CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoeLike all bees, honeybees thrive in a biodiverse landscape. But California’s almond industry places them in a monoculture where growers expect the bees to be predictably productive year after year
same as humans innit.. regardless of age or illness.. work til you drop.. into a vanishing social contract
happy new year, btw
Just went up to Torphichen Street to give my witness statement about the badger I found tortured to death.
Name, address, occupation...oh. Are you....the writer?
Yes, darling. That's me.
@IWARTS Niice!
What occupation did you state?
@bill
I said what I actually do which is finance mumble computery analyst-thing manager.
Sounds like you found a fan of your computer code. ;-)
@acsimpson
My code is brutal. Written to work and still be understood long after I've headed for the hills. I basically get paid for whitespace and comments.
Commenting is good. I explain things to my future self in comments.
Hahaha great no midges.
Or fruit.
If any country were willing to make that trade-off its Scotland!
Good point and the potato crop might increase at least initially until the soil failed?
A decapitated fox cub on the lawn this morning.
Some of your foxes been watching The Godfather? Nature red in tooth and claw.
Fox sawn in half on Lang Whang this am (presume by car)
Coroner's verdict: suicide.
Dead badger at the side of the road on the way to Dobbie's.
Not unexpected behaviour from some shooting groups -
https://markavery.info/2020/05/15/rspb-press-release-raptor-persecution/
Colin
Some <rule2> birds have had BABIES near our window.
CHEEP. CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP. CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP.
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(This post not to be taken too seriously...)
Sad speckled blue sections of an eggshell out the back patio. Cats maybe. I am forcing my spuds To grow just now to remove cat toilet. Fed up shoveling cat poo to return to my neighbour
Getting annoyed at a screeching grey squirrel. It was bad enough when it was just stealing from the bird feeder but this is taking annoyance to new levels.
@gembo: 10. Sad speckled blue sections of an eggshell out the back patio. Cats maybe.
Were you aware of the nest, and are you certain it has been robbed? If not then it could just be one of the adult birds removing the eggshell from the vicinity of the nest after a chick has hatched, to avoid it being a clue to potential predators as the the likely whereabouts of the nest.
When a magpie raided the blackbird nest in our hedge there were fragments of eggshell left on the ground near the failed nest, it didn't take them further away like the adult birds do.
@ejstubbs, I may owe our magpie gang an apology. I have blamed them to a couple of shell we discovered around our garden.
@ejstubbs
Watched the cat trying to get its paw inside the lower sparrow nest in my neighbours garage. The higher nests fine and safe.
No sign of any sad little featherless see through baby which might be a good sign
@gembo
Shovelling and flinging cat poo back to the neighbours is an almost daily occurrence here :( I've stood some spiky sticks in their favourite toilet area which seems to have worked? For now...
@cocoshep
many spikey sticks this side also, to protect the blue himalayan poppies emerging to get their perennial act together alongside the superb full bloom magenta azalea plantation
@cocoshepherd, yes sticks, nets you name it. I use it to move the cats along. Actually think just the grey Burmese, the black one has a wider range. The poo goes in the hedge really, the neighbours dont even know.. a work colleague during our virtual coffee this afternoon suggests you can buy lion sh*t which scares them off.
cat poo - they don't like orange peels much
but then again, they don't fancy black widow catapults much either
I like cats but I flymo'd one of the dominant male's turds yesterday and he should keep his wits about him for a few days.
Very glad that, on reading past the first few words, that turned into a garden path sentence
gull dive-bombing season has begun
pheasant diligently sitting on 10 eggs in my parents garden for weeks now until yesterday when they hatched. Today the crows came.
tragic, but the circle of life etc...
I did feel the horror of the meadow pipits under the cuckoos' baleful gaze yesterday.
Some grim stuff.
Also noted the absence of the Pentland peregrines. The poisoner did their work well.
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