You are right Klondike in that the hunting season starts on October 1st  but the poults ( young birds) are released from the rearing pens at the end of July beginning of August  ) .
Usually after the crops have been cut  so they can roam the fields and get a bit bigger before the shooting starts.
Some do get eaten by foxes but they release hundreds of poults so some always survive .
They are quite literally  everywhere around here at the moment .
For what it's worth  it's illegal to shoot peasants on a Sunday in the U.K. .

Weird clothes, weird people,

In the words of the immortal Dick,

'Oh you are awful, but I like you!' 😂😂

Quote from: GrannyMac on July 21, 2026, 06:24:08 AMPossibly.🥳

😂😂😂 it does help 

Quote from: klondike on July 21, 2026, 10:29:53 AMYou'll need to keep an eye out for wild tortoises. A herd of those will strip it bare in no time.

Vicious creatures that will turn on you in an instant if disturbed during an eating frenzy. They have ne known to strip a male to the bone in seconds

Quote from: Alex on July 20, 2026, 08:25:20 PMI had a terrible accident once with a goldfish.  It affected me dreadfully and I can't talk about it, even now.

I feel for you, you can get a nasty suck from a goldfish

July 21, 2026, 10:58:32 AM
I have just been scrolling through. Facebook and smiling at some pictures of kids in fancy dress outfits, it took me back to a time when I was courting my good lady and attended a fancy dress party at the hospital she worked at. She was dressed up as an egg and I was dressed up as a chicken...well to cut a long story short...it was the chicken 

Morning all.   Nice and cool here so far.

Nothing exciting happening that I know of,  so just a nice peaceful day I hope.