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What lovely lambs. She would have had a good life with you on Fetlar.

So sorry, HenGen. I know from hard experience how it hits you. Did she die of old age, or did you know she was ill? Our little Poppy, now nine, has recently been diagnosed with mitral heart valve disease, which is a progressive condition that will get her in a year or so. Like you, at our age...

And elsewhere …

Bedtime story.

Vegan hunter with his hound.

What’s it like in America, Josh?

Here we go again. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/03/europe-and-uk-hit-by-unprecedented-number-of-bird-flu-cases-this-summer

I expect you’re busy knitting her a scarf, Shadrach!

Posting photos is much easier on the new software, and I’ve edited my post about how to do it. There isn’t a Preview page any more, but if a picture hasn’t come up right, it’s easy to click on it to delete it and start again. See...

And another ‘quite so. ‘

Quite so.

You’ve done everything right, but I’m afraid the results were predictable! You had to tackle the problems of worms, parasites and bronchial infection which only too often come when ‘rescuing’ birds from another flock, and the fact that this two had all those problems may indicate lack of...

Agree - what happened to the ‘two sq.m per bird’ rule? Yes, you might get occasionally get one aggressive hen, even given enough space, but needing to use so many beak bits in such crowded conditions shows that the conditions of care are appalling. Maybe not quite as bad as routinely burning...

The more I think about it …

That must have hurt! A sticky situation.

I loved that! I’m glad she found it educational, down there with you plebs.

Private Eye.

That’s lovely. Thanks for sharing that, truly an experience to remember. I liked the bit about your toecaps setting off the alarm. Did they make you go through in your socks?

Did you both go through the queue? Please tell us about it!

Meanwhile, on EBay today, get your souvenir here - if you can afford it.