Savour that this is one of those signs that we live in a good world.
A less good place would have run over the swan and we wouldn't have noticed our loss.
It happened to me once on the Metropolitan Line between Moor Park and Croxley just south of the South Curve (I was the driver). The swan ignored the train approaching and me blowing the whistle. I spooked it and it flew away after I whacked the +ve rail with a shoe paddle which was loud.
Are you in Somerset? A handful of years back, my husband was delayed by an M5 closure due to a swan in the road. We really do live in Hot Fuzz country!
I am not an experienced ornithologist nor a skilled anatomist, however, I believe a Swan only has the capability to break a man's arm with its wing, not a man's leg.
Of course I haven't figured osteoporosis into the equation.
I am neither an ornithologist nor an anatomist, but I can confirm that unless you were to trip over a swan, it doesn't have the ability to break any bones in the human body. Our mammalian bones are much stronger and denser than birds' bones, which are hollow for lightness to allow them to fly
Well you should have factored it in, unless you were thinking that women are more likely than men, to have osteoporosis but then again we are only talking about a man's arm, or leg, not a woman's. What if the swan used both wings?
You are correct my gender based assumptions are archaic in today's world and I humbly apologise.
To clarify!
A Swan, well fed and in good health, has the capacity to render most individuals incapable to some extent, particularly if using the element of surprise!
About 1982 I was on a train on the bridge heading to Richmond, delayed for 5 minutes by a peacock on the track. In those days Asgill House had peacocks in the garden. I miss them.
My wife can top that. When we lived near San Francisco she used to take the ferry to work across the bay.
Got a call one day before I went to pick her up from the ferry station that the ferry was going to be delayed because it had to stop for a whale.
I once had to remove a live swan that had landed on the Marylebone flyover in the middle of the afternoon, causing traffic chaos. Took it to Regent's Park lake and released it.
I'm sure someone will blames the woke agenda:
“You can’t even ask a swan to move these days without a risk assessment, a pronoun badge, and a lecture on feather privilege.”
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A less good place would have run over the swan and we wouldn't have noticed our loss.
I blame the woke cause why not.
Genuinely
Or blow up a man's house....
Great radio James, love your shows (and podcasts when I miss the show).
Covering up the fact we shit in the swans transport network, shame on you MrO'B! 😛
A swan called Dick Turpin?
Sad.
Of course I haven't figured osteoporosis into the equation.
Two broken arms?
To clarify!
A Swan, well fed and in good health, has the capacity to render most individuals incapable to some extent, particularly if using the element of surprise!
Got a call one day before I went to pick her up from the ferry station that the ferry was going to be delayed because it had to stop for a whale.
#ProudToBe . . . (despite #brexit . . . )
Oh, but they're so pretty!
“You can’t even ask a swan to move these days without a risk assessment, a pronoun badge, and a lecture on feather privilege.”
Unbothered.
Unmoved.
Majestic.
A perfect symbol of Britain in 2025.
Delayed, divided, and waiting for someone to sort it.