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A Mouchers Tale A Lifetime Of Rabbiting - By Phil Lloyd
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 10:45 PM
One of the best books written on the subject IMHO; written from the unique and authoritative angle that only a true professional and master of the game could write - not just yet another re-write of the typical lurcher/rabbiting book style.
Nice one Phil, you can count me in for a copy of MT2 if you're taking pre-bookings :yes:
OTC
Nice one Phil, you can count me in for a copy of MT2 if you're taking pre-bookings :yes:
OTC
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Posted 23 March 2007 - 01:01 PM
Ditch_Shitter, on Feb 4 2007, 09:37 PM, said:
Read this book a few weeks ago now. I've actually been waiting to voice my own opinions as I noticed there were thirty comments. Thirty One's my number so I've been holding back. Now I see TF's comments are the 31st Post? Bugger! :laugh: But I'll be back to stitch in what I have to say, later. That'll make mine the 31st Response to Ian's opener.
Just too busy and distracted right now to really say what I want to. I'll be back later tonight. Once I've had my dinner and got the fires going. Get comfy ..... then I'll begin! ;)
Just too busy and distracted right now to really say what I want to. I'll be back later tonight. Once I've had my dinner and got the fires going. Get comfy ..... then I'll begin! ;)
Well Ditch, did you forget? :D
What you reckon?
Frank.
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Posted 16 April 2007 - 09:18 PM
Went to the basc gamekeepers fair at the weekend,i purchased phil lloyds book,it is a cracking read,it is hard to put down once you pick it up.The photos are excellent,i am half way through it already.Only criticism, is its not long enough :laugh: .Well done phil a very good book.
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Posted 27 April 2007 - 08:23 AM
RatSnatcher, on Apr 27 2007, 12:23 AM, said:
Where's the best and cheapest place to get a copy? :drink:
I doubt very much if you'll be finding any copies second hand! Try ordering from the master himself, or at one of the shows where he might from time to time attend. :victory:
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Posted 09 May 2007 - 10:35 PM
:icon_eek: Bad news, lads! I've just Tonight heard, from Phil himself, that the book is now Sold Out! Wether that means he's sold every copy He had available and there may yet be the odd copy held by one or two Retailers, I don't know. But it looks like we have a Collectors Item on our hands from this moment on!
For those of ye daft enough to have dithered though; My own copy will be coming up for grabs :yes: ~ The Day They Drag Me Out of Here, Feet First!
And now the 'Good' News! My own, long awaited and publicly demanded review of this very book :D But, better than that; This is to be no rehearsed and mulled over, long after the event thing. This, I swear to ye, is (almost - I may have to edit a word here and there to protect the innocent ;)) exactly what I wrote, in private e mail, to Phil. We were having an on going chat at the time and I sat and typed the following soon after I mightily exhaled, having put the finished book down, with tingling scalp!
I can think of no better, more heart felt and honest " Review " than that which I ~ person to person ~ wrote to The Man Himself; My Loooooong Time Mate: Phil Lloyd. Author.
" I finished Enjoying your first book a 'night' or two ago, mate. Ever since then I've dearly missed having you inside my living room again.
Phil, what can I say? I've known ye and known ye ways, in print and as a person, for long enough now mate. You were a f*ckin Legend to the older guys who taught me the ropes. I held you in Awe long before I ever set eyes on ye. Then I gained first hand (and Read!) experiance of the guy ye were behind it all. I've had about twenty five years to absorb, mull over and add to this.
Now I've read ye first book. Un F*ckin Believable!
NOT in the sense that I thought a single word was untrue! By christ, I've kept track mate. I 'knew' enough of it as it happened! LOL! But your 'new' Maturity, mush! Un F*ckin Imaginable!!!!! Where the f*ck did That spring from?!
Phil; I've always been Proud to be able to say I knew ye, as a bloke, 'back in the day'. I never knew ye while ye were knocking over the chat. I only knew ye as that Legend in the days before ye took to that craic. I Thought I'd retained a 'knowing' of ye since last we met, face to face. But now I see how I've lost ye.
Like a lost child ye've gone away - twenty odd years ago. And now ye've burst back in as the Man. This book tells it all! You're barely recognisable to me, yet every inch the mush I knew. Phil: The book is F*cking Brilliant, mate!!!!!
I'm all at once tounge tied, yet could go on for Ever! " Maturity - as a Writer " is the key thing in my mind here that I'm trying to express to ye. Un F*ckin Believeble Maturity! Rose must be So f*ckin Proud of ye, man!
It cracked me up that ye managed to work the word " Ninja " in there! ROTFLMFAO! Beautifull!!! I cracked up when I was typing ye original story about going to meet c*nty bollox, 'Terrier Mouth', down at Thorney, and ye started with the bit about sneaking up on that Sgt. mush like a Ninja and laying him gently to rest ..... Then c*nty turned up and the dream became a nightmare as he started bellowing about looking for ye. Pure poetry! Wish to god I'd kept a copy!
Man, you have got the retrospection of a life lived. You take the piss out of what ye once might have been with the voice of an Older man who stood by and watched it all. It WORKS so f*ckin well!
