Yes an excuse to sneak in a Switzerland photo when it’s not Sunday. A country which just does things better than here in England. When the Swiss organise a bird lineup it is always going to beat ours.
I was racking my brain to think of stuff my country can do better than Switzerland. It’s not an extensive list so far,
- Queues,
- Road pot holes,
- Darts,
- Football hooligans,
- Classic Rock,
- Rust,
- Stuff being late,
- Crap customer care,
- Cheaper basic drugs like cold remedies,
- The NHS, a big plus……
- Charlatans like Boris Johnson,
- Litter,
- Royal Family (depends if your a republican or not)
- Nigel Farage,
- Katie Hopkins,
- Fox hunting,
- Badger culls,
- Over fishing,
- Child poverty,
- Mental Health Crisis,
- Care Home Crisis,
- A shocking pandemic death total,
- A Government proud of killing so many people,
- Becoming insular and xenophobic,
- Key service cuts,
- Large school class sizes,
- Navies,
- Seaweed,
- Inability to speak a second language,
- Shouting and swearing,
- Cricket,
- Morris Dancing,
- Fish and chips,
- Potato Crisps,
- Rhubard,
- And raspberries.
Will stop now as the longer this list gets the more depressed I get at the thought of living in England. Yes we have some things we can be rightly proud of but the list of not so good stuff is rapidly expanding. Bring on my weekly Swiss Sunday…..
Badger culls? 😕 England doesn’t like Badgers?
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England does but the government and some farmers blame them for Bovine TB. Against scientific advice and against the majority view the government introduced culls.
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Bloody Governments! Trump just made it so hunters can go into bear and wolves dens, while they hibernate and kill them.
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When? Where? WHY? Outright 1st degree murder? How does someone even tlhink of making such a law. People are crazier than bedbugs. And bloodthirstier than mosquitos!
Meanwhile, like humans, wolves are not hibernators, but they can go longer without food, and eat much more when food ia available. But they wake up every day, just like us.
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The hard won progress is being ditched here.
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Going that way here as well.
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Well if you want to escape somewhere give me a shout. Right now, after an email I’ve just received from work (at 11.45pm) I am pretty much ready to say goodbye the the NHS, to this crappy place and start afresh with a simpler life all round. I’m done. Switzerland here I come …
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Sorry about that. Yes dreams.
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You seem to need a happy pill. Wish I had some to offer!
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We do.
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I do too.
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🙏
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Fish and chips are legendary.
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They are .
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🦈🍟
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🙏
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We’ve only been to England once, but loved Bath and Stonehenge! Oh, and your beautiful roses. ❤️🌹🙏
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Bath is lovely. x
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The only time I’ve been away from North America is when I went to Hawaii in 1986.
The US has a lot of beautiful country and there are some wonderful people doing wonderful things… then there’s all the craptacular stuff everyone reads about.
All we can do is try to make our area around us as good as we can.
That being said, I agree… bring on Swiss Sunday! I really thought today was Saturday for a while and I was looking forward to Swiss Sunday on Saturday Night 😉😂💌
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That’s exactly right. Let’s make our little patch as special as possible. x
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I love both of the bird lineups!
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Line-ups? No, social distancing. (Okay, ego distancing, but that’s social distancing too.)
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It is
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🤔
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🙏
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Thank you
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We do shouting and swearing pretty well, too.
Who is Katie Hopkins?
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She is a racist, foul mouthed reality tv made star. Awful.
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OH. Hm. Gotta look this one up…
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Ok
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Ok. If Wikipedia writes up a “nasty-gram” on someone, that means they say things that others don’t like. Interesting.
She actually sounds like the British version of Ann Coulter…sans attorney training.
I’m big advocate of people speaking their minds…right or wrong. They may be stupid but, they have a right to an opinion and a right to speak.
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She is just vile. Yet the media feed her time and an audience.
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Love it… I dunno re your pigeons line up being not so good. They got out there and they did their best.
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They gave it a go. x
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They damn well did. In every way. They just maybe weren’t steamlined but there they were out there just the same.
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Can’t blame fault them for effort
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That list is really something. 🤔
VVN
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Thanks
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England? I thought you lived in Yorkshire 🙂
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That’s a point.
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🙂
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And you don’t even like rhubarb.
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That’s sadly true.
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We don’t even make decent chocolate anymore now that they sold Cadburys to the States.
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That’s so true.
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(sob)
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Time to counter with a Happy list.
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True
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I hope someday you will be able to enjoy this lovely place again.
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Hope so
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❤️
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Do they have hedgehogs? A definite plus
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🙏
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Put them in a line up and they all look innocent, but if they were gulls and it was chips steeling, then all of them would have to own up to being guilty.
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They would.
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