Rosgarth 3 Lytchett 2

Glen's football match took place on a very cold Sunday afternoon on the main Verwood pitch which has two main stands along with two proper dug outs for the subs and manager. When I say stands I mean a few seats and a pitch surrounded by a railing but nevertheless it is a grown up pitch with ambitions and that meant the game was very special.

With the parents of the away side as vocal in their support of the Lytchett team as the Rosgarth players there was a good atmosphere and that was rewarded with a good game in which the visitors took the lead only to be defeated ultimately. It could be argued that a draw would have been fair but perhaps Rosgarth just shaded it.

That leaves them well placed still for second although a match next weekend against the leaders Chickerell will determine if they can aspire to first place.

There are a couple of pictures of the afternoon walk in the woods as well with Alison wrapped up against the biting cold.

Thirty Plus

Despite having 9 men available, we lost 2 - 0 in a game we looked unlikely to score in even if we had the 2 subs on at the same time. Unfortunately the loss of Matt meant defensive changes, an area we've done well in recently, and as a result, the team playing too deep. The one real chance, a chip over the keeper, was headed off the line and the outcome had an inevitability about it.

The after match atmosphere was initially subdued but picked up as Dave bought a packet of cigarettes, an event recorded for posterity by Jason on his camera phone. You will be able to tell that Dom wasn't there to provide the usual supply.

Simon has provided me with some management speak hot from the adminisphere which I am going to try to incorporate into my day at school.

• it's a self licking lollipop
• my ladder is leant against your wall (must be accompanied by hand on shoulder for maximum impact)
• we all need to pull together to boat this bass

I had plenty of this type of comment directed at me during INSET Day yesterday which I will come back to in a later post.

Inclusion is busy today with 12 people already there with a further 5 meant to be in too but either absent or at college placement. Currently having to investigate an incident involving a stanley knife and the theft on an Ipod.

Maisie against the horses

At about a foot tall andweighing under three kilos Maisie isn't exactly a heavyweight out in the wider world. I sometimes wonder if a passing buzzard might not swoop down for an easy, if fluffy, meal. Hwever, like a lot of small dogs she thinks she is big and tough and starts yapping away when something unusual crosses her path. Yesterday she met some horses which she tried to bark down as I sat on a log waiting to see if a buzzard we'd disturbed would return. It had been on the ground and may have been feeding so I had hoped we might see it again. Maisie put paid to that.

The picutre of the kestrel silhouetted against the sky is fantastic in respect of showing the shape of the bird, maginficently adapted to flight and yet able to hover at will in quite a strong and biting wind.

Big Garden Birdwatch and some fish

Not having done this before I wasn't sure how many birds to expect because although there often birds at the feeders I have no real idea how many as I seldom sit down and just watch them. As I should have known there were some disappointments and a number of pleasant surprises.

The coal tits weren't about at all, neither were the long tailed tits. On the other hand the siskins and the song thrush were bonuses.


Species Number
Blackbird 2
Blue tit 3
Chaffinch 1
Collared dove 2
Dunnock 2
Goldfinch 2
Great tit 1
Greenfinch 1
House sparrow 19
Jackdaw 4
Robin 2
Siskin 3
Song thrush 1
Starling 6
Wren 1

The pictures show the collared doves, blackbird, goldfinch and starling and some of the feeding stations.

As I had the camera I took some of Glen's tank too. The fish are all very healthy, as far as I can tell anyway, and continue to thrive. There are 4 black widows, a rainbow tetra, a shark, 3 clown loach, 5 neon tetra, 2 angel fish and Nobby who is some kind of bottom feeder who hides under a pirate skull most of the time.

Meetings to be cheerful...

Meetings to be cheerful …

Except there are many more than three this time.

INSET Day Monday when we will be ‘looking to enhance creativity in curriculum planning and lesson delivery.’ That sounds a worthwhile aim whatever it might mean. I can’t wait.

At the end of the day I will be meeting parents at 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 and then sometime after 6.00. The final appointment is instead of sometime after 6 on Friday so it a better deal in that respect. That should allow me time to get to football at 8.15.

On Tuesday it’s a management meeting in which we shall be talking about our vision for the school over the next five years – at least no one had mentioned ‘blue skies’ thinking.

