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Diary of a Lump Pt.26
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Good luck with the appointments rally ahead!
It’s dangerous to read your diary entries when I’m hungry…it’s past midnight here and I’m ready to have a big homecooked dinner NOW. I had to break into a bag of crisps to stop myself from cooking and eating my Saturday steak… đ
@Locust thanks.
Lovely sunny post Niall. Your last post I found difficult to digest as it was so harrowing Maybe not intentionally but when you read about what a mate is going through it can be hard.
Like you we love the Red Kites and they have been an amazing success story in the UK. Each time we go to see our daughter in London we see them on the M40 corridor in abundance. You will now forever be associated with Red Kites and I hope that their rejuvenation will be a guide for your own return to health.
If you ever come up to Lichfield be sure to look us up.You and Jan are always welcome.
@SteveT Thanks bud. Looking forward to a long lunch with you two as soon as this is over.
Prog magazine reviews BBT live, and mentions a dedication to a Passenger âhaving a hard time.â – I guess thatâs you?
@Leffe-Gin It is! I was staggered that they would do that.
Youâre a legend in your own lunchtime.
Also, canât stress this enough: Prog magazine is ace.
Brilliant post Niall, another doozy! Thank goodness I’ve already made tonight’s dinner, ‘cos your grub is making me hungry.
@Vulpes-Vulpes They look lush! Thank you, my friend đ
I’ve never seen so many Red Kites as our trip down the A303 last week. They were first released ~35 years ago in Bucks, which isn’t far from you, and have made it as far as the Fens.
Mrs F loves her BoPs, and we sponsor the nearby Raptor Foundation (which is 20 minutes onto the Fens from here). We went to a talk at Easter and were told not to change speed or direction if one comes near the car. As it turns out, timely, as one flew over the van near Frome, dived to the road surface, then swooped up. How it missed us, I don’t know but, apparently, a change of vehicle speed creates a pressure wave which can cause them to crash to the ground.
There were a few nesting pairs of red kites in West Wales when I was living there in the later ’70s and early ’80s. They also tried introducing a pair of black kites, but that wasn’t so successful.
Yeah, the two? pairs they reintroduced to Bucks in the late ’80s (I remember as I was at Reading uni at the time) were a mix of Welsh and Spanish.
Bleedin forrin birds, comin’ ova ‘ere takin’ are fellas, etc.
@Mike_H I saw a red kite today and thought about the time I hitched to Wales in 1980 hoping to see a red kite unsurprisingly I was unlucky. Now it’s an almost daily occurrence.
My aunt and uncle live in a small village near Wallingford and when we visit, you can almost guarantee seeing a Red Kite circling over the garden.
A few years ago when we visited, we went for a walk in through the village down to the Thames and there were 9 perched in a massive tree. Never seen so many together (and unlikely to again)