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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #420 on: June 09, 2009, 07:10:40 AM »
I suppose the next picture will be of your dog with a bleeding leg... ::)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #421 on: June 09, 2009, 12:30:10 PM »
Anthony,

Could the photograph be for the sake of the horse?

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #422 on: June 09, 2009, 12:38:54 PM »
Anybody see an answer to the ararum question?

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #423 on: June 09, 2009, 01:09:52 PM »
Here's a puzzle. A friend goes rock climbing on these limstone blocks, but the local land owner is not happy, so he has put these boxes up. http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=117530
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #424 on: June 09, 2009, 01:11:22 PM »
Odd looking bat boxes. Swift boxes?

Is there an Orange tip caterpiller on the Cardamine?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #425 on: June 09, 2009, 01:16:58 PM »
Anthony,

So the landowner is just creating an extra large handhold for them?  ;D

So your friend just goes onto anyone's land and rock climbs without permission?  Here, that is called trespassing and as far as I know you could be charged.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #426 on: June 09, 2009, 01:17:03 PM »
They look like window boxes to me...where are the zonal geraniums and annuals???
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #427 on: June 09, 2009, 01:40:19 PM »
Anthony,

So the landowner is just creating an extra large handhold for them?  ;D

So your friend just goes onto anyone's land and rock climbs without permission?  Here, that is called trespassing and as far as I know you could be charged.
No law of trespass (well, none that is enforceable) in Scotland. We have freedom to roam anywhere we choose. Land owners have wasted fortunes trying to stop people accessing land. This is just the latest way to try and stop climbers. Previously they have used engine oil and grease in the hand holes.

see: http://www.outdooraccess-scotland.com/default.asp
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #428 on: June 09, 2009, 04:11:58 PM »
No law of trespass (well, none that is enforceable) in Scotland. We have freedom to roam anywhere we choose.

Not quite what an aggressive wee gent with a shotgun said to me some years ago as I hiked near Loch Ossian ::)  (and yes he got his answer ;) ;D)

Thanks for the interesting link Anthony.  Here in Ireland we could do with this kind of explicit statement of access rights & responsibilities.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #429 on: June 09, 2009, 08:10:38 PM »

Is there an Orange tip caterpiller on the Cardamine?
Nearly - but you'll get it with the next pic.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #430 on: June 09, 2009, 09:13:20 PM »
I suppose the next picture will be of your dog with a bleeding leg... ::)
What? ???
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« Reply #431 on: June 09, 2009, 09:14:07 PM »
Anthony,
Could the photograph be for the sake of the horse?
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What? ???
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« Reply #432 on: June 09, 2009, 09:18:06 PM »
In NZ trespass is enforceable on privately owned land or property (farms, schools etc) but damage must be proved.

I find it odd that you in Britain can go anywhere you wish, such as over privately owned farms, yet can't get in a decent bit of fishing. Here, private is protected; public (including all lakes, rivers, mountains etc), is available to any and everyone.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #433 on: June 09, 2009, 11:05:36 PM »
What horse? ::) :-\

If you look closely (get your specs on Lesley) you'll see an egg on one of the seed stalks. Mark was correct when he said orange tip, because I watched her lay it.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #434 on: June 09, 2009, 11:18:08 PM »
Perfect egg laying balanced on that stem - Blurs of Orange Tips is all I've seen  ;D
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