On Wednesday it’s a behaviour management group meeting which at least has the advantage of being off school site.

Thursday sees the Year 10 Parents’ Evening.

Friday is booked with a meeting about exclusions.

The following week includes tutor meetings on Monday, a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss the reorganisation of schools in the city, Year 9 Options Eve on the Wednesday, a senior management meeting on the Thursday with nothing yet planned for the final day of the half term (yet). Teachers are meant to be committed to no more than one hour of meetings per week according to union/government agreement.

Right now it’s inclusion time. There are six students in the inclusion room today for refusal or post-exclusion along with a further 3 who have yet to complete drama coursework and working with me as I try to support the drama department in getting coursework finished.

I have just been given the English mock exam papers from this morning to mark so I ought to make a start with them now.

It is so cold!

Joe was off to amarch in Oxford so after dropping off for the coach at 7.45a.m. I took Rosie out for a brisk walk at Potterne as Glen was playing a friendly match at 10.30. The birds remained largely the same as previous weeks with Goosander, Coot, Canada Geese, Teal and the Heron. In addition there was a Greylag Goose mixing in with the Canada Geese.

Despite the watery sun, it was freezing cold and there were very few people about. By the time Glen played it had warmed enough for the ground not to be frozen but it was still very chilly. The game was a good one with the teams sharing a 3 - 3 draw.

Dictionaraoke.org - The Singing Dictionary

Dictionaraoke.org - The Singing Dictionary

On the same programme, this site was featured. Listen to 'Rock the Casbah' by The Clash. I'm sure everyone will have their own favourite.

[DAVIES] Variation in English Words and Phrases (VIEW)

[DAVIES] Variation in English Words and Phrases (VIEW)

I thought this sounded interesting as I listened to it on the radio on the way home.

Interestingly, well to me anyway, teacher brings up English as the most frequent subject word associated with that noun. Maths was way down the list of subjects indicating that it was less valued in everyday chat.

Detention time again

Here I am sat with the students in detention although almost all of them are fariyl infrequent visitors to the room. That appears to be the result of the number of exclusions recently and the impact that is having on the classroom. I have been told by quite a few teachers that things are better in the classroom. It really is having an impact in respect of better behaviour and fewer instances of refusal.

For the second day in a row I have not excluded anyone! I've been getting on with marking the mock exams which at least they've made an effort with, while trying out a 'new' joke.

A man goes into a fish and chip shop with a cod under his arm.
He asks the man behind the counter if they do fish cakes and is told of course we do - this is a fish and chip shop.
Good, because it's his birthday.

Arctic Monkeys

Reasons to be cheerful one, two, three.

Great album from the band Alison describes as having a singer who sounds like George Formby.

I haven't excluded anyone from school today.

The English mock went well today and the students made a real effort.

I'm going to be greedy and add that Plymouth Argyle won again and look like they're going to move out of relegation trouble with new manager Tony Pulis.

Will we go for James Hayter from Bournemouth?

You couldn't make it up!

Picture a lunchtime in a room of young people with their teacher. For a variety of reasons but mainly due to exclusion, they are in for the day and away from their friends. The teacher used to teach the brother of one of them and has a chat asking how he is doing. The reply is that he's ok but wasn't very happy with the police coming round to ask about a stolen car the other day. Suddenly a very small 12 year old shouts out, 'F***ing C***s!'

The rest of the kids are shocked. Their exclusions were for far less shocking swearing than that and in a rush the boy realises what they are talking about. What is going to happen to him? He swears again and promptly bursts into tears.

He goes outside and begins to bang his head hard against a glass door until ushered away. He slumps to the floor and cries harder as the lunchtime comes to an end and students clamber up the stairs.

Now the boy is well known for his attention seeking antics and he proceeded to tell me the mention of the police reminded him of them coming to his house to question him about an elderly couple who had been attacked and frightened by a lad and had suffered heart attacks as a result. He had sworn because of the terrible memories evoked by the mention of that word.

From then he locked himself in the toilet, collapsed in the middle of reception, hid under a table, ran into community and sat with a group of adults, none of whom had heart attacks fortunately, cried and cried and eventually tried to log onto a bank of computers with the words, 'my mum hates me and I want to die.' This did not give him access.

