And now the news where you are.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/woman-smashes-partners-laptop-tv-5553328

She seems like a nice lady...

[Futtocks]

18 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/woman-smashes-partners-laptop-tv-5553328

She seems like a nice lady...

"Funky Pigeon means nothing to me"

Ooooooohhh Vienna!

[Bearman]

My recycling bin has not been emptied. It was supposed to collected on Friday and the council advised us that there was some sort of dispute with the workers. We were told to leave our bins out and they would be collected either Saturday or Monday. This happened two weeks a go too.

Funny thing is they never forget to collect my payment from the bank.

[Bob8]

Village news:

- The crows are loud, someone has called the council to complain
- A grate near the cyclepath is missing again, so e careful!

[Bleep1673]

14 hours ago, Bob8 said:

Village news:

- The crows are loud, someone has called the council to complain
- A grate near the cyclepath is missing again, so e careful!

If someone complains about loud Crows in the UK, you can Guarantee they would be fixed under a protection order so you can't shoot them.

The scavenging Gulls around Hastings are under a protection order, they hang around outside Greggs, and chip shops and attack anybody trying to eat, and you can't fight back because they have a protection order. 

I actually had the last bite of a Lamb Samosa stolen by one, as I went to kick the Gull a PSCO told me off (Yes, I know, shock treatment).

Edited June 23, 2021 by Bleep1673

[Bleep1673]

I don't know where to put this, but..

I was coming back from the shop, approximately 11.15 am this morning, when I noticed something above me, I looked over, and about 1/4 mile of the seafront & about the same above, was a Good-Year Blimp, heading East, wind behind it. It looked so elegant,  so smooth, I just stood there & watched it for about 20 mins, dissappear. I did not have my phone or camera on me, which annoyed me.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

7 hours ago, Bleep1673 said:

I don't know where to put this, but..

I was coming back from the shop, approximately 11.15 am this morning, when I noticed something above me, I looked over, and about 1/4 mile of the seafront & about the same above, was a Good-Year Blimp, heading East, wind behind it. It looked so elegant,  so smooth, I just stood there & watched it for about 20 mins, dissappear. I did not have my phone or camera on me, which annoyed me.

That's interesting Bleep but I think it would be best for all of us if you didn't skirt around the issue and just admit that what you saw was a UFO.

[Bleep1673]

12 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

That's interesting Bleep but I think it would be best for all of us if you didn't skirt around the issue and just admit that what you saw was a UFO.

No, it was witnessed, by, surprisingly for around here, a sober couple, and 2 blokes playing bowls. 

[Bleep1673]

On 01/07/2021 at 23:08, The Hallucinating Goose said:

That's interesting Bleep but I think it would be best for all of us if you didn't skirt around the issue and just admit that what you saw was a UFO.

No, the only Aliens that arrive in Hastings are on boats from France, and that's by accident. Non-terrestrial Aliens would do some research first.

[JohnM]

Learnt this  today after visit to Breakish (Skye) cemetery and seeing Commonwealth War Graves. HMS Curaçao sliced in 2 by RMS Queen Mary troop ship. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Curacoa_(D41)?wprov=sfla1

Edited July 4, 2021 by JohnM

[Futtocks]

Spanish porn star charged with reckless homicide after toad venom death: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/europe/spanish-porn-star-toad-venom-death-scli-intl/index.html

Edited July 18, 2021 by Futtocks

[Bleep1673]

What a stupid place to live. On a day like today, when the atmospherics are at their worst, I can't pick up Hastings local Radio Station, but I can pick up 10 French talk Radios.

[DavidM]

I think the story about the runaway tortoise who escaped his enclosure by scaling a high fence and got caught half a mile away a year later is one of my favourite news stories ever

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Well just down the road from here the bomb disposal squad are preparing to blow up half of Goole. Probably the best thing to happen to the place in decades. 

[Ullman]

Remember folks, always apply the handbrake.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/car-submerged-river-humber-sparks-5744272

[Farmduck]

"Shopper Helaina Alati, who happens to be a former snake catcher, was luckily on hand to return the three-metre python to nearby bushland"

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/17/python-shocks-sydney-shoppers-by-slithering-along-supermarket-spice-shelf

[voteronniegibbs]

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Edited August 24, 2022 by voteronniegibbs

[Exiled Townie]

From our local Herts Advertiser - 

"Don't go to pieces at the news that Harpenden is to hold it's first-ever jigsaw festival.

The festival is taking place between August 27-30. Organisers have been overwhelmed by the support from the local community in donating and making up jigsaw puzzles and there will be well over 1,000 puzzles available to view and to buy over the three day festival",  and before you laugh at the southern softies, the article ends  "The original idea for a Harpenden festival came from one of the organisers seeing a similar event in Lancashire in 2019 and suggesting upon his return that our town might follow suit."

[The Hallucinating Goose]

5 hours ago, Exiled Townie said:

From our local Herts Advertiser - 

"Don't go to pieces at the news that Harpenden is to hold it's first-ever jigsaw festival.

The festival is taking place between August 27-30. Organisers have been overwhelmed by the support from the local community in donating and making up jigsaw puzzles and there will be well over 1,000 puzzles available to view and to buy over the three day festival",  and before you laugh at the southern softies, the article ends  "The original idea for a Harpenden festival came from one of the organisers seeing a similar event in Lancashire in 2019 and suggesting upon his return that our town might follow suit."

Decent! I'll have to get to that! 

[CanaBull]

Challenging one for us this week: https://www.simcoe.com/whatson-story/10398740-can-you-find-a-mallard-duck-as-part-of-bob-s-bird-search-/

[CanaBull]

And hot on the heels of mallard duck searching, in Bradford, Ontario this week, hold onto your hats, it's Carrot Fest!

https://www.simcoe.com/news-story/10456176--carrot-fest-is-a-staple-celebration-returns-to-downtown-bradford/

[Shadow]

Our local scouts fundraising fair has been cancelled again due to Covid so they have this instead

https://www.facebook.com/SuperSplottery

 

[Phil]

The council want to chop down a nearby tree as it’s roots could undermine an electricity sub station, the local residents are split about 50/50 two old guys came to blows over the garden fence yesterday.

Local councillors have appealed for calm 

[Futtocks]

 

[Exiled Townie]

Shock horror headlines, "Water to run out in 50 years"

(Well, water in chalk streams in the south east to be exact, but probably not if we take action now.)

https://www.bedfordshirelive.co.uk/news/bedfordshire-news/water-run-out-in-50-5581896?fbclid=IwAR2reqF2UVUl5JhQZ0LMd2P8wwz8JsEejVRsnifnIxiZ2fmfX-zqOZoAsik