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gremlin wrote: Thu Sep 29, 2022 11:57 am Tiepin? He's Norf o' the water, in' he?
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gremlin wrote: Thu Sep 29, 2022 11:57 am Tiepin? He's Norf o' the water, in' he?
Yeah. I ain't no Londoner innit! Essex geezeer ain't i, made me books and films about me, rise of the fat soldier! :D
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Found this little feller on the road when I was putting the bin out yesterday

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ChrisW wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 6:10 pm Found this little feller on the road when I was putting the bin out yesterday

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ChrisW wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 6:10 pm Found this little feller on the road when I was putting the bin out yesterday

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Found this in a mate's garden (SW France). Heard it strolling through the dead leaves.
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Count Steer wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:07 pm Not in the UK!?
Nope! It was in NE Spain, on the coast about level with Girona. This was the second photo I took after encouraging it off the road with a pine needle, hence the side-eye I assume.
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ChrisW wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:38 pm
Count Steer wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:07 pm Not in the UK!?
Nope! It was in NE Spain, on the coast about level with Girona. This was the second photo I took after encouraging it off the road with a pine needle, hence the side-eye I assume.
I assume they're the same as here (Alicante). The smaller brown one is a male and can fly, the longer slim green one is female and can't fly. Here's a bit about mantis mating:

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Pirahna wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:36 pm I assume they're the same as here (Alicante). The smaller brown one is a male and can fly, the longer slim green one is female and can't fly.
If I'd know he could fly I'd probably not have spent 5 minutes trying to get him off the road! It's the first time I've seen one of these around there (Baix Emporda).
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When I was on Indonesian Borneo, deep in the pristine tall pole forest, in the mid 90s one of those mantises bit (or maybe clawed) me in the head so I grabbed it and hoyed it on the ground and stamped on it. Then a monkey ate all my fags.
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Asian Boss wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:54 pm When I was on Indonesian Borneo, deep in the pristine tall pole forest, in the mid 90s one of those mantises bit (or maybe clawed) me in the head so I grabbed it and hoyed it on the ground and stamped on it. Then a monkey ate all my fags.
There's a whiff of the William Burroughs in there...
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So many little details:
- circular L plate, which matches a light on the other side for visual balance
- the animal print
- "I've been to __ " stick-on pennants on the screen
- the stand is down - but he still seems to have to hold it up
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And for a gold star... Who can identify the car behind him?
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Dunno, but that's a wide wheel arch or very narrow cabin!
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Wossname wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:51 am And for a gold star... Who can identify the car behind him?
And it was ... ?
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No, I'm not there yet. Probably my era - 1970's or thereabouts. Something unusual, coupe, fastback-ish, horizontal rectangular tail lights - Gilbern? No - lights are wrong. Help me here, all you teenage (then) petrolheads.....