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Only in the winter of the miners strike when me and the wife and a two year old only got 20 pound a week to live on every rabbit hare pheasant partridge counted not so much to eat but to sell i also took risks poaching that i would have never done if it was not for being on strike i was also very fortunate in having two good pot filling lurchers at the time a mix of beddy/grey/collie/grey.

I can't remember HAVING to catch something to eat because there was nothing in the 'fridge, but I can remember not having a 'fridge.....or a 'phone, or a telly ? I know when times were a little tough, we would sell rabbits around the pubs and clubs, there was allways a market for them back then, or we would steal a box of fish or crabs from the fish quay to sell, but it was never because we were starving, it was for our beer money or to put petrol in the old van. I still eat most of what I catch or give it away. I like cooking and eating game, and it fits in with my hobby, sport, pas

I well remember working on a trout farm back in 1985. Farm went bankrupt mid November, we was out of work being owed a month's wages, Christmas coming up, no jobs about and a wife and 1 Yr old to care for. No help from dole / social. Was out nearly everyday ferreting, watching for the birds going to roost late afternoon so I could come back that night with the pellet gun or Ludger. Lamping every 1/2 decent night or ferreting in dodgy places at night with a full moon. Had a fantastic little dog then , and for 3 months we lived off what that dog caught and what else we could get. Apart from se

remember many a time, when i was growing up in very poor conditions, in real poverty,we always relied on our lurchers and ferrets to feed usand close family, always told never to come off the land emty handed, whether it was rabbits, hares, game birds, timber , black berries, or field mushrooms, it was taken and used , just to survive, all our cooking was done on a fire, and water from a well,always remember christmas, when we used to get a few rabbits for dinner, lurchers would snaffle a farmers goose or chicken, and we come off the land with spuds and all the veg that grew in the fields r

Typical fat white trash hanging around spades, f**k her, what did she expect !

This generation will tell their kids of the hard times they struggled through, having no PS5, having to choose their gender,and the time their WiFi went off for a weekend, different people back in the 70's and the 80's.

"Child that will never meet his dad" Statistically he would only of met him briefly anyway.....

I can't believe this happened...in the film Notting Hill ....Hugh Grant..said it was like a village in London.....

Sunday morning, did my best !

I can remember the 60's and 70's, ferrets, air guns and a motley pack of dogs wandering the blackthorn scrub filled chalk quarries, woods populated with Elm trees or fields with the churring of Corn buntings. In a way hard times in that we didn't have much but saying that we didn't have much less than the middle classes either and importantly we had good safety nets. We lived in a council house for an affordable rent, had a decent NHS with a GP when needed, who would actually come out to see the elderly, everyone had a dentist along with reasonable schooling etc so maybe not so terrible a time

Cheers Arry

great picture ?. I was 18 during the strike, father on strike as well. poached more to sell rather than eat. Good market for it then. few of us used to syphon petrol so we could get to the good ground in Lincolnshire. always took from works vans I don't regret any of it.

What a load of fekin shite he wont be no loss to the music industry that is a fact.

Hardly a budding romance then mate if you refer to her as a spade ffs .

Wtf .I thought one or two posting here were anti ethnics ,now some are cuddling up and sharing recipes ffs .Make your f****n mind up . You either hate their culture and them being here or you are happy to indulge when it suits .For me ,every knifing of an ethnic is a result .Hate the fuckers being here . Get a f****n grip few of you and make your f****n minds up .

Fire damaged woodland to remove

Mooch from Start Point down to Mattiscombe Sands. Around to Pear Tree Point. Lanacombe Side of Start Point. Then Start Bay Side. Finally back to the car park looking down on the only two houses left of the ruin village of South Hallsands. Cheers Arry

Good on you, you done the right thing and you was a part of our history being a part of the miners struggle. I am on strike on and off at the moment nothing what so ever in comparison to what you miners and families went through but I would resort to eating dirt before crossing any picket line.

Those dopey white c**ts in that video should be dragged out and beaten with sticks until they get some self respect ! Anyway, no loss !

If any of you have been to Africa ,you’ll soon realise that anything to alleviate the day to day shit they live in would be grasped with both hands . The corrupt government keep the population below poverty whilst wealth in the extreme lives nearby . Kids drinking out of puddles that a cows just took a dump in ,houses made from sticks and fertiliser bags and people lazing about with no purpose in life . Not condoning the killing of anything but as someone said on here ,if you were offered a lifetimes payment for one rhino horn I bet every one of you would be on it ,those that k

Had a pint yesterday with an old mate, Known the bloke donkeys years.. knew he use to run dogs but never knew how good he was at painting! he’s been asking me to drop a photo round of my runner as he fancy’s getting back into painting, he’s had a rough ride last couple of years and can’t handle a dog any more. he pulled out a print of a painting he sold.. I nearly fell off me seat. he called it the slip, said the bloke at the front didn’t have a hat on and wished he’d put a different one on him. this was the cup

