Lochinver on this weirdly hot morning
#Assynt
It's still this sort of day in #Assynt
#DailyWalk
nostr:npub1avz276l0vz0xs3amfwg888k7muaelal9auuj9tdk79drz67zm89q7t8av6 Can I ask why a stoat is bad news over a mouse ?? Sorry for sounding dim.
nostr:npub1m26pksxajls9yrmtwx0zcvptzcx33t8ht8mfc5sdpcje0tp4nz8q9l2jhh They may set up home, which is hard to clear out, and they smell. They also bring dead things in, and they poo smelly poo and widdle smelly widdle everywhere. Also very hard to trap. They're also vicious, so we don't want to live with them.
Our night was disturbed by a rampaging herd of young elephants through the house. Well, it sounded like that, but we suspected either a stoat had got in (bad news) or that a rogue mouse had broken our agreement with the mousefolk - they get fed outside if they stay outside. I reluctantly set an NMT (shh - don't mention Nasty Mouse Traps) and I fear we were right; it was a mouse, who must have had his mountaineering hobnailed boots on.
I hate having to set NMTs
#RuralLife
nostr:npub1ex328w5w0hjweznw8t6f9epk5w5xy4ak6kzyc7y93lfjtelxuymsk9c58j Yeah, I think of him when we drive through Spinningdale on our shopping trips east. But in his day he was also regular at our local in the village where we lived in Hampshire. One of his ad-libs reflects that area, (paraphrase) "You look like a ballerina mincing her way through Swan Lake at an amateur performance at the village hall in Middle Wallop", that being a couple of miles from where we lived.
What was that founding principle of the NHS? "Free at the point of being able to shovel money into the grasping hands of our oligarchic mates?"
Headline: "NHS to expand use of private sector to tackle waits"
Yet to see a BBC headline that reads "Why has the Tory establishment run down the NHS?"