Trojan
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Yes, sorry, I meant in my garden.
I wonder if the spread of red kites is scaring them away. The kites are now regularly hovering only about 20 metres above all the gardens around here - I know they don't usually go for live prey but the garden birds probably don't know that!
edit - thanks Trojan, that would explain it
I've sen red kites over Eccup Resevoir
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Where have all the birds gone? Seriously, all the varieties of #### and finches seem to have just disappeared.
All that is left are a couple of fat wood pigeons, a pair of blackbirds eating our manky old apples, one occasional robin and a fleeting visit from a solitary jay.
What's going on?
Edit T. I. T. S. is not a swear word!
It's the mild winter keeping them in the country according to this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/22/birds-gardens-rspb-winter
I know that on New Years Day, the bird table at my daughters near Stonehenge was swarming with chaffinches, bluetits, coaltits and starlings.
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I don't know how long it is since it snowed in Hull, but I was there on Thursday and there are still huge piles of dirty snow lying about.
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Come on Eileen, Dexy's Midlnight Runners.
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Been snowing in Morley this morning, but it feels warmer than of late. Forecast to get warmer as the week progresses, I hope it doesn't snow on New Years Eve, we're due to drive to Salisbury.
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http://newsthump.com:80/2010/12/20/spare-a...ay-uk-homeless/
Miriam Chimpney-Waters has been at Heathrow for over 11 hours, and despite being stupid enough to think that her flight would be flying out as scheduled, is angry that she is suffering an inconvenience.
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taking delivery of a load of pheasants next week.
Pheasant and partridge are lovely.
I used to work with a bloke who shot pheasant. I went for a weekend to Holland and brought back 400 duty free cigs and swapped him for a brace of pheasant. We cooked them wrapped in bacon, but they came out dry and tasteless, and full of lead shot. Never been tempted again.
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Never tried Rabbit. Saw Rabbit Stifaso at a Tapas Restaurant in Halifax the other week but it wasn't on the early bird menu so I didn't have it!!!!!
I'm cooking xmas dinner and am dying to cook Goose or Quail but I don't think anyone will appreciate it as it's not what we usually have on xmas day.
We nearly had goose last year, they had frozen geese in Lidl, at a good price, but we chickened out and had turkey (geddit) It's all the fat you get with goose that worries me, and will there be enough, or it there's too much what to do with the residue. I even bought a gravy separator to deal with the fat, but didn't need it.
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I worked in Cas for 10 years from 1981 to 1991 and never saw any significant snowfall there. I reckon the heat from Ferrybridge, Drax and Eggborough has something to do with that.
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It's coming either tomorrow, Thursday or Friday
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You're getting old. Have you stocked up on tins of soup and condensed milk?
Tinned soup! We can't afford luxuries like that.
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Got a snow shovel at a garden centre - B&Q don't stock them. I also got a bag of rock salt. It's being so cheerful that keeps me going
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In view of Paul Hudson's warning that we are in for another bad winter, I went to B&Q to buy a new snow shovel - I broke my last one last winter. They hadn't got any
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Days - Kirsty on U tube
Ten years this Christmas -
Just reading in one of Sadler's pieces today that Graham threw his runners-up medal away on Saturday. It was noticeable that he was the first down the tunnel as well. Bad loser.
You know what they say "show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser"
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We'll have no chocolate fireguards comments please - give the lad a chance
Concrete kite then?
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I honestly don't get why we don't publicise this more, is it really that hard to approach one of them for an interview about RL?
There used to be a lot of publicity in the seventies when the likes of Bobby Charlton and Dennis Law used to turn out on Friday nights to watch the then star studded Salford.
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He can be livid if he wants. But he has to keep it in his own head. Outwardly, accept the call and move on. IMO backchatting is a sign of weakness from a player.
Perhaps referees would do well to remember Robin Whitfield and Jeff Grayshon.
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And the Bulls with Potter?
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Happened in one of the playoff games,can't remember which one though. But, it is ideed very rare these days.
Bring back Steve Ganson, that's what I say. He never stood for back chat from anyone.
It happened to Halifax at the HJ last Sunday.
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I had to pick a friend up in Barnsley. Left Barnsley about 3-15 travelled over Woodhead and parked at Brooklands Metrolink accompanied by part of the usual large Hull contingent, we were at Old Trafford Cricket ground by 4-30.
Coming back, we took the wrong road from the station and couldn't find the car
Found it at 9-00, back in Barnsley at 10-00 and home at Morley 10-30 I thought that was pretty good. There's a lot to be said for travelling on the Metorlink the opposite way to most supporters 
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Best team won by a mile. Wigan played all the football and it could have been forty. The one thing that bothered me was the incident where Saints raked the ball in a two man tackle when the Wigan player was about to ground it. for me that wasn't a penalty - it was a penalty try.
Saints dropped far too many passes, missing Pryce and Eastmond, their other key men didn't seem to fire. Graham had a (for him) very quiet game. Not a classic, a bit too one sided for the neutral. The Max Wall contingent behind us left after the hour convinced the game was over - I wasn't - but they were right it was.
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I've heard part of the great expansion of the game, they're actually putting more clubs in Lancashire
Well from what I saw on Sunday Oldham didn't seem to have a clue how to break down the York defence.
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Paul Newlove was a superb centre both at club and international level. The try he scored in the opening test of the 1990 tour is an example of his power. The tries he scored against NZ the year before were examples of his pace. He made Owen Simpson look like Offiah, after he left Fev Owen was never the same player. I believe he did the same for Anthony Sullivan at Saints. In the 1992 Melbourne test he had a brilliant game at the highest level. Put it this way, I wish he was available for both Fev and England today.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
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It wasn't snowing particularly hard, but hard enough to cause gridlock on the M62, I travelled from Jct 28 to Jct 22 and gave it up as a bad job - the road was shut eastbound anyway. So I turned around and retreated to Bradford. (which is what Sir William Fairfax did after the Battle of Adwalton Moor)