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That's Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. Trust me, that's the only part of the entire Hebridean archipelago that looks like that.Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:53 pm
Looks beautiful AT. I’d love to visit the Scottish islands some day. I imagine it’s just like Balamory! (What’s the story?)
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Didn’t have you down as a Balamory fan Bruce!Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:04 pmThat's Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. Trust me, that's the only part of the entire Hebridean archipelago that looks like that.Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:53 pm
Looks beautiful AT. I’d love to visit the Scottish islands some day. I imagine it’s just like Balamory! (What’s the story?)
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There is a very short row of houses down in Portree harbour with the pastel frontage. Mainly just wet, windy and misty hereGooner Girl wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:13 pmDidn’t have you down as a Balamory fan Bruce!Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:04 pmThat's Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. Trust me, that's the only part of the entire Hebridean archipelago that looks like that.Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:53 pm
Looks beautiful AT. I’d love to visit the Scottish islands some day. I imagine it’s just like Balamory! (What’s the story?)
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Should be a ‘today I’m traumatised by’ thread. Walking to school this morning with the kids, my neighbour and her kids. Only a short walk, mostly across the village common but there’s one busy road to cross and today it was far busier then normal as the local big agricultural show was starting with everyone heading to it. Anyway, a tiny little bird hopped across our path on the pavement and started out between a couple of parked cars across the road. I think it was a fledging leaving the nest as it wasn’t flying at all. Anyway, I could see what was going to happen so handed the dogs lead to my son and made out to try and get it, but too late, we all watched and listened in horror as the poor little thing got squashed right by us by a car. Gutted. I know it’s nature, just one in several billion birds, but if I’d just been 30 seconds quicker…
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God bless you for your humanity G.G. It's much to your credit.
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Cheers Tango. Just feeling a bit gutted I didn’t get to it in timeTANGODANCER wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:32 amGod bless you for your humanity G.G. It's much to your credit.
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Listened is the word. I was sat having a modish cigarette on a Parisian bench when a pigeon got run over about 5 yards away from me. I can still hear it
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Yes, there was a proper ‘crunch’ which left us in no doubt what had happened before the car even went on! Grim! Hopefully won’t scar the kids for life! Girl child is a bit sensitive to things like that. Youngest went off cheerfully saying he was going to tell his teacher. (Lucky her!)
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Well that's me rumbled thenGooner Girl wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:13 pmDidn’t have you down as a Balamory fan Bruce!Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:04 pmThat's Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. Trust me, that's the only part of the entire Hebridean archipelago that looks like that.Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:53 pm
Looks beautiful AT. I’d love to visit the Scottish islands some day. I imagine it’s just like Balamory! (What’s the story?)
It's one of those thing's that's simply synonymous/unavoidable, like Portmeirion and The Prisoner, Gold Hill, Shaftesbury with Hovis, Bolton and whatever it is that they're filming on Le Mans Crescent whilst pretending it to be somewhere else this week That sort of thing.
Mull is absolutely gorgeous (though we did fluke the weather) and is somewhere I'm sure you'd absolutely love. Not just Tobermory (which has a fish restaurant whose menu comprises whatever they happened to catch on their little boat that afternoon) but down to Iona and across the island to white sandy beaches and blue water (no, I'm not joshin' ya). No end of walks and places of interest. Perhaps not a place to take the kids though, not until they're a fair bit older anyway.
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Walking the dog a couple of years ago, a pigeon ambling along the pavement decided to fly off, straight into the front of an approaching car. I can still hear the thud and see the explosion of feathers.Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:15 pmYes, there was a proper ‘crunch’ which left us in no doubt what had happened before the car even went on! Grim! Hopefully won’t scar the kids for life! Girl child is a bit sensitive to things like that. Youngest went off cheerfully saying he was going to tell his teacher. (Lucky her!)
That reminded me of the first time I called to meet you and the kids. Driving from yours to the M23 a pheasant flew across my path. Tried my best to brake, but again, I can still hear the thud and see the feathers floating up. On the plus side, it didn’t damage my car.
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On the major plus side, there are plenty of deer along that road so it could have been worse.Burnden Paddock wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:31 pmWalking the dog a couple of years ago, a pigeon ambling along the pavement decided to fly off, straight into the front of an approaching car. I can still hear the thud and see the explosion of feathers.Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:15 pmYes, there was a proper ‘crunch’ which left us in no doubt what had happened before the car even went on! Grim! Hopefully won’t scar the kids for life! Girl child is a bit sensitive to things like that. Youngest went off cheerfully saying he was going to tell his teacher. (Lucky her!)
That reminded me of the first time I called to meet you and the kids. Driving from yours to the M23 a pheasant flew across my path. Tried my best to brake, but again, I can still hear the thud and see the feathers floating up. On the plus side, it didn’t damage my car.
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I'm afraid I'm on something of a bird/car interface roll at the minute. Coming back from my mum's a couple of weeks ago and a splendidly plump-breasted wood pigeon was pecking away at something in the middle of the road as I approached. I was hoping it'd fly off before I reached it, and it didn't, so then I hoped it wouldn't raise its head as I passed over it, and it did. Then, last week in Scotland, same scenario, two albatross-esque gulls pecking at summat or other in the middle of the road - one manged to fly to the side whereas the other had barely left the ground when it hit the front of my car. Feathers everywhere.
