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66553 seems to have had an argument with most of its consist as its all loaded towards the rear of the train. Still it was extremely pleasant to have a wander about the river bank again. 4O71 16:28 Wentloog Freightliner to Southampton.
Woke up in the wrong bed this morning.
It was mine, but it should have been yours, even though mine is more comfortable.
The shower went cold before I was done washing.
And there was crusty tooth paste on the tube.
Front wheel of my bike wobbled all the way to work.
And my cat listens to me better than the person I have lunch with.
Read a zombie story blog after lunch.
Tried to relate to the main character, it didn’t work, she was a single mum.
Should buy cotton ear buds on the way home.
But this new album I got from that guy whose name I never remember has me distracted.
You message me to say we should talk later.
Seeing friends tonight, I lie.
Wish you would try harder, you tell me.
So do I, I respond quietly (in my head).
See you around is not a good way to leave it.
But we do because there is too much stubbornness between us.
I’ll go to sleep in the wrong bed tonight.
It’ll be mine, but it should be yours, even though mine is more comfortable.
Self-portrait - Best Seen LARGE
Day 95... count down to 100 starts now!
This was a drawing K and I did years ago when we were reconnecting and coming close again after an argument. Edit done today for fuggers GayFabulous challenge!!
FGR - Rainbows can be straight! + Dorks Unite
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATEY-MIGHTY-MAITE!!!
21 questions to answer:
1.) Why is sex so sexy? everything is sexy, so why not sex, too?
2.) What kind of animal are you? cat - preferably big black kind like a panther (hey a dork can dream)
3.) What's grosser than gross? the smell of bacon on the grill - especially if I have got a migraine. Gross!
4.) How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? 54
5.) What was the best thing before sliced bread? a bread knife
6.) Do you poop in the woods? nah!!!! need a clean toilet everytime (I can pee in the woods though, given enough urgency)
7.) What's your favorite sammich? hummous and grilled veg
8.) What's your worst habit? apart from picking my nose?! umm... watching inane TV
9.) If a #2 Pencil is so popular then why is it still #2? middle child has got to get a look in
10.) What is your shoe size? 39, 6.5 or 8 depending on country
11.) When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say? ..........................
12.) What kind of shape are you? (duh like a square or like a circle) oval, most definitely oval
13.) What's yer sign baby? two
14.) What's yer job? hmm... charity fundraising, with a side-line in natural meds
15.) Big Bewbies or Small Bewbies? tiny titties
16.) Where are you from? planet earth (told you I was a dork!)
17.) Do you hang the tp ova or unda? heh? had to look that up. Over, definitely OVER!
18.) What's your phobia? heights, especially cliffs... but have recently discovered I can get a real high from confronting this fear - tis better than drugs (dork!!!)
19.) What do you wash first in the shower? whatever is to hand
20.) Have you ever stuck a foreign object up your nose? umm no...? (is this back to fingers again?)
21.) What do chickens think we taste like? snake
This is also week 7 of 52 weekly self-portraits
“Humour is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things that are insane, illogical, and irrational. And the only way we can live with that fact is to laugh.” ... Unknown
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Two Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) have an argument at the top of a rock pile. Image taken near Hidden Falls Creek on Baranof Island, Inside Passage, Alaska.
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Pourquoi l'anglais, me direz-vous ?
Parce que.
Non, je n'ai pas d'autre argument.
Pourquoi ce reflet ?
Parce que.
Et non, je n'ai toujours pas plus d'argument.
Photo HDR prise le 18 juillet 2019, Grande Rue, à Alençon, en Normandie...
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
I can already sense the arguments brewing with this one :P
43002 stands next to 800009 at Paddington, with the former having been at the head end of 1L48 (0929 dep. off Swansea) and the latter having worked 1P40 (0945 dep. off Great Malvern.)
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres at 11:36am on Thursday May 12th 2022 off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.
THE EASTERN GRAY/EASTERN GREY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS)
By Paul Williams
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
OK
I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes. Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the reintroction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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I forgot it was Extraterrestrial Abductions Day.
There seems to be an argument on who abducts who. The astronauts say they get to abduct the aliens. The aliens are positive it means the astronauts are the ones who get abducted.
For information on Extraterrestrial Abductions Day, see www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/March/extabductday.htm
Northern Flicker ( Red-shafted Flicker) These two males were having a argument. The one on the right took a poke at the chest of the one on the left and almost fell off of its perch. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. It is the only woodpecker that commonly feeds on the ground. There are over 100 common names for the Northern Flicker. Among them are: Yellowhammer, clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names are attempts at imitating some of its calls. Shot through a window covered in rain drops as it was pouring outside. Handheld 1/800sec, f8 iso 3200. IMG_4559
It must be breeding season or something. These birds always stay really high up, so not the easiest to catch without the zoom but you will get the idea here.
I am home now but I still have many photos to sort from my time in Emmaville.
“Circumstances!?! I make circumstances.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Yeah, she said that too...
It must be the hat that made her channel the guy....
A local kid enjoying the views from a rock next to the viewpoint on top of The Treasury.
WARNING: If you go to Petra and want to take "the photo" of The Treasury you may have to pay extra fees to local scammers or have an argument with them.
Tree Swallow; Handsome aerialists with deep-blue iridescent backs and clean white fronts, Tree Swallows are a familiar sight in summer fields and wetlands across northern North America. They chase after flying insects with acrobatic twists and turns, their steely blue-green feathers flashing in the sunlight.
AAD 725B The best photo I could get after a discussion/semi argument over whether I had a right to take a photo or not - a situation I've encountered here before at this scrap business which is apparently run by a completely paranoid individual.
Superman has had a number of frenemies over the years, so here's few of them. I was inspired to make the group after making an improved version of Ghost Soldier. (If you have any arguments about them not being friends and/or enemies of Superman, I advise you to keep it to yourself because I don't care)
Left to right:
Volcana (Claire Selton)
Ruin (Emil Hamilton)
Maxima
Ulysses (Neil Quinn)
Ghost Soldier (unknown)
There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing,
and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.
-Allen and Ivy Dodd
Looking for a nice book... :)
Aquest son els dos gegants masculins de Berga, el vell a l'esquerra i el nou (de finals s. XIX) a la dreta. Com podeu veure, els seus arguments son pesants... i plens de punxes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOnPQ5HEPM
Foto presa a la Patum Extraordinaria del setembre. La Patum SEMPRE es fa per Corpus (entre maig i juny), però aquest 2016 es va donar una 2ª Patum extraordinaria el setembre, en motiu del centenari de la coronació de la Verge de Queralt, patrona de Berga.
La Patum és la celebració més intensa i especial de Catalunya. Em falten paraules per poder-la descriure.
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Those are the "male" giants of the town of Berga, showing their "arguments". They were built arround 1850-1890, and are part of the celebrations of La Patum. On the other side, the tradition of giants in the local festivities is found all arround Catalonia and Europe. In fact the giants, like the "dwarves" are an adopted element in the Patum, not being in the medieval core of the festival.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantes_y_cabezudos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOnPQ5HEPM
The Patum is a festival held in the Catalan town of Berga each year in Corpus Christi. It's a unique event in all over the World. It's so speciall that it's part of UNESCO World Heritage. It's origins are in the middle ages, although in its current form it dates from the last decades of the XIX Century. It beggins in wednesday of Corpus till sunday of Corpus.
More info about La Patum de Berga: