Gosling Stops don’t only stop Goslings

Something to which I can testify. After that dratted gosling squirmed under the front gate and was discovered wandering on the other side of the road – hastily retrieved – I put up a gosling stop. This has the same purpose as a cattle stop, i.e. to prevent cattle wandering, or as in this case, to prevent an idiot gosling becoming totally flat after a truck has run it over. I use a 8-9 foot length of narrow plank, one end fixed into a gap between gate post and fence post, thus keeping it upright. It fills the gap between ground and the bottom of the gate and prevents foolish goslings wandering onto the road. Unfortunately early in the morning when I go out to feed the poultry, and put out the mail, I tend to be present of body but absent of mind, and it was so the morning after I erected the gosling stop. I opened the gate, strode through, and, oblivious of impediments, caught my foot on the plank and fell flat. I said this and that – about goslings, gates, and… I picked myself up, put out the mail, and returned to the house making a mental note to remember that gosling stops won’t only stop goslings. So far that’s worked.

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