tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post5191041398662143619..comments2024-03-29T01:58:40.773+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: MoortopYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54854480676493979342020-04-30T18:48:39.598+01:002020-04-30T18:48:39.598+01:00To "The Cheat". I will not be posting an...To "The Cheat". I will not be posting any links to any of your comments. This is partly because I deleted all of them. But it is also because I feel absolutely no compunction to do so. This is my blog and I make up the rules. As I said before - you never said anything pleasant here - just challenging, judgemental or dismissive comments. I cannot be doing with that kind of thing so I will ask you again to please stay away. There are many other blogs you can comment upon. You don't like what I post as you have made abundantly clear and that is absolutely fine with me. Please stay away.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-70515193394920276792020-04-25T12:38:58.457+01:002020-04-25T12:38:58.457+01:00You have never said anything nice or pleasant in y...You have never said anything nice or pleasant in your comments. If you are right that I am both "aggressive" and "shallow" then why on earth do you even come to this blog? Please - just keep away. It is such a chore to have to keep deleting your comments. There are many other places in the blogosphere where you could go - maybe places where you will be welcomed. Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-43210012195818627912020-04-25T11:25:24.948+01:002020-04-25T11:25:24.948+01:00Rather a sad response, why be so aggressive agains...Rather a sad response, why be so aggressive against someone who has a different opinion to yourself?<br />As to the name I was given, you are so wrong, I don't cheat in any way, but I may have cheated something in the past, not that I owe you any explanation. At least I am not so shallow as to judge someone on the 'nickname' given to them many years ago! The Cheathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17878573971727824942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-79007567778091203152020-04-25T09:30:49.105+01:002020-04-25T09:30:49.105+01:00Finally, another idea for you. Why not create your...Finally, another idea for you. Why not create your own blog? I am sure that you would soon attract plenty of visitors.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-49314535466338722472020-04-25T09:23:19.385+01:002020-04-25T09:23:19.385+01:00Even this response is poisonous. As my mother used...Even this response is poisonous. As my mother used to remark, "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all". I think that this is a motto that you would do well to adopt. Even your pseudonym, "The Cheat" is unpleasant. Why would you choose a handle like that? Nobody likes cheats or cheating. <br /><br />Normally, I don't read anything you write, I just delete your comments knowing that they will always have an undercurrent of nastiness and judgmentalism. This is my blog and I would prefer it if you simply kept away. I don't want you here. Please go and judge somebody else and leave your characteristically unpleasant comments elsewhere. Thank you.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-10811868846867392692020-04-25T04:47:12.088+01:002020-04-25T04:47:12.088+01:00I like your version of Bonnie's suggestion, YP...I like your version of Bonnie's suggestion, YP. Yes, I'm bitter about hunting.jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-52894758617398883492020-04-25T01:50:43.929+01:002020-04-25T01:50:43.929+01:00Feel free to post/link/repost any 'nasty' ...Feel free to post/link/repost any 'nasty' comment yorkie, go on do it, back up your assertion!<br />The Cheathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17878573971727824942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-83928853880793521842020-04-24T19:55:56.055+01:002020-04-24T19:55:56.055+01:00It's funny how we use the word "shoot&quo...It's funny how we use the word "shoot" when using cameras - just as if we were using guns.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-47060284945336739562020-04-24T18:28:02.882+01:002020-04-24T18:28:02.882+01:00Hunting in general is a mystery to me, so yeah, I ...Hunting in general is a mystery to me, so yeah, I don't get grouse-shooting. I might shoot them with a camera, but that's as far as it goes.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-39218526680060256772020-04-24T17:37:20.183+01:002020-04-24T17:37:20.183+01:00The continued existence of grouse shooting has a d...The continued existence of grouse shooting has a direct and unnatural impact on moorland landscapes. If the shooters disappeared then gradually moors would become, botanically speaking, far more diverse and interesting.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-13415002166566451902020-04-24T16:32:22.155+01:002020-04-24T16:32:22.155+01:00What I love about the moors, is the smaller plants...What I love about the moors, is the smaller plants that cluster below the heather and the harebells you occasionally come across. There are grouse butts up on our moors, they follow straight lines and track the foolishness of men with guns and specific uniforms. Anyone can shoot a poor pheasant with one arm tied behind their backs to my way of thinking.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-2789637558786440842020-04-24T15:40:35.879+01:002020-04-24T15:40:35.879+01:00It's definitely a male thing. I would estimate...It's definitely a male thing. I would estimate that 97% of all grouse ever killed were killed by men. The birds are rarely eaten. They are just feathered trophies.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-35432721538842402972020-04-24T15:38:39.329+01:002020-04-24T15:38:39.329+01:00New Zealand stepped up to the plate in both world ...New Zealand stepped up to the plate in both world wars and tomorrow on ANZAC Day, I shall salute both the Australian and New Zealand dead who made the ultimate sacrifice - often in faraway places. Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-85679025046660082152020-04-24T15:31:16.230+01:002020-04-24T15:31:16.230+01:00The places we like point to the kind of people we ...The places we like point to the kind of people we are. No everyone is wild about wild landscapes.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-41985771419755395212020-04-24T15:29:38.050+01:002020-04-24T15:29:38.050+01:00Here shooting grouse on moors is something that th...Here shooting grouse on moors is something that the upper classes and the aristocracy do. They rarely eat the grouse they kill. It is an activity that defines them as being out of the ordinary and they like that exclusivity.