'mon then, what did we all get!?

[robertzombie]

sounds like it's in a toilet!

i best get a copy to Pista quickly!

[James Blast]

too true but he'll have the one from the 22nd row in the balcony, get bent

[Pista]

Ya baisturt
Lineage??

[James Blast]

underpant/M&S/bit of wire/cassette I found in my Dad's collection/Sellotape® over the holes/remastered via WankStain v.3/eq'd in StudioErse!/to you

[6FeetOver]

His name was Benji (he was a Bengal Eagle Owl), and holding him I had the overwhelming feeling that he knew more about everything than I did There's something about birds of prey, they're just so alert looking that they make you feel like, well, a "doofus" in comparison. But that's OK.

Plus he let me stroke his tummy feathers and they were soft and fuuuuzzy

Where were you at the time? A Faire-type locale? *Still really jealous*

[Syberberg]

Oh dear, SINsister, I fear I may make you even more jealous, so apologies in advance.

Having lived most of my life in the country, I've seen Tawny Owls, Barn Owls and a couple of Little Owls. Pretty much every summer's evening at my parents, I could watch the bats doing laps around our tree-lined field and listen to Tawny Owls calling to each other.

My first and best encounter with a wild Barn Owl. I'd gone outside to have a smoke just after dusk and went around to the garage. This triggered the floodlight to come on and pretty much stay on. While smoking I caught a movement out over one of the fields and, out of the black night (thanks to the floodlight) came a white shape on silent wings. It landed on the fence about 10yards away from me and we stood there watching each other for a few minutes before the owl bobbed up and down a few times and flew off.

At one country fair in Sussex, I had the pleasure of being introduced to a Snowy Owl and a European Eagle Owl. The Snowy Owl (imaginatively called "Snowy" ) had the most amazing, blazing orange eyes I've ever seen.

Whenever you're next in the UK, do your best to visit The Hawk Conservancy in Hampshire. You'll love it.

I'll stop there otherwise I fear you may explode.

[Pista]

underpant/M&S/bit of wire/cassette I found in my Dad's collection/Sellotape® over the holes/remastered via WankStain v.3/eq'd in StudioErse!/to you

Think I have that one already in the case next to the C&A version...

I really should get help huh?

[mh]

We used to have hawks in our garden. They were cool.

[6FeetOver]

Oh dear, SINsister, I fear I may make you even more jealous, so apologies in advance.

Having lived most of my life in the country, I've seen Tawny Owls, Barn Owls and a couple of Little Owls. Pretty much every summer's evening at my parents, I could watch the bats doing laps around our tree-lined field and listen to Tawny Owls calling to each other.

My first and best encounter with a wild Barn Owl. I'd gone outside to have a smoke just after dusk and went around to the garage. This triggered the floodlight to come on and pretty much stay on. While smoking I caught a movement out over one of the fields and, out of the black night (thanks to the floodlight) came a white shape on silent wings. It landed on the fence about 10yards away from me and we stood there watching each other for a few minutes before the owl bobbed up and down a few times and flew off.

At one country fair in Sussex, I had the pleasure of being introduced to a Snowy Owl and a European Eagle Owl. The Snowy Owl (imaginatively called "Snowy" ) had the most amazing, blazing orange eyes I've ever seen.

Whenever you're next in the UK, do your best to visit The Hawk Conservancy in Hampshire. You'll love it.

I'll stop there otherwise I fear you may explode.

For all the wildlife that lives in and around my dad's back garden (bats, foxes, deer, raccoons, possums, wild turkeys, probably a coyote or two, etc.), I've yet to see an owl. Dagnabbit!

Thanks for the tip!

[psichonaut]

wild turkey

it's in my home-bar....not out in the garden

[boudicca]

Where were you at the time? A Faire-type locale? *Still really jealous*

Not sure what that means... it was a falconry centre sorta thing, in lovely Aberfoyle for those who know where that is.

I had another close encounter, with a baby barn owl *wibble!*... back when I was about 16 and my family were driving out into the country (I say "country", it was less than 5 miles from Glasgow), my dad came to a screeching halt on the road. The poor little ball of fluff was just standing there in front of the car, looking at us. He started to get a bit scared when my dad came towards him, trying to shoo him out of the way of the cars, and evenually got off into the grass at the side. We think he'd fallen out of his nest - I hope his mum found him

AND in our back garden, we saw Quentin the woodpigeon squaring up to a sparrowhawk - puffing out his chest and flapping his wings - and he won!

[emilystrange]

at the risk of derailing the derail -

i LOVE my new laminator!

[Planet Dave]

I got a nano-ipod off my brothers family. I've lost it twice already, keeps turning up stuck to the bottom of the cats feet, or hidden under a fleck of dust. At least zx81s made a half decent doorstop.

On the plus side, I gave everyone grog, apart from Ethan who got a load of books about space which he has consumed and regurgitates with worrying accuracy, pausing only to question the odd statement, or indeed wondering how 'timeholes' operate, and where they are. Blimey, kids.

[Debaser]

Morecombe and Wise dvd's
Pony looking after game for my DS (I have killed off two foals already - and I'm trained and everyfink )
Jo Malone smelly stuff - Gardinia
A selection of various re-written Greek myths

[Brideoffrankenstein]

I got an I-Penguin together with a nice sub-woofer speaker type set-up for my computer! And bookehs, choccehs and some caviar !

[christophe]

I got the company of drunk people

[6FeetOver]

...apart from Ethan who got a load of books about space which he has consumed and regurgitates with worrying accuracy, pausing only to question the odd statement, or indeed wondering how 'timeholes' operate, and where they are. Blimey, kids.

[Spigel]

I got very fine book .I had to buy it myself though and wrap it stick it under the tree and then say santa gave it to me.But thanks to years of hash abuse I forgot about it completly and was very suprised to find it under the tree with my name on it.

[boudicca]

...apart from Ethan who got a load of books about space which he has consumed and regurgitates with worrying accuracy, pausing only to question the odd statement, or indeed wondering how 'timeholes' operate, and where they are. Blimey, kids.

I hate to worry you Dave, but that's exactly what I did when I was his age...

[6FeetOver]

...as did I. And it seems that my nephews (7 and 9) are following suit. I feel a bit sorry for my brother - but only a bit.

[Pista]

WTF is an Ipenguin?

[James Blast]

looks like a mouse, I didn't want to be the first to ask...

[Pista]

Didnae see it on the icrap link you posted

[James Blast]

iPod shite, that's why

[6FeetOver]

<---has 2 iPods and no related shite.