We live in a valley with a nature reserve on one side. It's a very diverse landscape with scrub, hedges, woodland, pasture and plenty of water. I get through over 160kg of bird food per year.
When we have friends stay and they're staying outside. I tell them that they should go to bed because the birds will wake you up, they tell me to sshhhh. I get up in the morning and go see them around 9am and they've been up for 5 hours, after a couple of hours kip and mostly drinking before bed. The dawn chorus is proper loud when your in a tent ? fecking townies.
With all this Grenfell Tower business, what has happened to all the removed cladding?
It would make ecellent kennel building material. Cant find anything online.
We have 3 dehumidifiers ? they do warm a room up, but not enough to say its nice and warm. We use them because our living quarters aren't properly vented and stuff gets mouldy. Plus you'd end up looking like a bit of Jerky if you stayed in the room.
Joking aside and that does sound like a good idea. We have been planning something similar and I'm not joking.
Our 9kw shower has been used less by me over the last few weeks. I am now relying on the sniff test before I use it ?
My son has a 3kw radiator in his room, which he isn't using at all. A calculation of 69p per kwh over 24 hours using that radiator would work out £49.68 per day! I know the radiator use is intermittent, but it gives you an idea of costing.
So back to the energy prices ?
I'm gonna get more solar panels 13 x 410w Hyundai panels and all the bits £6000 which is less than 6 months Lecky at the mo. That will give me over 9kw of power, lets see how that goes.
Got some more blankets and thick socks too.
Can you update us on your findings, so I don't have to trawl through 520 pages of who knows what has been said.
I'd love to know there is resident big cats in the UK.
You forgot liars, dreamers, bullshiters, story tellers, tricksters, deluded, egotistic, arse lickers, chancers and wanna be's.
All the fun of the fair ?
In my experience, if your animals aren't eating stuff, they ain't hungry enough and if you are offering them alternatives, well you are going down the road of "my children don't like this and won't eat that" ?
I feed lots of raw fish, and two of my dogs will turn their nose up at it. This is more than likely to happen if I have been feeding them say Chicken or tripe for a while or they havent been run for a few days. Same goes with Rabbit, they can just take it and leave it on the floor.
The same picky dogs have to be "very" hungry to want to eat Pheasant, in fact most of them ain't
There aint a lot on here working their dogs regularly. This means a lot of dogs are sitting about in kennels having a miserable life. Then when the dogs don't perform, they get pasted from pillar to post or worse.
In an ideal world, you'd want your pups to be given plenty of time and a home for life. If they are worked properly, well that's a bonus.
Over the past 40 year of working dogs, I've had six litters and all have been bred for mine and my friends own use.
Most of the pups have been worked, but a few have had a great life in active pet homes and even then they worked, ev