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Had a tough day out in the mountains yesterday,weather was kind if nothing else & that's a bonus for sure! I'm sure age has a hell of a lot to do with how difficult I'm finding walking in & amongst the high tops these day's..I'm not going to lie it's becoming nigh on f###ing impossible for me to enjoy a days mooching about up there ?.. anyways,it turned out not too bad in the end,what I have realised & i have to admit I had a tear in my eye is that Boots is all but finished now,he has recently seen his 9th birthday & like a good friend of mine told me yesterday if a dog at 9 ye

Last night's scallops, smoked bacon and black pudding tagliatelle. Pic doesn't do it justice 11/10 Cheers, D.

When Ruby had not long seen her 14th birthday we took it upon ourselves to walk the Lairig Ghru drovers path right through the heart of the Cairngorms,the path reaches a height of almost 3000ft & is surrounded by some of the highest peaks in the UK including Braeriach,Cairn Toul,Angel's Peak etc & we done it on what was the hottest day of the year,no shade & the temp was in excess of 30c,the distance covered was 23 miles,she walked the whole route in one day & in human years she would of been over a hundred year's of age..as we were walking towards the Linn of Dee in the evenin

Gave it a clean last night 93yds

Not guilty on all accounts.... chits going to get crazy ?

Decided to try for some rabbits last night , even though its a full moon it was cloudy and windy. The shooting was very challenging in the wind shooting off my bipod sticks , I was blowing about all over consequently I missed a few. I had to really concentrate and did eventually settle down pulling off some decent shots. Eventually though the cloud cover cleared and it became daylight putting a halt to the proceedings.

I live in Cumbria..if you ain't prepared to travel 2-4 hours away you needn't keep a dog well not if you want to test it anyways,that's how it's been for 30 years now..barren of gear in the vast majority of places up here..200 mile plus nightly trips I done 4/5 nights weekly when I lived for the hours of darkness..I can never understand all this 'if only you were closer & it's too far away' sh##e,we live on a tiny island where you can go from north to south in less than a day in a car ?

pizza for me tonight was delicious

Just an update, not had much chance to edit and upload any photos yet as I literally haven’t stopped. Wednesday I hunted podenco xarnego valenciano in the actual valencian orange groves which was nice, we had 4 rabbits and one was released. Yesterday I hunted Rehala again and we had around 50 reds and 30 boar with both dogs and guns, great day. this evening I am meeting with and having a meal with the president of the Rehala association, think he wants to understand my intentions, suss me out type thing. tomorrow I hunt Rehala with him for the first time, it was tough saying go

No pressure me owd bod ,chill out 10 month is young , give her a break and try again ,she be fine

Thankyou,I miss my Ruby matey as I'm sure you do your Nell..life's not the same for me without her here that's for sure. I've had some great dog's over the year's & not all running dog's but Ruby was the best of the lot by a country mile..on her final day with me I wrapped her up in my shirt & travelled to some of our favourite places here in the Lake District,we parked up several times & I had the craic with her reminiscing of days long gone,I'm not gonna lie I broke my heart I did,it was our last adventure together,i took her to the vet's on the way home & had her put to slee

Never gets easier,no matter how many times you have to do it??

If this sort of thing doesnt open peoples eyes to how white English people are the most racially abused group in existence then nothing will..........how clear can it be,the rape of white children by Pakistani men has been ignored and brushed under the carpet for years,yet a Pakistani man being called a nasty name is bringing down Western civilisation as we know it !!!

I remember being in the same position a lot of years ago. 12 month old bitch, one or two runs on the local fields most nights on rabbits that were more clued up than me with the lamping game. Then a old mate of mine took me lamping on some rough ground, edge of moorland type land an hour away and the bitch caught 12 bunnies on her first night, missing very few. she never looked back and in my eyes, at the time,became a champion in one night? Go, travel and find some easy kills for the dog?

Yesterday's sausage dinner... 10 vedge count on there!! Had the air fed welding gear on today.. suction is on a belt pack straight above your arse. Any methane that you release is instantly sucked up a pipe and blown through your helmet right into your face!! Excellent!! lol.... Today's home made quiche... without the paistry ffs. Our Doris is a fully fledged member of the fat club... aka slimming world. Acti fry chips, normal and sweet potato. Decent plate full but i still had the obligatory 2 slices of wholemeal bread because i'm a greedy b@stard!!

Nice post Andy...? Every time this happens to me,...(and it has occurred many times, over my last 60 seasons...) I am always reminded of Kipling's words... He wrote,..."Never give your heart to a dog to tear"...? A canny piece of script,...but we never learn from it, do we.... Onwards and upwards, Brother,....all the best, stay safe, OldPhil.?

corned beef pie and homemade scones with cream and jam?

