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Well that was a night of two halves! Never started this late in the season, but for one reason and another that's what happened. Cap, I knew she wasn't work fit but didn't expect her to be this bad, never known her this bad. Only one from about five runs, so brought her straight home. Gus on the other hand.... I decided this year to try to keep him lamping even with his HD. He's fit, and the fitter I can keep him the better he will be, but I know there are limits so I decided I'll still take him out, but limit him to 3 runs only each time. I will of course assess him each time and if I

Old photo from back in the day little 19tts hybrid whippet, surprising what they can bring to the party.

Just coming 9 months old now

I was reading yesterday that Blair accepted £ 100000 from an anti organisation, LACS I think, which helped Labour win the election. Part of the deal was that he agreed to push though the hunting with dogs ban. He says he now regrets it. Cheers mate! We forgive you, just like the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis who were wiped out partly on the basis of a lie and a dodgy dossier. But the reality is that the country is now governed this way. Policies are decided by he who pays the piper. And many tory contributers are foreigners. What are they getting in return? Or more like it what

Got a couple of pheasants on the smoker today, gonna finish them with a maple syrup glaze, they'll be used for cold meat

If your into curry’s mate can’t recomend this company enough, tastes just like shop bought but I choose to use nice cuts of meat not roadkill or other people’s left overs the little sachets are from the advent Callander, but the tin has 4 blended pots and a book inside you can make over 50 different curry’s by mixing different blends of the 4 pots

Bred for bushing and mooching.

Just had a really nice brunch,the Greek feta/olive omelette was superb,bitterness of the olives kept hitting in.And triple egg florentine on fried onion and spinach sourdough.

This was how Bear was every single day for a month after breaking his neck then another pic of him as he is now,I never went to bed for 30 day's,I turned him over every 2 hours to prevent him getting sores but he still got them,he couldn't stand to clean or eat/drink..I fed him by hand & squirted water down his throat 6 times within every 24 hour's to prevent dehydration,from how he was here,then thought his recovery & learning him to stand & then walk to how he is today is quite remarkable really. He is disabled but he doesn't know that I don't think. He can jump anything again no

Not really cooking. Well received one of these as a Crimbo present today through the post. Going to enjoy eating it after ferreting tomorrow. Cheers Arry

At least its a streight line sid. lol

Village is getting took over by blacks pakis and gays, even gay pakis

Here's Boots on one of the many occasions I've worked him until almost his last breath,the dog has no quit in him,Bear & Rose his pups are exactly the same,all these dog's would lay their life on the line & die trying for me. None are world-beaters but they are trier's & I have no qualms in owning such dog's. On this occasion I travelled over 1000 miles,in fact it was a 1037 mile return trip to test Boots. Within 30 seconds of him exiting the car on arrival at our destination he proceeded to run flat out into an unseen ditch chasing a beastie, honestly when I got to where he was, h

Toad in da hold tonight, proper winter food

Lil story from the other day Just finished up some stuff on one of my projects, decided bubba ( term we use for people who will take a really nice gun and just do really stupid shit to it , usually with he help of a hack saw ,Dremel and some duct tape ) too had already took it 80% there might as well finish it up with a half decent rattle can paint job. So yeah touched up up a little and honestly though it looked pretty decent , better then what I was when Dad first draged it out the closet to show me. Its m1917 in 30-06 that had a butcher of a sporterizeing job done to it, just plain su

The Houses of Parliament spent 70 hours debating going into an illegal war with Iraq. They spent 700 hours debating The Hunting Act. Labour MP’s openly said it was not about hunting or animal welfare, it was about “ giving Tory toffs in red coats a bloody nose”! Blair has admitted it was a badly thought out law, but he had to do it to keep the left of his party on side so he and Bush could go to war . The vast majority of people thought it was just to stop fox hunting, they had no idea it was to stop almost all hunting with dogs. MP’s of ALL sides lie continually

That red un's a handsome looking dog.

Cancel culture?

Roxy..she's a 5/8 Grey 3/8 Bull & is the dam to Bear & Rose

Worse part of the game for the likes of us is getting home

Bear at 10 month's old with his sire Boots.. without splitting hair's Boots is 5/8 Grey 3/8 Saluki & the dam of Bear a bitch we have here called Roxy is 5/8 Grey 3/8 Bull so Bear is like his sire in that he too is 5/8 Grey but with him being 3/16 Saluki 3/16 Bull compared to Boots just being 3/8 Saluki

Immunotherapy is working! Tumour reduced from 23mm to 16mm Cheers, D.

