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GreyShuck

@ GreyShuck @feddit.uk

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  • I have fond memories of these days

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  • I think my equivalent at that age would have been going to a friend's house to watch their newly acquired colour TV instead of our B/W one.

  • Where to find Adders, Smooth and Grass Snakes in the UK

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  • They have only recently- last couple of decades - been reintroduced to Devon. That has been fairly successful, so I expect that there will be plans to reintroduce to Cornwall eventually.

    Why did they die out there in the first place? Loss of habitat. They are very specialist and need a particular mix of heathland vegetation. Loss of heathland altogether and changes in management to the remaining land: overgrazing, undergrazing, 'improvement' by adding fertilizer (there were poorly regulated government grants for that at one point, that were abused and led to a lot of bracken and bramble taking over) and so on.

  • any guess what this might be ??

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  • With just one photo to go from and without knowing what is under that lower arch, it's really going to be a guess.

    Looks 19th or early 20th century, so perhaps something industrial. Maybe a pumphouse of some kind if I had to guess.

  • any guess what this might be ??

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  • What country? What is the environment around it: woodland? mountainous? Is that some kind of ditch or stream under the lower arch? Are there any other structures nearby?

  • Revealed: Deer management cost public purse at least £135m in a decade

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  • I copied and pasted the first few paragraphs from the article - as I typically do with almost all the articles I post here. The text as it stand above is as it was when I copied it this morning. It looks as though they have edited it to read 'killed or injured' since then.

  • Revealed: Deer management cost public purse at least £135m in a decade

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  • We have deer stalkers. This article summarises the process of becoming one.

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    Pokemon adventure

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  • 'Economical retribution'?

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  • Back then I was living and working on an island nature reserve (great experience, but nothing like as idyllic as that sounds to a lot of people) and my marriage was going through a rough patch.

    Since then I've changed roles, been promoted, moved back to the mainland - moved 3 times in fact - but am now settled and our marriage is going much more smoothly. Retirement is on the horizon.

  • World-first as Rathlin Island is declared ferret free

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  • How to react if a person calls you "degenerate"

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  • I associate this with fascists and right-wingers going back a few generations as being broadly equivalent to 'woke' these days: i.e. anything vaguely progressive that they didn't like.

    So, without additional context, my reaction would be to assume that the person saying this was a fascist - and therefore to treat any further interactions accordingly - and to wear the term with honour.

  • What are your favorite documentaries?

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    • Titicut Follies
    • Man on Wire
    • Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    • Letter From Siberia
    • Atomic Cafe
    • Manufacturing Consent

  • I'd like to ask everyone, which movie have you rewatched more than three times?

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    • Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
    • The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
    • Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
    • The Third Man (1949)
    • The Ladykillers (1955)
    • The Big Lebowski (1998)
    • Repo Man (1984)
    • Stalker (1979)

    Probably several others, but those are the first to come to mind.

  • Bored with life outside of work, habits, and hobbies... what to do?

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  • Volunteering: soup kitchen, wildlife conservation, hospital driver, train restoration, old folks home or whatever is going on near you that takes your fancy.

  • Analysis finds urban areas in England where no one lives within 15-minute walk of nature

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  • I have lived in 7+ rural places. All of them have had some combination of nature reserves, forestry commission woodland, recreation grounds, open access land, walkable riverbanks and, of course, the usual footpaths and bridleway network within 15 mins walk.

    I really don't know how common that is but it has always been my experience.

  • Somerset toad patrol helps thousands of animals cross road safely

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  • I have done toad patrolling for quite a few years. You are on an open road surface, you have a torch, probably a head torch too, and you are specifically looking for toads.

    I have certainly never stood on one.

  • From white goods to ‘driver Tizer’: volunteers pick up slack in England’s fly-tipping crisis

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  • I have heard this explained as being due to truck company rules that the driver can't leave the vehicle unless at a truckstop - presumably for insurance reasons. So, when they pull into a layby overnight, since they don't want a puddle of piss next to the truck, they do this.

    They use laybys instead of truck stops because they have to pay for the truckstops themselves.

    How accurate any of this is, I don't know, and clearly none of it should be an excuse even if it is the actual reason.

  • Fly-tipping across England reaches record high

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  • Usually it is just individuals or people from small businesses that tip rubbish somewhere they are not allowed to and then ‘fly’ from the scene: just leave it and run. This is usually so that they don’t have to pay to dispose of it - but sometimes just because they can’t be arsed to go to the actual waste disposal site.

    Increasingly, criminal organisations are finding that they can make money from this: charging businesses for the disposal but then just dumping it, sometimes in enormous quantities.

    It is only very recently that I realised that fly-tipping is not a widely used term outside the UK. I know that this also occurs in other countries, but I don't know what it is called elsewhere.

  • £460million bridge that will help deer, badgers and bats in the UK cross safely

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  • According to this, the entire road project is costing £500 million, so I doubt that this figure is for the bridge alone.

  • £460million bridge that will help deer, badgers and bats in the UK cross safely

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  • It depends on the species. Some tend to follow hedgerows or lines of trees etc. They would find a motorway to be a barrier, but would cross using something like this.