Right lads and lasses after Sunday I will have 3 door panels and 2 middle panels to go.All 5cm gap and 3 insulated terrier of spaniel boxes which a 3ftx2ftx2ft £500 the lot pm me if interested as near Durham cheers.just thought I would offer them on here 1st before I advertise elsewhere

Pre shoot day feeding this afternoon and the dog walkers show no sign of letting up, but I suppose it’s just something I’ll have to live with as if this was private land we as a syndicate certainly couldn’t afford to shoot here, the birds are looking in tip top condition now and were heading back to the pens when I arrived mid afternoon, I’ve made a little plan of what drives we’ll be doing tomorrow but they are not set in stone so I may switch things about a bit, I left just after sun set and over in the west was a lovely orange sun set and to the east was a very bright full moon rising over

Boils my blood too , disease should never be used as a control mechanism. Imagine the countryside absent of rabbits, would be a sad day , fortunately the humble bunny is very resilient and has still survived with everything thrown at it.

Colin Pitchfork, who raped and murdered, ( or murdered THEN raped two fifteen year old girls, we were never told), was released on parole a few moths ago, has been recalled to prison for breaking his parole conditions. Who whould have thought it..........? Well, just about everyone except the parole board. Cheers.

You know the saying you can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink. We'll that goes for man an dog too ffs. Why do posts always end up like this more about who knows best.. Let him learn by his mistakes we've all been there.

Don't be daft that was fresh at 11 pm....it's the dinnertime spliffs that keep the weight off?

Tried my bitch at 10 months old lamping for the first time...she did well tbf...she didn't have another go for probably 6 months....if I'm honest she was not really fully matured imo until she just turned 3...now she knows the craic and what's expected of her in the day and on the lamp,don't be in a rush with em,they are all different,how's she bred? My bitch was from 2 half X's ,big old unit so didn't rush her along like previous dogs ?at 10 months old she looked ready for most things....

I hear the argument for a £6 knife over a more expensive/ custom counterpart. They do the same job , they cut , what more do you want ? For what it’s worth, here is my opinion . I have had every knife on the market and use knives every day working as a gamekeeper and deer manager . The knife that I use on all my deer now was made by THL member Riohog. It is of simple design with an orange handle . I keep it razor sharp ( you could literally shave with it ) . It’s not a pride of ownership thing as really it’s nothing to look at , it’s pure functionality , it’s all about the quality of the steel

That's proper grim that is

Don’t expect a reply yet , people of a certain age will be in bed having Ovaltine or horlicks ???

Aye he was 9 on the 1st October bud.. year's have flown by they really have ? ..this is his normal these day's

I bet if the both of you had to do it all again you wouldn’t change a thing. Looks like he has had a good life and done you proud. Wise words from your friend. I once carried my dog into the vets and someone commented on the extent of his injury and called me irresponsible. Vet turned to them and said “this dog does what he’s bred to do and has a great life doing it…..what’s irresponsible is having an overweight Labrador like yours that’s never walked off the lead ?.

Come on Kev. You've been on here long enough to know that nobody is going to pay £6 for a knife when thry can pay £150 for one that does exactly the same job.

I'm sure everytime I comment on a thread or create a thread it's turns into a war of words between some folk. Thanks to you all that dropped some advice on here I shall as always take it in and continue on this experience with my pup. Now please feel free to continue ribbing/slating or just generally hating on each other as it provides me with something interesting to read whilst I'm supposed to be working.

I think I’d be having more of a look at the Prime Ministers wife Shes an animals rights nut……I don’t think old Cummings is too far wrong when he insinuates she is writing policy these days.

Just the antis chancing their luck with back door legislation. It might work but has always failed up till now. Its coming though.

It's a roll! A bread roll!

Juckel still a puppy and You expecting to much from it and if it was mine I'd have it out ferreting , Running a dog on stuff to young only frustrates them and that in turn could make a yapper Everything will click in place for the dog and you ,I got a old dog here didn't catch a rabbit until gone 18 Mt's but he took most stuff single handed and turned out one of me best , Atb

Good to hear D..on a side note I'm the world's worst whinging ar##hole ?..even my niece's call me Uncle Grumps ?..I still have old Don here,Fenn too,Boots about finished & Bear who's had the broken neck so I spend most my time tending to them geriatrics so find time to be out hunting far less than I once did but I'm content being a 'part timer' if I'm honest these day's.. honestly I don't care whether I'm successful on a hunt nowadays or not,I just enjoy being out & seeing a few bits & bobs wherever that may be in the country ?

Great pics as usual Andy, bad news about the dogs but I always say "as long as we keep outliving them....." Anyway really good to see you putting the big posts up again. Keep going ? Cheers, D.

Plenty of time be a different dog in a couple month at least wait till the moon fecks off and some wind

Fair play

believe me or believe not my friend, i had a tear in my eye when i read about Ruby, i enjoyed your posts about that little dog, it really creased me when i took nell to the vets and they put her to sleep, but it would have beeen utterly selfish of me to have kept her as she was cushings disease got her in the end , but i no deep in my dog loving heart i did the right thing by her rip Nell

If we could flick a dual switch all them insulate would be nicked and all the nice folk crossing the channel would hit a tidal wave that returned them to the place of origin but carlsberg don’t do dual switches ? if I made switches well the list is endless lol

This is Duchess brother out of Boots x Fenn and there's at least one there pretty much identical to him ?

Soon gone quiet about this terrorist attack on the media though the claims of racist banter at Yorkshire County cricket club is never ending on the news.