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  1. Just thunder and lightning in a snow storm. The lightning really lit up the room (more than I have seen with rain) and it was really really loud.
  2. We've just had some thunder snow in Bradfield. Gosh that was loud!
  3. It is usually much cheaper to book the accommodation separately to flights when booking something like a villa. However you might find that you aren't covered by ABTA or equiv, and depending on how you pay (for instance if you pay via bank transfer rather than credit card) you might not be protected at all if things go wrong. So just be very sure of the authenticity of the accommodation. That said, we have book independently for a number of years (not in Sicily though) and have never had a problem. Sites like ownersdirect and holidaylettings usually have reviews and state the number of years the accommodation has been listed.
  4. We're nowhere near Tinsley but have been getting cluster flies for about a week. They are slow moving enough to vacuum up though.
  5. Definitely in Bradfield. My neighbour had to put one of its misery and I found a dead one in my veg patch. Horrible disease.
  6. I got fake tan on our white sheets, came out on a 40 degree cotton wash no problem.
  7. There is a hill climb on 4th between Low and High Bradfield and we have been told that Woodfall Lane will be closed. (http://www.steelstage.co.uk/cycle.html) I have just rung South Yorkshire Transport to see what will be happening with the bus that day, and have been told that they know nothing about it. I'm sure I have read that vehicles will not be allowed on Woodfall Lane from about 16:30 on 4th, but I can't for the life of me find it. The only road closures I can find deal with the actual day the TdF comes through the village. Does anyone know whether Woodfall Lane is going to be closed? ... Ignore - just read the event flyer and they say there are no road closures that night!
  8. I'm glad you told me, I'm going up to net the neeps and tatties on my veg plot. I hear haggis (haggi?) are very fond of them.
  9. I'm in Bradfield and we have been hearing loud bangs (too loud for a shotgun) coming from Strines direction for a couple of days now. I was talking to a neighbour this morning, and it could be that they are bird scarers to move the grouse on before they burn that patch of heather. Just a theory.
  10. A friend had one and it was pretty useless because they had relatively low water pressure and it didn't expand much at all. Check your pressure before you buy.
  11. If they are anything like my cat, they are scared of chickens. We live next to a farm, and my cat always gives the chickens a wide berth, I think it is to do with the size of the bird, and the way they move.
  12. When would these proposed changes kick in? (Can't access the document in the link).
  13. A recommended solution is to actually get up if you find yourself tossing and turning. If you are lying in bed waiting for sleep to come you begin to associate being in bed with sleeplessness, when you need to build associations with bed and feeling rested and content. But I appreciate that easier said than done when it's 3am and you have only had 20minutes sleep all night, it's counter intuitive to actually get out of bed. Don't watch tv, don't play video games, don't go online - all are stimulating and are likely to make you less sleepy. Try reading a book in warm lighting, or listen to some relaxing music. Try not to pay attention to the time, it is very tempting to count away the hours that you have been awake, but tell yourself that it really makes no difference and it isn't going to help you fall asleep. It isn't a one size fits all approach with this though - find the thing that works for you.
  14. We used to have lots of problems with our cat bringing birds home. We tried a collar with a bell, no joy. Four bells (sounded like Rudolph), not a jot of difference. So we started playing merry hell with her whenever she brought back a bird and wouldn't let her out again for the rest of the day, but would let her keep mice and voles. Now she only very rarely (would say less than once every two months) comes back with a bird, and this can be captured, checked over and released (and again we keep her in for the rest of the day - she's still learning); and our next door neighbour is happy that the vermin in his barns is kept under control. Keep your cat in dawn and dusk and after dark, and after periods of bad weather because birds will not have had much of a chance to feed so will be hungry and less wary of predators. We keep ours inside when it's fledgling time too. If it's any consolation, I doubt a cat would have brought down a Red Kite single handedly (unless yours is an Ocelot?) it was possibly already injured, old, or sick.
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