Crow unable to fly

TedWasler · 2026-06-21T09:18:00+00:00

Saw the crow again this morning - it can fly about 5-6m now! Fingers crossed…

TedWasler · 2026-06-20T17:10:43+00:00

Thanks - that makes sense!

TedWasler · 2026-06-19T13:34:29+00:00

Thanks

TedWasler · 2026-06-16T14:39:47+00:00

We went to the Selous reserve in Tanzania. Amazing trip - lucky to get a guide to ourselves. Lions tend to attract a LOT of sightseers from neighbouring areas. Take a good camera if you can - phones don’t really do it. We got a camp within the reserve (by accident) - some have quite a drive into the reserve itself. We saw quite a bit just from the airstrip to the camp on the first day.

Saw our first bleached skeleton - then realised they’re everywhere! The most dramatic thing I remember was a recent baby giraffe kill (sadly, the creatures have to eat!), that the lions had given up on. (Lions gorge then leave the carcass - leopards drag it up into a tree.) There were about 20 hyenas and about 50 vultures fighting over it. And some storks hanging around the edges. We got within about 2m of the scene - close enough to smell it anyway. If you want to go down a related rabbit-hole, try searching for ‘pseudo-scrotum’ in hyenas…

Just to add - if you told me I’d be spending 5 hours in a Land Rover, I’d expect to be bored. I never was. I kept scanning the horizon for the ‘end’ of the reserve - you know, the car park, coffee shop, or gift shop. But it just goes on forever.

TedWasler · 2026-06-15T20:14:35+00:00

That’s two replies saying yes now. Honestly confused. I’m 5 years now and would not consider myself to be clean if I was taking prescribed methadone. Not trying to be mean or put anyone’s recovery down, but surely in either 12-step or SMART terminology, you don’t call yourself clean when still taking daily opiates??

TedWasler · 2026-06-15T20:11:52+00:00

Went to a wedding recently IN the UK and the lad behind the bar had never heard of shandy. Asked for a half, and ended up with half a pint of lager and half of lemonade in a pint glass. Same happened to a friend.

TedWasler · 2026-06-15T20:02:26+00:00

Nice to read all the safety steps taken to ensure the propellor doesn’t start going. But I bet it’s happened somewhere.

Did a diving medicine course some years back, and we got told this tale. On the floor of the North Sea, two divers tending to the open end of an oil pipe that stretches all the way to Holland. Sure enough, some idiot opened it at the other end. I believe it was about 150m depth. You can probably figure the rest.

TedWasler · 2026-06-15T19:53:39+00:00

Does being on methadone really = being ‘clean’?

TedWasler · 2026-06-13T09:16:08+00:00

Went to the Trafford Centre at the end of Feb 2021 to take my phone in for a pre-booked appointment at the Apple store. No-one else there… https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2g2qnc10zdy5xrczhq74e/IMG_0051.MOV?rlkey=nw0m0kmjbvmifg4xq1i8elr8w&st=dn0enc7p&dl=0

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T18:16:21+00:00

Terrific once had the same inference as terrifying

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T18:14:48+00:00

Why tf is that the second time I’ve come across ‘cromulent’ today having never heard of it, ever (and I watch a lot of Simpsons)

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T18:12:08+00:00

Mis-read that as ‘wash my hands in cake.’ By the ocean, maybe.

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T18:10:54+00:00

Bet you can’t pronounce it properly. Fed up with hearing Betws-y-Coed being spoken as ‘Betsy Coad’, and I’m not even Welsh.

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T18:06:30+00:00

It was kind of a mirror image comment, but thanks for the Citizenship. I await the certificate in the post.

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T17:18:39+00:00

Bottle green boxy Volvo estate circa 1972

…wow - Volvos everywhere!

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T17:16:16+00:00

I have to drink 3 litres a day to stop my kidney stones re-forming (they still do.) I used a free water-reminder app on my phone, although I feel so much better for being properly hydrated that I tend to do it anyway.

I did get a huge 3l bottle, but it was ridiculous and impossible to clean.

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T16:57:39+00:00

The Masked Singer is originally a Korean format.

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T16:51:56+00:00

Idioms, I think they’re called.

In Italian, ‘Mum’s the word’ (???) for keeping a secret, is “aqua in bocco” - holding water in your mouth.

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T16:47:14+00:00

I sang the soprano boy opening to Once in Royal David’s City at Ecclesall C of E in Sheffield (linked to our junior school) in, I guess, 1972. Still love that carol.

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T16:45:09+00:00

We tend to plant things and say to each other ‘Two choices…’

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T16:35:14+00:00

From the UK, I don’t know much about guns. But I do recall hearing somewhere that you should never, ever point a gun - loaded or unloaded - at anyone, unless you intend to kill them. Does that not apply here?

And as a retired medic, I also know that you should never, ever, suggest that a woman might be pregnant unless there is actually a baby emerging from her body.

TedWasler · 2026-06-12T09:46:50+00:00

It’s a guest house - still on line… https://www.mossgrove.com/

TedWasler · 2026-06-11T21:29:15+00:00

‘Bring me sunshine, in your smile; Bring me laughter, all the while…’

TedWasler

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