos!

sunbob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I noticed a strong blossom smell in pr park today, > which seemed to ne coming off the tons of cow > parsley like stuff round the edges of the wooded > areas. xxxxxx Yes, that's a different smell but also quite distinctive.

Wikipedia description of golliwog with some pictures

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pey supper Sue, it's Pey! Washed doon wi fave > pints o Hivvy! xxxxxx Blimey, you a Dundonian? You've got the accent spot on :)) :)-D

Black pudding supper, white pudding supper, haggis supper, pie supper - those were the days. Emily's has got nothing on Greasy Pete's up the Perth Road in Dundee :))

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Smelt like cat piss to me. xxxxxx Yes, it's not a pleasant smell, in my opinion. But very distinctive :))

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> > I Totaly agree with Pickle ... broadband > increasingly unreliable, which coincides with lots > of marketing calls > > xxxxx When I had something similar with PlusNet not long ago, I was told I was being paranoid :))

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue what was the Furore last year? xxxxxx One of the stalls at the Festival Fair on Goose Green (not the hospice, I think it was one of those retro furniture places) was selling golliwogs. I didn't see them myself, but somebody posted something on here about it and started a heated discussion. I can't remember the subject title of the thread. So far as this year's are concerned, there were two very different types of golly being sold on the hospice's stall on Sunday, and I'd be very surprised if the same person makes both types. One lot were like little statues and looked like the old Robertson's jam ones from the fifties (?), and the others were made of material and stuffed and were much more in-your-face. They were being displayed next to each other. I saw the Robertson ones first and made some comment to the stallholder, but then I saw the other ones - which in my opinion were much worse - and that was when I told her that they could cause offence. I was very surprised that she seemed totally unconcerned, but I really didn't want to ruin my (and probably her) afternoon by making a big issue of it.

Yes I'm sure it's rape. Funnily enough I said to my OH yesterday that I could smell rape, and that it was the first time I had smelled it this year. I know it's flowering at the moment because I passed fields of it on the way to Whitstable on the train last weekend, and said at the time that it was odd that I hadn't smelled it yet. I don't know where the nearest plants are to ED though???? ETA: I also smelled it really strongly this evening, and in fact the smell was so strong that I thought it must be something else.

After the furore last year - on this forum at least - I was somewhat surprised to see that the hospice stall at yesterday's festival was selling two different types of golliwogs, and didn't seem at all bothered when I pointed out that they could cause offence to some people.

Lowlander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We burn Homfire smokeless coal in our open fire > through the winter, approved for smoke free areas > > You can buy it from any petrol station in the cold > months or online from coal merchants > > Regular coal and logs are widely available (again > petrol stations) although clearly marked "not for > use in smoke free areas". I suspect a lot gets > burnt after dark. xxxxxx The DIY shop in Lordship Lane at the Goose Green end also sells smokeless fuel.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We toured a few houses today. Great fun and some > lovely work but it does feel a bit odd going into > someone's private home. xxxxxxx I think the homes are as interesting as the art :)) My highlight art-wise today was Simona Aru's photographs - brilliant.

Yawn .....

If she was there "officially" then Angela Burgess (the fair organiser) will have her contact details - see the Dulwich Festival thread in this section for Angela's email address (it's in one of the last posts).