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People who are interested in hunting and it's history, that's who. Folk who take up hunting for two weeks before moving onto something else tend to not have any pride in it's history and tradition.

Jesus it was lovely ? The crab got one over me though.... sliced my fecking thumb open, when dressing it ?

Strange to see the obvious Fox Terrier cross being shown, but I suppose that's show BUSINESS. Regarding Drabble being a critic of terrier work I don't think he did too much damage as it had already been done by ' men' with terriers. There are different periods in history (and I can only comment on England) that were regarded as the Golden Years of terrier work. Well, the 1980's can certainly be regarded as the darkest days of terrier work. Certain people with terriers who were a gift from God to the antis. A time when unemployment and crime was rife. The police did not have the resou

Once a year bubble with goose fat roasties, chestnuts honey roast parsnips Brussels peas coupled with suffolks finest bacon sausage and black pudding , it's long gone now after stretching the dog early on , off to meet some hounds might even do a BBQ later for the invasion of the tribe ave a good day all

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Had enough of being indoors with in-laws over Christmas so ran away fishing this morning. Just a couple of hours with a mate on a new bit of river. It was hard going but a few perch saved up from blanking.

Still got enough duck and turkey left for another meal, fancied making a ruby but today she said she thinks a pie would be nice. It's make your mind up time. I ain't stopped cooking this xmas, made 40 sausage stuffing rolls xmas eve, and cooked the beetroots peeled and sliced while she's sitting in her chair cultivating her fat arse and having good ideas about what I should cook. I'm diabetic and she bought me a family sized fruit trifle today 'cos it was reduced, I'm sure she's trying to slowly murder me

The good lady showed me the Facebook response to last night's gripping episode of EastEnders...........did I say "gripping" ? I meant "Oh god, is this 5hite still on ?" Anyway, after Max had threatened to jump off the roof of the Queen Victoria, only to see his 2 daughters plummet to their deaths, the Facebook Stasi took to their keyboards, and had an internet riot........... ...........about Stacey making Max a nice cup of tea - and putting the milk in before the hot water ! What I find most worrying is that these people are allowed to do things like

good and nice words max , the food thing is well was for my old man (stomach cancer ) he couldn't keep any food down, feeling sick all the while, he just went on to water and plane biscuit , he went from 11 st to 7st like bag of bones terrible to see , as ive said before i looked after him for his last 5 months , and you right max the week before he died he called us 5 brothers /sisters , and his own sister to visit him all the same day one to one , to say few words to us all , feck me that was hard for me, as we never really got on , i was the oldest son, we were like

A few pics of my Romeo x Mia Dog

I could slice left over honey glazed ham and eat on toast with mustard for days. Xmas ham is the best part of it all.

Just a word of warning with all this modern technology you can soon shoot out your permission, I tend (unless told other wise) to look at managing numbers rather than a total wipe out to a point were they find it difficult to recover, this way the population can still give you an enjoyable day/night shooting with a few in freezer and keep Mr farmer happy as well.

Fiesty little buggers

There are a lot of doubts over wether Lord Orford did add bulldog into his line of coursing dogs which reached its pinnacle In Czarina. No actual records exist of her breeding. Orford, like many, was known to be loose with the truth when it can to self publication. He did however start the first coursing club at Swaffham. So if the myth IS true, its them bull x lads that have brought about this bloody ban.

My mam got me a fake Hugo boss jacket! Proper replica bro!

Take off speed you won't beat a whippet

Ask someone who lives in his local area, he wasn't a friend of the poacher, terrier man or anything else unless it paid his bills, myths and legends Neil.

Phil Drabble

I got a £70 gift voucher at a local gun shop. A national trust ticket. A new tablet and a fantastic christmas day shared with my family. The wife, the daughters, their husbands , the grandchildren and the dogs. I consider myself very gifted.

No need for apologies. At the end of the day conservation and all forms of hunting go hand in hand. Phil Drabble through his books showed us that by hunting we can also be the guardians of those animal we pursue. He always wrote plenty on the country characters who were adept at catching their quarry because they had studied their quarry. Men like Phil Drabble and Bert Gripton would turn in their graves if they seen the so called hunters who use gadgets to kill a lot of animals. They'd shake their heads in dis-believe if they seen the likes of night vision and electric fox callers. Rightly so.

