The Bradshaw Family

I can remember asking my mum at a zoo why the monkey (it might have been a baboon or something) had blue balls. I mean they were proper bright blue! I remember getting a clout because, "you shouldn't know what they're called..." which still doesn't make sense now. I mean, you can't un-know something :hmm:
I think my mistake was just saying it out loud rather than just politely thinking it!
 
Free Ranger said:
I can remember asking my mum at a zoo why the monkey (it might have been a baboon or something) had blue balls. I mean they were proper bright blue! I remember getting a clout because, "you shouldn't know what they're called..." which still doesn't make sense now. I mean, you can't un-know something :hmm:
I think my mistake was just saying it out loud rather than just politely thinking it!
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😂😂😂 what a brilliant memory! 🤣
 
I looked into it as a grown-up (who actually studied biology) and obvs it was something to do with advertising and impressing the ladies a bit like the tail of a peacock. What I found more entertaining was that the brightness of the blue fluctuates according to age, health, social status, fertility, females in season etc and this appears to surprise the owner as much as anyone else! The web has plenty of photos of bewildered males peering at their monkey nuts - I mean it would surprise anyone really...
 
Bradshaw Piggies said:
We’ve had quite a bit of trouble from some local residents recently. They all want to live rurally, but no one likes horses! So it’s made our rides out more difficult :(

But it was lovely to get out and about and have some fun this afternoon 🐴💕

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I couldn't 'like' your post because that is just incomprehensible, not liking horses (enough to give you trouble). What do horses do that people don't like? If they don't like country animals, they shouldn't live in the country. Did they move there during lockdown?
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Bradshaw Piggies said:
We’ve had quite a bit of trouble from some local residents recently. They all want to live rurally, but no one likes horses! So it’s made our rides out more difficult :(

But it was lovely to get out and about and have some fun this afternoon 🐴💕

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I liked it cos I love the piccies you have of horses. I love horses and always have done. What have the horses done to offend these people?
 
Unfortunately yes, lots of people from the city moving here in lockdown. Now all they do is complain. We have had cars driven at us, air horns let off and they are trying their best to block off all of our bridleways.

We can’t win. We use the bridleways because people complain they don’t like us on the roads. Then they take our bridleways away 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
Bradshaw Piggies said:
We’ve had quite a bit of trouble from some local residents recently. They all want to live rurally, but no one likes horses! So it’s made our rides out more difficult :(

But it was lovely to get out and about and have some fun this afternoon 🐴💕

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It’s like people who move into ‘quaint English villages’ and then complain about church bells and tractors!
 
Betsy said:
I liked it cos I love the piccies you have of horses. I love horses and always have done. What have the horses done to offend these people?
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They’re big and don’t go as fast as cars so people can’t get to where they’re going as fast as they want.

I remember one day getting stuck behind 2 tractors pulling straw.
No chance of overtaking on the road we were on.
OK, thought I - there’s a turn off I can take about 3 miles away. I’ss which way they go and then take the other road.
So what happened……….
Yes - one went one way while the other turned off!

It was a slow journey home.
If you live in the country learn patience and to enjoy the pace of life.
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
I couldn't 'like' your post because that is just incomprehensible, not liking horses (enough to give you trouble). What do horses do that people don't like? If they don't like country animals, they shouldn't live in the country. Did they move there during lockdown?
:rtm::rant:
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I agree! It’s the same old story. Someone complained about my hens waking them up at 7.00 am in the morning many years ago and another instance was a recently moved in “townie” complained and wanted the Sunday morning village church bells stopped so he could sleep in 🤬 A well known TV personality also complained there was too much mud on the roads 🤨
If you move into the countryside then embrace the joys of country life.

And the Police should be catching criminals!
 
Merab's Slave said:
It was a slow journey home.
If you live in the country learn patience and to enjoy the pace of life.
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I'm in the country now but right on the edge of the city, and take my son to college down a winding road for 3 miles. It's not the tractors that bug me , it's the people on racing bikes, head down, bum up, ignore the queue of cars stuck behind at an environment-unfriendly 15mph...
 
Free Ranger said:
Grandad used to give my mum a bucket and shovel if a horse went past their city house in t'olden times. He'd have been delighted with more horses on the roads!
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I grew up down the road from the Metropolitan Police Horse and Dog training centre, they used to ride the horses down our road. When the horses "obliged" near our house, I got sent out with a bucket and shovel :xd:
 
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Qualcast&Flymo said:
I grew up down the road from the Metropolitan Police Horse and Dog training centre, they used to ride the horses down our road. When the horses "obliged" near our house, I got sent out with a bucket and shovel :xd:
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So did I, North Yorkshire. My favourite horse was a big white chap called Raja, the police man used to always stop and my dear old grandad would hold me up to stroke him, such happy memories of them both 😊
 
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