I think, if you do a Google, you will find that there is a range of cow-hitting sticks available. However, your typical URW-er is so cynical that they just won't show any interest in this advancement in bovine management utility facilities.
| On 19 Apr 2005 23:48:42 -0700, "[email hidden]" | <[email hidden]> wrote: | | >"I carry a stick" | > | >or even a walking pole?!?!?!?!? | | Walking poles are not suitable for hitting cows.
The cows do not know it is a walking pole. You do no need to actually *hit* a cow to make it do what you want. They move away from anything long and thin. If you want them to move to your left, you wave the pole in your right hand and the go left. I have not actually hit a cow since I was a kid.
I think, if you do a Google, you will find that there is a range of cow-hitting sticks available. However, your typical URW-er is so cynical that they just won't show any interest in this advancement in bovine management utility facilities.
The term I grew up with is "Cowbanging" . A childhood chore was to remind them it was milking time, or driving them to another field. The hazel will provide the suitable weaponary.
A tungsten carbide tipped metal pole seems very unsuitable for cowbanging, but if you should need a weapon.......
| Walking poles are not suitable for hitting cows.
The cows do not know it is a walking pole. You do no need to actually *hit* a cow to make it do what you want. They move away from anything long and thin.
That's interesting. Perhaps I should just make sure I have my 15 yr old daughter with me next time I encounter a cow. http://fran-shed.fotopic.net/p9712075.html (She's the one having her feet tickled in a pub in Manchester. The tickler is long, but no one would call him thin...) -- If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs... then you've failed to grasp some important aspect of the situation.
I think, if you do a Google, you will find that there is a range of cow-hitting sticks available. However, your typical URW-er is so cynical that they just won't show any interest in this advancement in bovine management utility facilities.
There are RS in the ELD - not too far from where you are going.
Ooh! In that case I will try for a pilgrimage. I haven't seen a red squirrel for years and years - and I'd love to see one again.
<hint, but no promise> My last sighting was in the woodland around Thirlmere. </>
There were some when we camped at Castlerigg Hall campsite that used the feeders on the edge of the woods there regularly. I've also seen them around Derwentwater and by Patterdale Hall.
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> There are RS in the ELD - not too far from where you are going. > Ooh! In that case I will try for a pilgrimage. I haven't seen a red squirrel for years and years - and I'd love to see one again.
<hint, but no promise> My last sighting was in the woodland around Thirlmere. </>
There were some when we camped at Castlerigg Hall campsite that used the feeders on the edge of the woods there regularly. I've also seen them around Derwentwater and by Patterdale Hall.
There are definitely some in Brandlehow wood on the shores of Derwentwater - I sat watching one for quite a while last year. Fairly tame, too - it came within about 25 metres of me, even though it was well aware of my presence.
Lovely creatures.
-- Neil
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There were some when we camped at Castlerigg Hall [...]
In Keswick? That's the place I stayed on my first visits to the Lake District, back in the dim and distant past. I went for a week with my school - it was brilliant :-)
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