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[NickFitz]

Are these crows crows or jackdaws?

I recall watching a crow crow chasing a squirrel along the grass & up a tree on one of my walks.

I like crows & jackdaws.

Definitely crows - I've had the binoculars on them before

The crows were back, browsing either side of the big lawn, while a squirrel was wandering around halfway between them. I thought it might be a different squirrel, but it casually worked its way round until it was close to one of the crows then made a run at it! The crow flew off, followed shortly after by the other. So I don't think we've seen an end to the feud yet

Lunch has been a Pukka sausage roll, re-baked in the air fryer. They're pretty nice compared to some shop-bought sausage rolls, though not as good as Greggs

[xoggoth]

Walk with loony lady 3 earlier. Not too bad, tho one muddy bit. Just had one of those scam loft insulation calls. Maybe HMRC is all a scam, tax does not really exist.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury's "hog roast style" pulled pork shoulder with apple sauce and stuffing balls, with chips. I bought the pork thing primarily because it was on special offer (aka Nectar Price) to me in particular, and it sounded worth a try. It was pretty nice actually; don't know if I'd bother again, but I might

Idiots are letting off fireworks despite it not being 5th November. They were doing it last night too, despite it not being November at all then

One pleasant thing today was opening the banking app and seeing that Halifax hadn't taken a mortgage payment despite it being the 1st. I paid it off too late in September to prevent the direct debit last month, so it went out then got refunded a couple of weeks later when they'd completed their processes. But this month and, I hope, for many more, neither rent nor mortgage are going to anyone!