I have eight very large conifers in my garden. I have now also aquired all of Bradley Stokes and surrounding areas Starling population who roost in my trees. This has been going on for three weeks now. There are many hundreds if not into the thousand+ of these birds and the numbers seem to be increasing.
It starts at dusk and they wheel about in circles collecting more and more as they do so. They get lower and lower and finally settle in my trees and churp away until 6-30 or 7-00pm. Now I am an animal and bird lover and the last thing I want to do is deny them safety and shelter over the winter.
But I wish they would empty their bowels somewhere else and not when they come into land!

4-45pm sees me out there with Triplewax Liquid Gold Self Drying Shampoo and a hose. I wash 2 cars and hose them off in ten minutes flat now!
Apparantly the Starlings will start to drift of somewhere else by the end of February so 51 more days of this then!(hopefully)

People come and watch this specticle now. I stand in my porch and watch them getting bombed as well as my cars!

It’s when nature sends it’s Naval Assets in to do some `gardening` on my pond I object to! Must be using upkeeps as the net doesn’t keep them at bay?

Isn’t this more a case of lack of common sense rather than health and safety. If a veteran asks to sit in an aircraft especially a Spitfire I would have thought the answer an automatic yes!

BTW you would have thought the RAF could have russelled up a van to take him to Conningsby?

nice kit – tell me more i’m not familiar with that pattern?

Disruptor pattern scheme similar to these, although i’m not sure if the tractor would carry this scheme. So I may repaint with the more accurate RAF Blue / Grey.

The most important thing about building a model is that it’s `your model` and doesn’t really matter how good or bad. Corgi got me back into modelling but now I only build models. Buying completed examples doesn’t appeal although I have some nice Corgi Lancasters namely S-Sugar and the BBMF Set. They are not as nice to me as this one I built about 10 years ago. My first model in 20 years.

btw I bet Corgi don’t do this one…

Modelzone have them for about £100.
Or you could have a go at building the Airfix one for £20.

This is my one.

I’m going to re-do the trollies and tractor in Brown / Black Disruptor pattern.

“it’s a dog eat dog reich and i’m wearing bacon trousers” – Stewie as Hitler, Family Guy.

“they hung in the air just like bricks don’t” – HHGTTG

“the dead know only one thing, that it is better to be alive” – Platoon

“I guess they haven’t fully understood the concept of Marine” – British soldier, Afghanistan, after successfully outflanking the Taliban with a river crossing.

Merry Christmas