Brits United

[John R Davis]

The glorious insanity that is Shrovetide football begins today, which interrupts with getting to Tuesday game night. Plus way too many pancakes at the hosts house!
Derbyshire resident

 

[dbm]

Here’s something to warm the cockles of your heart… hedgehogs! We get lots of them in our garden and have some feeding stations for them. This is a new set up so the camera positioning isn’t the best. It’s eight 1-minute videos from our wildlife camera so there are jump cuts.


All hedgies were served - in the morning there was a few biscuits left in each bowl so no one went away hungry. If you want to feed hedgehogs then meat-based kitten biscuits are the best option for them, both cheaper and generally more healthy than specifically hedgehog-branded food.

 

[GuyBoy]

Talking of hedgehogs, and other UK wildlife…..
Next year we get to vote on which UK wildlife gets to figure on the new generation of banknotes. Tough decision, but personally I’ll vote for badger, robin, puffin and hedgehog. And feel bad for not choosing bluetit, fox, crested newt and weasel.

 

[dbm]

Hedgehogs and robins are probably universally loved (or at least, not disliked) so a shoe-in. Badgers and foxes have more mixed press. The others are perhaps a bit more niche in terms of their appeal, though puffins are pretty awesome.

 

[GuyBoy]

I do love badgers:
Since retiring from professional life, I’ve worked p/t on a vineyard and country estate. The wildlife is awesome, but badgers are hilarious. Come grape harvest time (October) other food is getting scarcer, so badgers will go for some grapes, but by harvest the alcohol content of wine grapes is getting high, so we frequently get drunken badgers reeling around the place, like a Friday night down town!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

English wine is awesome, even though I’m slightly biased.

Gaston: So what you do, Rosbifs? Le grey bouf with ze soft cabbage and ze Rice Pudding with ze nice lumps? [reads menu] Wine sauce?

Gareth: That's right.

Gaston: But what is this wine?

Gareth: I'm sure you've heard of it. It's an alcoholic drink made with fermented grapes.

Gaston: But you must use ingredients anglais, Monsieur.

Everton: It is English, Monsieur.

Gaston: What is English?

Gareth: Having trouble with the old second tongue are we? It is English wine.

Gaston: Le vin anglais? [laughs] Le vin Rosbif? My friend, you have won this contest already. No one else has this great advantage.

From Chef!, “England Expects”

 

[dbm]

Last year we visited the Cornish Seal Sanctuary in Gweek. In addition to the seals they had a puffin enclosure where rescued puffins lived (all had past injuries or conditions which meant they wouldn’t have survived in the wild).

Very sweet little birds!

 

[Morrus]

This weekend I am in York.

To seamlessly fit in with the locals I bought me a flat cap.

 

[dbm]

Did you bring a whippet?

 

[Morrus]

Nah, my goldie and my collie are more than enough work! I shall have to make do with a mere 75% Yorkshire disguise.

I did have a roast dinner to test out the Yorkshire puddings in Yorkshire.