Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Geo the Sarge]

Reminds me of this I seen a few years back



Geo

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Reminds me of this I seen a few years back



Geo

I've seen that before Geo, but it's is amazing footage.

[Nakor]

sorry for my ignorance

I see a lot around my area

on purpose?

I thought it was as a result of indiscriminate breeding within families etc etc

Put them out of their misery if you can Rich.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis

I thought recovery rate from Myxomatosis was increased these days, or at least didn't result in certain death like the "old days" ?
So, should you always dispose of a rabbit with the symptoms?

[dllewellyn]

sorry for my ignorance

I see a lot around my area

on purpose?

I thought it was as a result of indiscriminate breeding within families etc etc

Put them out of their misery if you can Rich.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis

I thought recovery rate from Myxomatosis was increased these days, or at least didn't result in certain death like the "old days" ?
So, should you always dispose of a rabbit with the symptoms?

This is all depends on how bad they are suffering with this horrid disease. My view  is simply if I can catch the rabbit it's not well at all and I put an end to its suffering. If it can out run me then it has the right to fight on but most will die a slow and horrible death.
I must say that this year seems a lot worse for myxi than I have ever seen and very aggressive with it at the moment there isn't a day goes by without me seeing a rabbit suffering

[RED-DOG]

sorry for my ignorance

I see a lot around my area

on purpose?

I thought it was as a result of indiscriminate breeding within families etc etc

Put them out of their misery if you can Rich.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis

I thought recovery rate from Myxomatosis was increased these days, or at least didn't result in certain death like the "old days" ?
So, should you always dispose of a rabbit with the symptoms?

If you can walk right up to them, it means they are so badly affected that they are blind and deaf.

I don't think the one's that recover get that bad.

I couldn't just walk away and leave them in that state anyway.

[Rod Paradise]

sorry for my ignorance

I see a lot around my area

on purpose?

I thought it was as a result of indiscriminate breeding within families etc etc

Put them out of their misery if you can Rich.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis

I thought recovery rate from Myxomatosis was increased these days, or at least didn't result in certain death like the "old days" ?
So, should you always dispose of a rabbit with the symptoms?

This is all depends on how bad they are suffering with this horrid disease. My view  is simply if I can catch the rabbit it's not well at all and I put an end to its suffering. If it can out run me then it has the right to fight on but most will die a slow and horrible death.
I must say that this year seems a lot worse for myxi than I have ever seen and very aggressive with it at the moment there isn't a day goes by without me seeing a rabbit suffering

That tends to be my attitude, and certainly there are rabbits in the fields by my house with swellings  on their face that seem to have survived the myxy outbreak last year.

We'll now see an infestation of rabbits until the next outbreak in 2-3 years time. They've a saying round here that when you see a black rabbit there's going to be a myxy outbreak.  Strangely it does seem to happen, I reckon it could be that by the time they've bred to sufficient numbers that a melanistic rabbit is likely to occur, the resistance to myxy has dropped in enough of the population for the myxy to spread again.

[Kev B]

A delivery of gravel arrives on Saturday to fill in that section at the rear and then we're done    ...
















for a few weeks anyway.   

Nice work there Laxie. Good to see you're now calling it a garden rather than a yard.

Don't forget to put a membrane down before the gravel. Don't by the plantex stuff from the DIY places as it will shread in a few years of walking on it. Spend a bit more with a builders merchant on a more heavy duty one.

[Jon MW]

...

Dr Alice Roberts, now she is cosmic. She can examine my origins any time.

Gratuitous Dr Alice Roberts link - but without much science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t9r28/Wild_Swimming/

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Dr Alice Roberts, now she is cosmic. She can examine my origins any time.

Gratuitous Dr Alice Roberts link - but without much science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t9r28/Wild_Swimming/

Excellent find.

I have saved it to my hard drive for research purposes.

[RED-DOG]

I went to a Gypsy wedding yesterday, and it was just like dozens of others I've been to.

The guests were perhaps a little more extrovert, and a little less observant of protocol than at a regular wedding, but by and large, it was very un-television series worthy.


Some pics. (Pardon the quality, they're from my phone).


The guests.

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The happy couple.

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Blurry bridesmaids.

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Mrs Red, & the girls.

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[tikay]

Oh yes, Tom, your girls look wonderful, so does their Gran.

[RED-DOG]

Oh yes, Tom, your girls look wonderful, so does their Gran.

Oh you could be in so much trouble here. I would delete if I were you.

[tonytats]

Which ones mum?

[RED-DOG]

Which ones mum?

Watch and learn tikay, watch and learn.

[RED-DOG]

Required reading / listening. 



Seventy years ago this week a group of some 200 men from the factories of Manchester and Sheffield exercised what they believed was their God-given right to walk across the mountains and moorland of the Derbyshire Peak District.

Waiting for them as they set off from a quarry in the village of Hayfield were the gamekeepers, determined to keep the trespassers at bay and off their grouse-shooting moors....


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/science_nature/righttoroam.shtml



We have a lot to thank these guys for.

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