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I finish on 19th and will not be going back. After 51 years working that will be my last day

I’ll be beating three days a week during the season and helping out in between with pest control, stalking throughout the year and out at night shooting, I hunt, I’ll be doing bird surveys in spring, I spend a lot of time walking on the fells, I’ve three kids and six grand kids to help out. I intend visiting a few auctions next year and a great friend has invited me up to Orkney anytime I like to stay on his farm, so lots to look forward to

Beef shin slow cooked.

Cottage pie tonight with extra gravy. Wifeys. Mine with some HP. Pissing down today so knocked up another Dorset Dough Cake. Cheers Arry

Finally finished a right fiddly boat bathroom awful tiles to lay but nice to look at been a right labour of love

My own pork fillet Wellington with Brussels Pâté, chestnuts and beetroot. Angus cheeseburgers. Kung Po chicken. Tuna steak and prawns with mac'n'cheese. Cheers, D.

Think its going to be a hard season for us not many about. Did a road hedge and managed to just scratch out three. Cheers Arry

If like me you watch a bit of youtube...usually political stuff...it can get on your tits ....so it's nice to look at bits of old film like this....of course it can make you sad cos we won't get it back

The hunter gatherer in my head doesn't care about sport mack , the hunter gatherer only sees a belly full of food. My woodland is surrounded by one of the biggest and best shoots in the country , and is alive with many thousands of pheasants at this time of year. It takes everything I have not to put every last one of them in my freezer. I've never hunted because I wanted to , I only hunt because something inside my head forces me to do it. You can convince yourself that you're doing it by choice , but you're not really. If you're a hunter , then you have to hunt. I'm the sam

The wife done a cracking spread of food for my bday yesterday..

Made a Chicken and mushroom pie tonight. Cheers Arry

Proper butchers pork chops, colcannon and tender stem, it was very nice

Lot of snow falling so stopped for lunch till it eases off,honey glazed chicken benedict,really nice,my good lady has BLT (and egg and some smoked salmon) and salad.

2 foxes and 2 digs yesterday

cover was shit was soaking wet tried a bank of holes Got 2

Made this very tasty cottage pie last night as the weather was so horrible, served up with savoy cabbage, the gravy inside was blooming ansome.

Just threw this down for the tribe , getting demolished as I type. Looked better when it was finished in some butter.

Mrs knocked up a big batch of fresh carrot,golden beetroot and ginger soup... I can't get enough of the stuff

2 weeks to go and we booked the boat yesterday. 25ft self drive fishing boat for a week, delivered to our air bnbs private dock, live tank well, fish finder etc...to say I'm excited is an understatement... been waiting for this since I was 8 years old lol

Some brilliant films on youtube like the one Tomo posted. My 5 year old Grandson spends most of his time in doors glued to a ipad so I try to get him out and about and interested in working with his hands as much as possible when he's over with us.

Chinese flavoured pork steaks,new potatoes,veg,all from the local farm shop..

Managed to get out ferreting today with some pals at last, Not been out for ages but definitely worth the wait, plenty about and we only done half of this field, dog and ferrets worked great dug about 6 and the rest bolted, none were milky or had young in them which is a big bonus, We were there 5 hours and ended up with 18, Looking farward to getting out again now weve started

My lad and his mate have been braving a couple of nights on the local...sent me this at 9 o'clock yesterday evening...I popped over this morning first thing...had a few more through the night by the looks of it..

Turned 9 month yesterday scotty

Walking the streets with Air guns Shooting crows off Chimney tops neighbours shouting Watch the f***ing Windows going out at night with torch gun & shooting Roosting pigeons under railway bridges Bird nesting egg collections Ratting near local brooks with ferrets & Terriers Rearing Buzzard chicks and other birds of prey Catching mice in empty jam jars on the fields to feed the Hawks & ferrets Making Dutch arrows Hunting with almost every mongrel from the housing estate walking miles trying to find a fox mostly unsuccessful Collecting coal from the waste tips good times nice memorie

@The drover @mC HULL mill town missile X

Bangers in the only man in British history to be arrested and charge for impersonating a hare courser

Ribeye steak

Some local mushrooms eggs and sausages from the farmer that kills his own and makes his own sausages bacon etc not a drop of fat come out during cooking just solid meat

It’s 3/4 whippet but would pass for a pure whippet to look at, only 4 months old

A lot of it comes down to energy costs to produce materials, a will to build more , lack of training and mentoring . The money is in lending money on mortgages not building houses. I think as far as youngsters go, and adults phones are a killer . I only got to look at guys I work with half of them are staring at a phone half the day, I'd ban phones or have them in a locker if I employed people. As for people slating young folk they're your kids or grandkids , I tell it as I see it I don't suffer them, I've refused to work with lazy sods before , gaming all night and claiming pip and in there p

Mrs Stavs mates with us tonight so I did them a little chicken dinner

R LASS GOING PISS hahaha

Cod with chorizo panko breadcrumbs, hasselbacks and griddled asparagus tonight

homemade meringue ,winter berries and whipped cream...

Been trying for the pike had a twenty yesterday

King prawn garlic masala nice and warm on a stormy evening

Decent amount of snow yesterday,its -10 currently,wandered down a small stream and saw one large beaver which vanished as soon as it spotted me,found quite a few dams on the stream,and spotted a pileated woodpecker,they are maybe midway between pigeon and crow size,nice to see.

50 upto 100 quid an hand enough for me mate im not overly keen on betting now to be fair more for the craic only ever one winner aint they A fool and his money are easily parted as your customers will know when they realise you've painted the house and aint sanded one wall or skirt lol

23rd then back for two days before new year can't wait as its the worst time of year in a parcel delivery warehouse and shit management don't help. Thank feck it will be my last Christmas at the company I work for as I'm going to retire next October.

Yes mate,if you want,been out today and was close to dozens of turkey and duck,theres plenty of beaver,racoon,rabbits and deer local.The river is icing over,going to be doing a bit of ice-fishing.

I was thinking there about the place I lived as a kid, terraced streets with the back lanes and yards, think they were Victorian, mostly a ground floor flat and a first floor flat, the upstairs being three bedroomed Always remember the high ceilings, single pane windows, no central heating, and the little fire grates in the bedrooms that had been boxed in, and never been used since feck knows when Me owld Ma used to explode through my bedroom door every morning navigating over me in my pit to get to the window pull the curtains open managing yet again to evade tipping arse over tit s

Hickory pulled pork and loaded fries Jammie dodger cheesecake Courtesy of Fat Nancys Splendid

Bit nippy today and I forgot my face-mask,the windchill was biting cold.Rivers covered in floating ice,soon be totally frozen,all the lakes are covered in thick ice,saw a set of coyote tracks crossing the ice and a few raccoon tracks,the only thing out and about was me and a few turkeys.

I’d just move banks

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Roast Turkey leg. Cheers Arry

Beautiful morning