"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 May 2017 07:39:28 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 23/05/2017 19:51, ARW wrote:
On 23/05/2017 19:44, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , ARW
wrote:

On 23/05/2017 19:01, alan_m wrote:
On 22/05/2017 17:44, Tim Streater wrote:


And rabbits and squirrels, in our case.


and most of the garden bird population.

Most of the garden bird population disappeared when people decided to
replace their hedges with fences. Along with the hedgehogs.

And you cannot blame cats for killing the hedgehog population.

No, but we can blame the bodgers though.

I've got hedgehogs. I left them some where to live.

We also have them, as does another neighbour across the road.

Are they called hedgehogs because they like hedges?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog

The name hedgehog came into use around the year 1450, derived from the
Middle English heyghoge, from heyg, hegge ("hedge"), because it
frequents
hedgerows, and hoge, hogge ("hog"), from its piglike snout.[4]

4 Oxford English Dictionary, Online edition. Retrieved 13 July 2007.

I never actually noticed the first 5 letters were the same.

No surprises there.

Never seen one in a hedge,

That's because you have wanked yourself completely blind.

You were warned...

just sat in the middle of my lawn.

Making an obscene gesture in your general
direction, just like everyone else does.

Hang on,

To what ?

you have fences.

And hedgehogs.