So. I’ve decided to start a new thread for the 22/23 season up at the shoot now as you know I’ve been involved with my shoot for a long time ( 15 years or so ) my intention when I joined was to shoot it a bit, give days to others in exchange for other shooting and to get all the pest control and the deer, ( it only took me a couple of years to get what I wanted ?) never to be a syndicate keeper, things changed properly last year when I was asked to run the full thing, for the last 4 or 5 years I’ve done the majority of the work up there but we always used to share the feeding. Anyway, aft

I don’t know why people make the connection that you have to be rude to be honest and have honest conversations. During the BLM saga I somehow managed to get into an exchange of messages and emails with a well know black university lecturer from round my old way. He is is also a former Labour and Independent political candidate. I spoke completely frankly to him about exactly how I feel, over the course of days and then a couple of weeks….he did likewise and to be fair most of it was the standard rhetoric. I said absolutely everything I regularly bore people here with and I

There was a nice old school pre rave festival in Warwickshire over the weekend,all old school new agers and the dungaree wearing hippie types but anyone had tried to leave a mess like that and there'd been shown the errors of there ways that's for sure....

This is a good documentary over on Netflix .The crowd had enough of the capitalism. Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 review – the festival documentary that doubles as a disaster movie | Television & radio | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM This tense, brisk watch inspires a sense of dread as it lays bare the rape, riots and arson that...

Thanks for the tip @green lurchers, they where beautiful

Just getting a brew today, in the kitchen. Heard a noise. Movement caught the corner of my eye. And, there's the big Dog, grabbing something against the fridge door. I saw a long, black wing and my mind came up with " Bat?! ". Seemed a bit silly, even to me. But, I still told him to leave it. He made a break for the door with it, in his mouth though. I swiftly repeated the command, with a bit more force. He spat it out. On hitting the floor, up it went and shot off out the open door. Straight back to wheeling and diving amongst its mates. Mud huts on their minds. Bon voyage

Exactly mate I remember being at Glastonbury years back and gangs of scousers going round rubbing people.On a couple of occasions Ive been at parties /festivals and had to step in and stop some dirty c**t from taking libities with a young girl who'd over indulged and wernt with it enough to know what was going on let alone say no(both times white fellas.And both times Ive had a knife pulled on me once to try and Rob me it was white fellas They'll always be c**ts wherever you go.

I'm off fishing later so we popped out for a quick walk and picnic. We found parasol, beefsteak and field mushrooms aswell as spearmint, watercress, blackberries and a few other bits.

youve got me reflecting back now matey, best days of my life, boy could i tell a tale, but what sticks in my mind , is going out we a mates manchester terrier called fagin, on a saturday, and coming home we a couple of bunnies, and to see my mums face, cos there would be meat on the table, that will always stay with me

I do remember my cousin being on strike in 1984, he said if they weren't on the picket line, they were in the field, at the allotment, or on the river bank. He said some people ate rabbit so often they haven't eaten it since the end of the strike. Cheers. Aled

Because its fun. Been there loads of times and never got stabbed or anything like. I've been all over and people get stabbed, including the Honky gatherings and Hippy ones. Glastonbury included. People get stabbed anywhere where lots of people drink too much, generally because some drunk people are dick'eds. , , ,

Have you ever tried it?

The pit strikes made times hard for a lot of familys ,my uncul was out poaching when me grandad got called up in 2 war,he left me gran and 7 kids with no income so it fell on his shoulders to feed the family and what they didn't eat was sold , Great pic ?

I know the same people complaining about lack of rabbits and taking 50+ a night on the moors. unless it’s pest control I can’t see any point in taking more then 2

I went up there on Sunday and to be fair everybody I saw were having a good time and partying and mixing together regardless of race.Lets face it anywhere you get a gathering of that many people there is always gunna be a certain few out looking for trouble.

Nothing new to see here lads been going on for years, couple gangs bumped into each other and had a stab off that’s all

Be worth going for the jerk chicken and curried goat regarding the white slag you hit a bloke expect one back you want equal rights ffs

Looks like a sanitary towel and your potatoes are covered in jizz.

There’s always some drama, normally where we are it’s something to do with the public, I was talking to next doors keeper today ( when I’m not threatening him I like to get info out of him ?) and he was going mental about the riff raff from the caravan park, he like me just plays at it and isn’t a proper keeper, apparently some of the chav’s had turned the water off at both his pens, he said he got there just in time ( whatever that meant ) I’ve got water butts 800 yards from his pen so they are welcome to come and drink from them ?

She’s probably from Sunderland and about to take a shit in the street ! Lol

Couple hour's out with the Lab's for a few rabbit's had my stepson with me to give a hand only did two warren's ended up with 20 good clean rabbits will get them skinned and minced for the ferrets and dogs in a bit back out next couple of day's to do the warrens that didn't get done today

My escape from the shit in my life

That ain't no buzzard!

Could have also had teal, mallard and pheasant mate

? I wonder if he was pointing the finger at me, he should know I wouldn’t of turned the water off, now being in there scooping them up in a landing net like the child catcher, maybe ?

Few last year do nt need much cooking