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Some pals went ferreting today and got 10 decent rabbits, dogs marked well and ferrets worked hard in some old deep warrens, A fair bit of digging and some young rabbits about again, all in all they had a good day out

Some cracking pictures, and locations. I get it big time, i love waiting for dark on a favourite sea trout pool, wildfowling or rough shooting with my dog Celt.

Poverty caused by tory austerity. A deliberate assault on UK citizens. The UK spends a fifth less on health when compared to similar countries like Germany ,Spain and France. That adds up to a sicker, population who die earlier and whose babies weigh less and have a shorter life expectancy than other comparative countries. The average UK citizen spends around 32% of their income on housing . It's 20% in the rest of the EU. UK Workers have f**k all in the way off sickness benefits and employment protection. Our economic model..rampant, f**k the weak and damn the poor c

Everything that's been mentioned above,is the Main Factor,in why I'm doing my damnedest to sell off everything and move us onto a boat to live full-time...it's a step away from the Control and Restrictions of living in a house,in a town/village and being surrounded by people you absolutely detest...

Wok out tonight for a Chinese style meal. Chicken in a sort of Arry Chinese sauce Lol with Egg Fried rice. Cheers Arry

Gammon and sausage for breakfast..

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

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

Malvern hills on Saturday. Upto Worcestershire beacon.. the highest point in Worcestershire. Cloud inversion and a Broken Spetre too!

At my happy place today, quickly fed the birds, put the bike away and went for a walk, no rifle, just walking and watching. Watched 7 fallow just browsing through a forestry block and a cock pheasant and a squirrel having a scrap, didn’t see a soul for over 3 hours

Sunset down the river... Yokel

THL General forum membership is conditional on being a miserable old feker. There's strict unseen vetting . Post male menopausal, bitter, carping, teeth grinding, frustrated geriatric whiners. It's who we are.

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

The Councils don't give a f**k....if they paying the rent and the rates on time Charts... explains why you can Rent a Bank/weather spoons pub/Social Club etc and ram it to the hilt with plants ....Everyone from councillors to private landlords only care about the coin ....the police ain't interested so long as you ain't rocking the boat...easier to give a few kids on their electric bikes shit,than sort out the blatant countylines drug gangs in every f***ing town and village....never seen them, unless you went to the big smoke....now abduls your friend ,local folks line up for a haircut and 3

I saw one the other day,donate so african girls fathers don't marry them off at a young age and they can continue school to eventually become doctors and engineers,NGO charities are just milking the terminally stupid.

Feck me lads, I'm self diagnosing here and I've got about 5 years before I pop it at this rate.

Remember charging £25 for the pup's i bred out of my two dogs and gifting a couple to mate's at the time. It was also the time when the shooting news was the number one magazine paper that also had a huge impact at the time on the lurcher world.

Nice walk before tea and good sunset

Was there ever a more ridiculous statement than: ”Well, it’s better than (insert place here)” when speaking about decimated towns and communities in the U.K. ? I just had a flying visit back to my old town, 2 years since I was there and oh my word !!!! The town used to have every little shop going, fishmonger, sports shop and shoe repairs, hardware/ironmonger, fruit and veg, clothes, butchers, florists….everything. It was very working class but British, locals and ex Londoners displaced after the war. But it was well kept, decent folks, access to countryside….just ordi

Manchester United 0 — Newcastle United 2. How can I not go to bed anything but ecstatic? LOL ! Cheers.

I don’t think so; I reckon Prime Minister would be his ultimate dream. I prefer him to all the other lying b*****ds, agree or disagree with him, at least he gives an answer not a swerve… and he supports hunting , shooting and fishing….he gets my vote ! Cheers.

There's a few in britain, apparently.

Admit it. You are just sulking because I told you Fury was a Sumo lookalike joke and you've wasted your money on him again. One bad decision is understandable but twice is a sillybilly

Absolutely mate, it was going badly wrong 10 years ago but in the last two the mosque turned up and the degradation is on another level….it was a case of just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it just go so much worse.

We called in at Cleethorpes recently and my daughter got this in her happy meal.. place gone down shitter big time..

Did you travel back in a De Lorean, driven by a bloke with wild eyes and even wilder hair Wilfy mate ? Two years ? All the high streets and estate shopping centres haven’t been like that for the twenty years I’ve been back home. Turkish barbers, Vietnamese nail bars , vape shops, American candy shops, charity shops, that’s all there is now. Cheers.

It's a mountain saluki ( igneous whineypants)

I think a few of you might like this little film...Mac..Bushrumager etc

I like companionship, but I like my own company and wild places more. I wouldn't have minded being a trapper. But I would have two or three squaws in my log cabin for home comforts. I would be careful not to learn their language or let them learn mine. Too much earache.

They were the days I bred a couple of litters of whippet×collies . Never even got as far as posting the advert to the Shooting News but thanks to its influence I could've sold the puppies several times over just by word of mouth. Inevitably most went to people l knew ; no money changing hands ,just the promise of a good home . I still am a shxt businessman

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

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

Mi fave Bill is.

That’s me on a roll now. Another pet hate is the massive increase in TV ads for charities at this time of year. It’s fcuking relentless.

I don't think its being miserable old fuckers Juke. I quite happy really, more happy wondering around the fields, hills and Moors. Its just the super markets and in town the public sort of wind me up walking around half asleep or in a day dream. I'm happiest out with the ferret with a mate or detecting. Most I have met off here are pretty much the same and get on great because we are similar, its all the other fuckers in the world we cant stand Lol. Cheers Arry

Einkorn...the first wheat species humans ate...the gluten in it was different..

I sure I have put this up before but be tolerant of me you do tend to repeat yourself as you get older. Right did a ferreting job for a Guy that owned a bakery, not your average baker all Sour dough and healthy kinds of bread. Well we done the job and got talking about the field he wanted to grow old fashion grains. He explained that modern grains had evolved faster than our body's can cope. He asked me if I suffered from reflux? Which I replied yes I think its cheese. He then asked did I eat White bread? Yes again. He then said try Granary bread. He gave my mate and me

The lass? Lol

It's a good read mate though in a different time about a male man eating leopard that terrorised the territory it roamed for years killing over a hundred people . One part in the book tells of it entering a dwelling were 3 people were asleep side by side and it took the middle one without the others waking. A lot of the natives of remote Indian villages it target believed it was some form of devil and not just a leopard with a taste for human flesh.

The most cardio you’ve done this year is reading that post !

always pisses me off to see other people's nice kennels set ups lol

Bygones

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