All the while I was trying to deal with a lad who had called his teacher a turd, another boy who had claimed to be sick and been sent out, a girl on work placement who had come back into school for something do, a lad in a strop because the teacher was picking on him, a parent who had phoned to find out about her daughter's exclusion, get a PE mock exam for another student and a KS3 Science exam for another one who had missed the test that morning. In the meantime a librarian had come down to ask me about another teacher she felt was behaving strangely with some students. She had told him so too and I had to go and check what he was up to. (He's on supply and arm wrestles the naughty kids to get them to behave! He is over 60 and little!)

Having promised to go to a drama lesson to help the teacher get the students moving with their coursework I was unable to get that at all. Having promised to get away for a new front tyre I left after 6 again and will have to wait for the tyre.

But it's all good fun.

Sunday football and dogs

A Sunday full of dogs either chasing in the woods as seen in an action packed picture or football as seen in more action packed pictures or a dog resting on the bed as if she were the queen of all she surveyed.

Glen's team won 6 - 0 and are closing in on promotion at this rate. He is coming on in leaps and bounds which is good for headers of course.

Thirty plus have just resumed a new league season and we managed a less than deserved scorelss draw to begin with although it is our best result against this team. It really was backs to the wall stuff. A new player, Gaz, was introduced to the team and we defended virtually the whole match. There were many references to Ravanelli taking me back a few years as the short grey hair betrayed my ageing physique!

School - 5 excluded today - when will it end.

Schools reorganisation - emergency staff meeting tonight with details to follow. This is a thread worth following to see how democracy works or not. I'll look to explain tomorrow.

Yet more pictures of birds and Rosie

More bird pictures

I liked the one with the Canada Geese with their heads submerged in unison. There is a male mallard above along with two goosander and two tufted ducks.

Bird pictures

This morning's walk brought a buzzard flying off, some teal (lots in the end!) which I was watching when a flash of blue showed a kingfisher. It perched in the tree which you can just make out in the second picture. Below there are shots of black headed gulls, heron and canada geese. I'm going to put on some pictures of tufted ducks as well which I haven't seen before.

Website feedback

My friend who has a liking for The Passenger suggests that some aspects of the additions to the page are not too clever. I could not agree more. They are a waste of space. I am going to get rid of the entertainment news (I'd never click on them myself so why would I expect anyone else to?) and the day in history links (the same reason as above although at leats they are a little more interesting but only a little).

I like the poll though. I think that's clever but I guess it will never get used much even with a more interesting question. The poll that gets me is the ITV teletext poll which I haven't seen for along time but always used to be so predictable. For example, should hanging be brought back no 3% yes 97%. Is tax too high no% yes 97% and so on. Is it only reactionaries who read ITV teletext?

I like the stats counter too. There are some people reading this.

What a way to spend the week

School - don't you just love it!

I got to school at 7.20 yesterday morning, left at 7.05 in the evening and was in bed by 8.00 feeling completely knackered and more than a little unhappy. Is there any other job that can be so frustrating and yet so rewarding?

It started with the usual pre morning meeting arrangements of compiling lists of who was excluded, who was in inclusion on report and so on as well as providing details on the previous days incidents for Heads of Year and moved into the morning meeting. Immediately I had to deal with an exlcusion resulting from a confrontation during registration. Having called the father he was able to come into school virtually straight away.

I should have been teaching but I ended up missing the entire lesson (poor cover supervisor looked after them and gave up after a few minutes of trying to read a short story). After an hour and ten minutes we decided we were not going to agree on the exclusion, they felt the school was over reacting, I was going to support the member of staff. Everything got brought into the meeting; a phone call last year when the receptionist had been rude, the lack of school recognition for his swimming records and so on. Despite that it was an amicable meeting. The parents (both came in showing great support) were very reasonable in the way they talked which is not that common unfortunately. Often the meeting can become heated.

As a result I was late for break detention. I picked up a young lad who wanted to die and was in tears. He told me he couldn't trust anyone and had had enough. I calmed him down and took him to his tutor.

My next lesson went ok but I was distracted by the earlier events having had to exclude another student for telling a teacher he wasn't 'going to that fucking thing.' The teacher referred to in the statement was not at all happy. My ability to concentrate on the nuances of poetry was limited.

