Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

…I think you're thinking of the Right To Roam in Scotland? English and Welsh land access laws are much more restrictive.

Wow, and I was so impressed by such things as the SW Coast Path along the Cornish coast and all. Scotland has broader rights?? Here it’s now apparently ok to kill someone who turns up unexpectedly at the front door.

About 99% of what I think I know about life in the UK and the Republic of Ireland is from reading murder mysteries, so there’s a certain slant to my understanding of laws and social conditions.

- back to reading the 12th book in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series, which after bingeing through the preceding novels has created a vague longing for living in the Quebec wilderness, eating apparently unlimited pains du chocolats, and has also now created in me a vague French accent, courtesy of five years of high school French.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

About 99% of what I think I know about life in the UK and the Republic of Ireland is from reading murder mysteries, so there’s a certain slant to my understanding of laws and social conditions.

I was going to say that the walking on private lands in the UK reminded me of an episode of Father Brown. Or maybe it was Midsomer Murders. I like a little murder with my quaint country gardens

 

[kattabelly]

Wow, and I was so impressed by such things as the SW Coast Path along the Cornish coast and all. Scotland has broader rights??

Only 11% of England and Wales is publicly accessible land, and some of that actually isn't accessible - either because of landowners (illegally) blocking off public rights of way, or because it's an "access island" surrounded by privately owned land with no legal access route through. In Scotland it's the opposite: land and inland waters are publicly accessible by default, with some exceptions, so long as you behave responsibly.

Right To Roam have a bit of info about this if you're interested. (Click "What We're Campaigning For" to skip past the people blurbs)

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I was going to say that the walking on private lands in the UK reminded me of an episode of Father Brown. Or maybe it was Midsomer Murders. I like a little murder with my quaint country gardens

It reminds me of Icelandic murder mysteries, which are usually excellent.

In a nation with a population of not quite 400,000, the annual murder rate is less than 3. Not 3 per 10,000 or something; three individual humans.

The fictional murder rate is pretty comic.

PS - iPhone’s autocorrupt has truly gone out of control

 

[kattabelly]

I would've got a brilliant picture of Rognvald exercising his right to roam through the other plots' brassicas this afternoon, if my phone hadn't decided to have a meltdown about low memory

Roaming tax from the archives

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

British murder mystery tax: a red jungle fowl rooster with a giant tortoise.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

British murder mystery tax: a red jungle fowl rooster with a giant tortoise.

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That’s a big dang tortoise!!

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

That’s a big dang tortoise!!

That was the little one!