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In 2018 I was going through a bit of a rough time after work most nights I took the dogs out on the local hill and started building this I don’t know why but I think it helped my sanity

I'm 59 and fortunately still in good health, be lying if I said i didn't have a fair few niggles but I payed rugby for 20 odd years and gym four times a week (mixture of strength and cardio) and do about 50-60 miles a week around the local hills with the lurchers. I could dial it down a bit but where's the fun that lol. Seriously thinking about doing a few Hyrox competitions in'25 to get the competitive juices flowing as I love a challenge. My life motto at the moment is "age is not an excuse to get old." so I intend to squeeze the most of life whilst I can. Iechyd da

Out with the dogs and shooting with the camera these days, too fat and old to work them much anymore . New little pup off some very diluted collie lines I used to work and breed with not to shabby results back in the day

Thanks mate, he deff would have put. Stamina , drive, good coat/feet ,had good 8 years lamping would run all night. Never blanked , had deer, foxes, all solo few hares. And good bags of rabbits in 8 years of lamping,ticked the boxes for me. But now he 12 year old, eats well just plods on now nice steady . Got little woody as well the jack x chihuahua thing he 15 year old, and stubborn little prat lol. Like been said on pup post lurcher sec.i not going to get another dog till Buck gone . Got keyhole surgery this Friday on my right knee , so no driving for a week, and try after

Went just outside town yesterday to feed the birds,saw three different species of woodpecker including a pileated which is maybe a foot and a half long,I could hear it then saw it flying from a tree it had been hammering so couldn't get a pic.

Well storm rolled though knocked the power out , don't seem nothing too out the normal buuut since my lil generator didnt seem to wanna work at first ( seriously test the dang thing monthly and was doing just fine ) it's arst in crafts time... Pretty neat what you can do with some kinda wick ,oil and a container. This case paper towel coconut oil and a mason jar..the. Late night YouTube survival videos coming into play Next thing on the list , new Coleman lanterns fuel , and more candles... Also something to make better wicks because these paper towel ones go kind quick lol

Tough few days...one of the kids just had this..

Roast beef tonight, I needed this after being dragged around every furniture and carpet shop in the land

Local drift, and road work More magpies than you can shake a stick at

Grabbed an hour with the Looper earlier, laying a lead part on top of a rhythm loop I recorded...just something simple to start off with

Shot the long nets three times for five rabbit and two of them buggers we had to dig. A farm track trying to get the pins in was a right b*****d. Still good to be out. Cheers Arry

No mate I did have a bit of lovely lovely in it though a few years ago

Hey up chaps, several operations, followed by amputations, stroke cancer loss.of two dear wives, mum dad sister brother all passed, but I'm still standing, 81 years of age in may, clambered over a 5 bar gate last neet , eh. Get on we it

9 yrs old and with a gammy leg but he tries and that's enough for me

No worries mate there was a lot took in by his books regarding lurchers and their breeding. I remember the second litter i bred out of the two dogs in my profile pic during the time I was on strike as the previous litter had produced some handy lurchers and a lad who had booked one gave me back word as he said he was going to go to Hancock for a lurcher pup instead and pay more than triple that i was charging for a pup out of two honest pot filling lurchers that really helped me and my young family through the winter of that strike.

They are getting there now can’t wait to get them up the mountains on a good hike.Ive had them out mooching so they are getting a few scents into them

I just thought sundarbans because of the surroundings,I have seen mugger and gharial in India and Nepal but never saw an actual saltie though they are there.

coffee no sugar Kefir greek yogurt with Manuka 2 slice sour dough bread with peanut butter home made chilli con carne with white rice pint of organic milk 3 scrambled eggs all I’ve eaten today, no more shite for me.

Jaguars those are, and they hunt caiman which are related to alligators, impressive as hell aren't they.

Nice walk before tea and good sunset

Thanks mate I've had offer on my bungalow, and accepted it. This 2 bedroom bungalow in south staffs , as no chain,so that's good , if like it put a offer in. The people my end would like to be on before March he said something about paying more stamp duty after March. So if it goes OK in south staffs for me, you never know I could have just before March. So the next couple weeks with knee Op and poss buying this other place, going to fair bit of stress I have to deal with, but I need to move now, and make fresh start with my remaining years head of me.

