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Main Boards => General Walking Discussion => Topic started by: Lee in Doncaster on 20:20:58, 04/03/18
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It's quite a long list considering how much I enjoy walking:
http://peakwalking.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/things-that-annoy-me-when-im-walking.html
Anyone got anything to add?
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Paths you cannot find
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Oh, yes to your bus point, especially if you're aiming to catch the last bus of the day!
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People who stop for a chinwag, blocking an already tight pathway.
People who picnic right in the middle of a beauty spot, that you have walked all morning to take a picture of.
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People talking continuously at the tops of their voices so you hear them before you see them, especially mountain bikers.
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Being temporarily misplaced when it isn't my fault - I know it is but I can usually persuade myself it isn't! :D
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When you've spotted a solitary bench where you can sit comfortably and eat your sandwiches, people suddenly appear and beat you to it.
Much as I love dogs, ones that jump up at you and smear mud all down your trousers.
I agree with the one about picnickers at beauty spots where you want to take a photo. I slogged up to a fantastic viewpoint on the Chiltern escarpment, and there was this kid in a bright yellow t-shirt running around all the time.
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People who are desperate to avoid eye contact, just in case they might have to say Good Morning, or something similar!
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AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH
Ladies Bush or Trail confetti...................pick it up please.......Squirt wipe and throw.............. :(
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Footpaths blocked by overgrowth or rotting styles do not annoy me particularly, that is usually a sign that the path is little used, the fact that there is a path there on the Definitive Map is the positive.
A large block of land without any rights of way is the sign of the arrogance of the occupiers of that part of the countryside, who cannot understand that others may want to appreciate it, it is the idea that such people can set themselves so far apart from the main body of the human race, this would annoy me if I thought they were worth it to even a small degree.
Privacy notices, without stating a reason are a sign of patronising arrogance. Signs to keep dogs under control, where there is no livestock or recent signs of livestock husbandry. Beware of a bull sign and a field is planted with potatoes. Just latent indicators of endemic hostility, caused by sloppy management.
Barbed wire across the top of locked gates, waymarks used for target practice, all indications of the ancient custom of hospitality, lost as certainly as carelessly tossed litter is a sign of a degenerating society.
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I've thought of some more: Sign written in large letters informing you that it's a private road...but it's still a public footpath.
Waiting for people to move out of the way so that I can take a photograph.
Bags of dog poo left hanging from trees.
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Bags of dog poo left hanging from trees.
This one's at the top of my list! >:(
Although.....I think that's the only thing that's actually on my list! 8)
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Bags of dog poo left hanging from trees.
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O0 A sign of laziness.
My worst hate is dog poo left lying on the ground.
Which to me is a sign of total ignorance.[/quote]
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Noisy people
Dogs jumping up with muddy paws
But the tremendous pleasure I get from walking far outweighs these and other annoyances :)
Lee, about the bus stops - I find the maps on Traveline and going into Streetview on Google Maps very useful for locating them :)
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Noisy people
Dogs jumping up with muddy paws
But the tremendous pleasure I get from walking far outweighs these and other annoyances :)
Lee, about the bus stops - I find the maps on Traveline and going into Streetview on Google Maps very useful for locating them :)
Dovegirl - yes I find Google maps very good for showing where bus stops are...unfortunately I can't get it on my phone; I don't have an internet phone. My life would be so much easier if touch screens actually worked for me...however I'm one of the minority of people with something called 'zombie fingers' - it's something to do with how electricity flows through our bodies.
So...when I'm rushing to get to the bus stop and i reach the main road I have to decide whether to go left or right without any guidance...unless I've written notes before setting off.
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Apart from trail type bikes tearing up footpaths when they have no right to be there, not a lot bothers me when I’m out walking, although I do dislike ignorant people.
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With you there Phil. I walk to get away from things that annoy me and just relax :)
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With you there Phil. I walk to get away from things that annoy me and just relax :)
Just don’t ask me what annoys me when I’m not walking Jon, it would take some time ;D
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I won't ;D
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Having to read the b....y map!
ROW diversions!
