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* nothing to do with the post, the visuals just amused me  I think I can be forgiven repeating a good story from the Ukrainian Village days yesterday. I had little to say and no news to speak of. Repeating a good story reminds me of being a child, when, my sister Janet and I would push for my grandmother to recount stories of daring do from her wartime years. Of course we had heard them all before. Many many times before……. The embellished stories of getting trapped in a blackout on the sixth story of a warehouse only inches from an open pulley door and with rats running over her feel….of running for the shelter as the bombers were over and for dressing my uncle Jim in a chenille curtain and high heels as they were being evacuated from their bombed house on Louisa Street, Liverpool We knew them all and delighted in how they were delivered, with a wry smile over the ironing board or sat behind the colander being filled with shelled peas  I was only thinking of my g...

I have noticed how, from time to time, some bloggers like to post a bunch of cartoons they have discovered on the internet. Cartoons are meant to be funny but it is hard to laugh at the following five for painfully obvious reasons, including death, rising infection numbers, overwhelming hospital admissions and sheer  defencelessness. We owe it to our fellow human beings and to overstretched hospital staff to get fully vaccinated. "One for all and all for one,"  as  Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan frequently pledged... from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/3q0ORlO

 No news. On night shift so I will post an old post from way back in 2013 Enjoy Sexing Camilla My profession (aka. Paid job) is as a wildlife ecologist,so I can finally offer you some professional advice John! Since Canada geese are not sexually dimorphic (they have the same plumage), in order to tell the sex of the bird you have to get up close and personal with them. This entails grabbing the goose, putting it on its back between your legs on the ground with the head tucked under your body and pressing hard with your thumbs on either side of the vent/cloacal opening. If it is a gander, a corkscrew shaped appendage will pop out. If not, you have a female. On goose banding days we do hundreds of them at a go. We also do bag checks of duck hunters and it is much easier sexing a dead goose than a live one! So said the delightful Sherry from Spinners End Farm and this morning I took her advice, grabbed Camilla/ Charles ( delete when appropriate) when I let the animals ou...