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Sorry about that Stewart, best not get me started about the Mobile Library then.

Can't agree more Peter, with animals and animal feed to protect it has to be done

Colin's 'Go to' bus observations are interesting and yet lacking balance, as he does not include any passenger number observations for the standard bus service that I regularly see travelling through the village, empty, yes empty. So to be fair Colin, employ more researchers, possibly put them on the buses, and give readers the full picture for a change.

During the winter period the great majority of dairy farms house their herd indoors, where they are fed. The cattle need plenty of ventilation and the birds, particularly starlings, take advantage of the openings to enter the cattle sheds and feast on the cattle feed. This spreads disease as birds do what birds do and farmers are forced to take measures to scare off the birds. They do this with various forms of bird scaring devices, taped 'birds in distress' noises, laser beams and loud bangs outside the sheds. This is a legally permissible operation within the time frames previously expressed on Chatbox, provided that they have a genuine reason for it and are not just using it as an excuse to annoy the neighbours..

Colin Cliffe thanks for that just spat my drink out laughing

What a truly lovely piece by our superb wordsmith on the subject of the time of year.
Prompted me to partake of a tot of rum !! Happy Christmas Stephanie

As someone who has just moved into Salford this Chatbox has solved the riddle of the loud noises! Many thanks for the explanation.

If I may take a moment to be serious,,,,,,,, instead of my usual pass takes (there's auto-correct working properly for you for once). It's the time of year when some people amongst us can feel particularly lonely and maybe forgotten, they could sit for days without speaking to anyone and have no real contact with the outside world and we must not let this happen anymore, it's 2022 and we have the collective power to make it stop. So next time you see the 'Go Too Everywhere Empty' bus driver, give him/her/it/them a cheery wave or maybe even a good thumbs up. But be very careful with the thumb, as it may be mistaken as a sign that you want to be picked up, and not only could that overly excite the driver but you could end up being sent to Bunbury when you only wanted to go to Beamans.

Need to put a 10 (yes TEN) at the end of that riddle, for that's how many there were of us on Friday early evening – most I've seen on one bus. 3 of us on at Bagley Lane, 5 on in the village and 2 at Hankelow. All safely and efficiently delivered into Nantwich

Another entertaining read.! Merry Christmas, and unless your booze has run out it will be.

If my memory serves me well this chat box topic comes up every year, including last. Farmers are keeping birds off the land to protect seeds down, crops and to animal feed . I think last year someone was on about starting a scarecrow rota made up of those opposed to them

Bird scarers are legal to use between the hours of 7am until 10pm without any restrictions. I'm guessing the increase in use is more then likely down to avian flu

I did enjoy the riddle Colin and we almost got the answer but too late, Billy probably needs the sand more!

A little white westie/bichon frise type dog called Casper has gone missing from Corbrook Park care home. He ran away last night. He is deaf and not local to the area as he is staying with a member of staff whilst his owner is away. Please contact Corbrook on 01270812049 or Suzie Poole on 07896507981.

My dog is the same about the constant shotgun noise that goes off every twenty mins or so. The noise is around the Salford end of Audlem and is now proving to be a noise pollution.

Nice try Terry, but Billy was a lot closer with his guess, the numbers represent the number of passengers I have seen on the Go Too bus the last 12 times that I have seen it. As you are the closest to the correct answer Billy you will be pleased to know that you have won 5 whole pounds, so please bring a bucket when you come to collect it as you can't carry that much sand in your bare hands.

Does each "0" represent a pothole on Paddock Lane with the "1" being the only one actually successfully repaired by Cheshire East?

I think the increased shotgun noises are probably down to it being pheasant shooting season?

I also thought it was something to do with Santa as in; his catchphrase (Ho Ho Ho/ O O O etc) but I now don't think it is.
Re-reading some of Colin's previous posts, I see he's 'passionate' about the Go Too Bus service so, is it the amount of people that have been spotted on the bus in a year (including the driver of course, hence the 1)
If I'm right, is the prize a season ticket for the Go Too bus service? If it is, I'll kindly decline because I'd actually like talking to other passengers and I feel that would be something I wouldn't be able to participate in. ;-)

I know binary code is zeros and ones , but I'm not clever enough or a computer programmer so ........

How about – one of a dozen. Over to you Billy you can read Colin's mind

Can't be 'the one in the middle' because it's not, could be 'the odd one out' but there again it's not out cos it's in or it is Colin's latest cracker joke. Ho ho ho.

Er...it it just me or is there anyone else out there that doesn't know why there's the word 'aside' after peoples posts.

P.S. Just in case it's a trend; a bit like people starting their sentences with the word 'so' and going up at the end of their sentences; I'll put it at the end of my post.aside ;-)

As I'm older than five years of age and therefore, a technophobe, can some one please explain in words of one syllable why we are suddenly seeing <aside></aside> after recent Chatbox entries? Aside from that I think that I'm slowly getting to grips with things technical.

Looks like my tax code Colin ?