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We're sad about our heron eaten goldfish. We only had them because they were there when we moved in 16 years ago . However, we'd found them interesting to watch and had become quite fond of them. Now, perhaps frogs and newts may have a chance with fish no longer eating their spawn every year...

Young heron perched on my roof. Later discovered missing goldfish from the garden pond.

I suppose artificial stupidity is the handmaiden to artificial intelligence .

Want to swap ages?

Apparently I'm now Griffo32.

Tempt

I moved from Cambridgeshire to Oxfordshire ten years ago.

Sugar

I still keep matches in the house, my pack and the van but I very seldom use them. It occurs to me that as matches superseded flint and steel, matches have been superseded by reliable lighters. I don't smoke and have piezoelectric ignition in the van but I always have a minibic lighter in my...

I still keep matches in the house, my pack and the van but I very seldom use them. It occurs to me that as matches superseded flint and steel, matches have been superseded by reliable lighters. I don't smoke and have piezoelectric ignition in the van but I always have a minibic lighter in my...

Circle

We know when we're outclassed! Seriously, since the subject was announced, I've not seen a single slug or snail in my garden. Much more effective than beer traps or pellets.

Regicide

Barrowboys

His knowledge will live on through those he has influenced.

Took me back 70 years! Thanks for posting.

This sounds dangerously close to inviting the comment my father made about my mother's knitting. "It gives her something to think about while she's talking."

The price of democracy is eternal vigilance.

There are plenty of people in the world for whom this has already happened. Gaza, Sudan.just two examples.

In the cobwebbed recesses of my brain is a memory of the American response to this problem being the potential use of 22LR as a barterable commodity on the grounds that it was very widely used and of intrinsic value given the envisaged situation. I think resulted in a temporary shortage as...