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i picked up a tiny hoglet one summer a couple of years ago, he was about 3-4 weeks old when i found him, spark-out on someone's driveway and about half an hour off karking it. he was so ill even the fleas had abandoned him. took him home, gave him sugar water to revive him, then fed him on cat food for a few days til i found our local petshop stocked hedgehog food. greedy little bugger, cost a mint to feed. kept him in a box in my bedroom, he'd sit on my lap while i was on the comp, and played catch with a beer bottle top. did a lovely job of getting the fluff out from under the cupboards wh
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whats the funniest thing u have done out hunting
Ossie replied to carp man 1's topic in General Talk
out ferreting with a couple of friends in the freezing bloody cold, went to grab a bunny in a net, lost my footing & skidded into a ditch on my arse, tried to get up again, while rather foolishly having another grab at the bunny, arsed over again, as the rabbit slipped the net & shot over my stomach down the next hole. still haven't lived that one down... out lamping one night with a mate, walking to the next field, i didn't see the bank... but the dog on the other end of the lead did, and jumped off it. cue me doing my best superman impression, landing face down in the mud 6 feet awa -
mum has got a clearview stove in the front room, and a little victorian bedroom fire in the living room. she burns a mix of coal & wood, coal at the bottom to keep it going, logs on top. it does make the glass on the clearview not very clear though! dad scrubs it with a sponge scourer covered in god-knows-what, and he's scratched the glass to buggery! i found vinegar & newspaper does the job beautifully without damaging the glass. but dad knows best... since the back boiler on the stove cracked they've just been leaving all the doors open, and it heats the house better than when th
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no bud this is a coyou. how old is that pic & where was it taken? got a few mates in Coypu Control who'd be interested in that!
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where's Ditch when you need him? anyone remember the "King Rat" competition he started a few years ago? i had to start packing a tape measure when i took the little dog out for a stomp. He'd have had that photo analysed, (and disallowed!) in minutes!
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minority? there's billions of them!
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Don't think you can hide from a law enforcement camera!
Ossie replied to tegater's topic in General Talk
the guy flogging blue blankets must have made a mint... -
Same here mate.....I was asked years ago when the bird flu thing hit Fife. I declined to go on the Scottish news. My Grandad did though. he must have been some age ??????????????? i believe that LAZYBASTARD is subtly calling you an old git.
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got dragged off the streets of norwich & into the Anglia TV studios to make up the numbers in the "Trisha" audience a couple of times. had a small part in a Danny Dyer film a few years ago, that's the biggest thing i've done so far.
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i was brilliant at that kinda thing when i was a kid, made a mint flogging crap at school. out of date fishing glow lights off the army surplus stall at the booty, 10p each, flogged em at school discos for a pound, went home with £60+ in my pocket every time. me & my bro were always getting in trouble for our dodgy dealings. seem to have lost my touch as i've got older... stuck with a 5'x9' persian rug rolled up in my hallway... it'll probably end up in my bedroom...
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spellcheck app?
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because she said one tab once a day which she also stuck on the front of the box. Then i looked back in the box an realised there was an extra 5 tablets. Alarm bells started ringing so i called the vets up an the silly cow just said sorry my mistake it was ment to be 2 tabs a day not one!!!!! so, hang on, what you're saying is, if i understand the above-quoted statements correctly, when you called the vet she said "sorry, the dog should be having 2 tablets a day", you had enough to give her 2 per day, but you're only giving her 1 tablet per day, and complaining about wrong dosages?
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yep, that does it for me too. the train bit reminds me of what happened to a good friends beddy/whippet pups, i find it hard to watch now...
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my best friend is a teacher, and once temporarily looked after a lassie collie that belonged to one of her pupils parents. it was called Tiggy. she used to walk her & couldn't work out why she wouldn't come when called, til she walked the dog with the owner... my friend shouted "Tiggy!", no response. the owner shouted " Here Tiggy-wiggy-woo-oooooo!" and the dog came back. my friend decided to keep the dog on the lead after that, and was very glad when the owner was able to take the dog back!
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one of the mates......we hear ye..... So he p-p-p-p-p-p-p-icked up a penguin.... definitely wasn't me. i just used to get drunk & pass out on the picnic tables outside the pub. far too lazy to cross the road, climb a fence, walk through the zoo, climb into the penguin enclosure, catch one, and then do the whole lot in reverse with a penguin under my coat!
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my lurcher was called Gyp when i got him. the poodle thing was originally named "Tatty" by my cousin, because "she looks like a new potato" . i renamed her Small Dog, because, well, she is. got a ferret called Fatboy, his mum is Noodles cos i picked her up from a mate in the pub, sat with her on my lap trying to think of a name, and some youngsters were being noisy & i heard one of them say "noodles!" very loudly. the 2 young jills are just called "the girls". my cat is Roisin Dubh after the Thin Lizzy song, and her 2 kittens that i kept are Merlin (keeping up the mythical names theme)
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hello & welcome from another easterner
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not one of mine, but a friends lad did this - he woke up in the morning after a night out, walked into the bathroom for a piss... and was greeted by a penguin sitting in the bath. turns out he'd hopped the fence into the local zoo the night before, and nicked the penguin. panicking, he tried to release onto a lake in the middle of a local town, but there were too many people about. so he took it to a field near the zoo he'd got it from, let it go there, then went to a phonebox & called the zoo with a "sighting" of their missing bird...
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why name bullx/staffys after heavy weights and gods
Ossie replied to martync1967's topic in General Talk
i remember when the default name for staffies was "Bonzo", and "Diesel" was for staffies/rotties/gs or any mixture of those -
oh god, where to i start? got chucked in a boating pond in a park, woke up the next day with me eyelids stuck together, conjunctivitis... trod in a molehill & f****d my ankle up, just drank more to numb the pain, went to a rave & danced on it. had to cut my boot off the next day. went to my old landlords NYE party, drank 4 pints of red wine, woke up the next day the wrong way round in bed, wearing a jumper i hadn't seen for 6 months, mud all over my face, cuts all over my hands, one boot on (found the other one on top of the ferret hutch) and the dog looking at me with a very worrie
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why name bullx/staffys after heavy weights and gods
Ossie replied to martync1967's topic in General Talk
my dad has got a staff called Tyson, he was called that when dad got him. i've always called him Tyler or just Ty. i think it suits him better. dad got him a spikey collar... whenever i used to walk him, i took the collar off my lurcher & walked him with that on. partly because the spikey collar looked ridiculous (more like something Freddie Mercury would have worn on a night out) and partly because it was poor quality, stiff leather. comfy old worn-in lurcher collar was much better. my little poodle yorkie thing has a brown collar with brass spikes, but it's just sort of funny on her, and -
not a film as such, but that documentary about Wooton Bassett made my eyes leak a bit.
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oh dear, that made me chuckle! ok, just did a quick google for you, i figure the RHS site will be the best bet for a likely explanation: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=132
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probably just down to the extended periods of no rain. either that or your neighbour doesn't like them, and is pissing up the other side of the hedge...
