Ah .... one learns something new every day. Guess carbon fibre these days?
Boat Race, Great Ouse, Cambridgeshire
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Ah .... one learns something new every day. Guess carbon fibre these days?
Lidar mapping picks them out beautifully
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Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
That is very interesting, it doesn't pick out the dykes quite as well.
We were working around there last year and thought mountain rescue was the strangest thing !!Eh, I'll have you know that we have our own mountain rescue team around these parts
http://www.pidleymountainrescue.org.uk/
A lot of us natives, sorry indigenous people, get nosebleeds if the get more than a few feet above sea level.
As for dykes... I thought that was one of your "specialist" subjects...
Fudgewits they need to do more than clear the weed. Internal Drainage boards do a great job of pumping water into the main rivers (and paying for the privilege) and then the EA can’t be arsed to do any maintenance. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the fens everyone has to pay drainage rates which would be in the region of £20/ac
The Pidley Mountain Rescue team was I recall formed by a local police officer Gil Boyd, he lives in the village and the teams HQ is the Mad Cat pub. Its function is to raise money for sick childen, in recent years it seems to be fairly low profile, but it was big news in the 1980's and Gil raised huge sums of money for Great Ormond Street Hospital and other causes.
I don't think there are any huge local dangers around Pidley unless the crocodiles escape from the nnext village.
Only the smell of that recycling plant !!
Would that be Mr Johnson?
Was one of the "stars" of Ross Kemp's ITV programme on dangerous animals in the UK recently
In Cambridgeshire, 50-year-old farmer Andy Johnson’s family has owned their farm for more than hundred years and it now boasts 300 deer, 150 cattle and several ostriches - plus a collection of crocodiles donated by a private collector, which he tells Ross he views as an environmentally friendly alternative to incinerators for dealing with dead livestock. He says: "It started as a bit of a joke. We argued putting crocodiles in would be the best way forward. [The] originals came in, I’d got no love of a crocodile, I didn’t understand the crocodiles, never handled a crocodile and just I knew that they ate meat and they liked warm air and warm water.
Britain's Tiger Kings - On The Trail With Ross Kemp Episode 2
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We are literally on the edge of the fen, its clay, more clay then, rock, our house foundations are 4m concrete. There is a hill in the way or we could see the cathedral.
My neighbour plays the in the Littleport band, I can hear her practising the lands so flat and there is a 14 acre field between us.
The middle section of this is lovely with the fen skaters.
My neighbour plays the in the Littleport band, I can hear her practising the lands so flat and there is a 14 acre field between us.
The middle section of this is lovely with the fen skaters.
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farmerm
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- Shropshire
Dont worry the black fen is retreating, eventually it will all blown or oxidised away, you will then only have the clay and silt to contend with.
Thats it our very own Steve Irwin, Andy herds Nile crocodiles with a pig board. Must be the Viking blood in himWould that be Mr Johnson?
Was one of the "stars" of Ross Kemp's ITV programme on dangerous animals in the UK recently
In Cambridgeshire, 50-year-old farmer Andy Johnson’s family has owned their farm for more than hundred years and it now boasts 300 deer, 150 cattle and several ostriches - plus a collection of crocodiles donated by a private collector, which he tells Ross he views as an environmentally friendly alternative to incinerators for dealing with dead livestock. He says: "It started as a bit of a joke. We argued putting crocodiles in would be the best way forward. [The] originals came in, I’d got no love of a crocodile, I didn’t understand the crocodiles, never handled a crocodile and just I knew that they ate meat and they liked warm air and warm water.
Britain's Tiger Kings - On The Trail With Ross Kemp Episode 2
This new two-part documentary series features Ross Kemp on the trail of Britain's very own tiger and lion kings - those who keep dangerous wild animals.www.itv.com
He did come across as a bit of a boy ....
Got plans for other animals too. Wild cats were mentioned. Well worth a watch... esp if you're local
Crikey!!
Now an expert and huge fan of the species, he has some unusual plans for when he dies, telling Ross: "My long-term aim is whether tomorrow or 20 years’ time, that hopefully by then it’ll be agreed that I can be fed to a crocodile to, you know, put my bit back. That is where we’re looking. You know, is it gonna be possible to use humans as a protein source to feed humans back, to take pressure off of the environment, off of the world's resources?"He did come across as a bit of a boy ....
Got plans for other animals too. Wild cats were mentioned. Well worth a watch... esp if you're local
"Bit of a boy" anyone who knows him will say thats a considerable understatement. I'm sure he's got some Limmie blood in himHe did come across as a bit of a boy ....
Got plans for other animals too. Wild cats were mentioned. Well worth a watch... esp if you're local
His farm shop was robbed Xmas before last, bet the scumbags didn't know who they were theiving from, let's just say if he had caught them the consequences don't bear thinking about.
TheTallGuy
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- Cambridgeshire
Hope that they get the steakhouse open again soon... I'm missing the Sunday carvery!
TheTallGuy
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- Cambridgeshire
It can get a bit ripe down at Pooh Corner!
Wolds Beef
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Always watch with interest as I may have rowed against some of the guys years ago in the National Schools event at Peterborough. Coxed Fours and us Grammar school lads stood no chance as the public schools had split there eights and found another cox. Race 1 lost and into the plate competition Race 2 lost and sat on the bank the rest of the day!!
WB
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What year was that, must have been a long time ago!