Sacha wrote in
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On 2012-12-21 09:43:04 +0000, Martin said:

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:37:25 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 2012-12-20 18:49:30 +0000, Baz said:
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And in our own very small way, I've just driven up one of our
narrowes lanes where the water is gushing down the side (no
gutters) at such a rate and with so much persistence that the
tarmac is breaking up into 'steps' down the lane. It's creating a
very pretty but dangerous waterfall.

Sounds familiar to me. The small chunks can very quickly knock off
boulders. Scarper when that happens.

Baz

It's certainly a possibility that this will undermine very high
Devon hedges.

and flush out the badgers.

Plenty of those round here. We saw one just the other night as we
drove home.

Are you sure it wasn't a Border Collie, Sacha.(only joking).
I say that because I am gradualy comming to my own conclusion that even in
Lincolnshire we have little wildlife from the 70's (when I was a very young
lad) to be seen. Even stoats and weasels and hedgehogs have not been seen
for the past 2 or 3 years in numbers, even squashed on the road.

Baz