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I've retired Cheers, D.

A few old pals are driving up Wednesday and staying locally in cottages....I've been before and had some good craic,. but nowadays I find the shouting, hollering and showboating to be a tad noisy and sadly predictable Spent a lot of time around traveling folk,....you get good and bad in most groups of people....I've some exciting memories and humorous anecdotes to remember,...and for all their failings,.. the tales of the genuine Romany Ryes,.. are never dull..

Air rifled Partridge and bit of pheasant from last December. Tates, carrots,onions,green lentels,garlic,and a little bit of chilli and black pepper. Thats the last I think so roll on autumn/winter

Cod and Chips. Cheers Arry

This weekends get away. Only one night as I was working Saturday...... again lol. Good craic

My mate and I bought this lurcher off the p***y’s on Newcastle Town Moor in 1972 for £20. Thats my mate, by the way, not me ! They said it was a “staghound”, deerhound/greyhound. It turned out to be one of the best lurchers I’ve ever seen, and up to date is the only one I’ve personally seen that took 100 rabbits in one night on the lamp. So yes, it IS possible to get a good dog from the gypsies. Cheers.

East London isn't the UK there's sharia courts in operation and witch doctors advertising death spells and suchlike, these people bring their mindset with them, remember Adam the torso in the Thames boy trafficked here to be sacrificed? These people don't think as we do.

A few lads I used to know would make the pilgrimage every year. Load the lurchers and/or Bedlingtons into the pick up towing the caravan and after signing on would send their family holidays there. One of the few times a year that the dogs got out of kennels and the caravans moved out of the street.

Bacon n tom x3 on buttered bread no sauce for a main meal.

Few pics from out & about these past couple of weeks,these pic's are all took on Canon dslrs,either a Canon 1D X or a Canon 7D

There’s “travellers” go every year from Sunderland,the closest they come to being real travellers is they watched my big fat gypsy wedding and moved round the corner from their mam when they left home.

Got one of my leaving cards here.......

Been 2 arrests 1 for the milkshake incident and 1 for assault on an emergency worker

You wouldnt say that if you was after down under driving lessons, stuck another shrimp on the barbi lol

I have heard it can be a spectacular event though in all honesty i have never felt the urge to go and part of that is down to the shite and destruction some of the travelling community have left behind when they have camped up on public parks and football fields near me on their journey to Appleby.

Me and my pal are camped at Alston right now , pulled in yesterday, traveled up every year together for last 20 years , camp at Hexham first night , carts bog 2 nd night , Alston for two nights then on to ousby , 90% of lads that travel this route have gone straight through to Appleby, evidently there is a field opened up early close to the fair ? So the town is rammed already

Audley Harrison won a gold at the Olympics !...........amateur boxing is,amateur.

Hope the little tart who threw a drink over Nigel will be charged like anyone else

I sympathise Ray, not sure many dog walkers would want my two. They are Jekyll and Hyde, going from sweet as you like to complete psycho for deer and unfortunately cats, in fact I had a similar injury to you earlier this year when they saw a muntjac, I didn't , and they pulled me so hard it wrenched my knee. After seeing a physio I used a brace with hinged metal struts and all was good after about 6 weeks Photo of my male whippet exactly as you describe, great fun for a bit of racing but loads of stress hunting as he has no concept of danger. Also at 36 lb he can pull like a train

Not a place to take a dog; hot, crowded, and idiots wanting to buy your dog. I’ve never taken a dog with me, far easier without one. Cheers.

I will have a look at both of those mate thanks,I was in the gym at 5am today and did 5km on the treadmill,as we get older we gotta use it or lose it.

Silly c**ts what the fucks wrong with youngsters these days......just kick the shit out of him and move on....standards are dropping at every level of society.

If we are now going to pretend that Wilder won a non partisan,legitimate world heavyweight title and wasnt just gifted a belt to ensure America still had a heavyweight champion then its worth remembering that Wilders best win was a 73 year old Luis Ortiz.....and in turn Luis Ortiz best win was an almighty struggle with Charles Martin......a man Joshua sparked in 2 rounds.......kind of puts Wilders career in perspective doesnt it......Wilders career is the biggest fraud since the Wba ranked a dead fighter 11th in their rankings for crying out loud !

Ffs Greb

3 babies dumped in parks. b*****ds aren't human. I hurts me after losing my only granddaughter to something ultra rare. My lad trying to adopt jumping through all the hoops all the ins and outs its unbelievable. These scum dump 3 kids like a pieces of litter. Cheers Arry

As shark says one is panic and hysteria, but two is the fact they created the problem themselves by making it illegal to keep them as house pets in the 70s but never made it illegal to release them until the 80s though I do think there have been cats here since ww2 at least, mascots zoos and circuses were all subject to meat rationing so easier to let them go, the government department MAFF, now DEFRA actually employed a guy to catch big cats there is a trap called the Aldridge trap on the permitted trap register that he used it is still on there and the reason for using it states to capture l

Did the same when we was teenagers, bloke bought a local closed church….showed us all round and he had installed an indoor koi pond in what was going to be his front room ! Still had plenty of work to do and I didn’t have the heart to tell him we had nicked all the lead off the roof a year back ! Lol

Never knew Frank Zappa was into his dogs. Good man!