This year was as poor a salmon run as I’ve seen in near 30 years on the river ...imo we are seeing the effects of storm Frank and the damage it done to you fish and redds and I think next season will be worse but Mother Nature can heal itself and we will continue you do what we can on the river to help her my biggest fish from last season around 15lb what a scrap on light tackle

Managed to get out for a few hrs this morn. I set a few mole traps for a farmer and helped myself to a bit of hazel. Nows the time and best of all it’s free .

I've seen it happen. These are great bits of kit and make life very easy but I do fear too many sport hunters are/will use these simply to get more. Then they need more permission and do the same again. I suppose the same was said when lamping was invented... you really can steralise ground with this new technology though, it's not progress.

Someone was going on about coronation street other day,I relied I've not watched since bet lynch was a barmaid so probably 30 years ago ? Dont do soaps last time I religiously watched soaps was either neighbours/home alone when I came home from school or brookside early 90s?

Who cares

lol ,,,its blurry.....

There's a pic on my wife's FB somewhere of me pissed up in a tiger skin onsie an it's blurry ?

just had a english...with half the bubble....handsome it was..

Must say my bubble was a little different this morning... Yesterday I couldn't stand the thought of her fcuked up boiled sprouts on my dinner so I cooked them. Steamed them til half cooked in some chicken stock. Finely sliced 2 smoked rashers and half a large onion and sweated them down in a skillet with butter. Then added the sprouts and the reduced stock and cooked on a high heat until the stock was gone, lovely stuff. Leftovers were mashed together with duck fat roasties, roast parsnips and roast carrots, fried for the breakfast in bacon grease and butter and adorned with a soft fried

Years of practice I don't use a poacher just drop em in a pan of slow boiling water not bubbling water turn it down so ther just barely boiling , once they in give them a min to form white then lift them off bottom of pan , another min or two they done

Keep saying it, because there are a lot of doubters out there.

Rita, sue and Bob too.. on dave.

Well. They are the best... Dont anyone doubt it x

Red dots just something I happened to have in me kit bag, had it on me twenty two 15+FPE lightning before it got broke didnt know it was that at the time course. In all honesty, struggling getting anything below 1 inch at the moment at 22 yards. Cant see the target to be fair. Will have it apart in like 2 weeks for a clean. Anyway. Off to me brothers now for a brew x

I went to a cemetery earlier to see someone.

I think yas right about that when they become popular written history tells us that the czarina was around one thirty second bull the settlers in America also took pit dogs with them from Ireland and England these became American pits in turn they arrived back home many a century or two later. Same animals like has the Irish pit staff just different lines the fecking Comanches weren't breeding them that's fa sure lol, they the first running type pit xes in the whippets were around in the thirties I know this because family members now long gone tell me they used them on greys and

in my wood shootin with 3 mates from 7.30 am till dark with lots of food thrown in. light the fire cook some food do some shootin job done. and if it rains we have a 24ft x 18ft tarp we hang in the trees so nowt will bother us.

A bloke called Whin in Scotland bred the first of every type of Lurcher

There's been bull xes since man utilised running mastiff types maybe sixteen century who know earlier , the pit terriers we now no has American pits were fetched over the Americas with the early settlers some from Ireland others from the other British colonies.they became known has American pit bulls in later centuries ,they nothing but the same has the early pit terriers that were used back the times of old.bull xes hounds have allways been here just not in the vast numbers of say the nineties when they had a boom of popularity fact his any working type animal suffers over time without the pe

lord Orford 1700's.......lol mind bull lurchers being mentioned in old books I read as a kid, written long before 80's

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Kestrel

Bert was old school,..and same as myself, he could not abide fraudster, liars, and users,....and to his credit,... he always made his feelings known... I enjoyed his company when we met, and I've still got a heap of old correspondence that he sent to me, written in his own unmistakable script. How good it was to have his support,.. at a bad time in my life,...Bert Gripton, gone but not forgotten...

I have s fair bit of confidence in this pair doing the job for me especially after seeing mum and her brother and talking to Dave about other ancestors and talking to the owner of the stud used about his work style and the style of his ancestors they were gifted with no strings attached complete with all paperwork not that paper makes a terrier Dave is a true gentleman that knows his dogs and their capabilities

dont hide it, like a dirty little secret, thats what got it banned in the first place. shove it down there throats and feck em

Hope Dave see's this well settled mate and very keen on a fox brush there as forward as any pat pup I've seen

Z

Mate, I know the feelin' Just gotta ride it out.