h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Stop the World....


I wanna get off!!!!



GT

I've been saying that for years hun (it doesn't work) Looks like I'm here for the full round trip

Same here!

(Sorry for delay - recycling had to be done for AM!)



GT

|Thats ok GT, I usually wait til late night/ early morning to put mine out. The foxes are usually round here about 1am so I wait til about 2am, that way the bags stay intact They like a routine.

We have solid lids on ours, and it must be six months or more since a fox passed our way......



GT

I think they gave up on the idea round here, the only ones that have lids are the brown bins for garden waste. Hence the fact the foxes are about.

Nice looking little doggie like animals though!


I wouldn't mind seeing them more often!



GT

Its funny, everywhere I have lived since 1990 I have had foxes about At one point we even had a vixen and three young cubs visiting our garden every night. They would come through the back fence and round the side of the house into the front garden, check the way was clear and then off they would go and that was at 10.30 every night

Can you tell I am a wildlife lover???


Ever had Badgers?




GT

There was another house down the bottom of the road where I used to live that had a badger sett in the back garden Sometimes I would go down and watch them from their dining room window or kitchen one . They got moved though as all those houses were bulldozed and new rabbit hutches were built. ie three for every one of the old houses. Where my house was on a corner there now stands a doctors surgery and all the wildlife that was there is gone. Even things like the primroses that I had in my garden and bluebells, all gone and replaced with concrete.

Something fishy there love.

Did the CWC (Countryside and Wildlife Commission) not know about it?

It has been illegal for years to dig-up or disturb Badger Setts.....



GT

I don't know hun, a team came in one day and they were all darted and moved to a "safer" area. As the bulldozers moved in shortly after and flattened it all. The bank where the sett was, was all dug out to make more room for the building of maisonettes that stand there now.
What once was a beautiful area to live in, frendly people and so on has now turned into an area to be avoided. The reports of anti social behaviour have risen rapidly and people that once were happy there have moved out.It beginning to get the same reputation as the place where I used to live

Usual thing AV.

You live in a nice area, council decides to 'redevelop' and 'renew', then when the new properties are rebuilt, they move in all the problem families that they have had to move on several times from other areas.

Idiotic!!!




GT

I know hun but another problem is that the amount of problem families seems to be growing and they spread to more and more areas leaving very few places for the good ones to find somewhere to live in peace.The effect they have on the lives of the people they target causes major problems, even long after they have moved from that area.

Another symptom of the loss of that simple thing people like you and me hold dear......

Respect.

To get 'respect' with these chavs nowadays, you either carry a gun, or a big knife.

Personally, I very rarely venture out after dark now. Too dangerous, no matter where you live...



GT

By the time I had left the old estate the "crew" that was running it had been renamed "the tumbletot" crew Suddenly they have gone very quiet

Its not to bad here after dark as they hang around elsewhere. I tend to wait until its dark before I go out. I don't venture out much during the day unless I have to when I go and get my grandaughter from playschool and other things that have to be done. Mind you I know all the alleys round here so its rare that I have to walk in the open

Opposite to me then!


Mind you, on the very rare occasions that I do have to go out in the dark, I am always carrying my walking stick!

If anyone approaches in any kind of funny way, I raise the stick ever so slightly to indicate in no uncertain terms that I am ready and willing to use it if they try anything!



GT

Here they tend to hang around in the park or on certain street corners so its fairly easy to avoid them using all the alleys and so on, that way you don't go anywhere near them.

Mind you it wouldn't pay them to have a go, as my dad would say, " I had more fights than they've had hot dinners growing up round here". some things you never forget.

Just had to sign in again!!!!!!


No matter!


Couple of weeks ago, was coming back from local shop, and was approached by two girls, roughly 13 - 14 years old, trying to cadge fags. I said that I had none, (True, I roll my own) they insisted they could see some in my bag. (The Missuz's). I walked on, they started to follow, muttering.

I turned around and raised my stick, saying "Try it if you dare" menacingly.

They ran off, laughing.


That is my area now.



GT

Its a sad fact GT, you get that everywhere you go now. Its a shame that society has gone that way and unfortunately I can't see it getting any better