mark wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
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from "Ophelia" contains these words:
Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:

Eventually, I would like to have chickens and geese.

Be warned - geese are friendly, and come and crap on your
doorstep...

They are also good guard do....... er geese, yes?

Yes.

But really, quite harmless.

When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly women
wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way barred by a
hissing gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I
stuffed my fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed into
his garden, and I closed the gate on him, to much elderly
adulation... --

Norfolk's answer to Crocodile Dundee?

I say, I vote we should call him 'Goosie Rusty' !!!

Martin wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:01:12 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:55:11 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:31:26 GMT, Rusty_Hinge
wrote:

The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:
Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:

Eventually, I would like to have chickens and geese.

Be warned - geese are friendly, and come and crap on your
doorstep...

They are also good guard do....... er geese, yes?

Yes.

But really, quite harmless.

When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly
women wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way barred
by a hissing gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I
stuffed my fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed
into his garden, and I closed the gate on him, to much elderly
adulation...

Recalling how my 3 year old son almost disappeared into a pelican,
whilst feeding bits of fish to it on a stick, at a zoo in Oz. I
wouldn't recommend trying what you did on a pelican.

Good Heavens!!


The pelican was the star of the Oz children's film Storm Boy.
http://www.afc.gov.au/images/puffs/stormboy1.jpg
I expected better manners

I suspect you would have expected a lot more than better manners if
he had eaten your child!


and the stick he was holding with a fish attached to the end with a
clothes peg.

.... there is that....

"Ophelia" wrote in message
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mark wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...
The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:
Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:

Eventually, I would like to have chickens and geese.

Be warned - geese are friendly, and come and crap on your
doorstep...

They are also good guard do....... er geese, yes?

Yes.

But really, quite harmless.

When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly women
wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way barred by a
hissing gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I
stuffed my fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed into
his garden, and I closed the gate on him, to much elderly
adulation... --

Norfolk's answer to Crocodile Dundee?

I say, I vote we should call him 'Goosie Rusty' !!!


Nah, doesn't scan.

More alliteratively I offer: Goosie Gusset

mark

In message , Martin
writes
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:01:12 +0100, "Ophelia" wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:55:11 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:31:26 GMT, Rusty_Hinge
wrote:

The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:
Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:

Eventually, I would like to have chickens and geese.

Be warned - geese are friendly, and come and crap on your
doorstep...

They are also good guard do....... er geese, yes?

Yes.

But really, quite harmless.

When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly
women wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way barred
by a hissing gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I
stuffed my fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed into
his garden, and I closed the gate on him, to much elderly
adulation...

Recalling how my 3 year old son almost disappeared into a pelican,
whilst feeding bits of fish to it on a stick, at a zoo in Oz. I
wouldn't recommend trying what you did on a pelican.

Good Heavens!!

The pelican was the star of the Oz children's film Storm Boy.
http://www.afc.gov.au/images/puffs/stormboy1.jpg
I expected better manners

I suspect you would have expected a lot more than better manners if he had
eaten your child!

and the stick he was holding with a fish attached to the end with a
clothes peg.

"There's a seaside resort known as Blackpool
That's noted for fresh air and fun
One day Mr & Mrs Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son.

They didn't think much to the seagulls
Their beaks were all fiddly and small
So they went for a look at the Pelican
And it et the lad, fish stick and all"
--
Gordon H
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mark wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in message
...
mark wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...
The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:
Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:

Eventually, I would like to have chickens and geese.

Be warned - geese are friendly, and come and crap on your
doorstep...

They are also good guard do....... er geese, yes?

Yes.

But really, quite harmless.

When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly
women wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way barred
by a hissing gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I
stuffed my fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed into
his garden, and I closed the gate on him, to much elderly
adulation... --

Norfolk's answer to Crocodile Dundee?

I say, I vote we should call him 'Goosie Rusty' !!!


Nah, doesn't scan.

More alliteratively I offer: Goosie Gusset

Heh. I am saying nowt

Gordon H wrote:
In message , Martin
writes
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:01:12 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:
Martin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:55:11 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:31:26 GMT, Rusty_Hinge
wrote:

The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:
Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:

Eventually, I would like to have chickens and geese.

Be warned - geese are friendly, and come and crap on your
doorstep...

