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Tigger aka Mr T

2007/8? to 2023

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Boxed

Last week Linda at Lady Margaret's Curlers posted a distressing account of a young raccoon missing it's front left paw - possibly from an encounter with a trap. I'd just put up a post about traps we run here and decided it needed refinement, photos, some explanation. We use kill-traps. They are secured inside boxes that ensure no accidental harm to pets, livestock, native birds (even the curious ones - and we have them... ground parrots and wekas for instance). The hole in the mesh is 50mm (2 inches) for rats, or 60mm where we target stoats. The tunnel ensures the birds with long necks or sticky-beaks can't reach in to the trigger plate. The boxes even have an additional internal mesh guard with the opening on the left hand side so that the target animal has to chicane it's way into the danger zone. I have been whacked on the wrist when I accidentally triggered one rebaiting it. I'm surprised I got away without broken bones. They are instant death to small an...

Third

For some reason I'm unable to get comments to publish on other blogs. Blogger glitch of some kind perhaps.... Why are these things never universal? Some suffer, most don't get affected. We are into our third nor'west storm in two weeks. Chinook. It gets wearing. Equinoxial gales? Super El Niño? Scully is on a 3-day sleepover while her family is away at some rubgy event for her older human sister. She's missing her humum but rather keen on the sheepskin I have let her occupy while the wind has us trapped indoors. The build moved on a bit this week... ...and this morning to roofers came out in driving rain to measure up. The plywood shell is 'bracing' (stops racking; diagonal movement of the wooden frames), and will be covered by an outer cladding in due course. Shallots and garlic have pushed up from the earth in the veg garden Tiny fungi bloomed on the track last week - like a blaze of dessicated coconut dashed about Each new exciting fungus only seems to last...

1471

Tewkesbury is a beautiful smallish town on the western edge of England - where the longest of England's 5 rivers named Avon (Shakespeare's Avon) meets the mighty Severn. (Avon means 'river' by the way.) For centuries Tewkesbury was an inland port, and during England's canal building age (1812 in this case) the navigable Severn got connected to the navigable Avon at Stratford by canal. Why did I choose Tewkesbury? I first heard of Tewkesbury in 2007 when it hit the news as the victim of devastating flooding. Then a couple of years ago I stumbled on the website for the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival. Okay I missed 2023 but my leave is booked for middle of July next year.....I might even work on a suitable costume.... The inspiration for their festival is the 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury , a decisive battle in the Wars of the Roses (another history lesson for Mr B). Here is what Tewkesbury looks like on a normal Sunday in Autumn 2023: (apologies but I took 100s of photos...

Visit

We are on a brief visit to Ashburton - to find some kitchen cupboard 'furniture' (fancy sliding basket things we want to reuse). That meant moving dozens of boxes around. Again. However we found enough to satisfy the kitchen fitters. Poor Fergus has gone blind (diabetes). Although closely monitored and injected with his insulin daily he lost his sight virtually overnight (4-5 days it seemed). He has however adapted well and can negotiate most of the environment by smell, sound and sensations of proximity. Anyone accompanying him talks a steady stream. He is thin but seems happy and is more active than he had been while vets struggled to diagnose him - quite remarkable. Imagine going blind overnight in mid-life. The best bit is seeing him pick up a prey scent in an area he knows is unencumbered with tripping hazards - he runs back and forth following the trail, the hunting instinct hasn't dimmed. The workshop surrounds, with all its surrounding junk, i...

Progress

I Can Do Cute...

.... if I need to

Sunset Contemplation

Blogs we Read

MY TAKE; doses of Wild YAM

Menokreatikkul; Saturday Stitches
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local-kiwi-alien

Darn Comments
14 hours ago
The Diary of a Nobody

Alone At Last
19 hours ago
A Scottish Adventure .

What a sunrise
22 hours ago
Magnon's Meanderings

Dog Dumping Season.
23 hours ago
My Quiet Life in Suffolk

Flowers and Books Or Books and Flowers
1 day ago
It's A Crazy World

Morning glories!....
1 day ago
the aussie empty nester

Panic stations
1 day ago
Yorkshire Pudding

Sleep
2 days ago
Careering Through Nature

Finally, a Half Marathon Runner Again!
3 days ago
Coffee on the Porch with Me

Final Day of August
4 days ago
An English Homestead

Pizza Oven 5 Years On
5 days ago
Cathy @ Still Waters

Following on from yesterday
1 week ago
crafty-cats-corner

ZERO GOODNESS.NEW APP
2 months ago
EAGLETON NOTES

Going to Glasgow
2 months ago
Coming Up Close

Xmas decorations
8 months ago
Life In New Zealand

Farewell My Friends
1 year ago
A Yorkshire Memoir

A Yorkshire Memoir has moved
1 year ago
Views from the bike shed
MadSnapper
Four Paws Etc
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Eccentric Amblings and Ramblings From Gnat Bottomed Towers

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