Comment posted Nigel Price, Property Manager at Crarae Gardens in the van on the war on midges by newsroom.
Can’t answer for the African disaster but, personally, finally learned the difference between Swallows and House Martins a few years ago (tails).
Our swallows seemed to arrive around 6 weeks later than usual this time.
Lynda
newsroom also commented
- This explains a puzzle. Noticed that the swallows were very late arriving this year (blown off course) and fewer than usual (losses in Africa). Thank you.
Recent comments by newsroom
- White smoke rises from Councillor Duncan MacIntyre’s chimney as two-man College of Cardinals settle a deal
Short and sweet for short and sweet: don’t be simplistic.
No one could defend Councillor Robb’s sudden swerve last Thursday, leaving his loyal colleagues like flotsam and jetsam.
But that does not mean that he did not deserve the support he was given by his colleagues when he was given it.
Life is not a simple business. - Russell to make parliamentary statement on rural schools today
In the circumstances of the destructions of the SNP councillors group in the last 12 months, you can hardly expect credibility elevating the importance of ‘collective’ action?
Being ‘collective’ when it suits one to harvest support from others it not what collectivity or collegiality is about.
And many in Argyll now know more than enough about your party, its councillors, its members, its structures and its wonderfully elastic ‘rules’. - Russell to make parliamentary statement on rural schools today
This was a RESPONSE to a party political slanting of the issue – scoring points in an internal SNP turf war which should never have happened, was consciously manipulated, and has divided a party I voted for and was a member of until relatively recently – when I stopped my subscription in a mixture of anger, despair – and contempt – at what was and is – being done to hopes for better governance in Argyll and Bute.
You might also reflect upon the contradictions inherent in approving of For Argyll for being straight speaking when it suits one agenda and condemning it when what it says – equally objectively, is less comfortable. - Russell to make parliamentary statement on rural schools today
Don’t take this as an argument against rural schools – which it is not.
There is, though, a very real argument about the relative educational and social value of classes as small as one or two.
In being in favour of rural schools, it is still important not to lose sight of good judgement, Nothing is, per se, the right or wrong provision. There’s no formula. It’s a question of context – and there does have to be a point where the best use of available money really is an issue.
The issue centres on an honest examination and presentation of the facts – and of proposed solutions – by all concerned, with no cooking of the books and with due scrutiny to encourage integrity. - First Minister’s call for ‘grown up politics’ countered by order – from the top
What’s ROTFL, J?
powered by SEO Super Comments
In Castleton, outside Lochgilphead, there has been a mysterious absence of midges for weeks now, and likewise at Cairnbaan, apparently – so the question is why none this year in some places that are usually just as afflicted as elsewhere?
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Comparing last year with this is ridiculous. Last year we had a particular severe winter, this year a mild one. The lack of midges last year compared the multitude this year is surely explained by those seasonal variations — last summer was comparably crap to this.
If the coming winter is mild and the following summer mild and wet, we’ll see numbers which will dwarf this. I’m hoping for another cold one. The lack of midges last year was wonderful!
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Oh great, so we have to freeze till we’re blue during the winter or suffer the little bloodsuckers the following summer. Personally, I blame the birds, the swallows to be precise. They have failed to keep to the productivity targets I have set them and I have therefore threatened them with eviction from the free accommodation under my eaves which I have always provided them. Lazy little beggars.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Maybe they’ve migrated to Castleton and Cairnbaan (though I’m told that bats rather than swallows are the best midge hunters)
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
I think you may find that the drop in the swallow population is due to a massive storm in Africa during which thousands of swallows were blown off-course and died!
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
This explains a puzzle. Noticed that the swallows were very late arriving this year (blown off course) and fewer than usual (losses in Africa). Thank you.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Thanks for setting me straight. Poor things, now I feel so churlish for slagging them.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Are you sure we are talking swallows here and not house martins?
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Can’t answer for the African disaster but, personally, finally learned the difference between Swallows and House Martins a few years ago (tails).
Our swallows seemed to arrive around 6 weeks later than usual this time.
Lynda
Like or Dislike:
0 
0