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'OUR FIRST WHITE WINTER IN HIGHLAND PERTHSHIRE' DEC 20TH It's starting to snow. The first of the season and the first we've seen for years. The wife and I took out our hot toddies and sat on the porch watching the fluffy soft flakes drift gently down clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It's so beautiful and peaceful. DEC 24th We awoke to a lovely blanket of crystal white glistening snow covering as far as the eye could see. What a fantastic sight, every tree and bush covered with a beautiful white mantle. I shoveled snow for the first time ever and loved it. I did both our driveway and the pavement. Later that day a snow plough came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shoveled it away again. The children next door built a snowman with coal for eyes and a carrot for a nose, and had a snowball fight, a couple just missed me and hit the car so I threw a couple back and joined in their fun. DEC 26th It snowed an additional 5 inches last night and the temperature dropped to around minus 8 degrees. Several branches on our trees and bushes snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shoveled our driveway again. Shortly afterwards the snow plough came by and did his trick again. Much of the snow is now a brownish - grey. JAN 1st Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tyres for both our cars £500. Fell on my *expletive removed* in the driveway. £100 to a physio but nothing was broken. JAN 4th Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought her a 4x4 to get her to work. She slid into a wall and did considerable damage to the right wing - £200. Had another 8 inches of white sh*te last night. Both vehicles are covered in salt and iced up slush that ba*tard snow plough came by twice today. Where's that bl*ody shovel. JAN 6th More f*****g snow. Not a tree or bush on our property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a paraffin heater which tipped over and nearly torched the house. I managed to put the flames out but suffered 2nd Degree burns on my hands. Lost all my eyebrows and eyelashes. Car hit a f*****g deer on the way to casualty and was written off. JAN 8th F*****g b*****d white sh*te just keeps on coming down. Have to put on every article of clothing just to go to the post box. The little b******s next door ambushed me with snowballs on the way back - I'll shove that carrot so far up the little pr*ck’s *expletive removed* it'll take good surgeon 6 hours to find it. If I ever catch the ar*ehole that drives the snow plough I'll chew open his chest and rip out his heart with my teeth. I think the b*****d hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he accelerates down the street like Michael 'f*****g' Schumacher and buries the f*****g driveway again. JAN 10th 16 more so*ding inches of f*****g snow and f*****g ice and f*****g sleet and god knows what other white sh*te fell last night. I am in court in 3 months time for assaulting the snow plough driver with an ice - pick. Can't move my f*****g toes. Haven't seen the sun for 5 weeks. minus 20 and more f*****g snow forecast expletive removed* THIS, I'M MOVING BACK TO LONDON -----------------------------------------

A woman has her needs

Dick Dastardly ;D

Aye, only because you wave him on :'( :'( :'(

Me? I am in Glenrothes :-/

Was the 1" x 1" ok on the pigeons feet white in transit in a trailer, that is my main concern :-/

Thanks, I have a few gardeners wanting the dropping for their compost heaps so getting rid of it is easy. If I can I want the crates to have mesh/grill bottoms and seperate slide out drawers to catch the droppings so I can just scrape then into buckets or right onto the compost heap. This would do away with the need for paper or shavings :-/

I did thanks Rose

What size of mesh was it Rose?

;D ;D ;D

Cheers, I was worried about the rougher ride in a trailer :-/

I was more worried about the rougher ride in a trailer with mesh/grill bottoms :-/

Thanks, was that in the back of your car or on a trailer? I was thinking about making it with plastic grills of preferably 1" weld mesh with slide out drawers so they could be easily cleaned and while the drawers are removed I could pressure wash the trailer :-/ Geraldy had plastic grills with corrugated paper underneath :-/

Did they ever damage the pigeons feet while in transit? Which is my main worry :-/

Does anyone on the site have experience of using plastic grills or wire mesh in training or race crates I am making/altering a pigeon trailer I bought so I could do pigeon training or maybe even mid week races at my club. Looked at the Geraldy one and they had plastic grill inserts in their crates and I also see this video from the Philippines Any help or advice would be appreciated

Just ask for their land line number or mobile number and phone them back, this is how these sites allow free advertising they get their money from phone enquiries :-/ It does not matter where you buy your birds from studs, lofts, classifieds, pigeon forums or pigeon shows you always run the risk of being ripped off but glad to say the rip off merchants are still in the minority :-/

I've just been sent this so I thought I would share it

Welcome to the site

Sorry Alf I must have missed it, but for those like me I hope you enjoy the third time round

Dont dare to miss this amazing Video Clip . . first read it properly.. This video shows the winner of "Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch. The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000. She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated. It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears. She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier. This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house. In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye. The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million. Kseniya Simonova says: "I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment." Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art. click on the link below - http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg

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Agnes from Angus

I cannot post the rest Gail

My ego is well inflated, so much that I cannot wind my neck in Here's your badge, just sent your 10 bucks