Jan 1st, 15.00

Quote from: Leon on 04 December 2013, 03:41:01 AM
It's to the nearest hour, so would you like 19:00 or 20:00?

Don't Yanks get a 30 minute bonus for the current exchange rate ?   

6 January 20:00

Dec 24th 19.00 GMT would be my guess, stick me in for that one please!!

Quote from: zaapark on 04 December 2013, 10:05:17 PM
Don't Yanks get a 30 minute bonus for the current exchange rate ?   

6 January 20:00

Quote from: i_am_win on 04 December 2013, 11:57:45 PM
Dec 24th 19.00 GMT would be my guess, stick me in for that one please!!

Let's see if you can win another one of these things!   

And a new busiest day ever on the Forum has been crowned!  Wed 4th December 2013 is the new champion with 271 posts, beating out the previous best of 241 posts, set back in August this year.

That's now over 700 posts in the past 4 days, so what affect is this going to have on the 100k post?  At this rate we'll hit it in a little over 2 weeks, but will this level of traffic continue?  Or will people get dragged out Christmas shopping by the missus?  Will a sudden snowstorm knock out the internet to those desolate little pockets of civilisation, like Techno's place...   

Quote from: Leon on 05 December 2013, 12:15:12 AM
Will a sudden snowstorm knock out the internet to those desolate little pockets of civilisation, like Techno's place...   

Oooh.....I hope not...Yesterday was lots of fun on the forum though.
Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: Leon on 05 December 2013, 12:15:12 AM
Will a sudden snowstorm knock out the internet to those desolate little pockets of civilisation, like Techno's place...   

Just to be safe, supply Phil with a few forum pidgeons, that way he can send his replies to you, and you can just type 'em in his name 

January 2nd 2014 at 3 am.


Posted by a Leon clone
do i get more if i guess the poster. LOL   

Quote from: petercooman on 05 December 2013, 10:41:13 AM
Just to be safe, supply Phil with a few forum pidgeons, that way he can send his replies to you, and you can just type 'em in his name 

There are enough pigeons over here already....I don't want any more.
Only thing they're useful for, is food for the sparrow hawks. 
Cheers - Phil

QuoteOnly thing they're useful for, is food for the sparrow hawks

You must have big bloody Sparrowhawks in Wales!

Apparently female Sparrowhawks are big enough to down a pigeon.

Greetings

(A bit OT from 100k post but: My wife took a photo years ago of a sparrowhawk killing a pigeon (which was strutting around under the kitchen window and failed its observation check)).

Back on topic - the increase in posts is interesting but I am sure it will drop off.  There's some good stuff though, which I am sure is Leon's intent.

Regards

Edward

Quote from: Steve J on 05 December 2013, 01:36:07 PM
Apparently female Sparrowhawks are big enough to down a pigeon.

Easy peasy.
Seen them take pigeons off the barn roof. (Makes the chickens run for cover !!)....They are FAST !!
Also seen a female munching on a pigeon while I was looking through the kitchen window from around 3-4 feet away.
Much, much bigger than you'd expect.

We also get bigger raptors around 'the farm', such as red kites and buzzards.
I SO wish I'd had the camera with me when a buzzard was sitting on a fence post close to the house.
The youngest cat we've got was sitting on the next fence post about 6 feet away from it......You could see the cat's mind working.
"I wonder if I could take that on ?"........And me going "Don't even think it Mickey!".......It looks one and a half times bigger than you.

Cheers - Phil

Blimey. I knew they could but didn't think they did on a regular basis.

Don't see so many round here - Kestrels and plenty of buzzards mind and red kites now.

(Apologies for the derail please return to the usual flippery  )

Mate of mine had a three legged cat, it had lost a leg to a trap.
One day it caught a rabbit as we watched, and was bringing it home along a hedge line, when the local peragrin falcon stooped, obviously thinking 'I'll have a bit of that!'
The cat sat up on its back legs, watched the approaching dot at 200mph, and swatted it into the hedge with its one good leg, picked up the rabbit and trotted home!
Never seen a raptor look embarrassed!