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Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
Apache chilli's - we grow them! To eat! I used to be a chilli novice... but over last few years have got used to them. I am up to two birds eye chilli's in my noodles now... and my mouth is fine.

My bum has some catching up to do though! It KNOWS when i've had chilli

Are the Apache's milder when green, I've been picking them when red, they blew my head off. Good for plumping lips though, why woman have Botox when you can triple the the size of lips with a chilli I'll never know.

Or even better, one of these:

I want one of them!!!! He is sooo cute.

What is he?

A southern tamandua.

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Originally posted by Penny Gabrielwise:
Or even better, one of these:

I actually squealed when I saw that pic.

We had a baby fox sat crying in our back garden a few weeks ago for hours, at first I thought it was injured or that its mummy had died but it must have just got lost because she came and got him

The Quorn Hunt operates around where I live. Bastards. I saw them once surrounding a churchyard where a clever fox had taken refuge. All the traffic had to stop in the village while they decided what to do as they were all over the road.

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
The Quorn Hunt operates around where I live. Bastards. I saw them once surrounding a churchyard where a clever fox had taken refuge. All the traffic had to stop in the village while they decided what to do as they were all over the road.

Our local hunt group is still together too. I only know this cos our sheep farmer was telling me how he had donated one of the lambs that died to the local hunt.

I was like...

I think they forget I am an import into village life.

Still, I am assuming the need for the dead lamb is cos they are abiding by the 'no live hunting' rule. (or am I being naive again)

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Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
Still, I am assuming the need for the dead lamb is cos they are abiding by the 'no live hunting' rule. (or am I being naive again)

It's an interconnected system. The Hunts, as I understand it anyway, take dead livestock off the farmers for free, thus saving them disposal money, and it provides meat for the hounds and permissions to go on their lands. They're all winners. Except the fox.

We lived in our last house for many years and had foxes at the bottom of the garden. I fed them every day of the year, every year would be new little cubs that were so sweet and played in the garden like puppies.

The foxes trusted me and would come close, some nights I'd sit on the grass and they'd come and sit within a few feet of me. I used to leave toys for the cubs to play with. We had 3 cats and the foxes never bothered them, they just accepted they lived there as well. I felt very honoured to have them around me for all those years

I'm thinking of coaxing a pair of grouse to come and take refuge in our garden before shooting season...

Hopefully more and more of our village foxes will move down into the more urban areas (I do see them walking down the streets quite often )

My biggest concern in our village atm is that we have a badger set. We DON'T have any cows.... so I am hoping they will leave the badgers alone. Is a different mind set though.