Ticks in Butter Woods
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Stodgetta - brown
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When the start/finish looks like this, there's always a risk of taking home a few new friends
...and I believe that I even got the correct make of cow didn't I?
...and I believe that I even got the correct make of cow didn't I?
All right, you scrawny beanpoles: becoming a cop is not something that happens overnight. It takes one solid weekend of training to get that badge.
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Police_Chief_Wiggum - off string
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Ticks at Butterwood
My wife refused to bring hers home fortunately
I did have a good one two or three weeks ago at Shillingstone (Dorset Delight) which took quite a fancy to my leg.
So I think it is fair to say this is likely to be a long year for ticks
I did have a good one two or three weeks ago at Shillingstone (Dorset Delight) which took quite a fancy to my leg.
So I think it is fair to say this is likely to be a long year for ticks
- Barny
I like it, Jerseys in Butterwoods...
Bad news that the ticks are about - still squirming from the memories of all the friends I made in the first Scottish 6 days... Innocent of Borellia back then.. they worry me now.
Here's another gratuitous cattle photo.. I used to work with these, (as well as Jerseys)
Bad news that the ticks are about - still squirming from the memories of all the friends I made in the first Scottish 6 days... Innocent of Borellia back then.. they worry me now.
Here's another gratuitous cattle photo.. I used to work with these, (as well as Jerseys)
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ryeland of doom - blue
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After Stodgetta's original post I spent most of yesterday evening itching.
And the cow photo was hardly gratuitous. It was in fact an accurate portrayal of how my cow-phobic M10 son saw the field during the 15 minute period when he was 'too frightened' to start. The cow (and there was only one) was staring at him, apparently. Lucky he didn't know about the ticks...
And the cow photo was hardly gratuitous. It was in fact an accurate portrayal of how my cow-phobic M10 son saw the field during the 15 minute period when he was 'too frightened' to start. The cow (and there was only one) was staring at him, apparently. Lucky he didn't know about the ticks...
All right, you scrawny beanpoles: becoming a cop is not something that happens overnight. It takes one solid weekend of training to get that badge.
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Police_Chief_Wiggum - off string
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There was a nice gathering of them around the finish punches. I found they quickly parted when you ran at them. The 375m finish leg was a bit unnecessary though...
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distracted - addict
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I must agree about the cows. As a bovine-weary M35, it was the run back that worried me slightly; I wasn't expecting to run through a heard of cattle. Perhaps mention of that as well as the barbed wire surrounding the field could have been helpful.
But, it was a good event, and some lovely woods to run round.
But, it was a good event, and some lovely woods to run round.
What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.
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Sorry.. I did not imply that your picture was gratuitous.. Mine was!
As for cow phobia - i appreciate that this can be a problem, my first two events first time around at Edinburgh, both involved running through fields containg Highland bulls... I had a fair bit of experience working with cattle and was not bothered, but some folk would have been justifyably unhappy.
That was Pollock Park and Duns Wood back in 1979.
As for cow phobia - i appreciate that this can be a problem, my first two events first time around at Edinburgh, both involved running through fields containg Highland bulls... I had a fair bit of experience working with cattle and was not bothered, but some folk would have been justifyably unhappy.
That was Pollock Park and Duns Wood back in 1979.
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ryeland of doom - blue
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Nothing to do with orienteering, but continuing on the Highland cow theme ... A few years ago, I was showing 3 Australian friends around Mull. We stopped beside the road and naturally I went to pat the Highland cattle. I should have told my friends that they were dangerous beasts, like the scene when Crocodile Dundee pretends to stare out a water buffalo - same sort of impressive horns, but actually potentially dangerous and aggressive, very unlike generally friendly Highland cattle. Earlier that day, the friends had been scared of a wasp that got into a drink can. When I asked how they could be scared of wasps when they lived in a country with many poisonous snakes, spiders & octopuses, saltwater and freshwater crocodiles, bush fires, insect borne diseases etc. They said that those hazards don't come to picnics.
- Copepod
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these piccys of cows reminds me of a website I did for a farmer about 5 years ago.
There was a picture of a cow for sale with the following comment
Photo taken November 2000, when nearly 16 years old. (Small ears due to frost bite as calf)
aaaaaaaaaaarrr bless!
He didnt flog any cows so the site is no longer up
There was a picture of a cow for sale with the following comment
Photo taken November 2000, when nearly 16 years old. (Small ears due to frost bite as calf)
aaaaaaaaaaarrr bless!
He didnt flog any cows so the site is no longer up
Stodge's Blog http://www.stodgell.co.uk
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stodge - blue
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When I mean Flog I mean sell by the way.
Nothing to do with whips
Nothing to do with whips
Stodge's Blog http://www.stodgell.co.uk
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stodge - blue
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