Bump

His first trainer was a pal of mine training out of a gym i know well so i saw a lot of him early on Daniel had all the physical attributes you'd want in a young fighter,explosive fast,light on his feet....but a bit later on i saw him have a few spars that didnt fill you with confidence..... he was like a little boy in a mans body,his father was an absolute pain in the arse but someone Daniel naturally looked to in any kind of uncomfortable moment he was always a shy kid really unsure of himself and it was hard to watch at times.....personally i dont think you can put in what nature left out a

One is a collie greyhound, big lad at 25 inches, much bigger than two other first x and heavier than a 3/4 cross I had. Refused to chase a lure for 3 years until I got our Whippet and now he doesn't want to miss out Whippet is ped out of a dog called Stig, unfortunately he's a little too big for ped racing but we have a lot of fun at club and country fair lure coursing. On timed dashes he's one of the fastest, interestingly in same event Whippet x greyhounds of the same height are often quicker. Probably the reason mine are muscle packed is my wife and I run canicross with them, it

Strewth mate ya don’t want to be caught by a candy car in the top end if the anchors on ya shopping trolley go hot cos yer a hoon,right?

Son stayed last night and gave me this he had found not sure wether to have it on a long staff type stick or a shorter walking stick, I like and use longer thumb sticks for tracking up hill but only use a walking stick when I appear in court to appear old and frail lol nice little piece though

As Greg said the big cat stand, good area lots of activity around Kendal and up on the hills around thirlmere lots of good witnesses came to the stand including a lad that had shot one reported it to the local authority’s who turned up took the body from him and told him if he reported it he would lose his fac indefinitely

Can’t see where this is 200 quid a meter, now I know it’s all random lengths and you just lay Yorkshire stone in random lines but at keepdiggin said it just looks like Indian sandstone and I can get that in about 12 different sizes for a quarter of the price and would of looked similar when down

Long, long ago, I had a very good black non-ped whippet called Pot Black, 23” and 45lb; my mate had a black, non-ped whippet called Silly Rocket, 19” and 30lb. Anyway, your aforementioned Sunderland Greyhound Track had a time trial Open meeting on for whippets, with bookies in attendance. We, of course put the smaller, lighter dog in for the time trial, then swapped it for the bigger, heavier, far faster dog in the race, and even though the handicapper still just gave us scratch, we knew we were on a winner ! We put everything we had on it at 3-1, and it won by a distance !

Rich people:don’t think , or not like us normal folk do ( that’s what I’ve found )

This week. Think I will go but it's not as good as in the past. For a start they are going to close all the pubs. There's always a bit of disorder but it seems a total overreaction to me. The fair must bring in many thousands of pounds to the town. In the past there was always a whiff of chaos in the air especially in the evenings. Nowadays the place is crawling with police and RSPCA personnel dressed to look like cops. In the past you could take a punt on a lurcher pup or buy chickens or goldfinches. But I haven't seen livestock for sale for a few years. However I'm still going. M

Thanks Breeze I'll pass that onto my Mrs,I dare not take any credit for it's well-being or I'll get a verbal whooping matey pup was 10 month's old yesterday,hopefully it's of some use in the near future

I have never said anything different buddy me personally I thought the wallin fight should of been stopped with furys cut I also thought McDermott won also but being honest uysk and his camp have conducted themselves like champions with respect to the sport and modesty to the furys

We put a greyhound bitch to a top class stud dog which broke records all over the country. Result,all pups were duds. Waste of money for the stud fee. The dog we stopped, but subsequently won a race and got us into trouble, accidentally caught a young bitch on its first season. She was only 9 months old. Result a litter of crackers some of which went on to race at open level. We just didn't appreciate how good he was. He could take a hare too and always ran better after a kill. We kept him until he was 13.

I had a couple of results with the whippet and greyhound match racing so the money came out of the winnings ; Cheers.

Some Lamb chops and some new potatoes just dug from the garden. Cheers Arry

My Mrs has a lttle 'velcro' whippet . If she took that to the fair, some sod would distract her, grab it and sell it on. I cannot understand why folk drag their dogs around agricultural shows and fairs. Or why they dress in shooting and fishing gear when they are not pursuing those activities. Guess it's something to do with identity. This is me and here's my dog. Not comfortable for dogs at all.

Well well well, the big man Nigel Farage has just taken over the leadership of the Reform party I wish him all the best, they say when you hear Drakes drum a hero comes to save the day well that drum has been banging in my ears for a while now.

speaking of which..........sausages again.......and for you Mel BBQ'ued hampsters next week

Can't believe non of you have sold a wart, licked a lizard on the bog or drunk milk a ferret has left behind. Weird bunch.