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New neighbour! I'd never seen a wild hedgehog alive until Sunday. Now it's a nightly routine to leave food out for these 3 wee guys. Tonight the two older ones were angrily snorting at each other for about half an hour. Friggin adorable.

Lots of different birds, especially wood pigeons, unfortunately. Noisy clumsy great oafs. Rabbits - thankfully rarely in the garden these days since better fencing installed. Hedgehogs. Current dog is a wuss, doesn't know what they are and just barks at them. Previous dog (JRT) used to bring them into the house, blood all over him (his own). His sidekick (greyhound) preferred to try and open them with her paws, which led to her gouging huge pits in the lawn. Hedgehogs invariably win all these encounters. Mice - they get on the bird feeders. Recently tried to set up home indoors, but we think they have been successfully ousted. Rats, obviously, but rarely seen. Moles, ditto. Occasional grey squirrel. Went out with dog the other day on to path accessed from garden. I noticed a roe deer in the adjacent hayfield. I passed the field and turned into the lane at the bottom. In the distance was a dude on a bike coming towards me. My dog chases bikes, so I was rooting around in my bag for the lead when the deer leapt over the fence just to my left, clocked the dude on the bike, turned in my direction, clocked me, and leapt over the fence on the other side of the path into a barley field. That doesn't happen often!

1. This desert hare was hopping around the oil rig the past couple days. A somewhat common occurrence. Saw a jackrabbit too, hoping to get a pic. (Bonus: that’s the CreepMobile in pic). 2. Millipedes everywhere too about 6 weeks ago. About 7” long in that photo. I got lots of strange critters pics from the deserts of West Texas. “That’s not your back yard, Sir Creep”. Aye, ‘tis seeing as I’m on the rigs 75% of the time. SC

MARCH EU: “We won’t negotiate.” Theresa: “They won’t negotiate.” JULY Boris: “They will negotiate with me as leader!” EU: “To reiterate, we won’t negotiate.” AUGUST Boris: “We DEMAND you negotiate.” EU: “We won’t negotiate.” Gove: “We can’t BELIEVE they won’t negotiate?!”

There is not a single bit of that millipede that I like Not quoting it so I don't have to see it again.

Had a bit of interest by way of FB messages regarding this "song" - I mean, obviously, we're not sharing lyrics or earworm secrets until it's released but if you imagine Jimmy doing his best to read out loud from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" whilst some steady dance beats fade in and out and a few Ed Sheeran style choppy guitar chords drive it along...playlist gold, I'm tellin' yers!

"ONJ doesn't wan't to know how long she has to live" With that attitude she's clearly contending for worst DL'er of the year

So, a death disc curve ball thrown in here. Some Rodd Keith:

Wtf are you on about? Are you trying to tell me I should give a shit about someone he may or may not have known 3-4 years ago to be correct? The guy has been noted as being obsessed with mass shootings and violence. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/05/us/connor-betts-dayton-shooting-profile/index.html Does that make sense with being pro-gun control? Regardless, wanting gun control because it would start a race war and wanting gun control because it will save lives are not agreeable stances. Blatant lie. Where are you seeing that he was a Democrat? He literally stated in his racist manifesto the exact opposite. https://crooksandliars.com/2019/08/el-paso-shooters-manifesto-uses-trump-and And you must be on another planet if you think there’s a rise in left wing violence and terror when literally white supremacist attacks are at an all time high. Strawman. Absolutely nobody claimed that all mass shooters are white.

No evidence Betts was motivated politically in respect of the shooting. By all accounts, a bad lot who probably wouldn't have had a gun with proper checks. Alternatively, quite clearly Paddy from Texas was politically motivated, quoting Trump's white supremacist tropes. We bang on about radicalisation in the mosques in this country. What happens when radicalisation comes from politicians? El Paso does. Pittsburgh does. Etc etc. Dunno where the mass shooter race profile comes in. Doesn't seem to include those who killed themselves or were shot by law enforcement, so that perhaps is a nice selective picture to put up. Needs broken down into those disaffected, neighbourhood disputes, mentally ill, politically motivated. Not all Trump/Republican supporters are white. Not all people against immigration are white. What's happening over there is their problem. Doing nothing, especially regarding automatic repeating death guns, seems to be no longer an option for the US.

Oh aye, and...for those of you baffled as to why anyone would give a shit about song poems there were some "stars" in that area much skilled in turning crocks of shit into audio gold of a sort. None greater than Rodd Keith/Rod Rogers. One HELL of a story and we'd have debated him long after his death if the DL (and most of us) had been in existence in 1974 when he died. Even his end is enigmatic and compelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodd_Keith

Hell yeah, I'm more a Raw Power man myself but this collection runs it close

New series. Again St Nicholas sounds OK* but doing the advanced age thing of slurring words together. However, I note that last years Just a Minute wasn't a solitary case, with 2019 public appearances cancelled "due to ill health". Time for him to return to the list in 2020, imo. *Actually, bloody brilliant given most folk his age!

Wow, that's convenient. Calls from everywhere for McConnell to recall the Senate to discuss gun legislation and he has "an accident"? 'Dear Congress, Mitch (known as Moscow to friends and enemies alike) can't possibly come to the Senate today. He's had a nasty fall and will be out of commission for some time. We were both at the top of his staircase and he suddenly tumbled. More than anyone else in America, he needs your thoughts and prayers right now. Yours, Carolyn D Meadows (President, NRA)'

The Castro way of retirement - rocking those Adidas clothes and looking fit as a Fidel

Irish Folk Singer Danny Doyle has died aged 79: https://www.thesun.ie/news/4417049/irish-folk-legend-and-the-rare-auld-times-singer-danny-doyle-dies-aged-79/