Bridges that are no longer there!
Vandalised signposts!
People who take up the whole path when trying to get past!
Having to constantly put over-thousers on and off on an intermittent wet but warm and humid day!
Having to put reading glasses on to read the map!
Trying to find a flat spot to wild camp whist on lumpy terrain!
Wow that's quite a lot more than I thought, better stop now, but...................
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Dog poo bags and litter.
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When I'm huffing and puffing my way up a hill at a snails pace and someone effortlessly glides past me without any sign of breaking a sweat! Just kidding! I'm only jealous! ;)
My real annoyance is when arriving at a parking area to find I can't park there because someone has parked in such a daft way that they have taken up the space of two cars!
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Other people who have got the audacity of using the trail at the same time as myself.
The fact that I am having to waste time walking when I could be at work.
Idle rights of way officers who have failed to cut down the vegetation to make my passage easier.
Rain that is too wet.
Sunshine that is too hot.
Sheep that bleat at night when I am trying to sleep.
Porous waterproofs that let the rain in and also keep perspiration in.I thought they were supposed to work the other way round?
Other than that it is perfectly okay....... ;)
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Also- glasses steaming up when wearing a buff in cold weather. Very annoying! ;D
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Oh dear, people really do need to chill.
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O0 O0 O0
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Four things annoy me intensely.
Disgarded litter, especially flytipping in the beautiful countryside of ours
Mountain bikes and 4x4 vehicles tearing up rights of way, until the pathway's are in an almost unrepairable condition.
There was an article recently in the Western Mail about a recognised right of way, at Cwm Maethog near Aberdyfi, that is being torn to shreds by 4x4s, claiming their right of way to drive up the hillside, even if it means destroying the landscape.
The damage is so severe , that the council may not be able to afford to repair the damage.
The same situation is happening near me, on the Harlech Coaching road to London and made famous by the Welsh Drovers.
The erosion is so severe approaching Pont Scethin and the nearby hillside, that during heavy rain, the channels are being eroded so badly, that its causing lasting damage to the beauty of Snowdonia.
The final thing that gets me annoyed, is the unprepared walkers getting stuck on mountains, and calling out the MRteams when it could all have been avoided, if they had gone fully prepared.
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Trying to read a map on my phone in bright sunshine!
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Rain that is too wet.
Sunshine that is too hot.
As a rule, a man's a fool
When it's hot he wants it cool
When it's cool he wants it hot
Always wanting what it's not
Some truth there, anyway...
Selfish summiteers (on the rare occasons when we encounter anyone), sitting eating butties totally encircling the trig point. On more than one occasion we (more accurately I) have said 'excuse me' and stepped through them. Usually typical r**bler types.
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Porous waterproofs that let the rain in and also keep perspiration in.I thought they were supposed to work the other way round?
Have you tried turning them inside out or .......................perhaps they are already
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Trying to read a map on my phone in bright sunshine!
Use a proper map then. That way you cam learn origami as you navigate too.
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Usually typical r**bler types.
Vghikers......not sure what r**bler types means........
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....not sure what r**bler types means....
As in the R**blers Association. It's a long running joke, irreverent but respectful of their achievements, their full name is never uttered. Often stereotyped as walkers of countryside field paths with big clodhopping boots more suitable for the Eiger.
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Ah, I see. As a R**bler of long standing I am to use current parlance “ offended”. Not really.
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Ramblers can be identified by a secret sign - they wear their socks outside their trousers; Senior Ramblers always wear red socks; Ancient Ramblers wear long socks outside their trousers and short socks rolled down over their boot tops.
I've said too much, was that a knock at the door?............................................
Ninthace's account has been closed. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Walking's a delight until you encounter a landowner's hostility in whatever form, e.g. a cattle feeder placed immediately adjacent to a RoW so that the cattle turn the path into a quagmire, electric fencing narrowly circumscribing a footpath so that it gets trodden into a quagmire, piles of waste timber strewn across a path etc etc.
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As in the R**blers Association. It's a long running joke, irreverent but respectful of their achievements, their full name is never uttered. Often stereotyped as walkers of countryside field paths with big clodhopping boots more suitable for the Eiger.
