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Moocher71

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  1. How's the pup bred mate ,cracking pic .
  2. You put up some stunning pics mate,
  3. Darbo didn't post that pic I did mate ,the lady in picture is 86 yr old and still strong as a ox.
  4. Same as mate,picking fruit was a holiday to us kids anyway and we get see our mates we not see for a yr since last picking season.
  5. I don't bother with kaneys unless the dogs take one ,took hundreds in my time but like you I like to see my dogs run on what ever we can push up .How's the dogs foot ,hope he's getting better. have a good day .
  6. Did you go back take his birds !
  7. I still got his books and mostly first ad .lot of folk slag Brian but mostly it's jealous folk because he made £few quid out it. lots slag him and they mostly same lads that followed him every were .and yes they few on thl .
  8. Some of the Irish I met would argue with the other fella in the mirra and that's with a spliff .
  9. Lot of travelers and gorgers would go hop picking ,folk from London and surrounding areas would go Kent my family would work the fruit fields on the fens and once the fruit was over they would go hereford for hops apples and pears . b honest spuds were back breaking and picking stones out fields while tractor went up down with ya .do 12 shift you slept well.
  10. I met some good Irish travelers but it normally go wrong once they start drinking .
  11. You thinking about 4 gypsy lurcher prints I think,they done for appalbey they done in same style
  12. Like these ,do you no the fellas name .over the years I met some talented traveling folk . And some best wood carvers I ever seen .
  13. My grandad had bedy x collie xs but my dad would use any x as long as it filled the pot.be honest my dad didn't use a juckel for poaching that much it was nets and wires.and he always fed us 8 kids and made anufe for pub money . my old nan she went hawking one day with basket pegs etc .came home with a sausage dog that was craping all over the nice mans house..it went on to produce some cracking Russel xs. i put some more pics up .
  14. When I was a kid I'd go out with my old nan hawking pegs,lace ,flowers my grandad had grinding bike and he'd take good money , dont see it any more,shame .
  15. My dad and square vardo hereford 1955 ,No better life .
  16. lived on the rd through the 70s and 80s and I got to be honest I karnt remember ever being cold ,of course every one feels the bad weather but traveling people are used to being out side and spend more time out in the elements than most .it was a good way to live ,but like been said not many of the olders left .
  17. It's sad but true ,the older gypsies like my parents age are mostly gone now ,
  18. Like been said looks cracking day and a nice spot a good bag .
  19. Spoke to Pete couple times over the yrs ,comes across as a really nice fella .i was looking at getting a pup from Pete but didn't due to health probs ,that around same time you got yours . i see in Cmw he's bred glen x bedlington,glover also did this x .
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