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They can't have died out as I am married to one and have been for 26 years. Also Google tells me that she is not alone, there are about 200,000 Ojibway located around the great lakes.
My wife and her colleague arrived at the meeting late, covered in feathers and pheasant poo.
.....very confused in an environment it clearly wasn't accustomed to.
Fortunately it hadn't nibbled any wires under the bonnet - unlike a car a German colleague once had. I noted that the radio aerial looked rather mangled and asked him why. "It voss ein Marder", he told me. "Whatever is a 'Marder'?", I asked. He didn't know the English word, but apparently the young of these creatures like nothing better than to pop in to a nice, warm garage to gnaw on cars' wires, tubes, aerials etc. when their teeth grow - preferring more expensive cars such as BMW and M-B over Hondas and VWs. I later found that this mysterious Germanic car-eating animal is, in fact, the Stone Marten, quite common in Europe, but not the UK. Quite playful little buggers when they're not eating cars.
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Talking of destroying cars ...
The Muntjac Deer around these parts is most certainly public enemy No 1 ... especially at dusk and in the early morning. Deer fencing helps but we are almost at plague levels here in East Sussex. I took my daughter to Gatwick recently ... came across a dozen of them in total during a forty min drive
Another Chinese import we could have done without ...
Wild Boar are also becoming a problem too ... tis rural in these parts
The Muntjac Deer around these parts is most certainly public enemy No 1 ... especially at dusk and in the early morning. Deer fencing helps but we are almost at plague levels here in East Sussex. I took my daughter to Gatwick recently ... came across a dozen of them in total during a forty min drive
Another Chinese import we could have done without ...
Wild Boar are also becoming a problem too ... tis rural in these parts
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Plenty of people who will come and cull the deer and pigs for you.
The numbers will double to quadruple every year once numbers
get above a certain level so if you think you have a lot now, wait
until 2 - 3 years time. Especially so for pigs.
Plenty of people who will come and cull the deer and pigs for you.
The numbers will double to quadruple every year once numbers
get above a certain level so if you think you have a lot now, wait
until 2 - 3 years time. Especially so for pigs.
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500N ... I'm sure there are mate ... But we have "people" around here who can't separate the Disney Bambi image from the four legged pest that is the Muntjac Deer 
Union Jack, I had 3 Opel Mantas over the years!
First was an 'original shape' (Manta 'A') 1.9 Berlinetta automatic. Rather gutless, but a nice car which handled well. Second (following 2 x Sciroccos) was a 'new shape' facelift (Manta 'B2') coupé which was my first ever new car. Again, handled fine but build quality was poor - one door didn't fit properly and it took months to sort out the steering vibration. But this was traded in for a Stage 2 Manta GT/E coupé, which also had the 4-headlamp mod., Irmscher spoiler and Bilstein shocks. That was very nice indeed!
Those who really know the Manta will understand my fondness for the marque!
First was an 'original shape' (Manta 'A') 1.9 Berlinetta automatic. Rather gutless, but a nice car which handled well. Second (following 2 x Sciroccos) was a 'new shape' facelift (Manta 'B2') coupé which was my first ever new car. Again, handled fine but build quality was poor - one door didn't fit properly and it took months to sort out the steering vibration. But this was traded in for a Stage 2 Manta GT/E coupé, which also had the 4-headlamp mod., Irmscher spoiler and Bilstein shocks. That was very nice indeed!
Those who really know the Manta will understand my fondness for the marque!
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
At the end she said she much preferred Muntjac "Very tasty."
There was a gasp from the audience
Gentleman Aviator
At least you could sort of stab someone with one of those Coff, before they put the "Elfin Safety" knob on the end.
and the even older "Bowie Knife" blade was even better.
Mate ended up meeting a pheasant head on into the grille late one night.........he gave up trying to get all the pieces out and then visited his folks in village in Scotland.
Pretty much everyone knew he had had a bird strike because he said at least 15 people over the course of the week had attempted to remove body parts of the bird from his front grill.
Came out of the pub after having driven there to find cop at his car with flashlight, he said was almost a brown trouser moment until cop said
"Hey bud trying to get rid of bird from grille, you had a beer or two, come on I'll give you a lift home".
Pretty much everyone knew he had had a bird strike because he said at least 15 people over the course of the week had attempted to remove body parts of the bird from his front grill.
Came out of the pub after having driven there to find cop at his car with flashlight, he said was almost a brown trouser moment until cop said
"Hey bud trying to get rid of bird from grille, you had a beer or two, come on I'll give you a lift home".
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