Piano Found at top of Ben Nevis ( 3 days old )

[Sark79]

I haven't really seen much of the news over the last few days or read any papers.  I was checking through ceefax earlier catching up on what I had missed. 

There were two stories that caught my eye. One was the sad news that they are culling much of the Grey Squirrel population across various parts of the UK. This is to prevent the red Squirrel numbers decreasing further over the coming years.  I am in two minds about this. Part of me feels it is the only solution, the other part feels saddened by the news.

Ok, the story that caught my eye the most was the finding of a piano up Scotland's highest mountain Ben Nevis. It is thought to have been there for 35 years and was taken to the top by a man who had it strapped to his back as part of a fund raising effort. He played Scotland the Brave once at the summit.

Stories like this are refreshing when most of what gets reported on is war, famine and scandal.  It is good to hear a story that has no negativity connected to it for a change.

[Royal Flush]

Disgracefull, i hope he gets fined for littering

[Colchester Kev]

If he played "Scotland the brave" , i hope he gets done for noise pollution

[bobby1]

If he played "Scotland the brave" , i hope he gets done for noise pollution

lol

The piano was far too young to be left up there too, They should do him for cruelty to pianos.....

[Sark79]

If he played "Scotland the brave" , i hope he gets done for noise pollution

lol  kev

[tikay]

Only a Scot would carry a Piano up a mountain.....

The Grey squirrel cull - very sad.

I don't think Man should interfere with Nature, but I think Man maybe introduced Red Squirrrels to the UK, & caused the problem in the first place, though I may be wrong.

In my days running a Property Maintenance Company, we looked after a large, Country House, in 700 acres of grounds, in Derbyshire. The formal gardems - some 15 acres - were by Capability Brown, & were quite stunning - species of trees from all over the World,  most of them several hundred years old.

The Grey Squirrels, however, destroyed many specimen trees. They knaw a complete "ring" of bark off a branch or bough, & then that branch or bough dies.

The owner of the Property told me to destroy the squirrels, I refused, said we could catch them in traps, & we caught a few, & removed them to open woodland nearby. But you can't interfere with nature, & the squirrel "problem" remained.

Not an easy dilemma. What would YOU do? Trees have rights, too. I guess let Nature take it's course. A cruel & wonderful thing, Nature.

[Sark79]

Only a Scot would carry a Piano up a mountain.....

The Grey squirrel cull - very sad.

I don't think Man should interfere with Nature, but I think Man maybe introduced Red Squirrrels to the UK, & caused the problem in the first place, though I may be wrong.

In my days running a Property Maintenance Company, we looked after a large, Country House, in 700 acres of grounds, in Derbyshire. The formal gardems - some 15 acres - were by Capability Brown, & were quite stunning - species of trees from all over the World,  most of them several hundred years old.

The Grey Squirrels, however, destroyed many specimen trees. They knaw a complete "ring" of bark off a branch or bough, & then that branch or bough dies.

The owner of the Property told me to destroy the squirrels, I refused, said we could catch them in traps, & we caught a few, & removed them to open woodland nearby. But you can't interfere with nature, & the squirrel "problem" remained.

Not an easy dilemma. What would YOU do? Trees have rights, too. I guess let Nature take it's course. A cruel & wonderful thing, Nature.

    


Yea it is hard to know what to do.  The Reds and Greys can't live in harmony unfortunately.   I agree with you about refusing to destroy the squirrels Tikay. You were right.  I worked in Horticulture after leaving school until a few years ago. The Boss always demanded we kill any insects we saw near the plants. As I was left pretty much on my own for ten hours a day, I used to put various types of insects into my wheel barrow and take them outside to the rubbish tip rather than kill them.  In my opinion it is wrong to kill things.  They have as much right to life as we do. 

The Red Squirrels will become extinct if we don't intervene .  One idea I would like to see tried would be to re-locate the Red Squirrels to one of the many uninhabited Islands up North.  I remember the Hedgehog cull they had a few years ago. That was a similar situation. 

[Royal Flush]

I don't think Man should interfere with Nature

We have been trusted as stewards of God's creation, so surely interfering is correct...

[tikay]

Thanks Sark.

You put insects in a wheelbarow? I'm having trouble visualising that!

[Sark79]

Yea, caterpillars mainly ( millions of them ) , spiders that nested in the plants ( thousands of them )  and Beatles that crawled amongst the netting.   

[tikay]

I don't think Man should interfere with Nature

We have been trusted as stewards of God's creation, so surely interfering is correct...

I'm not sure that's true. Who says we have been entrusted with the stewardship of God's creation?

But whether that's right or wrong, I really don't think we should interfere with nature. Animals & plant life have been around a lot longer than homo sapiens and survived very nicely without us for millions of years.

[CelticGeezeer]

And who do you think killed the Piano ? 

[tikay]

Rocco.

[bobby1]

it got frost bite in C minor...........

[Sark79]

Yea he had his keys pulled off.  They still don't know how the keys actually got taken off.   It may have been due to the cold weather up there