Author Topic: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex  (Read 2638 times)

Wowbagger

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T42

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Re: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex
« Reply #1 on: 19 March, 2023, 01:30:21 pm »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-essex-64994189

"A family of Eurasian beavers has been released into the wild in Essex"

Suella Braverman is organizing a cull.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex
« Reply #2 on: 19 March, 2023, 01:55:48 pm »
Those wonderful norks are never far from my thoughts, oh yeah!

Wowbagger

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Re: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex
« Reply #3 on: 19 March, 2023, 08:46:07 pm »
All these halls, comin' over 'ere from Spain...
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rogerzilla

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Re: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex
« Reply #4 on: 20 March, 2023, 08:08:09 am »
Do they attack cyclists on night rides?
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FifeingEejit

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Re: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex
« Reply #5 on: 20 March, 2023, 11:29:40 am »
There is apparently some beavers living at Grange of Lindores,
This is on one of my summer circuits, i will let you know if they attack and I survive.

Kim

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Re: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex
« Reply #6 on: 20 March, 2023, 01:20:16 pm »
Do they attack cyclists on night rides?

Canoeists, I expect.

alfapete

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Re: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex
« Reply #7 on: 20 March, 2023, 04:30:00 pm »
Do they attack cyclists on night rides?

Canoeists, I expect.

I generally find canoeists quite a friendly bunch, but I must admit I've not met one after dark.
alfapete - that's the Pete that drives the Alfa

Re: If it's a beaver you want, go to Essex
« Reply #8 on: 20 March, 2023, 06:02:29 pm »
Spains Hall, just here: http://streetmap.co.uk/map?X=560383&Y=206504&A=Y&Z=120

That's Spains Hall, Willingale. You want Spain's Hall, Finchingfield:

http://streetmap.co.uk/map?x=567808&y=234086&z=120

Yup having dealt with both as customers (although one before current owner) they're very very different