There was a bat dropping on top of the Wendy house this week so they're around but just not breeding I guess. I was just watching a group of ten or so swifts flying way above the house though. I could hear them screaming but they were so high up I could only just see them. I love the sound they make and we don't see them very often up here.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I think they’re all in our loft! The mess up there is awful, we go up with a dustpan and brush every so often, they pee on everything so we have to cover everything stored there with big cardboard sheets.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
At work a swift flew into the factory and flew around looking for food I guess. A nice thing to see especially as it often just sat above us on a beam. We were worried it couldn't find a way out but it left before we did. Must have wanted to get off early to watch the game!!!!
Who was Wendy? Why was a house named after her.? We need to know.
We had the odd bat a few years ago. Around about the time when we had stagbeetles. It's a shame local children didn't know about them. If they can convince their parents that they want to be vegan , maybe they could have saved them too.
Oh dear! Loads more comparisons being made with 1966. I wasn't around so did they play at a pathetic sporting event while a major pandemic was happening back then?
Oh and don't mention the Olympics happening end of July, less than a month to go before sportspeople from around the world gather in the over populated coastal fringes of Japan to work hard and thus breath heavily/ deeply for public entertainment. Obviously with other VIPs from around the world invited to watch live. Thus increasing the likelihood that the virus spreads and mutates further.
Just tell me to lockdown one more time!!!!
PS what was the g7 being covid surge like? Nobody heard of zoom or team meetings? World gone mad! Stop the train I want off!
Seriously, anyone think sport watching is more important than public health? Taking part in sport is different.
We've got 3 swallow families breeding here. The ones in the garage have 3 babies just about to fledge. The ones in the woodshed I think had 2, already gone. Not sure how many the third family have as I haven't been into that shed but they're still flying in and out so I assume they are still in the nest. Martins nest in the farmhouse next door. Haven't seen swifts here. I've seen plenty of bats this year too. Not especially insecty here - these things may all be connected
Red ants, all over the lawn, I counted 18 patches yesterday. Who said they don't like cold water, every time it rains I get new piles of soil on the grass. 😡
Just listening to Radio 4 and 'them' talking about electric cars and the need for more charge points. Surely the boffins out there realise that refuelling a car with electricity takes longer than with a fluid? So if you currently have 'n' million pumps at 2-3 mins per fill (that gives a range of say 500miles), how many charge points at 8 hours (at 300 miles range)? But, but, but...I don't recharge the batteries in my torch while they're in situ. I take the batteries out, put new batteries in so I can continue to use the torch, and then recharge the depleted batteries at my leisure.
Why aren't car manufacturers standardising their batteries and having a drop-out old battery, drop-in new battery type replacement? Is that not possible? If it is possible, couldn't that then be automated? Why recharge the old batteries in the car? That seems insane to me given the time and the range (so need for more re-fuelling stops).
And even with batteries - reduce the weight by having shorter range - (assuming electric cars are here to stay) put more money into induction charging as you drive. The battery would only be used when you're then off-grid.
It seems crazy to me that the focus is on cars. I see retired people here with electric cars that don't move for days at a time while delivery vans and buses are still pumping out loads of pollution. surely the focus should be on electrifying essential transport, reducing the need for car journies and investing in public transport infrastructure and car sharing schemes. Drop in battery packs seem like a no-brainer for buses especially.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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We had the odd bat a few years ago. Around about the time when we had stagbeetles. It's a shame local children didn't know about them. If they can convince their parents that they want to be vegan , maybe they could have saved them too.
Oh and don't mention the Olympics happening end of July, less than a month to go before sportspeople from around the world gather in the over populated coastal fringes of Japan to work hard and thus breath heavily/ deeply for public entertainment. Obviously with other VIPs from around the world invited to watch live. Thus increasing the likelihood that the virus spreads and mutates further.
Just tell me to lockdown one more time!!!!
PS what was the g7 being covid surge like? Nobody heard of zoom or team meetings? World gone mad! Stop the train I want off!
Seriously, anyone think sport watching is more important than public health? Taking part in sport is different.
@Hostafan1 I agree
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