A hectic lunch with students in inclusion and on report accompanied by a trip to the canteen which I took having all the while to ask kids to remove their jackets was followed by a lesson with another Year 11 class. We looked at 'Tichborne's Elegy' and 'Song of the Old Woman' which went fine in preparation for the mock exams next week. Three students were sent to my class at that time due to poor behavour elsewhere, including one who had been sent from a previous lesson. In fact I'd had to leave my class to get him.

I signed reports after school and returned coats I'd taken earlier before making my way to the duty teacher detentions. I spent the hour writing paperwork and preparing for the management meeting that followed.

That lasted two hours giving me the chance to complete follow up phone calls. By the end of the day I'd been involved in excluding 6 different students! The one thing that raised my spirits by that time - I hate putting kids out as they miss out on their education and for some of them it's what they want - was being told that the classrooms are a lot calmer. I don't know how true that is as it's early days with this behaviour and respect push but it is a lot of hard work.

I was awake at 5 this morning and in school for 7.15 to begin it all again. By 9.00, two more lads had gone. I'd had to investigate one incident further from yesterday and given the teacher's comments (the lad had said 'fuck that' when asked to leave one lesson and go into hers due to poor attitude and work) and then dealt withan identical set of circumstances moments later. The difference today was that the lessons didn't suffer and I had a wonderful time teaching 'On the Train' by Gillian Clarke. It lifts your spirits when people begin to explore things with greater confidence. It really does seem to be coming together now as it tends to at this time for Year 11 with exams on the horizon.

My after school post exclusion meeting went fine after initial disquiet expressed by the parents for the length of exclusion and the accusation of repeated swearing ('You're fucking cheeky' the first time followed by a return to the lesson to accuse the teacher of lying and saying 'this school
is fucking shit' and 'I won't be coming back to this fucking place') we eventually saw eye to eye entirely. The appointment I waited for until two hours after school didn't turn up but it had been a better day. The two hours in inclusion with 13 students were fine although that is far too many and way beyond what it was intended for.

Hopefully I can get all the essays I have carried around all week marked this weekend. I want them done tonight so it could be a late night.

Changes to the site

I have spent a little time of late trying to look at ways of developing the site having found out a way to discover where people are viewing from. I feel much of what has been added is cosmetic and actually not that useful but want to give it a go for a short while. I've added: -

a calendar (anyone can add to it)
entertainment news (heavily biased to the US)
what happened in history (not sure why other than I could)
a poll (which I am interested in)
a visitor counter (proudly standing at 0!)

Any feedback would be appreciated but I imagine most of it will disappear fairly quickly - we'll see.

Visitors from Romania, the USA and Singapore have read the site or more likely ended up here by accident and quickly gone elsewhere which I find amazing. Of course my friend was pleased to be recognised in a recent post and has moved on to lyrics from The Damned, more precisely New Rose which is, and this is such a weak Damned joke I apologise, really neat. Neat, neat, neat.

I understand from another email that the blog can be read using RSS which I have to say I don't fully understand but don't appear on counters. They are news readers apparently but whether they are any good I don't know. Perhaps someone could let me know.

Lots of meetings at schools today and lots of time devoted to mp3 players, not allowed but ignored unless on in class or corridor and not to be searched for if lost or stolen (same as we do for mobile phones), coats which aren't to be worn in the building, who intervenes when students are underachieving in their learning and Year 10 Parents Evening.

Exclusion meetings today went well with the girl who refused to cooperate last week returning meek and mild today and in tomorrow. The other one was very sad with the boy not coming. He'd been to the doctor today and has been referred to psychiatric evaluation suffering from manic depression. His needs are way beyond our abilities to deal with in school.

I am reminded of a parent several years ago who I knew pretty well. He was coming to school for a meeting with me and I heard he's been sectioned having been roaming the streets brandishing a samurai sword! It was a visit I remember feeling quite anxious about.

Stick Cricket

Stick Cricket

This is a great way to waste a few minutes. The most I've scored off one over remains 34.

Big Garden Birdwatch 2006 - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Big Garden Birdwatch 2006 - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Last January, nearly 400,000 people spent an hour watching their local birds, collectively recording over 6 million birds in more than 200,000 gardens.
Our next Big Garden Birdwatch runs on 28-29 January 2006

Anyone else going to take part? I'll record what arrives here for comparison with the local and national picture. I won't include the rat, although I've not seen it for a couple of days.