I'm consoling myself by working on the theory that I've provided something else in the food chain with nature's equivalent of the TV dinner..... twice
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Aye, I’d like to visit the Scottish highlands and Lake District but I don’t think either are especially child friendly. My parents went to the Scilly Isles the other day, another place I bet is spectacular. One day!Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:18 pmWell that's me rumbled thenGooner Girl wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:13 pmDidn’t have you down as a Balamory fan Bruce!Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:04 pmThat's Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. Trust me, that's the only part of the entire Hebridean archipelago that looks like that.Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:53 pm
Looks beautiful AT. I’d love to visit the Scottish islands some day. I imagine it’s just like Balamory! (What’s the story?)
It's one of those thing's that's simply synonymous/unavoidable, like Portmeirion and The Prisoner, Gold Hill, Shaftesbury with Hovis, Bolton and whatever it is that they're filming on Le Mans Crescent whilst pretending it to be somewhere else this week That sort of thing.
Mull is absolutely gorgeous (though we did fluke the weather) and is somewhere I'm sure you'd absolutely love. Not just Tobermory (which has a fish restaurant whose menu comprises whatever they happened to catch on their little boat that afternoon) but down to Iona and across the island to white sandy beaches and blue water (no, I'm not joshin' ya). No end of walks and places of interest. Perhaps not a place to take the kids though, not until they're a fair bit older anyway.
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Go veggie for a night and save a chickens life in returnBruce Rioja wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:11 pmI'm afraid I'm on something of a bird/car interface roll at the minute. Coming back from my mum's a couple of weeks ago and a splendidly plump-breasted wood pigeon was pecking away at something in the middle of the road as I approached. I was hoping it'd fly off before I reached it, and it didn't, so then I hoped it wouldn't raise its head as I passed over it, and it did. Then, last week in Scotland, same scenario, two albatross-esque gulls pecking at summat or other in the middle of the road - one manged to fly to the side whereas the other had barely left the ground when it hit the front of my car. Feathers everywhere.
I'm consoling myself by working on the theory that I've provided something else in the food chain with nature's equivalent of the TV dinner..... twice
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I have a strong pedigree in the Scottish Open, too. Once, I had feathers stuck in my grille for weeks - they make quite a pop!Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:11 pmI'm afraid I'm on something of a bird/car interface roll at the minute. Coming back from my mum's a couple of weeks ago and a splendidly plump-breasted wood pigeon was pecking away at something in the middle of the road as I approached. I was hoping it'd fly off before I reached it, and it didn't, so then I hoped it wouldn't raise its head as I passed over it, and it did. Then, last week in Scotland, same scenario, two albatross-esque gulls pecking at summat or other in the middle of the road - one manged to fly to the side whereas the other had barely left the ground when it hit the front of my car. Feathers everywhere.
I'm consoling myself by working on the theory that I've provided something else in the food chain with nature's equivalent of the TV dinner..... twice
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Nearly ran over a duck crossing the road in the high street today. Would seem the birds of this village have some kind of death wish…Worthy4England wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:00 pmI have a strong pedigree in the Scottish Open, too. Once, I had feathers stuck in my grille for weeks - they make quite a pop!Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:11 pmI'm afraid I'm on something of a bird/car interface roll at the minute. Coming back from my mum's a couple of weeks ago and a splendidly plump-breasted wood pigeon was pecking away at something in the middle of the road as I approached. I was hoping it'd fly off before I reached it, and it didn't, so then I hoped it wouldn't raise its head as I passed over it, and it did. Then, last week in Scotland, same scenario, two albatross-esque gulls pecking at summat or other in the middle of the road - one manged to fly to the side whereas the other had barely left the ground when it hit the front of my car. Feathers everywhere.
I'm consoling myself by working on the theory that I've provided something else in the food chain with nature's equivalent of the TV dinner..... twice
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We have wild rabbits, birds, chickens, sheep and wild cats running amok. Add in single track roads with more pot hole than road...Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:41 pmNearly ran over a duck crossing the road in the high street today. Would seem the birds of this village have some kind of death wish…Worthy4England wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:00 pmI have a strong pedigree in the Scottish Open, too. Once, I had feathers stuck in my grille for weeks - they make quite a pop!Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:11 pmI'm afraid I'm on something of a bird/car interface roll at the minute. Coming back from my mum's a couple of weeks ago and a splendidly plump-breasted wood pigeon was pecking away at something in the middle of the road as I approached. I was hoping it'd fly off before I reached it, and it didn't, so then I hoped it wouldn't raise its head as I passed over it, and it did. Then, last week in Scotland, same scenario, two albatross-esque gulls pecking at summat or other in the middle of the road - one manged to fly to the side whereas the other had barely left the ground when it hit the front of my car. Feathers everywhere.
I'm consoling myself by working on the theory that I've provided something else in the food chain with nature's equivalent of the TV dinner..... twice
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Not sure whether to be more gutted today about knocking over a massive tin of paint all over the bedroom carpet, the dog being sick on the sofas or that I trod in a poo (human) when in the swimming pool today teaching year 1 at work.
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The "threes" legend strikes again G.G.Gooner Girl wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:45 pmNot sure whether to be more gutted today about knocking over a massive tin of paint all over the bedroom carpet, the dog being sick on the sofas or that I trod in a poo (human) when in the swimming pool today teaching year 1 at work.
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