Did you ever wonder how to find out if those electric fences are actually
switched on or not?
Actually it's quite easy - you just touch them!

If you aren't one of those people who enjoy an electro shock every once in a while, use a blade of grass to touch the wire - the longer the better.
The closer your hand gets to the wire the stronger you feel the current.
At 35 cm the chances are, you won't feel a thing. At 5 cm you will - if the fence is on, that is.

So how do you cross an electric fence that is switched on without grilling your private bits?
Easy! You wear your most robust bovver boots and kick one of the fence posts - hard.
Two kicks should do the trick. Just make sure the farmer doesn't see you!

This fence post was taken down by a car ...



... so I had no problems crossing it and no guilty conscience!

If you read my post this time last year, you may be able to guess what this is:



I caught it outside my front door at five-thirty yesterday morning, singing a ditty with five of its friends. They all looked equally as scary!
When they were done yodelling they wished me all the best for the coming new year and were on their way with a great hullabaloo* - to scare off any evil spirits.

When I finally woke, I went down into the village and took a few pictures.

*The German word is almost as nice: 'Tohuwabohu'