[Info-vax] [OT] England, was: Re: Update on Cheap DS10s
Simon Clubley
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Tue Jan 10 14:11:29 EST 2023
On 2023-01-10, David Turner <dturner at islandco.com> wrote:
> Yeah, well, Reading is probably the most dangerous leg of all. I would
> rather be attacked by goats, sheep, cows and farmers than the teenage
> thugs hanging around Reading. Was there last year. Man how it has changed
>
[Oh, why not reply to this ? :-) It's not like there's a lot of other stuff
being posted.]
Goats I have no real experience with.
Sheep are docile and simply don't care about you unless you get really
close (2-3m) and then they just move away. Around here, there are villages
where the sheep and the humans share the pavements, grassy areas, and the
roads and the sheep simply don't care about the humans unless you get
_really_ close to them.
Cows are a different story and I would rather have to deal with teenagers
than a field of cows (especially cows with young hiding behind them),
although sometimes there's no choice because there isn't another viable
alternate route.
Farmers either tolerate you but mostly outright welcome you and actively
engage in discussion with you if you pass them by while they are working
on their land. Last time I had a real problem with a farmer (claiming there
wasn't a route across their land even though it was marked on the OS map)
must be about 10-15 years ago.
The only annoying thing about farmers is that they occasionally take
advantage of their right to place some kinds of bulls in fields which
have public rights of way going across them.
Simon.
PS: Reading doesn't exactly strike me as a hotspot of danger. :-)
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Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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