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Wonderful!
We need to send a EOS teddy bear to her!
Maria
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Have you ever seen a fox ? We live on the edge of beautiful countryside & on Sunday nights some people put their rubbish out for the weekly collection early on Monday. (OH sets his alarm to wake him up 7am so he puts our rubbish outside then). Every Sunday night when I go to bed around 2 am I look outside & a family of foxes, mum & dad I think & a baby fox are ripping the black plastic rubbish bags apart looking for food. They stay a long time & it's magical to watch even though I'm so tired at that time. I saw three foxes right under my window eating & two hours later I woke up & saw the adults still there. Wonderful to watch. They were totally oblivious to me watching them. What a mess they make.
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Where we live in South London we have loads of urban foxes. They used to live by the local station but that was cleared so they just roam around. We suspect that one or two live in a disused shed at the bottom of our neighbours garden.
You see them wandering the roads all the time - just like small dogs. These are not your bushy tailed country foxes but rather sad mangy looking ones. They are very tame and I've had to shoo away when opening our front door. Also been woken up by them mating in the back garden! And 'lost' shoes that have been left outside the back door - find them days later hidden amongst the bushes.
A couple of years ago it was really bad and I rang the local council and they said we were not allowed to do anything and they wouldn't. BUT we think they ate the rat bait that we put out. We get some wonderful 'wildlife' in London. And we live in a supposidly NICE area!!
My OH saw a rat cross our patio a couple of weeks ago one Sunday at about 8:00am. Last summer one was shoveling up the crumbs under our patio table at about 7:00pm. A few days later OH caught it and it's friend in a couple of traps baited with peanut butter. They were very fat!!
Sorry suppose this is doom (for the rats!) - apologies This message was last edited by Sonia El on 8/5/2008.
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Hi Sonia
I've just been telling my friend, Sue, who called at 11.45am to find both my hubby & I still in our terry robes  (no comments please, we were just being lazy, that's all !!!!  ) that I'd had little sleep (BECAUSE I'D BEEN WATCHING 3 FOXES RAID OUR NEIGHBOURS BINS. shurruppppppp  ) & she used to live in London like yourself & said much the same thing as you.
Haven't seen a rat, don't think, in the UK but I did see one by the market in Formentera Del Segura in June by Trasgu's bar/restaurant !!! Hope the Formentera members aren't following this thread. 
This message was last edited by morerosado on 8/5/2008.
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I'm at the opposite side of London and foxes have been roaming the streets for many years now.
They're having a difficult time in our Borough as we've had Whellie Bins for some years now.
Our neighbours cook chicken pieces for the foxes each evening, they also installed cctv to watch them eating. I was embarrassed to be told that the first evening they sat down to watch feeding time who should appear from behind the garage but our cat. Apparently she would sit and feed with the foxes. They feed them at the same time each evening and she would appear as soon as the food was put down.
In doors she would only eat her Iams (dried food) so whenever she was ill I could never disguise the medication by mixing it into moist food or putting it in chicken pieces.
Earlier this year when I first started hanging the washing out I would notice movement down the bottom of the garden, I think we have baby foxes there. For some years they have been nesting underneath the neighbours shed.
We did have one who appears very mangy, it would follow you down the garden. Like most people I prefer to look at wildlife from a distance, my neighbour the other side is terrified of foxes and very rarley goes into the garden. She was also followed down the garden by the fox and now can't hang out her washing in case it happens again.
Thankfully haven't seen any rats, its was bad enough with the mice that the chicken thief used to bring in from her nightly forages 
Just remembered OH is upset as the foxes are digging holes in the lawn. My sister also finds eggs buried in her raised beds and plant pots. Me I just find Monkey Nuts in mine that the squirrels bury. Yup the neighbours leave those out as well.
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We have badgers too & boy, do our lawns take a hammering sometimes ! We noticed there was a hollow under the 6ft high fencing in one area & blocked it off with breeze blocks but next night the badger had chucked the blocks to one side & made its exit.
We are just alongside Weston woods & wildlife are around a lot. Some time ago a rook must've flown over our house with a large branch & obviously dropped it on our roof breaking the corner off a tile. I noticed it only because I went into the attic during the day & realised that the rain had caused the black covering under the tiles to perish & I saw DAYLIGHT through the hole. (We often see branches on our roof). When we had a roofer look at it he said it must've happened years ago for the covering to have broken down as it did. He replaced the broken tile with one from the back of the roof & put a weathered tile he had on the back. He said he'd pop around for cash (£30) sometime but never came back ! (We'd seen him at a distant neigbours & asked him to take a look at the tile so he's likely clean forgotton). This message was last edited by morerosado on 8/5/2008.
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My better half has just gone, alone, to do our shopping leaving me to "play" with EOS
He's such a great soul, must remember that next time I feel like flattening him !!
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I called him my better half today as he's been so good ! He's even washed up, came upstairs to get my mug from me too. Sometimes he's like this, I think it's cos he can't cook & I can, when the mood takes me anyway. Sounds about right, don't you think ?
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37 years here.
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I certainly wouldn't want to try to break in a 2nd ! I was reading about Patsy Kensit who's had 3 marriages & called off her 4th. Whatever are folks doing these days ? Stamina, that's what they need. 
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Our daughter will be marrying for the first time this Christmas at the grand old age of 35! She says that she plans to do it only once and is having a rather grand black tie affair in a posh hotel (we are only making a contribution, thank goodness) I think that at her age she knows what she wants and can afford to pay for it!
My O.H. and I will clock up 45years of marriage this December, and yes , I did get married straight from school! I'm not sure whether we had good judgement or just luck!! We are still not sure which one of us deserves the medal but it is good to know that some marriages do last.
Gloria
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Our wedding day was also my 45th birthday, he made the decision that we should get married but I had to do all the organisation.
Everyone thought we were going to get married abroad but as my MIL wouldn't fly we decided to go for a very low key affair.
Neither of us had been married before but as I would have had too many bridesmaids to choose from we went for a register office on a Friday thinking that would keep the costs down. Wrong 90 people turned up to watch us tie the knot and another lot in the evening.
Total bill 4k, it's no wonder that people spend so much. We had various contacts who did flowers, photos, catering and wine at cost. Everyone was fed and watered, a good time was had by all.
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