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Had to think about that for a moment. I was thinking well I know the song of the garden warbler is very similar to that of a blackcap and they are often mistaken for each other, but how on earth can you think either of those might be a marsh warbler or a garden warbler??? So I put m'glasses on and... Ah! I getcher. Lower one is a blackcap; the upper one is a marsh/willow tit but I need to know whether its head is glossy like the shine of a wet marsh-land or matt like the non-shine of a willow stem. Happy days Y.

I'll see your brimstones, bumble bees & swallows and raise you... a blackcap, or rather two or three of them pulling some bits of grass about for their display nests*; out at shillinglee which is north-west west-sussex. * is it blackcaps that do the display nests to attract their mates and then build the proper nests together? Shouldof have looked that one up. Happy days Yourn

You know you're getting old when you watch The Big Sleep again and Humphrey Bogart looks young.

Or a page number. WHAT???

I did, but its a nornbeam; its always a nornbeam.

Yes, or maybe a location, where are they? Some of us might be local and we could nip out and have a look. Which wooden spoon? Oh! that wooden spoon. No, nothing to do with me.

Sorry; ^^ alder fruit, not catkins.

Many thanks for the offer, that's very kind of you but it's the reading that I enjoy. I try to avoid hearing voices

Nope, me too. I realised the other day I would probably never read Dombey and Son, or Bleak House, or Lord Jim, or Tess, or The Woman in White again which made me rather sad. To answer the op: when you realise there's no point in saving your money so you can go out and buy every bloody shiney thing you ever wanted whether you need it or not and not give a damn. Happy Days!!!

It does indeed. The juvenile/ top growth off a coast redwood is almost indistinguishable from a cryptomaria but the cones of the coast redwood are like a large alder catkin whereas the cones of the cryptomaria are like those in the photographs. At Polecat Valley at Haslemere in Surrey there is a grove of giant redwoods - Wellies and Coast redwoods (amongst the tallest trees in surrey - there's a contour on the 2 1/2 inch O.S. map right by the side of the road where they stand and a spot-height at the junction up the hill from which, with an inclinometer, you get a 1-2 degree elevation standing on a six foot bank which makes them at least 43m or 140+ feet high) and around and about giant hemlocks and silver firs and over the hill monkey puzzlers (hindhead road outside what was olivetti is now Jamia Ahmadya; look up) and vars other, (a magnificent blue cedar totally hidden) all part of a planting from when it was part of the old Frensham Hall old estate. I went for a walk down through there one time after a storm - the ground was littered with walnuts! - which turned out to be cones from the wellingtonia - and picked up a sprig (of juvenile coast redwood) and checked every tree looking for a cryptomaria! Have a look in Alan Mitchell's majesterial Conifers of the British Isles, there's some pics and descriptions in there. That sprig is still on my kitchen windowsill and still with the alder catkin like cones although brown now rather than green. Incidently some time back now someone did a 'what is this' - I'm sure it was on here - of a large alder catkin looking coney thing, I couldn't get back to it at the time, but yep! that was a coast redwood cone. I seem to have wandered from the point! Happy days Yourn

Don't worry VI, I got it and enjoyed it: a perfect juxtaposition of thread title and picture. If what you have said here and in other similar threads represents yourself truly, then, if you haven't already, I recommend you read Richard Jefferies' 'The Story of My Heart' it is quite unlike his 'usual' fare regarding Hodge and his Masters, and is a long stream of consciousness contemplating his place in the universe. Happy Days Yourn

Thought this might be of interest to some here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43315596

Ha! Brilliant. But I think we're getting there. I detect fishiness. Carps?

Clots?

ETA this in reply to tony: quote fail on my part. What, So they can steal our saws and then shoot us dead? Like in the USA. Idiot! Think it through.

Han't checked back but has anyone had... People Who Cycle On The Pavement.

Oh absolutely, technically superb; though not sure about the twitching if that is meant to pretend some mental illness. I could never enjoy 'magic' tricks cos 'magic' was never an explanation for how it was done. Once, however, Penn & Teller explained how it was done, then, I could marvel at how the illusion unfolded and how the deception came about and the technical ability of the performer. But that's just me being aspy. Always happy here. Hope you are too and thanks for posting.

And a PPS. Sorry , before you ask , no. I've long forgotten the basics of foisting the hidden card on to your accomplice. It's very simple and the art is in dressing it up in theatrics

Ooh! Just by way of a PS, notice in the first segment how hard her fingers are pushing down on the pack of cards on the table before the top half rotates when she removes her fingers cos of being a trick pack. Sorry when she turns the pack by nothing but the power of her mind!

Where do you want to start? At least you admit they are tricks. Tricks can be learnt: no I can't do them yet, I han't learnt them; I could do them just as easily as you could after a day spent being taught how to do them. When a woman is cut in half, do you think that the person doing it is a wonderful surgeon taking time off from Kings? Or do you think he is channeling some mystical magical vibe that enables him to do miraculous surgery and thus should be working at kings saving lives of trauma victims? Or do you think he is someone who was taught the trick by someone else and has perfected the art of making you think you are seeing what you are not? Why do you think a young girl cannot learn similar techniques? Next you'll be suggesting Sally Morgan talks to dead people.

Only watched the first one: party tricks straight of the box with a new twist and a camera adapted for double exposures. Hence the black and white uniform to stand out against the second exposure which she takes in public. Is the rest the same? Still, if she can make a few bob from people being so easily gulled then roll over Paul Daniels, thers a new kid in town.

Quick heads-up: Natural Woodland, Peterken, George , £12-50 + £3 p+p here Be lucky!

Really? In this day and age? That's your reply?