I've got to Try to stop somewhere here! LMAO! I just can't seem to satisfy myself that I've yet heaped enough praise on ye as ye deserve, mate! I could honestly praise ye all day and night here! Over thirty five years I've known your name - Always a Legend, spoken of in awe by those I knew who'd met ye before me. And ye never let me imagined idea down either.
We're getting older Phil. There'll be kiddies born and growing up today who won't even listen to blokes in our age group. They'll not get to hear of the men who met ye. They just won't understand or appreciate. But f*ck me, if you can keep this up ~ Sod Richard Jeffries! If this world could last another hundred years or so, there'd be people talking about 'That Phil Lloyd' They'd revere the name and wonder amongst themselves; ' Could he Really have been That good?! '
And there'll be a lot of old ghosts floating around them. Tryng to get through. Trying to Tell the f*ckin idiots: " Was He? Listen you c*nts; I f*ckin KNEW The Man!!!
Mates turning their backs as ye started to write? I only ever came to know ye as ye started ye first 'Writings'! Just can't believe how ye've developed since then!
Not a Writer? Don't want to be one? No aspirations to be one? That's you well and truly f*cked then mate! Because, like it or not, that's what ye've become!
'Ark! Is that Plummer I hear, writhing and screaming in his grave? Long after now mate they'll never be able to do to you what they still do to him. He wove a good story. You're just telling it as it Really Was!
F*ckin Brilliant!
Put me down for the next one - and the next! I miss hearing ye voice in my head as I read, already! "
:yes: That's what I told the guy. It was never intended for anyones eyes but his. But what the f*ck. It's as honest an appraisal as I've ever written of Anything. And some of ye've missed it? FFS!
Ye'll know what to do the very moment the next one's announced as being available then! :D
Cheers, Phil. Ye know me, mate: I meant, and still mean, every f*ckin word of it :good:
For those of ye daft enough to have dithered though; My own copy will be coming up for grabs :yes: ~ The Day They Drag Me Out of Here, Feet First!
And now the 'Good' News! My own, long awaited and publicly demanded review of this very book :D But, better than that; This is to be no rehearsed and mulled over, long after the event thing. This, I swear to ye, is (almost - I may have to edit a word here and there to protect the innocent ;)) exactly what I wrote, in private e mail, to Phil. We were having an on going chat at the time and I sat and typed the following soon after I mightily exhaled, having put the finished book down, with tingling scalp!
I can think of no better, more heart felt and honest " Review " than that which I ~ person to person ~ wrote to The Man Himself; My Loooooong Time Mate: Phil Lloyd. Author.
" I finished Enjoying your first book a 'night' or two ago, mate. Ever since then I've dearly missed having you inside my living room again.
Phil, what can I say? I've known ye and known ye ways, in print and as a person, for long enough now mate. You were a f*ckin Legend to the older guys who taught me the ropes. I held you in Awe long before I ever set eyes on ye. Then I gained first hand (and Read!) experiance of the guy ye were behind it all. I've had about twenty five years to absorb, mull over and add to this.
Now I've read ye first book. Un F*ckin Believable!
NOT in the sense that I thought a single word was untrue! By christ, I've kept track mate. I 'knew' enough of it as it happened! LOL! But your 'new' Maturity, mush! Un F*ckin Imaginable!!!!! Where the f*ck did That spring from?!
Phil; I've always been Proud to be able to say I knew ye, as a bloke, 'back in the day'. I never knew ye while ye were knocking over the chat. I only knew ye as that Legend in the days before ye took to that craic. I Thought I'd retained a 'knowing' of ye since last we met, face to face. But now I see how I've lost ye.
Like a lost child ye've gone away - twenty odd years ago. And now ye've burst back in as the Man. This book tells it all! You're barely recognisable to me, yet every inch the mush I knew. Phil: The book is F*cking Brilliant, mate!!!!!
I'm all at once tounge tied, yet could go on for Ever! " Maturity - as a Writer " is the key thing in my mind here that I'm trying to express to ye. Un F*ckin Believeble Maturity! Rose must be So f*ckin Proud of ye, man!
It cracked me up that ye managed to work the word " Ninja " in there! ROTFLMFAO! Beautifull!!! I cracked up when I was typing ye original story about going to meet c*nty bollox, 'Terrier Mouth', down at Thorney, and ye started with the bit about sneaking up on that Sgt. mush like a Ninja and laying him gently to rest ..... Then c*nty turned up and the dream became a nightmare as he started bellowing about looking for ye. Pure poetry! Wish to god I'd kept a copy!
Man, you have got the retrospection of a life lived. You take the piss out of what ye once might have been with the voice of an Older man who stood by and watched it all. It WORKS so f*ckin well!
I've got to Try to stop somewhere here! LMAO! I just can't seem to satisfy myself that I've yet heaped enough praise on ye as ye deserve, mate! I could honestly praise ye all day and night here! Over thirty five years I've known your name - Always a Legend, spoken of in awe by those I knew who'd met ye before me. And ye never let me imagined idea down either.
