peterpaintpot

Try what the GLC did in Trafalgar Square in London. The pigeons were breeding rapidly and their numbers interfered with the tourist industry They were fed with grain containing a contraceptive. A humane method.

Not completely, after the last horrific floods they put a Dycke around the trading estate so that it wouldn't be flooded again and stop the industrial work again. I'm sure that they didn't consider that in a future flood as bad as the last one theIndustrial Estate may well be kept safe without any flooding. But the volume of water displaced by the estate will raise the water level in the Old Town where the Budhist Temples will be damaged more than last time.

Believe it or not it has been used in the laying of big floors, I visited a small village in Sussex, UK some years ago where one of the public buildings had a floor that contained sour milk.

Yes, Crail in Fife, where my grandmother was born and educated until she was 14 when she got a job at a " Big House" in the kitchen, presumably as the scullery maid. In her 80's she could still knock up a wonderful kedgeree. It is a beautiful town, there are lovely places to visit if you walk on the St Andrews to Forth Bridge footpath. The next town to the South is Anstruther where you can find at the harbour the best fish and chip restaurant that I have ever visited. From Anstruther you can visit by boat the Isle of May which is now a seabird reserve, well worth a visit to see the puffins in the breeding season, first time I was there, there were 30,000 breeding pairs of puffins. The boats only go to the Isle of May if the weather is ok, times vary every day as you can only visit at high tide.