To be honest I haven't been at home in daylight since Sunday!

Appeal to Governors

The week started with a difficult meeting to discuss an excluded student's return to school with the boy and his family claiming, with some justification I feel, that the exclusion was unfair and expressing concerns about the lesson and the fairly chaotic nature of the class at the time the incident took place. I ought not to say anything about the incident itself but the student returned today and feels aggrieved by what happened. Given that the matter is going to the Governing Body, I find myself wondering how rigorously we ought to enforce the sanctions which follow other students returning to school.

The next meeting saw a student return to school with his father and totally refuse to accept what the teacher said was correct. Again he claimed to have been the victim and was completely unwilling to engage in any discussion. Having just joined us in Year 10 from another school he did not seem to care about anything we wanted to talk about and was excluded for a further period of time pending another meeting. His father said virtually nothing during the meeting.

On the other hand things have settled this week with fewer exclusions and fewer people in detention. We shall see how that develops over the next weeks and months.

In lesson we read 'Snowdrops' from the anthology recently and have been looking at the ideas in the story including the use of symbolism and rebirth in nature and in our lives. As she wrote her response one girl was concerned about the boy killed in the motorcycle accident being taken to the cemetery to be buried. For some reason she became fixated with the idea that the boy had not died because the snowdrops come back and so must the boy. Which is fair when you consider the use of the flowers as representing a wider message but incorrect thus demonstrating how literal some people can be and how you cannot make assumptions when teaching.

One other thing I ought to mention is that I have been looking at the layout of the blog. As something I only wrote for others to read in the family or perhaps friends and as a means of almost keeping a diary, the appearance and layout wasn't that important. However, I have been looking at improving the look especially when I see other blogs. I just don't know much about it. I see the links have slipped to the bottom of the page because they are too long I imagine and that is perhaps something I can work on. I have inserted the site counter and was pleased to see people do read this! Even if it is completely amateurish and not very interesting to anyone but me

It has even been viewed from the US! I wonder how people end up here. I've also been getting emails from anonymous quoting The Clash which isn't a bad start. Nice to get feedback - isn't the internet interesting. If anyone has sites to read let me know and I can add them to mine too.

Figures since Sunday

Total
39

Average Per Day
11

Average Visit Length
3:41

Last Hour
1

Today
5


This Week
34

Weekend

After Glen's training Saturday became a day of DiY with Alison painting the bedroom wall which has just been replastered following building work and myself putting togther bathroom furniture and putting it up. We have a new corner shelf unit and bathroom cabinet which give a good deal more space. Joe has been home too although he spent Satruday in Oxford on demo. I don't know where he gets that from! Actually it is long time since I went on a march - perhaps I ought to get more involved again but time is so tight and so are my energy levels.

The week at school was as hard as ever finished off with a couple of post exclusion meetings one of which cancelled and the other simply saw the exclusion extended as the girl decided she was not going to accept she'd done anything wrong and continue to argue withe the new Head despite her mother's pleading.

I am going to look at ways of changing the look of the site - I don't quite know how that is done but there must be a guide somewhere on the blogspot site - and to keep updating regularly as much as anything for creative writing purposes later in the year. For some reason I got to thinking about the book I wrote ten years ago which I believe is festering in the attic somewhere and quite fancy looking at again

Two things to mention before going: -

• listen to Arcade Fire and their album Funeral. Read about it on Radio 6 site and got it. Excellent stuff.
• read the Kiterunner which is gripping especially at the start with the description of the friendship between the two boys. It becomes a more standard novel thereafter complete with all the loose ends coming together but nevertheless was a more than worthwhile read. https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747566534/qid=1137344567/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-7901850-3644406

Potterne Lake part 2

I just wanted to have another picture of the fox and the swans as mentioned in the previous post. The final picture captures (almost - not very clear really) the heron while in the foreground you can see the goosander upside down searching for fish. There are black headed gulls in the bottom right which are yet to start developing their breeding plumage. I almost sound like an expert don't I!

