Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Generali

I used to be a member of the YOC, the kid's part of the RSPB as a kid.

I'm starting to learn Aussie birds now. Fascinating bunch actually as is most Aussie fauna and flora too for that matter.

ukcarper

Generali wrote: »

I used to be a member of the YOC, the kid's part of the RSPB as a kid.

I'm starting to learn Aussie birds now. Fascinating bunch actually as is most Aussie fauna and flora too for that matter.

Yea at least I can wonder around in fairly remote and quite places without worrying back here.

lostinrates

This morning I am awake, as you can see, despite a horrid night because of dogs barking and the stupid noisey electricity business. I couldn't turn it all off at the wall becUse I needed the alarm clock this morning,

I'm sure its not good though.

I painted my toenails a blue I am not so keen on in summer for yoga. ( plus I am not a blue person) My ankle is probably at bout ....hmm, conservative 86.5% better so I want to do more today. Try and push some boundaries before I fall back to sleep.

I hear this graduated thing for the fatigue aspects but .......I've NEVER been a graduated person....maybe I just have to listen to me? I am the opening of tale of two cities, so ....maybe I just have to quell others expectations of anything other than that...:)

It seems to be ATM I want three days sleep a week on top of nights. If I get this I get some quite good moments of clarity at other times.

Generali

ukcarper wrote: »

Yea at least I can wonder around in fairly remote and quite places without worrying back here.

I have had redbacks and funnel web spiders in my back yards (both potentially fatally venomous), a red bellied black snake (potentially deadly venomous) came to The Boy's 4th birthday party, I walked a pack of Joeys (pre-Cubs) past a sleeping (potentially deadly venomous) Death Adder on a narrow path in the mountains and I almost trod on a Brown Snake (hideous thing) in the middle of nowhere, an hour from the car at normal, non-bitten-by-a-snake walking pace and a further 2 hours from hospital.

I live in a suburb of Sydney and almost never go out bush. I've lived here about 6.5 years. It would be very surprising although not impossible if there wasn't either a redback or a funnel web within 20m from me.

More people will die as a result of driving whilst texting in the next month in NSW than will die from all native animals all year in Australia this year.

The most deadly creature in Australia? The European honey bee which claims about 10 lives a year.

lostinrates

[QUOTE=Generali;6857259
More people will die as a result of driving whilst texting in the next month in NSW than will die from all native animals all year in Australia this year.

The most deadly creature in Australia? The European honey bee which claims about 10 lives a year.[/QUOTE]

But you combine these stats with those you relay about increasing obesity, big car driving and general poplAce low activity. ....this is just like the gun debate IMO.

tom9980

We have nesting magpie's and their brood is flying around a fair bit at the moment, regular pigeon friends, robins, blackbirds and grey squirrel, the cats love sitting in the French doors watching everything flutter about. That is not a bad haul for a city location in my book.

You would expect being a country boy i would know more than i do, my wife and her sister can identify most things quite well birds, plants insects and trees. This is a product of their parents interests and lots and lots of walks in their country surroundings as children. This is useful because parents seem to think teachers should know everything about everything and she is regularly asked too.

Spirit_2

large rural garden and a small field here, Adjacent to a forest and opposite a field that has never had chemicals on it so full of wild flowers, herbs and creatures. of the birds we can identify we have collared doves,wood p
pigeons, pheasant,crows,spotted woodpeckers, coal tits, blue tits, jays,blackbirds, robins, garden warbler, sparrows, songthrush, tawny owl ( I posted about Owlbert getting tangled in garden netting last year and our successful rescue of him)finches of various types, I will probably have swallows again later in the year, they may nest in ours or our neighbours stables.

There are often buzzards overhead and next doors pond hosts a heron. occassionally a sparrowhawk, rarely magpies.

we have roe and muntjac deer, foxes, plenty of small rodents but currently no sign of rats or moles. There have been some unusual droppings on our path and near the bird feeders and we think it may be a hedgehog.I hope so, we have only seen one once in the 20 years we have lived here. There are badgers in the field who will come and clear up the fallen greengages in a month or two.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

But you combine these stats with those you relay about increasing obesity, big car driving and general poplAce low activity. ....this is just like the gun debate IMO.

Oh yeah, you could probably stop as many people dying each year if you could persuade the population to stop eating crisps entirely as if you stopped texting and driving.

Why stop eating crisps or chocolate though? Diabetes treatment is free in the UK and very cheap in Aus.

People avoid car crashes because they have to pay higher insurance rates if they don't.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

People avoid car crashes because they have to pay higher insurance rates if they don't.

Yep, (almost) everytime I am contemplating crashing the car I decide not to because of the impact it would have on my insuance premium....

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Yep, (almost) everytime I am contemplating crashing the car I decide not to because of the impact it would have on my insuance premium....

I bet you wear a seat belt, avoid speeding and don't tailgate because there will be a direct financial consequence to you.

Another chocolate bar? Meh.