liberals and the left ruin every country they are in the power of

Watch out for the bounce back when Man U demolish the scouse tomorrow. Revenge will be ours after last season's 7_0 drubbing. Our new 70 million striker will finally score his first premier goal. A penitent Sancho who also cost in excess of 70 million will humiliate the scouse defence. Rashford will rise from his comotose position and actually score or contribute and Martial, that eight year can't_ be_ arsed_ to_ run forward will awaken and take the kop by storm. Even Onana our wonder keeper will show how modern keepers can play the ball and dance his way from goalmouth to goalmouth before sc

Got me brother a decoration for his tree hope he thinks it's as funny as I do lol

Same story up here in Cumbria Daniel,every word you wrote there I can resonate with,a few rabbits appear locally each spring/summer & word spreads fast & every fecking idiot is out lamping them or ferreting them even shooting them, come winter there are no rabbits to be seen nor the summer hunters either. It's always been the same around here,loads of lurchers,whippets & terriers,I could count on one hand the people that do anything with them,the only ones that do have travel to work their dog's the rest of them you will bump into at the shows saying how there's nothing around them

Normally have saute potatoes...but always have black pudding on a breakfast

When someone spots a few rabbits in the Valleys..the word spreads.. and they get wiped out by the masses...same story for the foxes...you get out in the snow...and theres 20 sets of boot marks around every earth,where they been running a terrier through them..too many dog lads in every village...you want sport for your dogs,then you travel...closest place for a few rabbits to run or bigger edibles ....is out past Monmouth way or over the bridge...been like it all my 44 yrs on this planet...if you have terriers and dig, there's plenty to go at in Wales....thats if some other cnut aint gone on

Yeah…. I fuucked up, oh God did I. I got the crab claws back mind, apparently I left them in the freezer of a local bar. Tracked ‘em down like a fuucking bloodhound

Hey up matey,hope your keeping well yeah my little Pom was like my shadow for over 15 years,I still miss her every single day,she always lay on the back of my chair as if sat on my shoulder,her ashes reside in that exact spot here on my chair,I have lots of pics of her around the house. We had some unbelievable adventures over the year's we did & like you say she lived a fulfilled & long life,the best companion & friend I've ever had. Merry Christmas & all the best for 2024

Just thought I'd share a few pics of my mongrels from some of our most recent adventures..

Yeah I can recall the bull whippet you had quite vividly Paul,was a cracking wee dog for you she was,I can remember you taking the dogs out with the gun one day & out lamping the next. One thing's obvious mate & that is the dog's left you with a lifetime of memories,no one can take them away from you. Sometimes I wish I was 30 year's younger & some days I wish I wasn't even here because of fooking pain,I'm not sure if it's the dog's that keep me going or if it's them cnuts that have got me knackered like this,what I do know is that I can't give the dog's the work I once could. I'll

They are definitely ticking all the boxes these days lol

Much nicer mate. Also like fried mash spud. Cheers Arry

I did manual work all my life a popped a disk 3 times and pulled muscles in my back many times. Last time popped I was ferreting didn't want to kneel down in the rain bent right over pop gone. It is extreme pain. Laid in bed for 3 or 4 day pissing in a milk bottle and cant get comfortable. Had Diclofenac pills from the doc and co-codamol but its still hell. What helped the most was getting a new good firm mattress IMO in my case an Emma. Cheers Arry

Seen more meat on a butchers pencil

It would be good to see Tony ferguson steamroller him , be nice to see ferguson get a win

Cheeky b*****d, don't skip leg day pal. Look at these beasts.

This was Rose after snapping two bones clean in half back in February 2022 whilst out working. She has a metal plate the whole length of her leg now right down to her wrist but unbelievably she came back later that year when the season started in phenomenal form. She had to return to the vets to have one of the screws removed but other than that she's been grand. Rose was the smallest pup in the litter & no one wanted her so I decided just to keep her & she's been worth her weight in gold to be fair to her. Very tough little thing,she's about 26tts & just over 30kg,she's hardly got

I'd like to shake your hand my mate, but I can't, so from afar, I pat you on your back, a truly good dog man

Dad,lad & daughter out & about yesterday at daybreak

Hope your keeping well Phil,I've just finished reading one of your books AGAIN,whilst reading it I was wondering how you were keeping,I'll never forget in my early year's of keeping running dog's & reading your articles in the Lurcher Journal & the then called Shooting News & taking it all in. I took heed of much what you wrote about & was always intrigued by the collie curs you kept back then. When I got my first heavily saturated collie cross I hoped above anything that it could do some of what yours did,all these year's later & I still have old Don here,the last of my cu

I hate to break it to you mate. But one day your dog will kill itself. Big, fast, driven dogs that are good…. That’s what happens. We’ve buried three good dogs last three seasons. Also had one retire through injury whereby she smashed a leg, one luckily make it back after collapsing a lung and damaging her diaphragm, and one impale herself through the eye and have partial vision. It’s sadly the nature of the game if you run fast driven dogs on fast game. Sucks but there’s no way to dress it up.