Comments on: Suited and Booted http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Sat, 18 May 2013 18:24:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ragged Thread Cartographer http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13337 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:31:09 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13337 Special little tailcoats, perhaps with tiny matching top hats. Snow chickened out, btw. Just rain.

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13333 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:23:36 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13333 maybe the swallows need little raincoats as well

]]> By: Ragged Thread Cartographer http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13329 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:09:14 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13329 Sorry. Mean this morning.

]]> By: Ragged Thread Cartographer http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13328 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:08:24 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13328 Snow forecast for Glossop area tomorrow morning – hope poor swallows hang back a while!

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13325 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:17:14 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13325 They do look awfully skinny under their woolly coats.

Our swallows are late! Should have been here a week ago

]]> By: uphilldowndale http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13322 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:27:17 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13322 ahhhh typo….

]]> By: uphilldowndale http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13321 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:25:19 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13321 We have swollows…. three days early :)

]]> By: WOL http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13319 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:08:31 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13319 Makes sense. A newborn would be calorically challenged to start with, having not had a chance to build up a calorie/fat reserve. Smaller animals lose body heat faster than larger ones. Even newborn humans experience a weight drop shortly after birth because of having to maintain their own body heat without the insulation of being inside a large warm body. A plastic “jumper” makes sense –it’s cheap, it retains body heat, it keeps their body wool dry (nothing will induce hypothermia quicker than the deadly combination of being cold and wet), and it shields them from the wind, which is also a noted stealer of body heat. Yay, farmers!

]]> By: uphilldowndale http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13317 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:26:01 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13317 A farmer described the risk thus
‘The’ dunna like the rain, it knocks ‘em down’
To much cold and wet soon after birth quite simply knock them flat. Poor we lambs

]]> By: emma c http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/suited-and-booted/#comment-13314 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:02:06 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3591#comment-13314 Well I never! Funny little mites :-)

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