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Badgers eat rats, seen it happen very quickly too.

I can sense a fight approaching if I don't get the dog to move his arse!

I dragged the air rifle from the corner of my office this afternoon as I am sick of the bunnies digging up my fields and garden. I nailed 6 in the back garden this evening alone! It's a start.

I'd eat them. The missus doesn't like game. I left them for the Kites and the barn owl.

Ah, this brings back memories from the 1990's when I worked in the water industry.  I was somewhere around a Scottish reservoir when the groundsman returned to the "office" building on site in his Land Rover.... SWB with an open back full of dead rabbits.  He;s been out getting them as they can undermine the reservoir structure if too many of them burrow away in one place at one time.  I've never seen so many rabbits in one place before

I moved over to full-fibre yesterday, it's quick!

The Ka, C-Max and Grand C-Max all appear to have been dropped by Ford UK. They're no longer on the website under the new cars section

Ka / Ka+ whatever, it's gone from the Ford UK website. Also looks like Ford are not going to produce a C-Max replacement based on the current Focus. The market may want SUV's but I don't !

Didn't you replace your C Max with a Kuga?

Why do you want an mpv over an suv

I don’t like suvs really but would rather have one over an mpv .

Anyone ever attempted to dismantle a Hozelock Autoreel without looking up how to do it first? I don't recommend it!

I was in town early this morning. Many shops are still not opening until 10am or even 11am on a Saturday; I wondered why so many were closed! Fortunately I didn't need much and was OK... however I returned home via an out-of-town Sainsburys which not only was busy, but had a long queue for the petrol pumps, both when I went in, and when I came out to return home almost an hour later.

In town, the Halfords had gone for good and the Argos store is still closed... I suspect that it also may not re-open, forcing people to go to the counter in the out-of-town Sainsburys.

Many of the stores in town didn't have "wardens" counting and controlling the number of shoppers. Looks like many are letting their guard down already

EDIT: I also noted that the foreign exchange bureau in the town centre was open today, even if the one in Sainsburys was still firmly shut.  However the rates didn't look good and there was nobody being served when I walked past (on 3 occasions)

I've been to two big Tesco stores recently and walked straight into both with no queueing.

SUV's squander their height as extra ground clearance instead of interior space, for one thing.  And seeing that the most off-roading most SUVs do is mounting kerbs, there's no real reason for such great ground clearance.... maybe in the USA things are different but not in the UK.

Also, it's the "MP" bit I like - multi-purpose, so if I need to carry 7 in the car, I can.  If I need to carry just me, I can fold seats down or remove them and load up with bricks, lengths of timber, bags of sand etc etc.  An SUV is just like an "ordinary" car but with bigger ground clearance and possibly a bit more power to give it some element of sportiness.  I'll take versatility and practicality over sportiness any day of the week