Notices by Dave Morriss (perloid@mastodon.sdf.org), page 9

@Luke @paul Neither is a great way to be woken up I reckon!

@Luke @paul Oooh! Nasty! Our cat used to hunt frogs at one time, but just smacked them about. The ones I rescued were all making a screaming noise when I found them.

@paul I have avoided the cat flap so far and am so glad I've done so! 😃

@paul Last year I'd either find bits of birds and mice on the back doorstep, or if I was not alert enough, somewhere inside the house - the front doormat was a favourite place. One time my daughter and I had fun catching a live mouse dropped in the living room too. So many places to hide!

@paul Found our cat confronting a wood pigeon a few weeks ago. They both looked shocked! I checked the pigeon and it seemed unhurt and flew off when I let it go.

@paul Not surprised. Chickens can be scary!

It's a pleasant spring day in Scotland. This morning's "gift" from the cat was a sparrow I managed to take from her quickly. I could feel its heart beating and its very rapid breathing. Managed to distract the ferocious feline and let the sparrow fly away. Living with a cat is interesting.

@clacke One of my recent triumphs after 9 years of retirement was to get the UK tax people to acknowledge that I no longer need to fill in the annual form. My work and state pensions are both taxed at source, so what more do they need?

@Luke Damn! You saw through my cunning ruse! 😉

@Luke In conversation yesterday I discovered that this is specific to the UK and possibly Poland. Other countries keep going all day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

@clacke It's in my list! I was going to talk about it during a bunch of function episodes later this year 😃
Seriously though, there's room for us all, and it's good to have variety. Thanks for the #hpr contribution 👍

@beni That was my thought...

@beni Gotta use those Raspberry Pis for something!

@beni Shoot the sparrows for the hawk as he homes in on them?

When I set up a bird feeder in my back garden I didn't consider that I'd also be feeding the predatory birds. Just watching a male Sparrowhawk plucking, then eating, a victim.

Nature...

@clacke is 'car' 'voiture'?

@claudiom Now fixed. Let me know if there are any remaining issues!

I'll also drop your comment if that is OK.

@claudiom Got it.

@claudiom Regarding your #hpr show 2783 and the fact the backslashes were removed from the notes. I have just emailed you about it.

@clacke I have access and have had a look. It's PHP and I think it's the use of 'stripslashes' on the form contents. Of course, this function strips backslashes! I imagine the goal originally was to de-quote stuff that's on its way to the database, but the form data gets dropped into a file - which I post-process.