I am pleased to report

[Stuart]

But how many are working? LOL

 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

But how many are working? LOL

[Stuart]

np Sheilarose, Glad it brought you happy memories

Yes Gill the Camera is a special thingy called a bullet cam, very small and discreet 

erm, as for the cooking.....I chickened out  I will put it on te shelf for another day
in the meantime, I bought another computer 

Sooooo between the two of us, there are two laptops and 4 desktops 
one of the desktops is in the attic tho 

[sheilarose]

Stuart, just watched your chippie run vid - brought back some brilliant memories of my old VFR750, we used to do a bacon buttie run on Sunday mornings up the north west part of the A6 to kirkby lonsdale, me on my VFR and my mates on their various Hondas and BM's. We also took the bikes international - France and Italy, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Ireland...and of course the whiskey run in Scotland! So many happy memories. 

The soundtrack also made the hairs stand up on my arms, my BikeTape was linked into our Autocom system so we could talk to each other and play music inside the helmets, and of course FreeBird was my no1 go-faster track too! I would race through the Trough of Bowland with wings on my exhaust pipes listening to those fabulous chords  and couldn't wipe the grin off my face (and the flies off my teeth) for hours afterwards.

Your CBR1000 is the exact same model I rode for the Job from 1998-2004, it never once let me down as was just so comfy to ride. Non-bike people used to ask me if I was strong enough to ride such a big motorbike (me being just a girlie  ) but I couldn't get them to sit on it and see how neatly balanced it was, and so easy to handle. Thankfully I never dropped it, so never needed to see if I could lift it up myself though 
Sadly, too, my mate Joe owned the same model CBR1000, he got himself killed on his way home from one of our bike holidays in Spain - he'd left a few days early to visit friends in Marbella and on the way home to Wales got wound up in someone else's accident on the M4, only an hour from home. The last we saw was him waving his leg at us as he set of that morning in the Spanish sunshine  I still have the windchime he bought me on that holiday, as a thank-you for doing all the cooking. 

Thanks for the memories 

[Tiggy's Mum]

Good luck with your cooking Stuart! 

Hope you and Robbie enjoy your boys only bonding time 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Very good footage Stuart, was the camera in your helmet?

Your roads so much better than ours and it was so flat!

[Stuart]

Thankfully, no more victims 

on another note, don't know if I have told you's this already, when I went round to see the Lady about Marvin 
she also told me that she took in a Hedgehog as it was out in the daytime, sadly it passed away 
this was probably one of the Hedgehogs that was coming round feeding from my feeding station under the shed
but there must still be more in the area as I still have nightly visits and most of the food is gone in the morning 

Hope you get your computer fixed soon so you can get off the laptop, I suspect it was a mod with a laptop that accidentally locked it! I try and avoid posting on my laptop as the touchpad takes you places you didn't think you were and before you know it you've moved, split and locked a thread 

And Finally the Graphics card in the pc has died  main annoyance is that it cost me £400 just over 4 years ago 
and I can't really aford to buy a new one coz I just paid of one of my mortgages  ( I hear Mastercard calling  )
I am currently using the big pc now as I have stuck in a £40 gfx card  but I cannot do any video editing or high demand online gaming now 
other thing I can do is bake the card in the oven  I know this sounds daft, but gfx cards run very hot and with the solder joints heating up
and cooling down all the time, this causes stress points and you don't get a good connection, in theory, by sticking it in the oven at 385F (195C)
remelts the solder joint's, and then leave to cool, basically re-soldering everything, nothing to lose really, just a major operation dismantling and re-assembling 

here is the last video I put up of a bike run to a chipper 60 miles away LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoW7fnDJR_U

Oh well better get back to the housework, Carol is away through to her Mum's for a few days

[emmmy_lou]

I was going to post here the other day when it was locked! 

I feel the same way as you Stuart, I know they are still living creatures, but somehow finding a dead bird is more heartbreaking than a mouse...

 We got away with it for 2 years, but now Denzel has turned into a complete killer! We got a new bed recently and didn't realise until we could smell it that he was hiding his prey under it  there were 2 birds and one mouse 

Now we have to check on a daily basis, but hopefully it will calm down when the breeding season stops (fingers crossed)

We also put collars with bells on and think it does help a bit.

