Re: De-Lurk Plus Why Bother with DTT?

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:26:03 -0000, "Bill Wright"
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>"tony sayer" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>In fact I spent much of my childhood holidays in forests and orchards,
>>>when my grandfather was a woodsman.
>
>> Sounds quite normal to me whatever normal is;?....
>
>I'm afraid it isn't normal these days for children to have the freedom to
>roam in the countryside.

I guess not. The volume of dirty pedophiles seems to have grown into
major swarms due to the feeding of tabloid stories. At this rate I
would wonder if my childhood was somehow deprived by the fact that not
one adult I spoke to in my childhood every tried to sexually molest
me. My post puberty self could well have welcomed the attention of a
large breasted woman as well.

I think society has to accept that just about all adults either lack a
sexual desire for children, or those that do generally can control
themselves.

>Less seriously, did grandad deal with wolves by chopping their heads off?

Considering that there have been no wolves in the English countryside
for many hundreds of years, then I would say that this had quite
remote odds. So his greatest animal feat seems to have been to train a
robin to take food out of his hand.

There were really no larger animals to be seen in the region. Just
birds, rabbits and maybe a few hares.

My grandfather spent most of his time making pailing and stakes. Both
of these were used in wooden fences. The stakes form the main posts,
where the pailings form the fence by being tied together using wire.

Not exactly vampire slaying stakes either, when you can just imagine
Buffy using one of these 6 or 8 foot monsters. More the type to burn
witches on I guess.

England has not done that for hundreds of years either.

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