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Spring starts in the northern hemisphere as the sun appears to cross the Equator at 00.07 hrs GMT/UTC on the 21 March. (20 March still 15°W+)
Just thought you might like to know that - I find it an uplifting time of year.
Hugs
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Yup, all that snow we had this afternoon was certainly uplifting. 
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Yesterday was still winter!
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Nigel,
To look out my window at the back lawn and see a lot of that snow disappearing, sure makes me feel good. I love Spring, at least the way it was as I was growing up: a gradual warming, budding of trees and flowers starting to raise their heads. Beautiful time of year. Now it's winter with cold yesterday and hot summer tomorrow.
"Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, wonder where the flowers is?"
Tad Durham
Belfast, Maine U S A
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…I wonder where the boidie iz
The boid iz on the wing
But that's abzoid
The wing is on the boid.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Nigel,
LOL that's funny. Thanks.
Tad Durham
Belfast, Maine U S A
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Life is skittles and life is beer. I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring -- I do! Don't you? Course you do!
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Jedediah
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Bah Humph!
It's not Spring everywhere you know!
cheers
E Te Atua tukuna mai ki au te Mauri tauki te tango i nga mea
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Not in the UK either, apparently. But the melodious lyrics of Tom Lehrer help to brighten any time of the year!
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I'd like to take you now on wings of song, as it were, and try and help you forget perhaps for a while your drab, wretched lives. Here's a song all about spring-time in general, and in particular, about one of the many delightful pastimes the coming of spring affords us all.
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes ev'ry Sunday a treat for me.
All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Ev'ry Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.
When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Ev'rything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Lalaalaalalaladoodiedieedoodoodoo
We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety,
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.
So if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
We'll murder them all in our joy and our merriment.
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strychnine
We feed to a pigeon.
It just takes a smidgen!
To poison a pigeon in the park.
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Jedediah
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Poor pigeons. The swine! (He could do a Pied Piper on the rats tho')
cheers
E Te Atua tukuna mai ki au te Mauri tauki te tango i nga mea
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What's better about a pigeon than a rat? Why do we anthropomorphise pigeons but not rats? They're both vermin, by any reasonable definition of the word.
I wish he'd go and poison all the pigeons in Trafalgar Square!
There are signs up now discouraging the crowds from feeding them, but last time I was there there was also a man with a megaphone shouting obscenities at Ken Livingstone and handing out crumbs to the bemused Japanese tourists. Would anyone do the same with rats??
Sincerely,
Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells (aka David)
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We skipped Spring and summer is here. Its 7:30 PM and 80 degrees.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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Jedediah
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Who's anthropomorphising? Some people consider dogs to be vermin. Should we poison them too?
E Te Atua tukuna mai ki au te Mauri tauki te tango i nga mea
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Pet dogs? Of course not, if they are well looked after and happy and healthy.
Diseased, mange-ridden animals, with no hope of finding a happy family home, which pose a health risk to the community and/or a threat to livestock? Perhaps.
The sort of urban pigeons you get in London are pretty disgusting. I would not wish to become intimately acquainted with one. They aren't part of the natural ecosystem -- they scrounge a living off the margins of human existence. In that respect they are not very different from rats (which are also extremely abundant, so I hear).
I have plenty of respect for the natural world. But I don't see the London pigeons as part of it.
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>Who's anthropomorphising?
"Poor pigeons"?
If anything, rats are brighter than pigeons, and, as mammals, they're more closely related to us, so we should have more sympathy for them.
David
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