Quote from: Alex on August 14, 2026, 12:32:32 PMI bought some tape from Temu to deter the pigeons.  I put it on my washing line and fences and it has stopped them congregating in groups..  I see the odd one, but they are avoiding this shiny, noisy tape 

That sounds good, Alex.

I get loads of Pigeons here,  they buggers are nesting all summer in next doors huge Conifers.

Quote from: klondike on August 14, 2026, 12:21:54 PM30% chance of rain at 9pm here on my weather app. Of course that's 70% chance there won't be. 40% is highest chance during the next week

I'll believe it when I see it.  

A bit like a tax rebate - would be nice to get but extraordinarily unlikely. I wonder if they shut the car washes. I've forgotten what colour mine is supposed the be.

Needed a good hiding at the very least 

Make him ask a crocodile for that "sex act" they so coyly didn't name.

Finally got a human response on the 5th working day. They deleted the account as was suspected and I set it up again. It would have been identical to the old one except they increased the minimum password to 15 characters. I expect the shorter password the account already had lead to the issue. If so they'll probably get plenty of these - who ever decides on a 15 character password unless it's forced.

Of course now the earliest I can contact the GP is Monday morning.

Rain?
What's that?!

Deport

: Iranian "asylum seeker" Mohammad Alizade, 32, has been jailed for 10 months for pulling his pants down and dragging an 18-year-old stranger into a bush in the quiet market town of Todmorden.

• Mohammad Alizade, 32, residing in Fern Street, Bradford, approached an 18-year-old in Todmorden.

• Whilst high on cocaine, he tried to pull the teenager into nearby bushes, then pulled down his own shorts and demanded a sex act.

• He was found guilty of sexual assault and exposure.

• Alizade was also sentenced for shoplifting, assaulting a shop security guard by trying to bite him, and possession of a knife.

• The offences were committed while he was already subject to a suspended prison sentence and a community order.

• Alizade had been committing offences between 2021 and 2026. He was given a 22-month suspended prison sentence for supplying Class A drugs in 2024, and was made subject of a community order later that year.

• Judge Ahmed Nadim said Alizade was being sentenced for offences committed on three separate occasions between December 2025 and June this year.