Wot ~ No Ducks ....?!

 Now what?! Someone's dumped a length of old rain guttering along their bit of bank. It was obviously filled with 'Duck Food' and that's been liberally slung all over the place. 

 There's also a large patch of the stuff where they usually sat. Only, no sign of any ducks. I looked up and down the river. Nothing.

 Local Intelligence ~ in the usual form of my mate, Hugh, my Butcher ~ tells me one duck was seen waddling up the hill road. That road leads away from the river and off to god knows where.

 Mink trap's still laying there. Mid stream. I just don't know what to think anymore. Whole saga's just getting a bit surreal!

 More, next week. No doubt!
 

It's STILL Fucking There ....!

That's one for the people who read beyond the first page of this place. They'll know .....
 

It's Still There ....!

 A week ago, today, I found a mink cage in the river in town, yeah? Told ye all about it Below / Here.

  Back in town again, today. Have to have a look, don't ye? And, fuck me; There it is!

  Shifted and drifted a yard or two. Otherwise still much as I first found it. Can ye imagine that happening in england? I can't!

  Local people are now even suggesting I just " Bring it with me. " But, as I still explain to them; That's not the way I see things done, around here. It's not my property. I'm not touching it. Period.

 Saying that; It bodes damn well for me, doesn't it? Should I ever choose to set some traps of my own down along that river. No bugger'll interfere with those either, look.

  Sadly, that's not about to happen. Simply because I only go into town once a week. Can't go about, setting even killer traps, then just inspecting them once a bloody week! Some modern Gamekeepers might. I wouldn't.

 Makes me wonder what story lies behind all this though; Someone ~ his name's known ~ fenced the river in. Bought ducks to sit on it. There's even an automatic feeder there for them. 

 Then a mink came along and started helping itself to the ducks. So, someone bought a trap and set it. Now, all that's there is the feeder and the trap.

 The truth behind it will filter through to me, eventually. I'll tell ye, here, once I find out.