I, stupidly, fell for this scam this week just gone, but serendipitously now am on a better (genuine) and cheaper tariff than I was pre-scam and have a very expensive phone, sitting on my kitchen table, of which I have paid nothing towards. The phone companies must lose millions this way.
@Not__So_Obvious Just need to have looked at cattle prices in the markets and abbatoirs the last six months 📈. Was always going to filter on to the shop shelf, just a case of when. Driven by demand and decreased supply. The market will correct itself.
Mark, I had an intruder come into my only pair, which were starting to incubate two eggs, on Sunday morning. By the looks of it, the intruder won, the original swift sustained bad injuries to both legs, and now the nest has been abandoned for the season. Swifts can be very cruel to wach other.
@TheSimonEvans @caroldecker Simon, the blue pipe is a ‘twitch’, a method of endorphin-releasing control of the horse. The bandage has been packed into the guttural pouch at the back of the nasal cavity.
@CausewayBirds It’ll be one of your rolled up black cords I found on the path then! I tied it to the post of the entrance sign but if it’s v impt I can get it and keep it safe for you?!