Beautiful Bath attracts beavers
The beautiful city that is Bath has attracted an ambitious colony of new age beavers. The colony have packed in their wilderness life for the fruits of city life starting with the building of their dam near the heart of Bath at the weir:
Or so I would like to think so. Bath is, I am sure most of my two dozen readership would agree, a frightfully spiffing and joyful city in which to live. I love it here for one.
Brilliant Bath
Good looking historical buildings, cosy atmosphere, numerous public gardens, good Georgian theatre, many fine pubs, decent rugby team (currently) in city centre, above average sole traders, a multinational multidiscipline engineering firm par excellence, literature festival, film festival, music festival, public spa, some live music, good museums, working canal, and stricking distance to London.
Bad Bath
Tourists, native Somersetonians, seagulls (not native), Southgate redevelopment, planning restrictions, and lack of late night ‘herbaceous plant’ bars.
The above pro’s and con’s apply equally well to resident beavers. What is good and bad about Bath for you? Or what is the best way to cull seagulls?
Apparrently if you put bicarbonate of soda on bread and then feed it to birds, they explode. This may not be factual.
what do you want herbaceous herbs for? is your world not crazy enough already?
The lack of anything remotely resembling a public transport system is my pet bath badness.
As for goodness, well, it’s pretty. And I can generally walk home from uni o’nights without being divested of my valuables.
am drunk, will reply in morning.
am hung-over, so will type slowly…
Adam, good idea with the minor problem of bird splatterings across central Bath.
Dave, beavers are nocturnal vegetarians hence the concern over the “lack of late night ‘herbaceous plant’ bars.” Their preferred herbaceous plants are clover, grasses, raspberry canes and aquatic vegetation, not green bark, leaves or twigs of fast growing trees, such as aspen and willows. Beavers can survive on the tubers of water lilies.
I kinda want to try the bird thing but it’s fairly sadistic. It’s sort of like poisoning them. That’s cruel.
My heart isn’t black enough; perhaps it will be one day
Good: RAR.
Bad: RUH (well, their lack of jobs anyway!)
Hangover, hey? I’d have never have guessed that you had a couple (or was it five?!) pints last night!x