Posted by sean on August 6, 2013 at 6:47 pm in Animals, Life In Bath with No Comments


The dead squirrel on Newbirdge Hill was gone this morning. I can only assume it was taken by a chef, probably Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, to cook a divine feast of sautéed squirrel, chanterelle mushrooms and autumn vegetables.

The cheap bastard. At least buy your meat from a reputable butcher. He didn’t even leave flowers on the roadside for the poor departed creature.

Posted by sean on August 5, 2013 at 9:43 pm in Animals, Life In Bath with No Comments


On my walk to work this morning, I noticed the rather unpleasant sight of a dead squirrel on the side of the road. Its head had been crushed into the pavement, while one side of its body had burst open, leaving the lungs, liver and various other bodily organs exposed. A long intestine lay strung from the corpse. I wanted to collect the carcass and leave it in somebodies lunchbox for a hilarious practical joke, but got too freaked out when I saw the blood. I didn’t even take a photo. What a scardy cat I am. What did amuse me was, just before crossing the road where the squirrel lay, a van pulled up right in front of it. A man got out, before putting up a sign labelled “Diversion” with an arrow pointing right, around the animal. I laughed. You probably had to be there.

When I walked home, the sign was still there and so was the squirrel. It looked smellier than eight hours earlier and had lots of flies buzzing around it. Again, I chickened out of taking a photo, in case anyone saw me and thought I was a weirdo. If you were after something filthy to brighten up your Monday night, sorry to disappoint you. Instead, I’ll post something equally disturbing for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Posted by sean on August 26, 2010 at 10:45 pm in Animals, Have I Got News For You with No Comments


What’s wrong with this country? A woman puts a cat in the bin, receives death threats and the media continues to print her personal details. Yet convicted sex offenders receive anonymity.

Posted by sean on July 25, 2010 at 11:24 pm in Animals, Bath City, Fun At Home, Shopping, Television with No Comments


Yes, I am afraid it is another hefty, late Sunday night post after yet another blogless week. I really will try to improve!

Here are some of the issues which have featured in my life these past seven days…

FREEVIEW BOXES & TV AERIALS
Since the digital switchover in March, I have had a set top box in the front room, although was unable to receive such channels as ITV3, ITV4 and most importantly for me, Sky Sports News.

On Thursday I bought a Freeview box for the bedroom. I plugged it all in and attached the very retro TV aerial which sits on top of the telly – none of this fancy rooftop stuff like the downstairs box has. Upon installing the budget set top box and the crappy aerial, I was amazed to find I could receive all the channels – including Sky Sports News!

My only theory for this phenomena, is that the rooftop aerial is pointing to the Bath transmitter, which is shit, while the aerial in the bedroom is picking up a signal from the Mendip transmitter – all technical and very, very boring.

On Saturday, it crossed my mind I could attach the top of the range, downstairs Freeview box to the aerial upstairs and get all the new channels. To cut a very long story short, this involved trips to Currys and Argos, buying a TV aerial extension kit, hacking at cabling with a rusty penknife (I couldn’t find a Stanley knife), before realising what I had bought was a load of rubbish and returning to Argos on Sunday (today) to exchange a box of mutilated coaxial wiring for a basic TV extension lead (and a £15 refund).

Phew – still with me?

After all that, this evening I learnt that Sky Sports News is being removed from Freeview as of 1st September 2010. Bollocks.

Maybe I should have just used one of these

FOXES

Simon came round last night. John wasn’t available, so there would be no trip on the boat or games of Bomberman 2. Instead, in preparation for the new football season, we watched the DVD of Bath City’s Play Off victory over Woking.

While watching the DVD, my attentions were turned to a huge fox in the garden. The beast was just sat in the middle of the lawn, unafraid, licking its private parts. This was almost certainly the same animal which has woken me up at 3.30am with its high pitched screams.

I always thought foxes were supposed to be beautiful, elegant animals. This one looked like a dirty old dog which had been swimming in the sewers. The fox from the Foxy Bingo TV adverts would be ashamed to be a member of the same species.

Simon disagreed with my criticism of the animal. I would like to hear Simon’s opinion on the fox after being constantly awoken night after night by it’s mating calls.


BATH CITY
City played another 2 friendlies since I last blogged. A rather less than satisfactory 4-0 defeat at the hands of Exeter City, followed by a 1-0 win over Gloucester on Friday night. More important than the results was a signing made by Bath…

A Bristol City legend. A player I have admired for sometime. Somebody who oozes quality… The best Scot to never play for Scotland… Scott Murray! He may be a little older than his team mates, in fact I think he has a bus pass; but he still boasts tremendous skill, and assuming he stays fit and the hip replacement & colostomy bag carry on working, he’ll do wonders for us… even for an old man.

A legend already

Posted by sean on June 27, 2010 at 12:10 pm in Animals, Canal Boats, Cider with 1 Comment


After my awful experience with the spider, I went out for the evening to the canal in Avoncliff, just outside of Bath. John was keen to show Simon and me his boat he had been building/renovating for the last 50 years and was now living on.

We went for a relaxing ride down the canal on a lovely summers evening. We would have gone further down the canal towards Bathampton, but a boat decided to come loose from where it was moored and block the whole of the canal. Despite jumping aboard the adrift vessel like Somali pirates, in a bid to try and move it back to where it was once moored, we couldn’t, so turned around and headed back.

While aboard HMS Watkins, we dined like kings, using the very latest disposable barbecue technology to (partly) cook burgers, sausages and kebabs.

Once we had eaten our fair share of cow and pig, we moored up and enjoyed a few drinks, while getting pestered by a local cat. We also discovered a dead badger which had been festering in canal waters just a short distance from John’s boat. It stunk like… well, what you would expect a dead badger to smell like that had been lying in the hot summers sun all day.

Dead, smelly badger in canal

Being very brave, or stupid, John and Simon devised a lasso using just string and a Sainsbury’s bag to remove the dead animal from the waters. Having already eaten, we decided against putting it on the barbecue, so chucked it into nearby hedgerow… again, I was at a safe distance to prevent being splashed with dead badger juice.

Dead, smelly badger about to be cooked

A nice evening. I’m already looking forward to my next voyage, when hopefully we will get a bit closer to Bathampton and not encounter any more dead bodies.

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