Didn’t that nutcase turn Muslim

Just on my own, that can be in a field or at home, my missus doesn’t understand this, as she likes to be with people and to talk

Just by the answers in this thread I can tell its not just being out the woods and wild. It's feeling it all as you walk your way if you get my drift. I see people in bright clothing out for walk a chatting (Loud) never taking it all in or feeling the very essence of the nature they are in. I believe thats why we are Hunters we sort of tune in and you cant take that out of us. Cheers Arry

It's been a terrible week for aviation, although it appears as though one crash is suspicious, I don't like what I'm seeing with Boeing. I think it might be Cornwall again this year. South Korea plane crash kills almost all 181 people on board after suspected bird strike NEWS.SKY.COM Footage on South Korean television shows the moment the plane carrying 181 people skidded off the runway and... Crashed Azerbaijan Airlines plane was damaged over Russia 'due to shooting from the ground', says president NEW

Was expecting a walk.out with a farmer friend last night, I've been out we him a couple of times, I get my eggs off him, but he'd had a few bevies, so he never came , but tonight he picked me up we his dogs, and we was out about 3 hrs, slight drizzle and by the time I got home, i.was well.soaked, but nowt a towel.didnt put reet , I really enjoyed missen, he's a decent bloke, we couple of salukis, 1 pure 1 cross we a greyhound , and boy can they motor

If you know anyone in eastern Europe would be my go to of pay for a prescription from vet ask for two years worth or whatever they'll give you and order online maybe from multiple sellers....

No Neal ,l haven't heard of it . Do let me know if it's interesting please. There isn't a great deal about them apart from the description of then being hard dogs and rough workers compared with collies . I can vouch for both. Imagine a dog that sleeps on the lawn in the pouring rain. And imagine having your sheep rounded up by a canine version of Lemmy . I wonder if it mentions the WS's amazing ability to gleefully encase itself in anything wet,muddy or smelly . Philip Larkin? Cor that is highbrow. He was good in the Darling Buds of May though .

Got to agree with you on line breeding is the way to go. The lad at the show was more or less going on what plummer had wrote and going on about Hancock bred collie lurchers would be a safer bet. The type i kept i then outcrossed them to saluki greyhounds that produced a few handy dogs for roe deer and the odd fallow as well as killing a few hare's .

i would kind of agree mate lol bitza i’d call them scatterbred lol i’ll break it down for @mackem you have a quality female plant to replicate it do you A . find a close relative with simailar quality’s b. get a load a male pollen from ten different males and throw it all in the room and hope for the best lol

Yeah I agree. I got a couple of these for a tenner ish off Temu and stuck em in garage and at bottom of garden in kennels. Just in case of emergency. Cheap as chips .

Bushy it's actually very nice. Try 2 whole eggs and a tin of sardines in tomato sauce , 12 mins in airfryer and a perfect lovely tasting omelette. I just like them with the curried mackerel.

Eh?Golf is the ruination of a good walk,it doesn't even equate to archery,it's just hitting a ball with a stick isn't it?

Yes mate,we didn't come home with bugger all, but rabbits ain't there quarry

Ahhh... that was probably me mate!! I very sorry!! Lol..

64 in January. Still able to climb up and down cliffs etc. to get to marks for sea fishing, still walk miles with the dog. Have to make noises when I get up off the chair though.

Had mine at the beating today

Madam, I find abbreviations so very vulgar! Why did you use the abbreviations 'you're', 'it's, 'TV', 'we're' and 'dont'? I am a scholar and a country gentleman. I hold a first class honours degree awarded by the University of Life. I much prefer and demand : 'you are;' 'it is;' 'Television;' 'we are'; and 'do not' when employed in formal prose. I abhor informal language. We are british. This is our language. We must uphold the standards of the country and the empire. How will savages learn except by example? I beseech you, please, desist from the use of abbreviation in any of y

Keep gooin Bird head up still plenty to crack on with

Pups out today again

There's a little spit of a pond surrounded by hilly ground a stones throw from here that I feel very connected to, caught my first fish there while on my own as a kid, ferreted and snared rabbits with my ole fella and brothers in the hedgerows, lamped it with my first lurcher, dug and bolted foxes with my first terriers all in the little hills surrounding that little pond. A place that has a calming effect that I can easily waste a few hours away in and still do regularly.

Father, mother and sister from previous litter

Sitting outside my tiny caravan in my woodland. I could spend hours just sitting there, and just looking and listening.

Most of the history I've researched myself, does actually suggest terrier and gundog blood, as much, if not more, than collie/sheepdog blood. Who really knows, and does it really matter, as a lot of the lurchers I knew, worked, saw as a youngster, no-one 'really' knew how they were bred!! But many of them were cracking workers, regardless.

After the Storm

7 fish between them so far..

We really are tormented by these unjust law's. I feel privileged to have grown up threw times when catching rabbits was encouraged, proudly walking threw the village as a kid with ferrets and curs carrying my catch, often a car would pull alongside "do you want to sell any of those rabbit's son" Keep it quiet and try and stay out of trouble folks!