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Thanks miss annie, I'll try the LBKA. There doesn't seem to be an actual hive up there, I shall ask the bee-bothered neighbour to have a closer look.
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Huzzah for Beetroot! This is so heartwarming. More good news - the original black and white cat has also been re-homed. It's been a good week for lost monochrome moggies.
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Sorry if I'm the cause of the confusion @Detritus. The b&w cat my friend 'found' was hanging round the Mount View Rd reservoir. There is another b&w cat, on Upper Tollington Park, that @emine and @GeekyCatLover think is neglected or abando…
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This is a different cat to my original black and white cat, but I'm glad she's getting a loving home. At this time of year she will almost certainly have fleas. Santas Pharmacy on Stroud Green Rd sell Frontline, a spot-on treatment that will kill a…
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A woman I know named her child after her ex's cat. It's a daft name for a cat and a tragic, life-scarring name for a boy. I don't know why people do what they do.
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@emine - yes, she has taken him to the vet for a microchip scan. And just to clarify - the cat isn't shut up in her house or anything, just loitering with intent while she makes every effort to find its owner. The lostness of any cat is always a …
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Aw, big fat ginger Quernmore cat is lovely. I'm on MV too - it can be hard to tell which cats are lost and which just fancy a new home. Will suggest Albany Rd to friend - she's got our cat basket, so can hawk him door-to-door if necessary.
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The woodpecker controversy rages on. Perhaps I should throw a twitching party. A Greaters vs Lessers face-off with booze and binoculars.
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Personality, or at least how it expresses itself in a candidate's politics, is an issue. I think Ken's brand of demagoguery is dangerously divisive (and alliterative) for a city like London. The platforms he's been happy to share, and the views he'…
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Fair enough. I doubt I'd be able to see a bird weighing less than 22g down the length of my garden without field glasses, at least not clearly. Still. It's nice to have new birds in the area, whatever their level of spottedness.
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Yeah. And little chicks, and black cats at Hallowe'en and puppies at Christmas. When I was a kid it was terrapins (teenage mutant ninja turtles) that every spoilt brat flushed down the loo after a few weeks. Now I understand it's owls abandoned by d…
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Bakery, deli, stationers, a really good off-licence, pet shop (for supplies, not live animals), tea rooms, little cinema (with live organist).
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The Mount View woodpeckers are Lesser Spotted: white and black barred wings with dashing red skullcaps.
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Have you been hearing the woodpeckers too? They arrived en masse a few weeks ago and spend all day drumming and shrieking. The Woody Woodpecker cartoons were, it seems, ornithologically accurate.
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I think a registration fee would put people off. Ending anonymity could work, though people might not want their real names tied to their street of residence or other identifying information, here for anyone to see. You don't have to be a troll to w…
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Thanks Detritus, that site looks ace. I've got a lot to learn about chickens, it will be great to have some community support.
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Hello - longtime lurker and occasional contributor here. Trying to join in the community spirit of SG.org and not just ask woundingly practical questions/lecture people about cats. I moved into the sunny uplands of Mount View Road about six years ag…
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Thanks harpistic. I'll drop by that thread and leave my two penn'orth.
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I think that for relative newcomers and lurkers (like me) the arguments can be off-putting. Not the fact that people with different viewpoints are arguing - that's pretty much the whole point of the internet - but the tone. Like people have personal…
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There are loads of tawny owls in the Granville Rd spinney. They do quite a lot of shrieking. The twit-twooing (only it's more like 'keeee-wick! Woooo!') happens when they're calling and responding to each other. Or to one of my neighbours - there ar…
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Had dinner from The Dinner Box last night - really fresh, tasty, huge portions. Highly recommended. I'm quite fussy about Indian (and so-called Indian) food as my mum's home cooking sets the bar very high, but DB delivers the goods. About to heat up…
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Who are these thing-controllers, what do they sit on top of and how can I join? It sounds like an N4-based Bilderberg group.
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Jak, I'm so sorry for your loss. But keep the pet carrier - emine's right, you seem like a lovely, ideal person to look after another animal one day. No pet is replaceable, but one day when it feels right you may want to give a needy cat a home.
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Left some books out on the garden wall yesterday after having a clear-out. India Knight novel gone in seconds, as was Malcolm Gladwell and HTML for Dummies. Peter Mandelson biog languished for 3 hours, and poor old DH Lawrence sat there overnight.
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Agree with ChangN4N6 about older animals - end-of-life care costs can be very big and it's wise to be protected. I'm saving up for my cats, as two of them are uninsurable anyway because of hereditary conditions that they have their mother's non-vacc…
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Yep, SG's notorious for this. Have complained four times about the same thing (our post gets sent to the same number on Quernmore Road and vice versa. We're on Mount View). Parcels sent via Royal Mail get the red card treatment. We also get quite a …
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Thanks Misscara, that's great. I don't think it will arrive before the weekend, so I'll just drop it off when it does.
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Oh I definitely agree with you about pet insurance - that's just sheer heartstring-tugging, and the policies often don't cover very much at all. Zasman is more expensive, but I trust them and think in the long run they've probably saved me money. …
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Please get them vaccinated - your cats, and others that they come into contact with, are running a completely unnecessary health risk. The jabs are for seriously nasty but preventable diseases. I agree that basic care can be given at home (Milton …
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Collars are dangerous (they can cause asphyxiation, torn ligaments and all sorts if they get caught on something). It's better for the cat, if more hassle for the owners, to have to make the odd batch of missing posters.