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M wife is a long time reader but doesn't contribute..! Woke up this morning and she regaled me with a nightmare, one involved a trip to Dublin and mistaking her iPhone for a bar of chocolate...the next episode involved a certain contributor from here (don't worry none of the existing members) who turned up at our house with his (male partner) - turns out he was only 5 foot tall....maybe we should hold back a bit on the cheese...
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>maybe we should hold back a bit on the cheese..
I'd cut down on the LSD as well.
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Legal hallucinogens have been illegal for a few days now, best not to admit to their use on a public access forum. :-)
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I have that problem with eating just before bed time.
It usually involves a static caravan in Yorkshire, a steam train running through it, with a tall would be Chilean pontificating with his side kick from Reading who is on stilts.
I run.....and run....and I can never hide until a ginger bloke saves me and a very posh hippy with grey hair and a kind heart says 'Peace my dear, peace':)
....and gives me a fag and a drink!
Pat
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If I were you I wouldn't worry about someone like me running after you.
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That sounds like me and AC, Pat.
Only I wouldn't have any coffin nails on me.
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@ Pat
Avez vous ever visited: www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/229/boscawenun.html
I've only just 'discovered' it, but then I have only lived down here for 9 teen years.
8-)
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Yes, I've been to Boscawen stones many times but only discovered them because I used to load potatoes out of the field next door and it was commonly known as 'the stones'!
Pat
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My sister is orf to Banns Farm near St Buryan tomorrow (Sat) that's how I came to 'discover' that stone circle.
Then I was reading up on occult connections to St Buryan over the last few hundred years (and today) when I stumbled upon this site occult-world.com/joan-wytte/ just before my nightly jaunt with Cody, my Pointer.
I went upstairs for a jimmy before going out and lo and behold there was I bat in my toilet!!
Gawd knows how he got in because the windows have been closed all day, and they only come out at night.
All I can think of is it is someone's familiar.
(*_*)
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Most common bat is a pipistrelle and they are tiny really. They are also the first ones to fly at dusk before it is fully dark. If you know what you are looking for, pretty easy to see this time of year.
I built a couple of what one might call, bat radios, to shift their squeaks down frequency so that they are audible.
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>>Most common bat is a pipistrelle and they are tiny really
I must admit this bat in the loo yesterday evening really startled me at the time (and some!) I mean, you don't expect to find a bat in the loo do you.
I actually ran out because I had no idea what it was at first, I suppose it brought back the time I was in the Harz mountains, opened my bedroom window and a hornet flew in ... and I flew out!! as I've never seen (or heard) a hornet before.
Gimme a bull in a field and I know where I am (can I run!) but something small like a pipistrelle bat in a small enclosed space, well, I really lose it I'm afraid to say.
:o}
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People are freaked out by bats because they think they will get tangled in their hair. Bats have more sense, and their aerobatic ability always amazes me. We used to sit outside our old house at twilight, I think the bats lived in the church opposite, with them flitting around us but we never came into physical contact. Wonderful things.
Sitting out on one such occasion, a barn owl also glided right past us. Utterly silent, almost ghostly.
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I like to see bats, but preferably not in the smallest room :) I often see them here at dusk, I used to think they were swallows.
When we lived up on Bodmin Moor, we used to often see a barn owl flying low over our field, quite a sight really for a clown from sowf lunden to see.
There used to be one hereabouts when we moved here 5 years ago, but the barns have been converted now, so I presume it has moved on to a new abode.
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A few years ago we had a dreadful self-catering holiday in a converted granary in Wales. When we arrived, the owner mentioned the colony of bats under the roof tiles, but we're nature-lovers and decided to simply keep the windows closed at night. The next morning, we found a dead bat in the kitchen sink and discovered the scale of the problem. The hand-formed roof timbers were exposed inside and the bats were inbetween the plaster laths and the roof tiles. Due to the organic nature of the timbers, there were small gaps in the plaster where they could get into the living area.
Undaunted, we started leaving the windows open so that they could fly in and out. Their flight can be rather beautiful. They don't touch or hit you, but they fly so close that the air currents created make it feel as if they're touching. When you see them fly straight at a rough-plastered wall and cling to it, you wonder what it would feel like if they did hit you. We didn't exactly enjoy it, but managed okay until the last night. The bedroom was closed off, so we slept with the window open a mere crack. In the middle of the night, we woke to find a bat flying around above us. It must have got underneath the door. I leapt out of bed, opened the window and thrashed around wildly with a rolled-up newspaper until it flew out. We never got to sleep again that night.
You may well ask why we put up with it. Simple - we're not complainers and we don't give in easily. I noted afterwards that if you had a complaint, you had to register it with the letting agency within the first 24 hours. Going through the necessary, preceding rigmarole after a 300 mile drive is, I think, a tall order. I did warn others afterwards, however, on the Money Saving Expert holiday forum, without getting any replies.
As far as I can tell, the accommodation is no longer advertised. Strangely, the visitors book indicated that some people loved the bats. I think we may have been unlucky in that it was the breeding season. We were told that 90 had once been counted exiting the roof.
And one other thing - they smell, not unlike mice.
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I would have failed to cope and been sleeping in the car.
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I grew up with pipistrelles in the nearby woods - wildest Scotland. We frequently had bats in our bedrooms. Consequently I don't mind. See a few here in the evenings..
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Bats are quite cute really.
The Greater Horseshoe has a a bit of an image problem though.
www.pixelbirds.co.uk/2009images/webghb1.jpg
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>>The Greater Horseshoe has a bit of an image problem though.
'King hell, now will have nightmares!!
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This is one of them. I didn't hang around to check the focussing.
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b'Jesus ... if I showed that to the missus she'd want to sleep in my bed tonight!!
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>> mistaking her
>> iPhone for a bar of chocolate...the next episode involved a certain
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Mars bar?
>> turns out he was only 5 foot tall....
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Was it Mick Jagger by any chance?
4Play nightmare.
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A certain gentleman, ex of Royal Leamington Spa (or was that a Spar?), turning up with big hairy dogs, a 4x4, Dennis the Menace shirt, and asking for beer at 2am.
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Like I'd wear a Dennis the Menace shirt.
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>> Woke up this morning and
>> she regaled me with a nightmare, one involved a trip to Dublin and mistaking her
>> iPhone for a bar of chocolate...the next episode involved a certain contributor from here (don't
>> worry none of the existing members) who turned up at our house
I think your true nightmare will start when she realises you've posted her fantasies on here..;-)
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'Legal highs' are a silly idea. Illegal ones are much more effective and probably less harmful.
Of course intoxicants aren't compulsory, indeed they can be harmful and quite often are. No reason why we should all be staggering about half-cut all the time.
But it does ease things along, being half-cut. No need to go to toxic extremes is there?
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Bloomin heck AC are a convert to Methodism...?
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Car4Play nightmare. - No FM2R
