chartpolski
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I like to cook fresh veggies, preferably straight from the allotment, but I admit to really liking tinned tatties, sliced and fried, and they are incredibly cheap, less than 50p a tin from the likes of Lidl. Cheers.
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Good news, mate ! Cheers.
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There was a lad in Ireland who bred borzoi/saluki/greyhounds who brought a leash of them over to Selby. Very nice looking dogs, he offered to sell me an 18 month old dog, with a trial on hares, for £300. I was tempted but I had enough dogs at the time. Cheers.
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I was judging the lurchers at Yorkshire Game Fair one year and a woman was walking around with a nice looking borzoi bitch, about 26-27”. I thought “I hope she enters that in the show”. She did, but when I got my hands on it, it was covered in fleas and flea bites ! I had to ask her to leave the ring. I also judged a borzoi and a borzoi/collie cross in Scotland but the owner said they weren’t workers. Borzoi and borzoi/collie cross; A borzoi in Australia, I think the owner may be a member on here, I know which one I’d prefer to own ! Cheers.
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And you’d be very welcome. I’ve been to the states a few times, hated New York, Boston was OK, loved Texas ! Sadly the only hunting I did over there was watching a couple of staghounds being straight lined by a white tail, when I was staying in San Antonio. Always meant to go and see Dan and his coyote hounds in Illinois, but never got round to it, maybe some day ! Cheers.
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When my old saluki had to be put down at 17 years old in Saudi, the friend who gave him to me sent a Doberman to replace him It wasn’t a breed that was even on my list of dogs I’d own, but it would have been churlish and disrespectful to have refused it , but I’d far rather he had given me another saluki ! Anyhow, when I retired I brought it home with me and it happily worked alongside the lurchers. I spoke to him many times about sending me a Bedouin bred saluki bitch, preferably in pup, but why go to all the bother when probably the best coursing dogs are bred here in the UK ? Ive
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My daughter imported her two dogs from Australia when she came home, and it was surprisingly easy, if a bit expensive. I’ve got pals down there who would source me a good hunting bred pup,I’ve always fancied a catahoula pup, but, as you say, why go to all that bother when the right type can be sourced here ? Cheers.
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Never been to a bull fight or fished for marlin, but I’ll add them to my “bucket list “ ! Cheers.
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As I said on another thread, Australia encourages hunting, it’s illegal in the UK. Same with New Zealand, it’s legal to hunt Boars there, but illegal here, with draconian punishments! In New Zealand you just let the police and the forestry commission know when and where you’ll be hunting, and there’s even government huts provide free out in the bush if you overnight ! A few pics from the first time I was down there over 30 years ago ; Cheers.
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Just what I read in the papers. Cheers.
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Prostrate cancer, evidently. Cheers.
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I wasn’t there when he was killed but I’d guess he went straight in for a hold. Cheers,
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All walked up mate. Cheers.
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No, we had eight confirmed and two backfilled in rock piles We had two runners and a few terriers but the dog in the picture killed the majority of them. Sadly he was killed when he made the step up to boars. Cheers.
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Spare the rod…..spoil the child ! Cheers.
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We caught eight of these one morning in Oz, the government payed us A$10 for each scalp; In this country I would have been arrested ! Cheers.
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I tend to take a more paternalistic view with mC; I consider him more a wayward child, a prodigal son, someone who is just misguided, who needs nurturing, educating, gently nudged in the right direction, like a highly strung saluki or a skittish colt ! An impossible task ? No, difficult certainly, but I’m up for the challenge Cheers.
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I’m loathe to be accused of invoking Godwins Law, but Hitler, generally considered to be “far right”, banned fox hunting in Germany. The Bolsheviks, generally considered to be “far left”, banned hunting with dogs in Russia. So, yes, there are exceptions to the rule, but I stick by me belief that, in general, in the UK, the right support hunting; the left oppose hunting. Cheers.
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Don't flatter yourself, Wolfy, Wilf disagrees with EVERYONE ! Its his default setting ! LOL ! Cheers
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Well, in my opinion, if you pare it down to the basics, the further right you go politically, the more, generally, they will support field sports and hunting.....the further left you go politically, the more, generally, they will be against field sports and hunting. Of course the Torys are, in my mind, no longer a party of the right, and almost all of our politicians are now left of centre, so we sadly have no elected politicians on the side of field sports and hunting. Cheers.
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It seems to be the Treasury that insists on huge immigration numbers, as this supposedly increases the country's GDP, even though it DECREASES GDP per capita by holding down wages . Cheers.
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In Saudi Arabia, each airport has a huge holding cell in the basement capable of holding up to 400 people. All illegal immigrants are immediately placed in these cells and fed bread, rice and water until there is enough of one nationally to fill a jumbo jet and then they are flown to their own country …no appeals, no legal aid , nothing ! Perhaps that’s why they aren’t being over run by illegals ? Cheers.
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Like Vietnam; “if it runs it’s Vietcong; if it doesn’t run it’s an arrogant Vietcong” ! Cheers.
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I well remember the Provi tickets and the Provi women coming every week to collect the half a crown or whatever. I also remember the wasters who’d get a Provi and sell it in the bar for half price to buy tabs or beer. And people think they are badly off now if they can’t get the latest iPhone …. Cheers.
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Yeah, Whitley Bay was within walking distance of where I lived as a kid, but we’d have bus trips to Roker ! Mind you, going to Sunderland was like going to a foreign country ! Cheers.