Having filled the feeders in the garden I have seen plenty of birds enjoying the feast of options, great tit, long tailed tit, robin, blackbird, goldfinch, jackdaw, collared dove, wood pigeon, pied wagtail, sparrow, dunnock, starling, wren all visiting. However, a less welcome guest has appeared in the front garden, a young rat wich seems to be coming in from next door's garden through the hedge to feed on the spilled seed. I won't be putting any out for a while now to discourage it. In all honestly it is running along right where the cat usually sits all day!

New stats counter

I hope this works. It will allow me to see how many visitors I've had. Perhaps I can celebrate when it gets to double figures!

Potterne Lake

You will see from the photos that the walk from Potterne to Moors Valley while Glen was at football training was full of wildlife. The kestrel was about on both the outward and return journey as was a buzzard which I didn't get a picture of. The swans were with four juveniles from last year's brood I imagine. They were relaxed and didn't come at me even when I was right at the edge of the lake. A couple of moorhens were about and feeding amongst the mallards and a flock of about 70 canada geese. Along with them were a few goosanders, a species I had not seen before. At the very back of the lake was a heron stalking the margins but most interesting was the flocking together of the geese at the edge of the lake. I wondered what they were all being drawn to and noticed emerging from the scrub a healthy looking fox. I got a few photos of it and it certainly noticed the flash going off. It looked over for a few seocnds before continuing on its patrol leaving the geese to spread out again.

Tired

Sat in school supervising the detention and feeling very tired after watching 'Lost' last night in its double bill finale. With the ads taken out it could easily have been one episode and serves to highlight just how good sky plus is for removing that waste of time.

I am losing count of the number of students excluded following the arrival of the new Head. As a result inclusion is busier than ever with the returning students working away from class prior to reintegration.

One Year 8 boy has been here all week and must be getting fed up hearing the same jokes although the following went down well judging by the class reaction.

Mike, an avid golfer, was teeing up for a very difficult shot. At that moment a funeral procession went by. Mike stopped, stood still with his hat over his heart, and bowed his head. His golfing partner looked at him and said, "Mike, that was kind and decent of you to show such respect for the dead."
Mike replied, "Well, we have been married for nearly twenty years."

Rumours

With the arrival of our new Head, rumours are rife with students swapping scare stories about how strict she is, and the staff aren't too different either. The following is true!

A parent rang to demand an explanation from the school as to why the girls had been banned from wearing bras in PE by the new Headteacher. Her daughter had been told that this was going to happen and had refused to go the lesson.

In our first mangament meeting of the new term we talked about so much that we didn't finish until after 6.30. following which I still had to make phone calls excluding two students and tackling a case of bullying. I left after 7.00 and found that the road was blocked by a bad accident which meant I wasn't home until after 8.00.

Roll on the weekend.

Kids are back

Having agreed an amnesty for reports etc with the start of the new term it was a pretty horrendous day for a first day back with numerous students out of class for refusing to do as asked and even the inclusion room, which started with 6 students, was problematic with only 3 making the whole day. The others were excluded for causing further problems.

A parent has phoned to ask if I know anything about American style boot camps to send her son to as he has been awful over the holiday and hated his presents and everything for the two weeks. She is at a loss to know what to do next.

Mock exam preparation is well underway and I have a growing pile of coursework to mark.

Teacher Training

After a great Christmas break it was back to school today starting with a drumming session in the theatre to reawaken us all with some significant changes in staffing, not least of which is the new head.

As ever the main focus of the day ended up as meeting after meeting, coaching, Humanities, management, Year 10, Year 11, Work Related Learning and English followed by meeting with parent and student. So lots to talk about and lots to do with mock exams on the horizon shortly before coursework deadlines and exams. This is when the school year really speeds up as if it didn't go quickly enough already.

The bad news from yesterday was that Plymouth Argyle got thumped at home to Leeds after a brilliant Christmas for the team. They were thoroughly outclassed after a fairly even first half. Perhaps we'll beat them away.

Deer and Pettys

The Petty family minus Stuart visited between Christmas and New Year and we took the opportunity to have a walk on one of the coldest days of the year. We looked across to Horton Tower but did not see any deer that day. The pictures of the roe deer are from New Year's Eve in the afternoon when I took the dogs out. There were five of them in the field quite some distance away but they had heard us and can be seen looking at the three of us.

I didn't think they were found together in groups but the link to website indicates they do sometimes agther in groups of up to 14. I have never seen five together before.

http://www.deer-uk.com/roe_deer.htm