Yes, aka the red sock brigade.
BTW cracking website you have, I've used it many times in the past and glad to see you here. O0
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Red socks have been proven to be the warmest, most long wearing and sartorially elegant. However should never be worn with trousers tucked into them and in fact trousers should never be tucked into socks of whatever hue or pattern. It is in the rule book somewhere as bringing the R**blers into disrepute. So I am sure those you have seen thus apparelled cannot have been R**blers.
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Red socks have been proven to be the warmest, most long wearing and sartorially elegant. However should never be worn with trousers tucked into them and in fact trousers should never be tucked into socks of whatever hue or pattern. It is in the rule book somewhere as bringing the R**blers into disrepute. So I am sure those you have seen thus apparelled cannot have been R**blers.
Although I never knew they were the warmest I did know, from previous studies, that they are indeed the fastest.
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People who find dozens of things to pointlessly moan about ;)
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Stopping for lunch at what seems like an OK place only to turn a corner on the trail 5 minutes later and find it opens out onto the most glorious view with a fallen tree for a comfy seat. :(
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Stopping for lunch at what seems like an OK place only to turn a corner on the trail 5 minutes later and find it opens out onto the most glorious view with a fallen tree for a comfy seat. :(
Ha ha, yes...that's happened to me a few times when I've walked somewhere new and didn't know the area. You just have to make a mental note of the ideal spot, for if you ever walk there again! :D
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Summit slugs......touch the top if you must, take in the view, take your photo, then move away.......don’t sit there having your bleddy lunch :P
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Summit slugs......touch the top if you must, take in the view, take your photo, then move away.......don’t sit there having your bleddy lunch :P
Odd that. It annoys a lot of people but has never bothered me so long as there is a way through to the top and they leave the place as they found it (or cleaner). Better them than the ones taking pictures of themselves on very conceivable high point just to say they have bagged it - that’s the hill walking equivalent of trainspotting.
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Odd that. It annoys a lot of people but has never bothered me so long as there is a way through to the top and they leave the place as they found it (or cleaner). Better them than the ones taking pictures of themselves on very conceivable high point just to say they have bagged it - that’s the hill walking equivalent of trainspotting.
Maybe it is ninthace, but to deny a person a couple of minutes to visit their goal of achievement is selfish.
Not everyone visits summits on a regular basis, for some folk it is a rare achievement only to not be able to truly finish it off by a snap cos someone’s sat on top stuffing their face with a sandwich!!!
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Stopping for lunch at what seems like an OK place only to turn a corner on the trail 5 minutes later and find it opens out onto the most glorious view with a fallen tree for a comfy seat. :(
Same thing happens with wild camping sites >:(
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Ramblers can be identified by a secret sign - they wear their socks outside their trousers; Senior Ramblers always wear red socks; Ancient Ramblers wear long socks outside their trousers and short socks rolled down over their boot tops.
I've said too much, was that a knock at the door?............................................
Ninthace's account has been closed. Nothing to see here, move along.
:2funny: I have been expecting a knock on the door, for walking in the countryside
all these years without paying a subscription.
Despite spending 5 years on a LAF doing their work for them, because their own reps are too timid to face up to the Landowners.
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- tarmac (especially towards the end of a long day)
-blisters
- a pub with limited opening hours
- someone appearing when i am about to have a tinkle ;D
- not being able to identify a bird/butterfly/mammal (weasel or stoat??)
-someone who obviously wants to overtake but seems to take ages doing so
-signposts 'accidently' knocked down or defaced
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- tarmac (especially towards the end of a long day)
-blisters
- a pub with limited opening hours
- someone appearing when i am about to have a tinkle ;D
- not being able to identify a bird/butterfly/mammal (weasel or stoat??)
-someone who obviously wants to overtake but seems to take ages doing so
-signposts 'accidently' knocked down or defaced
I can help you with the weasel or stoat thing. A weasel is weasely distinguished from a stoat because a stoat is stoatally different.
