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Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 08:36 | Rating: 5 | Report
Hi Skylar I have a question for you which so far no one who knows wolves has been able to answer. We know dogs claws wear down walking on hard surfaces, and some need clipping. With wolves they mostly walk in forest, and no one is around to clip them, so... have you ever observed wolves shedding claws? We had a black long haired German Shepherd, Breca, who was more wolf than average, and her pedigree had a lot of German GS, so possibly had wolf genes later than many other dogs [she had hair between her toes unlike the majority of domestic dogs]. She shed her claws, they came off like a sleeve often helped by her close attention to her feet, her pedicure, leaving a shorter claw, and the shed claw was partly hollow. Have you ever seen shed claws around? I've asked a guy who runs a wolf sanctuary here in the UK [Shropshire] but he had never heard of it or noticed anything similar, and Mark Rowland [author of The Philosopher and the Wolf] was also unaware despite living closely with his wolf for over a decade. They may eat them, but we would find the odd one around the house from Breca, and I'd be fascinated to know if this is how wolves' claws regenerate.
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Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 06:48 | Rating: 3 | Report
I also can find nothing I agree with, you seem to think you live in a welfare state, which puts you to the right of Genghis Khan since the US lets people bleed to death on the street if they don't have medicare or a credit card on them. Try reading about socialism rather than trotting out the prejudices you were implanted with at a very young age, then perhaps you won't confuse liberals and socialists. You live in an extreme right wing country [for historical reasons] and can only see the world through the blinker of American rightwing views.
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Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 11:42 | Rating: 5 | Report
Leslie, thanks for finding me, and love your writing, and from Texas too! Have bookmarked your blog for easy finding as I will be back with time to read.
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Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 03:11 | Rating: 5 | Report
Good writing, refreshing to read someone who can write without typos [almost!] or spelling mistakes, and can coherently argue a case. While not agreeing with you on everything, you are a thought provoking writer with much to say of relevance.
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Monday January 26th, 2009 at 15:05 | Rating: 5 | Report
You learn well! What cameras do you use? Sorry, I only speak English, but the pictures are magnificent. The Bromelias look like King Penguins staring at the sky!
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Tuesday January 13th, 2009 at 11:50 | Rating: 5 | Report
Hi Sasha Another gadget for you http://www.ecotopia.co.uk/wl.aspx?40000091&req=63-dd0036 Best wishes Foolonthehill
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Tuesday January 13th, 2009 at 11:40 | Rating: 5 | Report
Good site, good work nicely done. The tide is turning. Thanks for adding me.
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Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 07:56 | Rating: 5 | Report
Lovely blog, lovely dogs.
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EUCALYPTOLOGICS - On Sustainable Eucalyptus Cultivation
Friday December 19th, 2008 at 03:29 | Rating: 1 | Report
Don't see any mention of the damage eucalyptus do when planted as non-native species in habitats unsuited to them. Apart from poisoning the soil and making it unfit for native species, it can also be fatal to wildlife, especially birds, as this site explains http://www.prbo.org/OBSERVER/Observer108/Focus108.2.html. I wasn't impressed with the snide remark about 'environmentalist mythology' either. This all reads like the industrialist's answer to the natural world, and as for the piece on the 'first time flowering in the UK' brought in by Tom, a 'plant hunter', I thought that species had died out in Victorian times, and I'm appalled that people are still doing this. Snowdonia [Wales] is covered with rhodedendron, another invasive foreign species which was brought in as an ornamental garden plant which escaped into the wild. It has killed off much of the native plants and smothers the countryside. Action is now being taken to kill them, but as with eucalyptus they are a damn hard plant to eradicate. Not impressed, this site reads more like a commercial agro-business site than a blog.
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Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 07:34 | Rating: 5 | Report
Have you checked out http://www.eco-button.com/uk/ yet? Brilliant tool to save energy, carbon and money.
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Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 07:11 | Rating: 5 | Report
Hi Thom I'm adding your site to my links at http://www.fairsandfestivals.co.uk. Welcome a link back.
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Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 04:11 | Rating: 4 | Report
Great blog, very interesting.
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Wednesday November 26th, 2008 at 07:12 | Rating: 5 | Report
Check out the Ecobutton at http://www.eco-button.com/uk/A2.1.home.htm, I have one and it's brilliant, already saved me £5 in electricity!
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Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 06:22 | Rating: 5 | Report
Great photo blog with interesting tech detail.
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Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 06:16 | Rating: 4 | Report
Like your work. What camera[s] do you use?
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Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 06:12 | Rating: 5 | Report
Love your work, truly gorgeous. You don't mention what camera[s] you use.
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Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 06:05 | Rating: 5 | Report
Great images, like your take on the world
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Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 05:20 | Rating: 1 | Report
'The Constitution is the root of all good and it must be respected' why? It was written by rich slaveowners with a cartload of hypocrisy and it was written in 1787. Know how much the world has changed since then? Know of any other country which holds itself to something written that long ago? Discovered anything new in the last two hundred years? What exactly is it about the constitution that causes right wingers worship it? Is it the right to bear arms? Arms in 1787 were pistols and hunting muskets, not anti-tank weapons and machine guns. Could the writers of the constitution have known that weapons would develop so much? Probably not. Did they have anything in common with Charlton Heston, no, but they do now, they're all dead. It's a new democratic century, all the old hags of the republican party can't influence anything, now your country has a president who is actually smarter than the average American, rather than dimmer than the average chimpanzee. You should be rejoicing.
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Sunday November 23rd, 2008 at 09:13 | Rating: 5 | Report
Interesting blog, I shall return to learn. Funny you should have a post on setting up a blog on an external hosting solution, as that's what I did five years ago when I started blogging. Don't even know if there was a fancy alternative then. Still write and ftp the latest post up from my desktop as I always have.
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Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 04:26 | Rating: 5 | Report
Lovely blog, but much more than a blog. My inner Indian rejoices and will visit again and again. I always step lightly on mother Earth. Respect.