[Tiggy's Mum]

Don't beat yourself up about the birds Stuart  Sadly it's part of nature and there's very little you can do to stop it  

Hope you get your computer fixed soon so you can get off the laptop, I suspect it was a mod with a laptop that accidentally locked it! I try and avoid posting on my laptop as the touchpad takes you places you didn't think you were and before you know it you've moved, split and locked a thread 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

I think someone pressed a wrong button accidently.................I have done this occasionally.....sigh

I hope you manage to fix your pc, I love lappies LOL ands got my old one out last night, firsts time in 3 yrs, it was working when put away and now wont grrrrrrrrrr

Was trying to get the remaining pics off.

[Stuart]

Thanks Gill, I did wonder why it was locked  and yes I admit, peeved off a bit LOL
But that is probably more to do with me still trying to fix my Big PC, and it beating me 
still trying to do stuff on my lappy ( I hate Laptops  ) and I have a sore back 
plus do i need to mention the weather

then i start thinking, maybe this thread should be locked, or even deleated??
I mean it isn't the nicest of threads to be going on about is it, and I can't keep going on about Robbie killin birds every now and then 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

I think this must have been locked in error so am unlocking it 

[Stuart]

 


Yeah, I know they say that even with a bell on the collar, if the bird is healthy and alert, no way can they get caught
It's only the Young / inexperienced or old / ill birds that get caught
I know it's nature, and Cat's have been here for millions of years, and even tho Cat's with slaves do not want for much
but the instinct to hunt for prey is so strong, they cannot help it 

well at least the pigeon didn't go to waste, He ate it 

[Rosella moggy]

He has a collar with a bell on, so I will guess that this Pigeon was maybe old or unwell??

I think the jury is out as to whether that makes much difference Stuart    Peeps say that cats learn to walk very stealthily so that bell doesn't jingle. 

Having 8 furry blighters here has meant I have had to harden myself to the kills otherwise I would have gone    I wouldn't trust one of them.  It's their nature after all. 

I think the haul lessens as they grow older but have to say our Tom RIP brought in a dead bird when he was 17 after nothing for many years.  Thankfully we don't have that many brought into the house now    I soooooooooo wish I hadn't typed that coz I just know what's about to happen 

[Stuart]

I was thinking Robbie was doing really good this year
One Mouse 
One Bird 

then he goes and screws up 
I was just away to top up the fat ball's and seed's when something caught my eye
Pigeon feathers everywhere in the Garden, my heart sank but who was the culprit?? then I spied Robbie sitting
under the Bushes at the front end, next to him, the corpse of the Pigeon 
the Pigeons have been coming everyday, eating the remaining seeds that the little birds have spilled on the ground
and on average there are 4 - 5 of them sitting on the roof waiting to come down for a feed, needless to say there
are none at this minute. He has a collar with a bell on, so I will guess that this Pigeon was maybe old or unwell??
I don't think it was a young one?

I bought 14 meter's of black garden netting, maybe one the rain goes off, I'll attempt to put it up so that there will be
a really safe Cat free area

RIP Pigeon 

[Stuart]

give him time 

erm, Robbie brought in a dead bird into the house yesterday   
RIP Birdy 

[Tiggy's Mum]

Either that or he is a greedy guts and eats all the evidence! 

[Dawn F]

give him time 

[Stuart]

I have seen Carmen torturing a poor mice in the garden though

 

some birds in my garden today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zlkE8KyC6s

[KittyB]

That is good to hear! We've been lucky with our cats so far no birdies have been dragged in. I have seen Carmen torturing a poor mice in the garden though

[Stuart]

That Robbie is not a Bird killer 

I came home from offshore yesterday, and saw all the baby starlings being fed by their mum's  once I put out
some food for them  then it dawned on me, Has Robbie been bringing birds into the house?? 

Carol told me Nope, not one  although she hesitantly told me that a dead mouse was found on the back doorstep ( RIP mousey ) 

although I still think there are mice in the bird feed shed, I do not want an infestation, and when MY next door neighbour
Tell's me he has caught several in his house, I just stand there and innocently exclaim " Really? "
shhhh, mum's the word 

Funnily enough, I remember my grand father saying that he didn't mind Fraser ( His cat ) killing mice, but hated it when he caught the birds
I am kinda leaning the same way as in, Mice can be very destructive, and anyway, it's just nature - survival of the fittest
the mouse that was on the door step was probably an old one? maybe even the one I was feeding chocolate at Xmas time? 
as long as there are no baby birds in the casualty list tho, I will be happy