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-51738086814899250372020-04-24T14:08:41.935+01:002020-04-24T14:08:41.935+01:00I am, as you know, married to a hunter but it'...I am, as you know, married to a hunter but it's an entirely different situation. He would no more shoulder a rifle with liquor in him than he'd jump off a cliff. He's a meat hunter, not a sports hunter. I guess that's the difference. And until we turn vegetarian I see more honor in the meat he brings home than in the meat I buy at the grocery store. This is not said as support for sport hunters- far from it. I think that probably those guys you're talking about are doing a ritualistic thing, far removed from what their ancestors did to actually feed their families. <br />What is absolutely not in question is how beautiful the place where you live is. Thank you, as always, for sharing it. Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-22875698792058757042020-04-24T13:31:13.865+01:002020-04-24T13:31:13.865+01:00For some reason I am always drawn to what others c...For some reason I am always drawn to what others call lonesome landscapes--the moors, Canyonlands in UT, the Twelve Bens and other places in Connemara, the Badlands in South Dakota. Like you, I find them to have a certain beauty and majesty. Room to breathe.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11587652444835060129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-30876229447595849652020-04-24T13:08:35.358+01:002020-04-24T13:08:35.358+01:00Apparently the early settlers could hear New Zeala...Apparently the early settlers could hear New Zealand before they saw it. All those birds singing in safety, the land covered in trees. We have been slow to appreciate what we had but that has been changing rapidly to a focus on conservation and regeneration through planting native species and creating corridors of food sources for native birds in our cities and predator free areas.<br />Sadly many of those 17 COVID 19 deaths are from the one infection source here in Christchurch. 20 elderly residents of the dementia care facility were moved to hospital after testing positive and it has seemed inevitable that all 20 lives will be shortened by the virus. I can't imagine what it must be like for the nursing staff caring for them and for their families waiting without hope.<br />Tomorrow April 25th is our national day of remembrance ANZAC Day which we share with Australia. There will be no community ceremonies or dawn marches but we will hopefully all stand at the end of our driveways at 6am sunrise to remember those who left these shores to fight for peace and justice . Penghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126716050414392264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-43438775318362274292020-04-24T13:00:19.975+01:002020-04-24T13:00:19.975+01:00I don't understand killing for sport. If you&...I don't understand killing for sport. If you're hungry that's fine but not to prove anything. Why can't they just all drop their trousers, compare dick size and be done with it. And hunting grouse, it's not like it takes any great skill to shoot a bird that has a brain the size of a pea. <br /><br />Anyway, the photos are lovely. The one photo of the track reminds me of Medicine Lake in the mountains, stark, other worldly and just so beautiful.My life so farhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16721270441968035994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-78640434693075406212020-04-24T12:06:01.182+01:002020-04-24T12:06:01.182+01:00I may have said this before but I have a romantic ...I may have said this before but I have a romantic view of New Zealand's fauna and flora. Before human beings arrived it must have been a veritable Garden of Eden (not Eden Gardens!). Even the Maori, arriving in the fourteenth century brought Polynesian rats. But before then - what it must have been to walk through the landscapes of both islands. Quite unbelievable really and now we will sadly never know. Thanks for calling by again Adele. It still looks as though your country has prevented the worst of COVID 19 with only 1456 cases and just 17 dead - though that is 17 too many.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-19916914430833026652020-04-24T11:56:44.148+01:002020-04-24T11:56:44.148+01:00Hope you Didn't have eyeballs in seaweed for b...Hope you Didn't have eyeballs in seaweed for breakfast JayCee!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-18377520870508093652020-04-24T11:55:55.223+01:002020-04-24T11:55:55.223+01:00That should be against the law. Personally, I woul...That should be against the law. Personally, I would hang all offenders.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-42466225566885495482020-04-24T11:04:47.782+01:002020-04-24T11:04:47.782+01:00I've never understood the hunting for sport me...I've never understood the hunting for sport mentality. I have no urge to track and kill any living creature, apart from flies. Spiders who stray inside get a second chance and are returned to the outdoors to spin again. Our 5 week lockdown has given ducks a reprieve from sudden death this year.The shooting season due to start in May has been cancelled (too many possible accidents as shooters mistake each other for ducks and then require emergency services) but deer will unfortunately be fair game again from next week. Can't understand the logic there as hunters go bush and shoot each other by mistake too. Maybe they have more political clout.<br />On a positive note the absence of cars in our cities over the last month has led to an influx of rarely sighted native birds returning and lots of people out walking to see and enjoy their songs. It's made many people aware of what we have been missing in our noisy neighbourhoods and how much better our lives could be if lived at a quieter and slower pace.<br />Like you, I find hares fascinating though others consider them pests. There are a couple living in the paddock over our hedge and we love watching them but don't often see them when there are cattle grazing . Hares, rabbits, magpies, weasels,stoats and gorse were all imported by our English forefathers to replicate home, in blissful ignorance of the damage they would cause to native flora and fauna. Everything grows faster and bigger here.<br />Love your moody moorland photos, they're grouse. <br />Mr Clint should be thankful that you take him on adventures and allow him to exercise regularly, keeping him in tip top condition. Our cars have been sadly neglected in the daze of lockdown with the inevitable result.. flat batteries. God bless the Automobile Association. Penghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126716050414392264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-66533581674374641472020-04-24T10:45:17.361+01:002020-04-24T10:45:17.361+01:00It's better than someone texting and walking Y...It's better than someone texting and walking YP.northsider https://www.blogger.com/profile/00716743611909673869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-24707361246618130662020-04-24T10:28:56.870+01:002020-04-24T10:28:56.870+01:00Eeeww. Thank goodness I had breakfast early.Eeeww. Thank goodness I had breakfast early.JayCeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373622852406554111noreply@blogger.com