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Random Musings => Miscellany => Where The Wild Things Are => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 22 October, 2008, 11:23:10 am

Title: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 October, 2008, 11:23:10 am
Solitary house martin in Priory Park.
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 October, 2008, 08:29:36 pm
Was it Paul Heaton?
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 October, 2008, 08:32:06 pm
Had to google for that, I'm afraid.

Nevvererdovim.
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 October, 2008, 08:33:23 pm
He's a member of a popular beat combo mi lud.
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: clarion on 23 October, 2008, 10:14:32 am
Had to google for that, I'm afraid.

Nevvererdovim.

:o One of our greatest contemporary poets, and u nevererdovim?  He was in the fourth best band in Hull, y'know ;D
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 24 October, 2008, 03:57:47 pm
Had to google for that, I'm afraid.

Nevvererdovim.

:o One of our greatest contemporary poets, and u nevererdovim?  He was in the fourth best band in Hull, y'know ;D

Who are/were the other three?
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: clarion on 24 October, 2008, 10:45:27 pm
Dunno.  It was never revealed.  But they claimed to be the Fourth Best Band In Hull...
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Deano on 24 October, 2008, 10:51:43 pm
Had to google for that, I'm afraid.

Nevvererdovim.

:o One of our greatest contemporary poets, and u nevererdovim?  He was in the fourth best band in Hull, y'know ;D

Who are/were the other three?

The Red Guitars :D

There's also the Paddingtons, I suppose.  But they must be, at most, the fifth best band in Hull.
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 October, 2008, 11:32:57 pm
Well, I suppose I should have known better than to post in all seriousness about the moderately unusual phenomenon of observing a house martin in the 4th week of October and not expect the topic to be dragged into the mire of obscure 3rd rate pseudo-musicianship.

While we are on about Hull, and in the spirit of mindless trivia which clearly floats the boat of the responders to my OP, for what reason is Hull City unique amongst league football teams? ;)
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: border-rider on 24 October, 2008, 11:54:06 pm
Had to google for that, I'm afraid.

Nevvererdovim.

:o One of our greatest contemporary poets, and u nevererdovim?  He was in the fourth best band in Hull, y'know ;D

Who are/were the other three?

The Red Guitars :D

There's also the Paddingtons, I suppose.  But they must be, at most, the fifth best band in Hull.


Everything but the Girl ? 6th ?
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Crumbling Nick on 25 October, 2008, 12:18:32 am
Back to OT (I take it that a "band" is human and so off-topic)...

Mrs N & I were visiting Cornwall a month ago and saw several swallows and house martins. I mentioned it to one of the caravan site wardens, who said she had seen house martin nests with youngsters in Newlyn last December. There are lots of insects around, even in the frozen north of Warwickshire (saw a dragonfly today inter alia),

I speculate that they might have enough food, in a good year, to give up migration.
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 October, 2008, 12:47:12 pm


While we are on about Hull, and in the spirit of mindless trivia which clearly floats the boat of the responders to my OP, for what reason is Hull City unique amongst league football teams? ;)

I know Hull and Grimsby used to be the only clubs allowed to play league football on Christmas Day, but not any more.
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 October, 2008, 09:27:36 pm
It is a remarkably trivial answer...
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Deano on 25 October, 2008, 11:38:35 pm
Sadly, I know this - you can't colour in any of the letters in Hull City.  This is not true of any of the other 91 league clubs.
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Noodley on 26 October, 2008, 12:32:27 am
Wrong
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Manotea on 26 October, 2008, 09:02:59 am
Mrs Manotea tells me that we ha d a Jay in our back garden. She described it as a "magpie in mufti". I  ought to add that I had never considered Mrs Manotea to be very ornithologically inclined so I'm not sure whether this is an accurate or significant sighting.

At least Fat Pigeon has buggered off for a while.
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: border-rider on 26 October, 2008, 01:02:40 pm
Jays are quite striking fellows

One of my (Yorkshire) student housemates described them as "hard bastards, cos they're pink and if they weren't hard the other birds would take the piss"

:)
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: mike on 26 October, 2008, 04:41:04 pm
a sparrow hawk taking out a pigeon in flight, right in front of our car as we drove out of the supermarket carpark :) 

'I'm just off to the supermarket to get the sunday lunch dear', said Mr Hawk. 
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: clarion on 27 October, 2008, 11:05:49 am
Is your housemartin still around?
Title: Re: Seen today, 22nd October
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 October, 2008, 11:47:10 am
I only watched it for about 5 minutes. It flew around the lake about 70' up and twice came down to drink. the it disappeared and I waited for a while but it didn't come back. Probably on its way to Africa!