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they do have to eat you know!  I know, Milly, but your lot up there sound like softies. These are big, mean, ruthless city gulls, and I bet they operate a syndicate. They swoop and snatch food out your hand, or children's! It can get really Hitchcockian. A colleague of mine had his mobile snatched by a gull a while ago. I'll settle for this:  |
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« Reply #1381 on: 12:26:27, 03-08-2007 » |
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Thanks Ian. Are those for the gulls, or my neighbours? Yes, Mort, just like that! There are several varieties of gull, but the worst are these massive, ugly critters, about the size of a Jack Russell:  Don't your neighbours have any of these?  A bit less drastic than some of the other suggestions; and here in one of Brighton's more geriatric suburbs the Council forces us to use them without mercy ... Really must get on with some work |
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« Reply #1382 on: 12:26:52, 03-08-2007 » |
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Ian, That looked like a rather fetching, if unusual, table lamp until I moved closer to the screen. It is truly time for an eye test   |
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« Reply #1383 on: 12:28:57, 03-08-2007 » |
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Don't your neighbours have any of these? A bit less drastic than some of the other suggestions; and here in one of Brighton's more geriatric suburbs the Council forces us to use them without mercy ... Really must get on with some workPW, yes I know and I wish they'd enforce that down here by the raffish seafront! |
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« Reply #1384 on: 12:32:04, 03-08-2007 » |
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Beautiful herring gull. There's plenty of them around here but they never bother anyone. Indeed, to be fair to the birds: there's world of difference between seagulls as they can be and the sorry specimens they (and for that matter humans  ) become when they end up dependent on chips! Pigeons as well - the city version of the bird is a dreadfully sad thing but you don't have to get all that far out of the city before you can see them in a guise which alas makes the city one look all the sadder... |
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« Reply #1385 on: 12:38:27, 03-08-2007 » |
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On the other hand, isn`t the fragrant Julie Burchill a Brighton resident? In which case the Council could record her dulcet tones and broadcast them on a continous loop via loudspeakers along the front. That should get `em on the run. There is of course the risk that it may have the same effect on residents. |
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« Reply #1386 on: 13:04:40, 03-08-2007 » |
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On the other hand, isn`t the fragrant Julie Burchill a Brighton resident?
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« Reply #1388 on: 16:30:41, 03-08-2007 » |
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After all these weeks of coldness and wetness, it's flippin' boiling!!!!!!!!! *pants (like a dog )* |
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« Reply #1389 on: 16:40:05, 03-08-2007 » |
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After all these weeks of coldness and wetness, it's flippin' boiling!!!!!!!!! *pants (like a dog )* It's horrible here. Hot, but dull, grey and oppressive. Real headachey thunderstorm weather. I've just had my second headache injection today. Most unusual to have two in 24 hours. There's a really awful glare as well because the sun is fighting to get through the thick clouds so I've been wearing shades all day. Speaking of dogs, mine is laid out panting on the ceramic tiles in the kitchen which is the coolest place for him. |
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« Reply #1390 on: 17:33:17, 03-08-2007 » |
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*pants (like a dog )* What a strange place England has become since I left it. Do dogs really wear pants down there now? And are they so efficacious that you feel the need for them too? |
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« Reply #1391 on: 17:42:32, 03-08-2007 » |
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Of course some dogs do it in style.  |
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« Reply #1392 on: 17:45:17, 03-08-2007 » |
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But this is more like it at my house.  |
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« Reply #1393 on: 17:47:20, 03-08-2007 » |
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