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I can help you with the weasel or stoat thing. A weasel is weasely distinguished from a stoat because a stoat is stoatally different.
The weasel is the wee one and would not furnish enough fur from its pelt to trim an aristocrats cloak with ermine. Ermine has black flecks which are the tip of a stoats tail, common to the winter and summer coat.
As Kenneth Graham stuck these two animals in the wild wood with all the other countryside vermin, I like to think the connections with ermine places those landowners, who either wear it or aspire to it, in that company. ;D
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I would know the difference between them if I got a good look, but the blighters usually just shoot quickly into the undergrowth!
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I would know the difference between them if I got a good look, but the blighters usually just shoot quickly into the undergrowth!
I had the same problem with snakes. There should be a way of identifying them from just the last 3 inches of rapidly disappearing tail. Perhaps they could be colour coded?
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I had the same problem with snakes. There should be a way of identifying them from just the last 3 inches of rapidly disappearing tail. Perhaps they could be colour coded?
a marvellous idea ;)
yes, i see this too, but i know them to be grass snakes in the area where i live, as there are a few of them about and we don't seem to get adders
butterflies often the same too, if they don't settle
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Adder
(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1330515960329977&set=pb.100001147579021.-2207520000.1520580589.&type=3&theater)
Can anyone see the pic/ cos I can't.
why do I sometimes have trouble posting pics from FB and other time it works fine?
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Adder
(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1330515960329977&set=pb.100001147579021.-2207520000.1520580589.&type=3&theater)
Can anyone see the pic/ cos I can't.
why do I sometimes have trouble posting pics from FB and other time it works fine?
It's because IT systems have a wicked sense of humour and detect which users are of a 'certain age' and decide to have fun at our expense.
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It's because IT systems have a wicked sense of humour and detect which users are of a 'certain age' and decide to have fun at our expense.
Ouch >:(
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Ouch >:(
Sorry - by 'certain age' I just mean anyone over 20!
Which reminds me of another annoyance, Garmins devised by power crazed programme monkeys who put so many features onto the thing that it becomes impossible to work out how to use it for it's basic function.
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Same with cars!
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It's because IT systems have a wicked sense of humour and detect which users are of a 'certain age' and decide to have fun at our expense.
Always thought is was because the nerds, who started it all, couldn't be bothered to properly use the English language and were well short on common sense.
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Ive got a new one, technically not whilst walking, but before.
Making plans with somebody, getting all your gear ready, making sandwiches etc, getting up at 6am, getting a shower and dressed, filling your flask, only for them to txt you 5 minutes before you're meant to leave to pick them up, with them backing out because they've been out all night on the ale.
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Ive got a new one, technically not whilst walking, but before.
Making plans with somebody, getting all your gear ready, making sandwiches etc, getting up at 6am, getting a shower and dressed, filling your flask, only for them to txt you 5 minutes before you're meant to leave to pick them up, with them backing out because they've been out all night on the ale.
Now that is more than just annoying >:(
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a marvellous idea ;)
yes, i see this too, but i know them to be grass snakes in the area where i live, as there are a few of them about and we don't seem to get adders
butterflies often the same too, if they don't settle
There's a few adder colonies in Eastern Moors just outside Sheffield, an area I used to walk quite often.
At various places, there's warning signs "Careful, Adders!" ...which on first few visits, I just thought meant "Careful you don't get bitten". I subsequently learnt it meant, if possible don't walk area at all, because you might disturb the poor wee snakes.
Walking across area one time with about half a dozen others, a snake came out..and my mate picked it up to explain it was a harmless grass snake. As he explained differences, I was thinking "That looks like an adder to me". He suddenly came to same conclusion, went white, put it down..and backed away.
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Taking wet gloves off only to find when you put them back on the finger liner bits have come out so that it looks like you are trying to strangle the invisible man trying to get them back on
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In France I wild camped way up a mountain; good site. Next morning I went on about a kilometre to find a small chapel complete with camp bed, small wood stove and kettle. Merde
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In France I wild camped way up a mountain; good site. Next morning I went on about a kilometre to find a small chapel complete with camp bed, small wood stove and kettle. Merde
Knowledge is power. O0
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Knowledge is power. O0
Savoir est pouvoir if walking in France O0
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Savoir est pouvoir if walking in France O0
Je m'incline devant vos connaissances supérieures. :)
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Je m'incline devant vos connaissances supérieures. :)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Bof!
