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Re: Taps
Goodness Taps a friend of mine has caught something like Lyme disease and it does not look like he is going to get over it. I suppose in your sons position I would try and put up a suitable barrier, but perhaps he does around his garden. Well what I try to do now Taps is just have one blog although I pay for three. I thought one might overdo ones otherwise. Not only that some people may not like poetry well verse mainly. Some may not like offbeat sketches and some might think, what we want to know about his little idiosyncrasies. So there is a choice and if nothing suits so be it. Of course I have to post rewrites very often. Oh! here is a 
because someone was nasty.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 11:34 AM
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Re:Kabu
Well Kabu my forebears did not have that dubious privilege, but probably bought a cheap passage over, it does make one think how things have changed, really everyone should be so pleased, but with increased wealth comes a desire for more posessions and so we are always back to wanting more than we can handle. Oh, go on you can have four more cats if you desire them.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM
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Re: FS
Seemingly it is a world problem then a pity it does not happen in the countries where the population is near starving.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 11:12 AM
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Re: Pat
Yes Pat I wonder if I would like it, I've got an idea it is usually served rare, I liked things well cooked fortunately Arthur who has taken on the cooking likes food crispy.
Of course Pat the old ladies probably were in your grandmothers time, fashion has it swings of course, but I think these ladies did it for necessity.
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C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 11:11 AM
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Re: Adnohr
Well in Bessie's time when she was a girl one would have probably been thrown into prison for taking a deer and that wasn't so long ago. Well Adnohr what would you have done, let me think, probably sent Smudge with a basket with a polite request and a dollar.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM
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Re: rumour
Hi Rumour I wonder what will happen if they make a grand escape. Veal pies all round?
posted by
C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM
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Re: Sam
It is a bit of a job Sam, the badgers are given the cows tuberculosis, the foxes are coming into the back gardens and the deer although rarely seen in the day are there in the background growing
posted by
C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 10:57 AM
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Re: Wiley Wiley
Sad in a way Wiley, not much one can do about it, but cull I hope they don't get a disease
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C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 10:55 AM
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Re: CCT
Those tough old deer you have Naut, I suppose they could end up in cat's meat. I guess you have plenty of room for them, I bet they would have eaten it in Bessie's time .
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C_C_T
on March 10, 2013 at 1:06 AM
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CCT
We have deer coming out of our ears, as it were, LOL, but I've never seen an venison in our stores - I guess they're sending it all over to you guys...It's great to hear more from Bess - keep it coming; and the poem - I love the clever way you always have a surprise ending...
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Nautikos
on March 9, 2013 at 8:26 PM
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ChiffChaff
Oh deer, oh deer, we have thousands here and they are larger than your type, I've seen yours over there. We have a lot of car/deer accidents up here in the forest.
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WileyJohn
on March 9, 2013 at 6:52 PM
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I was raised on deer meat, venison, and I love it! It is much healthier but one must hunt them in the USA! I think a predator is needed as well! sam 
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sam444
on March 9, 2013 at 5:52 PM
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We have an overabundance of deer here, too...
A national park just 40 miles from Windsor is overrun with them...one doesn't dare drive too fast through the park, especially at dusk or dawn...
posted by
Rumor
on March 9, 2013 at 2:19 PM
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With the coyotes and the hunters here, we have no over-population of deer. Bess lived a rather hard life as a child. Wonder if things got better for her when older? So, did the lady give in and go to borrow the bread?
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adnohr
on March 9, 2013 at 12:19 PM
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About the deer - they're not Bambi. They would do for sausage
or roasts as their anatomy is very like that of a cow - our area's overrun with them, they leap across the road - even against a red light - and cause accidents... Recently there was some reporting of a cougar being sighted, and since deer are their natural food source, I think the park rangers are hoping that's true.
The ladies who recycle fabric must have cousins here. I have patchwork quilts made from outgrown jackets and plaid shirts, etc. And for a time it was quite the thing to wear vests made of squares of mismatched leftover crochet yarn.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 9, 2013 at 11:15 AM
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Where I am at is overpopulated with deer...So incredibly difficult it is when one loses their children...The poem flows super nicely.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM
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trouble is they have those big soft eyes that just look at you ....and then
there is Bamby. They live in the State forest South of Sydney...were introduced.... and are a pest to the decendants of those convicts because they eat their gardens.
People were s poor at times in Australia they made clothing out of flour sacks...i don't want to see poverty like that again.
posted by
Kabu
on March 9, 2013 at 11:08 AM
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I loved everything about this post....all of it.
Now I'm going to try to get caught up on the preceding ones that I have missed lately.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 9, 2013 at 8:56 AM
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This comment is about the first section only. I haven't even read the rest of the post yet. That is so interesting because, though I have never heard them referred to as "vermin", your situation is very much like that here. They are everywhere. Son finds them on his property every morning early when he goes out to drink his coffee on the patio (which he does everyday no matter how cold and snowy). Even though they are so fun to see, they breed and carry deer ticks which carry Lyme disease which can be quite bad.
On to the rest of your post.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 9, 2013 at 8:21 AM
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