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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @sam bevington   Awful!  We came home once to a scene like this in the hen run!  Never found the culprit - we thought a fox or maybe something like a stoat.  Never happened since.   
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Oh dear 😢 🤗 ☕️ sounds like a fox to me. They can leap quite a height or even climb and scramble over rigid fencing. 
    Were the poultry not shut away in a sturdy henhouse? 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Buzzards eat what they kill. Foxes don't. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I am sorry to hear that @sam bevington. It sounds like the work of a fox to me too. Many years ago a fox got into the chicken run where my Aunt kept her hens, and it was a scene just as you described. 
    It's heartbreaking l know.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I agree with SteveTu about discrimination - there shouldn't be any.  Positive discrimination toward one group is negative discrimination against another.  In the workplace the job should go to the applicant best suited to the role, and that's not simply the person who is best technically qualified.  The intangible 'fit' is very important too.
    Trades unions certainly helped the workforce massively in their early days, but also brought the country to its knees in the 70's when workers didn't dare to disagree with the union reps.  That was simply a new form of tyranny and control of the workers.
    Equal pay for equal work is certainly good in principle but the problem comes when they try to compare jobs and some bright spark says they are of equal value?  And don't get me started on female players at tennis Grand Slams being paid the same as the men.  Women play 3 sets, ment play 5.  On that basis every woman working 3 days a week should be paid the same as a man working 5 .
  • Fairness and equality isn't just about equal pay for equal work ... whether it be for tennis or working in a factory.  When a male tennis player can win a Grand Slam whilst pregnant perhaps he'll be worth as much as a woman  ;)  B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @Dovefromabove   That'll be the frosty Friday!!   :D
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Isnt that a feature of the model Allotment Boy!! Who was it that said, "If you cannot do what you like, learn to like what you do"
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Sunny, and windy.  Gramp of the day, did my washing, pegged it out, the newest, most expensive fitted sheet I have has gone threadbare!!  So down to one sheet, did a click and collect at Dunelm, got another
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    GRUMP even!!!
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