They are also good guard do....... er geese, yes?

Yes.

But really, quite harmless.

When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly
women wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way
barred by a hissing gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I
stuffed my fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed
into his garden, and I closed the gate on him, to much elderly
adulation...

Recalling how my 3 year old son almost disappeared into a
pelican, whilst feeding bits of fish to it on a stick, at a zoo
in Oz. I wouldn't recommend trying what you did on a pelican.

Good Heavens!!

The pelican was the star of the Oz children's film Storm Boy.
http://www.afc.gov.au/images/puffs/stormboy1.jpg
I expected better manners

I suspect you would have expected a lot more than better manners if
he had eaten your child!

and the stick he was holding with a fish attached to the end with a
clothes peg.

"There's a seaside resort known as Blackpool
That's noted for fresh air and fun
One day Mr & Mrs Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son.

They didn't think much to the seagulls
Their beaks were all fiddly and small
So they went for a look at the Pelican
And it et the lad, fish stick and all"

lol

The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:

Recalling how my 3 year old son almost disappeared into a pelican,
whilst feeding bits of fish to it on a stick, at a zoo in Oz. I
wouldn't recommend trying what you did on a pelican.

Good Heavens!!


The pelican was the star of the Oz children's film Storm Boy.
http://www.afc.gov.au/images/puffs/stormboy1.jpg
I expected better manners

I suspect you would have expected a lot more than better manners if he had
eaten your child!

The resulting guano, at the very least...

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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The message
from "Ophelia" contains these words:

I say, I vote we should call him 'Goosie Rusty' !!!

Vetoed - on the grounds of not wishing to find a queueueueueueueue of
hopefuls outside my door every morning.

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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from "Kathy" contains these words:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...
When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly women
wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way barred by a hissing
gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I stuffed my
fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed into his garden, and
I closed the gate on him, to much elderly adulation...

/innocent look

Did lots of people keep geese in their front gardens in Norfolk back in the
1800's?

/off innocent look

This were in Essex, between the Blackwater and Colne estuaries, and no,
this one was in the back garden, but as the garden ran parallel with the
road, the back gate(s) opened at an angle to it, more-or-less opposite
Digby's.

With all those clues, someone ought to know where I was...

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk

On 31/3/09 12:33, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

The message
from "Kathy" contains these words:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...
When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly women
wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way barred by a hissing
gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I stuffed my
fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed into his garden, and
I closed the gate on him, to much elderly adulation...

/innocent look

Did lots of people keep geese in their front gardens in Norfolk back in the
1800's?

/off innocent look

This were in Essex, between the Blackwater and Colne estuaries, and no,
this one was in the back garden, but as the garden ran parallel with the
road, the back gate(s) opened at an angle to it, more-or-less opposite
Digby's.

With all those clues, someone ought to know where I was...

Mersea Island?
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Mersea Island?

That's the easy bit - now, whereabouts on Mersea Island?

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk

On 31/3/09 18:03, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Mersea Island?

That's the easy bit - now, whereabouts on Mersea Island?

You're a hard task master! No idea. I've never been there!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 31/3/09 18:03, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Mersea Island?

That's the easy bit - now, whereabouts on Mersea Island?

You're a hard task master! No idea. I've never been there!

But you have the post, and you have the Internet...

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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On 31/3/09 19:48, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 31/3/09 18:03, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Mersea Island?

That's the easy bit - now, whereabouts on Mersea Island?

You're a hard task master! No idea. I've never been there!

But you have the post, and you have the Internet...

And not a great deal of time, atm!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

Rusty_Hinge wrote:

When I was about thirteen I came on a 'situation' - two elderly women
wanting to progress along a pavement, with their way barred by a
hissing gander.

Rusty to the rescue!

I approached the gander, who turned his attention on me, so I stuffed
my fist into his beak and walked at him, and he backed into his
garden, and I closed the gate on him, to much elderly adulation...

Reminds me of my act of 'heroism" ;-)

After karate - 2 girls wanting to emerge from the changing room - their
way barred by a large centipede.

So I scooped it up in my hands, to much adulation, and carried it
towards the outside door.

And before you say 'girls!' in a sneering tone - their reaction was
nothing as compared to the shrieks of the young boys to whom I showed it
on the way out :-)
--
Kay