can only be done once one can get out of the office car park.
Gridlock tongiht. there are two ways off the "office" estate where i work, one over a bridge over the tees, through stockton and home - that's my route, and about half the entire estate's route, i think. the other is right through the estate, onto the A66 then the A19 ....
the bridge had been closed from 10am this morning whilst they set up firework displays for tonight.
result - total gridlock. one of my colleagues came back in after 40 minutes sitting in the car park... i didn't go out, but rang the yard to have molly given her tea/more haylage than i'd left her!
Bonfire Night - otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Night - celebrates the demise of one Guy Fawkes, a 17th century home grown terrorist (tried to blow up the Houses of parliament), seem to recall he'd been trained abroad! this was during the reign of James 1, it was a religious thing (just goes to show, the more things change, the more they stay the same, and religion is the root of a lot of strife in the world!) is tonight. can't move for fireworks and fires. I had to ring the fire brigade on teh way home, someone had started a large fire in some trees between the A66 & 19 ... so i imagine they had to close both roads to sort that out! the trees are tinder dry, i should think, as we haven't had much rain lately!
Red squirrels are not extinct, but becoming very rare due to the influx of grey squirrels from north America. They are confined (reds) to a few locations in the North, and Allendale is one of them. Which I didn't know until yesterday! Greys are to be shot on sight....well, perhaps not!
Queenie is still mine, albeit retired. Bought her in 1995, when Molly's younger brother was weaned. Now 25. back the day when British Eventing put the results online, I could have linked you to her eventing record... but it's not there any more.
Pheasants are bred here for shooting as well (those that don't breed in the wild). but they're thick as two shorts, do a nice line in running under car wheels. this one wasn't tame, just curious .. perhaps a more clever one than his colleagues? who knows....
anyway, i've found the link to my first post on my earlier blog, here http://20six.co.uk/clairehodgson/archiveofmonth/2005/07/00
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Don't tell me we sent you gray squirrels? Payback for the tea tax back in the day? *G* I'm not sure we have any read squirrels around here, but in the town where I go to church, there are black squirrels.
So, you guys try to blow up and burn up the countryside to celebrate the defeat of a guy who failed to blow up and burn up the country? Or at least the government building? Oh well, anything for a party. *lol*
Someone around here has managed to burn the rubber surface on their arena! How on earth did they do that??????
Guy Fawkes night is great fun Jean, we build models of people we don't like and burn them. There will have been more than one George Bush on fire this year :-)
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Bush on fire. I like it.
Needless to say, I am proud to admit, I have never voted for him for any reason whatsoever.
Bonfire night ...yep was he not French as well?
Burning the French too ^-^
I had a good memory of bonfire night :-)
Thanks for Queenie's explaination ;-)
black squirrels? hadn't heard of them!
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