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Annoying farmers and the ones who let their styles and footpaths go into disrepair >:(
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Annoying farmers and the ones who let their styles and footpaths go into disrepair >:(
Stiles never go out of style :)
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Annoying farmers and the ones who let their styles and footpaths go into disrepair >:(
Annoying farmers/landowners and the ones who let their styles and footpaths go into disrepair :(
True farmers are producers, they grow the crops in the fields and landowners are the people who manage the land, and should maintain hedges, look after stiles and actually consider how their occupation of a part of our countryside affects the community at large.
Sometimes the 2 identities are wrapped up in the same package, it produces psychosis, a condition known as schizophrenia can bring on delusions of grandeur and impaired relationship with reality. ;)
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Idiot drivers, who drive around with several hundredweights of snow on the roofs of the vehicles, so that when they corner it slides off doing serious injury to the innocent walker caught in it's trajectory.
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Sticky, slimy, chalkie Kent mud!
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The top ones have to be [censored] farmers and friends who let you down last minute. I'm a fan of alpine starts, and the amount of friends who are "sure, no problem" until 5am when I'm about to pick them up is remarkable. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but there is a point where you wish people spoke up and said they would rather not and just reschedule for later.
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Walkers Litter - I was out walking yesterday walking along a very muddy track heading from one hill to another which are about 6km apart when I came across a group of rocks ideal for a quick stop and something to eat. Around these rocks were 5 empty crisps bags several screwed up pieces of tin foil, 2 chocolate wrappers and 6 drink cans. The location of these rocks mean it is very likely they were left by fellow walkers, who managed to carry the packaging out there when they were full but must have found that they magically become to heavy to carry once empty. I collected the waste to dispose of later (I'm not a womble, but always have a carrier bag in my backpack for wet clothing etc.) and continued on my way, when I caught up to a group of walkers in front who I had seen sat there and mentioned it they said "oh we spotted that, you should have just left it the farmer will clear it up when it get too bad". I wonder why some farmers don't like us.
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Annoying kids!
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Annoying kids!
Yep....and there's another 2 weeks of 'em yet! :D
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I went for a 5 mile walk yesterday, mostly offroad, the odd house here and there and as yet still no leaves, just buds. What was so noticable (it never changes) is the amount of rubbish everywhere, loads of it! In the narrow short road sections that I walked, especially in the hedges, plastic bottles, builders rubble, old furniture, tyres, fast food containers, carrier bags, black bags (filled of course), cans, used nappies, etc. There used to be a scheme whereby escorted prisoners with a supervisor would pick it all up, but thats been axed I think.
This morning I visted Farlington Marshes, a local bird sanctuary, 3 public car parks with provided council bins. They were all overflowing and rubbish everywhere!
What a **** country we live in!
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I am a litter hero for the local council so I keep my village clear of rubbish. I also run, hike and bike and therefore cover a fair amount of road and trails. My repair kit is now much better as over the years I have found several hammers, screwdrivers, spanners; recently a new adjustable spanner was real find. I did get some good Karma by sending the excess tools to some African community.
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This morning I visted Farlington Marshes, a local bird sanctuary, 3 public car parks with provided council bins. They were all overflowing and rubbish everywhere!
What a **** country we live in!
I abhor litter but will assume your asterisks are shorthand for beautiful :)
After all, we do have nature reserves. Gulls are very good at spreading rubbish about even if it's bagged and if the bins were overflowing then you can't blame the people who fill them if the council don't empty them.
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The litter bin I used on the edge of Chipperfield Common, Herts., during my walk last Thursday was a clever design that I haven't seen before, its large square openings had hinged metal flaps behind them that swung shut. It looked like an effective way of keeping out squirrels, rats, magpies and crows, all of which I know strew rubbish about.