We're getting older Phil. There'll be kiddies born and growing up today who won't even listen to blokes in our age group. They'll not get to hear of the men who met ye. They just won't understand or appreciate. But f*ck me, if you can keep this up ~ Sod Richard Jeffries! If this world could last another hundred years or so, there'd be people talking about 'That Phil Lloyd' They'd revere the name and wonder amongst themselves; ' Could he Really have been That good?! '
And there'll be a lot of old ghosts floating around them. Tryng to get through. Trying to Tell the f*ckin idiots: " Was He? Listen you c*nts; I f*ckin KNEW The Man!!!
Mates turning their backs as ye started to write? I only ever came to know ye as ye started ye first 'Writings'! Just can't believe how ye've developed since then!
Not a Writer? Don't want to be one? No aspirations to be one? That's you well and truly f*cked then mate! Because, like it or not, that's what ye've become!
'Ark! Is that Plummer I hear, writhing and screaming in his grave? Long after now mate they'll never be able to do to you what they still do to him. He wove a good story. You're just telling it as it Really Was!
F*ckin Brilliant!
Put me down for the next one - and the next! I miss hearing ye voice in my head as I read, already! "
:yes: That's what I told the guy. It was never intended for anyones eyes but his. But what the f*ck. It's as honest an appraisal as I've ever written of Anything. And some of ye've missed it? FFS!
Ye'll know what to do the very moment the next one's announced as being available then! :D
Cheers, Phil. Ye know me, mate: I meant, and still mean, every f*ckin word of it :good:
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Posted 09 May 2007 - 10:57 PM
well put as usual ditch matey sooo glad I got this book its a treasured possesion well done phil its ben well worth the wait been a while since the lurcher year books
all the best
Stoaty
all the best
Stoaty
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Posted 24 May 2007 - 02:44 PM
Ditch_Shitter, on May 9 2007, 11:35 PM, said:
:icon_eek: Bad news, lads! I've just Tonight heard, from Phil himself, that the book is now Sold Out! Wether that means he's sold every copy He had available and there may yet be the odd copy held by one or two Retailers, I don't know. But it looks like we have a Collectors Item on our hands from this moment on!
just been online to order it after reading that ditch. ive been looking for it at the shows trying to save myself a few quid on postage but not going to miss out from what has been put on here, would be a sin to not bother getting it. thanks for letting us know ditch :victory:
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Posted 13 August 2007 - 01:14 PM
Having just read the book after finally reconciling with myself that the only way I was going to get a copy was to actually pay for one :cry: and dipping into the hard earned and ordering a copy
I just have to say that it is a real good tome and one of the best of it`s genre that I have ever read , the book is written in a down to earth style by a man that has walked the walk and really knows his stuff, the book is both factual and humorous and also records the "golden era" of lurcher work in this country, when the lurchers job was to make a contribution to the family table and the weekly budget , when the giro didn`t quite go far enough.
The book also shows a man that respects both his jukels and his quarry and who is happier out in a windswept field, than sat in cyber hunting and talking the talk , the man would rather let his jukels do his talking for him where it really matters in the field :thumbs:
So for any other tight wads like me get your hand in your pocket and get yourself a copy you`ll not regret it , and after all we have got to keep him in his curries and Chianti we can`t expect him to still be chasing rabbits at his age , he might do himself a mischief :D
I just have to say that it is a real good tome and one of the best of it`s genre that I have ever read , the book is written in a down to earth style by a man that has walked the walk and really knows his stuff, the book is both factual and humorous and also records the "golden era" of lurcher work in this country, when the lurchers job was to make a contribution to the family table and the weekly budget , when the giro didn`t quite go far enough.
The book also shows a man that respects both his jukels and his quarry and who is happier out in a windswept field, than sat in cyber hunting and talking the talk , the man would rather let his jukels do his talking for him where it really matters in the field :thumbs:
So for any other tight wads like me get your hand in your pocket and get yourself a copy you`ll not regret it , and after all we have got to keep him in his curries and Chianti we can`t expect him to still be chasing rabbits at his age , he might do himself a mischief :D
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Posted 22 August 2007 - 12:17 PM
with so many hunting books on the market now its easy to think that theres no point buying or reading anymore.however phils book isnt just another beginners guide to rabbiting.
the book is so readable you just dont want to put it down.
if you could only read one book on terriers then its got to be harcombes "world of the working terrier" and now the lurcherworld has its "best buy"
well done phil
the book is so readable you just dont want to put it down.
if you could only read one book on terriers then its got to be harcombes "world of the working terrier" and now the lurcherworld has its "best buy"
well done phil
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 10:40 PM
I have bought a fair few lurcher books and i really enjoyed reading this book, it has great information contained with in and some really exciting stories that are even emotional at times, i think mr lloyd came across as a decent bloke that has alot of information to share and some great tales from past hunting trips.
A definite must buy book for anybody who enjoys rabbiting and lurchers. Top marks a real pleasure to read. :D
A definite must buy book for anybody who enjoys rabbiting and lurchers. Top marks a real pleasure to read. :D
This post has been edited by ad22: 10 December 2007 - 10:41 PM