Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bubbles on May 23, 2015, 01:36:55 PM
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A few months ago I discovered a hedgehog in a ball resting on a hedgehog shaped stone we have by the front door.
At the weekend we saw a hedgehog walking across the garden.
I have seen several dead hedgehogs on the roads around our village in the last few months.
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Sad but entirely unsurprising news :(
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Sad but entirely unsurprising news :(
I mentioned this because, whilst dead hedgehogs as road kill used to be very common, they haven't been for the last ten years or so until a few months ago. Dead badgers seem to be quite common road kill these days, which they weren't in the past.
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Big killers of hedgehogs are slug pellets, discarded plastic and drowning in garden ponds, aside from roadkill.
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Our fault, yet again :(
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Yes, the damage we have done to our native wildlife beggars belief. Can you imagine what walking in our fields must have sounded like before industrialised farming? Well, no, actually.
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If any visiting alien, or possibly far future human, were to write a report on humanity they would put religion, clothing and culture further down the list; at the top they'd define the human animal as "the one that can't live peaceably in keeping with the natural world."
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'Soils its home routinely.'
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And yet we have this fashion for being 'in nature' as a kind of cure-all. What that usually means is having your fast food lunch in the park.
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'Soils its home routinely.'
'Can't keep its numbers down.'
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What's the difference between the British Humanist Association/Archdiocese of Canterbury Minibuses and a hedgehog?
The hedgehog has the pricks on the outside.
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I suppose it's a modest improvement on the "X said 'I feel a bit funny' ... 'Quick, get on stage before it wears off'" one we haven't heard in at least a week.
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I suppose it's a modest improvement on the "X said 'I feel a bit funny' ... 'Quick, get on stage before it wears off'" one we haven't heard in at least a week.
I for one am grateful to you that you've given it it's run this week.
Would you like to do it next week or are you happy for me to do it?
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No, let's just take it as done.
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Let's just call it Number 1, and it doesn't need saying other than that.
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Let's just call it Number 1, and it doesn't need saying other than that.
Although that idea has comic appeal there's just something in lovingly and painstakingly typing it out again................
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If any visiting alien, or possibly far future human, were to write a report on humanity they would put religion, clothing and culture further down the list; at the top they'd define the human animal as "the one that can't live peaceably in keeping with the natural world."
But, in fairness, a tribute to those individuals who spend their time and life caring for their fellow creatures - too few of them though!
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On a more positive note, We have recently discovered that a large hedgehog is living in our shed :)
I might call it Spiny Norman... although it's not *that* big...
"Dinsdale! DINSDALE!!!"
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On a more positive note, We have recently discovered that a large hedgehog is living in our shed :)
I might call it Spiny Norman... although it's not *that* big...
"Dinsdale! DINSDALE!!!"
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Oooh, could it be that Norman is in fact Norma and she's huge because little spiky babies are in the way?
Cat food is good if you want to feed Norma. And plain water to drink if there are no puddles around.
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For anyone hard of Python
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=8ZkWL-XvO0U
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=C-FDW1shmqA
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Those links don't go to Python, NS. They link to Something Completely Different...
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And in other news
http://m.youtube.com/?hl=en-GB&gl=GB#/watch?v=rxQpUDTb_Rg
http://m.youtube.com/?hl=en-GB&gl=GB#/watch?v=-u436Zr-QFQ
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Nope, Still goes to a compilation page lacking any Python...
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Church wildlife haven destroyed by council contractors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33181509
Local resident Daniel Villa said he was "livid" after the company "strimmed around the signs that states no cutting back will be done until autumn".
He said: "They drove their big mowers over the graves, damaging them.
"Four dead hedgehogs were found mangled by the machinery along with several fledgling birds, frogs. All the wild flowers are gone, along with all the bees , butterflies and other abundant pollinators that were there."
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Church wildlife haven destroyed by council contractors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33181509
Local resident Daniel Villa said he was "livid" after the company "strimmed around the signs that states no cutting back will be done until autumn".
He said: "They drove their big mowers over the graves, damaging them.
"Four dead hedgehogs were found mangled by the machinery along with several fledgling birds, frogs. All the wild flowers are gone, along with all the bees , butterflies and other abundant pollinators that were there."
Absolutely heartbreaking. :(
Our two parish church grounds are managed for wildlife. The cutting is done by a guy with a scythe (sadly not Aiden Turner). Keeping the muppets from the local authority well away really is essential.