John Stevenson

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• anonemouse commented on London Bridge
  Goats and their life-supporting and landscape-reshaping abilities are made fantastic use of in the second volume of Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman books, which are indecently good - and the less I tell you about them the better the experience reading them is, which makes persuading people to read them somewhat awkward....
• JohnS commented on London Bridge
  NecroMoz: deanimator of the undead @ 1160: If it's fence-able it might be worth looking at a rent-a-goat-herd service who will normally use goats that have been trained to respect temporary electric fences. Since they also like novelty and eating weird shit they will usually stay inside a fence like that until most of the vegetation is gone. A friend runs one in southern NSW and we occasionally tell each other stories about goats ("the men who stare at goats" story being obviously matched by the goats who stare at men... usually while eating something they shouldn't) That reminds me...
• Dramlin commented on London Bridge
  lol As the human who would have to rescue the goat while not breaking anything important I think I'll give it a miss really...
• Pigeon commented on London Bridge
  "I have no idea how the sheep ended up in the school cafeteria, but they usually did." Cooked or raw?...
• JohnS commented on London Bridge
  Pigeon @ 1170: "I have no idea how the sheep ended up in the school cafeteria, but they usually did." Cooked or raw? Sheepishly wandering around. I believe it was almost a tradition that at some point during the school year they'd end up herded across the street & into the school buildings....