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Foxes are terrifying if you don't know what they are, and even if you do you can be caught off guard.

I grew up near fox cover, they'd come down from the wooded hills to scavenge/go after poultry.

We had a big dumb outside dog - one fox would go one end of the house making noise, which would send him barreling down to the fence barking like crazy. Then another fox would hop in and steal his food at the other end

Another time, much later & more experienced, I went camping with a friend who wasn't very outdoorsy.

The hike in had been more overgrown than we expected and a whole section of the path in was swampy, which it hadn't been on previous trips. We set up by a fork in two rivers, exact middle of a forest, and got a decent fire going and a decent camp established.

We spent the evening nature watching, eating good grub and drinking, him a little overdoing it on the drinking and passing out early enough.

About 3am he bolts up outta nowhere, looking around with a blank face and whisper shouting "they're out there!" and "they're coming for us!"

I told him to chill, there was nothing out there bigger than a fox or badger. But he just kept going, a long rant of something vague and increasingly doomy watching us all night.

I know its nonsense, but it starts getting to the stage where I'm getting uneasy, straining to identify every noise. Splash, that's an otter or river rat. Rustle, squirrel or owl. Distant call, likely a fox.

He's out of his tent, still wrapped in a sleeping bag, half babbling as he falls asleep against a tree near the fire. At points he's crying occasionally.

I start to worry maybe he's had a mental break more than just being hammered drunk. Its also about 3am and getting quite chilly. I decide we bail, there's a road about 30 minute walk (on a good day) we can make it to if I help him slowly, can call a friend to pick us up. I break down camp by myself, take down both our tents and let the fire go low. It's now about 4am. He's stopped cry babbling. Once we're ready I shake him awake, tell him we're bailing.

He wakes up, refuses and rolls over. I eventually wake him again. He has no idea what I'm talking about. Goes back to sleep.

Now I'm bloody freezing so I get the fire roaring and hunker down til sun rise about 3 hours later, very grumpy.

We still give him stick about it to this day, he just shrugs and chuckles 😅

Few spooky, not terrifying ,things have happened over the years.

In younger days, a large group of us went camping in a wooded area on the outskirts of rich people land.

Long story short as things fizzled out, 2 of us as we tended the fire, came to the realisation that there had been an extra person there the whole night, always standing just far enough away you couldn't see their face, at various edges of the clearing we were in where the vegetation got thick.

Next morning we started asking folk about it and everyone realised when they were talking that the person they thought was standing near them at a certain time had actually been elsewhere.

For a while afterwards we came up with all sorts of stupid teenager explanations of spooky origin but as we grew up we just kinda decided it was a local weirdo

I would love to have a complete collection like that!

I use the Edge Dev version browser. Up until recently I've preferred it over anything else, had most MS stuff turned off, the chrome extensions all worked great. The new AI stuff & sidebar nonsense are making me consider going back to Firefox

Aromat. Years ago a chef told me the secret to his restaurant's chips - they seasoned them with Yellow Aromat. A while later I found that if you have unseasoned bacon, a good coat of Red Aromat and cooked in the oven = delicious.

Chicken stock powder. Always keep a large tub of it from the Asian market. Makes so many things delicious. I keep a little jar of it in work, in the winter I add a teaspoon of it to those bland cuppa soups and it makes them taste great

Thanks for making this place. And sorry for the flak yer getting on Reddit, it sucks. I lurked there for a long time & just want ye to know I get the hard work that goes into the content & keeping it well run that makes lurking possible & enjoyable.

It's mad to me seeing the difference in support on old daystrom vs say what the mods of r/worldbuilding are experiencing (still a few loud voices but much more supportive overall).

Nice. I had a similar, yet nowhere near as nicely laid out, idea for my new place. Either side of the garden is set for mostly wild garden & wild friendly plants. There's lots of naturally occuring wild mustard, hawksbeard etc, and I planted some bluebells, wild garlic, heather, nasturtium etc.

The middle walk of the garden is all raised beds leading to a small grow house. Fingers crossed it develops as nicely

So I joined Lemmy via a small niche tech instance, but because of stupid petty drama I couldn't connect to other stuff I wanted so I signed up to Lemmy World and it all just worked.

This thread is suggesting that similar is going to keep happening?

I just want my leftist subs, scifi subs, gardening and lgbt communities in one place ffs