There's a famous joke about a Welshman who gets marooned on a desert island. Years later a ship arrives, and he shows them around ..there's the pub, there's the rugby pitch, and there's the two chapels. The ship's captain asks the obvious question .... " Why two chapels?" "Well, it's obvious innit ! That's the one I go to, and that's the one I don't go to!" Yes. Indeed. A very male thing that. And yes, there's places I don't go to. For different reasons. 11-places-i-dont-go.html Then there's a place I'll call "X". Yes, "X". I used to go there a lot, it's one of the best birding/ringing/mothing spots around where I live. But I haven't been there for many years . And it's all because I've fallen out with the person who DOES go there. . or rather, he fell out with me. That's a very male thing too. It's not my fault, but I'm not going there any more. ← full stop !! (!) And that was yesterday's " Place I haven't set foot in" for ...er...well, at least 20 years or so ... since that fateful day on which me and two other dedicated, hard-working bird-ringers and moth-identifiers turned up at 6am, put the nets up, ID'd loads of moths, ringed lots of birds .... and then " the boss" turned up and kicked us all out ... we were, apparently, not fit to be on his precious territory, or any other similar location. Why, we never really found out. Totally astonished by this outbreak of nastiness, all three of us turned around and left. And I never came back ... until yesterday. Luckily, there was nobody there. Here's the full details of the whole debacle .... 112-in-which-i-get-thrown-out.html As I stood there yesterday, it all seemed very strange. And the really rotten thing is, he totally denies that it ever happened ! What sort of a fantasy life does he live in ? Enough of all that .... so we'll have a bit of music ...... very appropriate ! It was very odd going back there after 20-ish years. And I've hardly spoken to him since. It still hurts.
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