Jump to content

chartpolski

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    16,984

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    192

 Content Type 

Everything posted by chartpolski

  1. chartpolski
    Been in there lots of times. I was going to buy a house on that estate on the left just as you enter the village, but my missus felt it was just a bit too rural as she doent drive. Nice little village. Cheers.
  2. chartpolski
    Is that the one in Longhorsley ? Cheers.
  3. chartpolski
    I don't think any of the recent dogs will make a "name" for themselves comparable to the old dogs like Lucky, simply because they don't get the same exposure due to the draconian anti hunting laws . The coursing comps like the Forley were eagerly awaited and well attended, but now they exist, if at all, in name only and are surreptitiously ran and sparsely attended. I used to attend my local coursing club, The Border & Coquetdale, and there would be hundreds there. A mornings coursing, then into the Three Wheats Head at Thropton for lunch and the craic, then back out for the afte
  4. chartpolski
    There's a Wetherspoons next to the big car park, allways decent for a cheap pint and a meal ? Cheers.
  5. chartpolski
    Just back in, would have been better having a pint with Greb, instead of listening to a load of wingers complaining about paying £1 a week for a huge plot of land ! The Toll , that's by the river, isn't it ? I'm sure there's an ancient law that allows you to fish on that stretch for free. Id be intrigued to have a pint with him.......see if it's all an act, a wind up, who knows ? He might be a genuine lad......you soon find out when you meet in person, most people's internet persona is just an act. Cheers.
  6. chartpolski
    No mate, I'm just on the way to the Local miners club for the yearly allotment meeting. Cheers.
  7. chartpolski
    Where have I said any different ? Youre becoming harder work than my young protégé mC ! ?? Cheers.
  8. chartpolski
    I thought of replying that terminal velocity USUALLY referred to an object freefalling, but we are talking about objects that have powered acceleration, dogs, bullets, trains, etc, that dont accelerate exponentially, so terminal velocity in the sense I used it would be the speed at the end of the measurement, not the top speed, that's why I said I didn't want to be pedantic........and here I am now being pedantic ! ? Cheers.
  9. chartpolski
    No they are not, a dog could be going faster as it accelerates out of the traps, than the speed it crosses the finish line, but I'm not going to be pedantic about it ? Cheers.
  10. chartpolski
    Hence why I said "terminal velocity", not to try and sound educated, but to differentiate it from "top speed" ! ? Cheers.
  11. chartpolski
    Just did a quick calculation based on the time it takes a top non-ped Whippet to run 150 yards, in my mind the fastest dog over that distance, and the terminal velocity is just a fraction under 38 mph. Hope this helps ! ??! Cheers.
  12. chartpolski
    One time I was in NZ , around 30 years ago, and I saw an advertisement in a vets window for Government cullers for 'possum. It was a very basic wage, with subsistence allowance and bonus per kill, living in a shack in the bush. I thought " that would do for me, but reading the small print it was mainly baiting traps with 1080. See if you can get hold of Barry Crumps book "A Good Keen Man", it's all about pig, goat, deer cullers in the 50's in NZ, a great read. Cheers.
  13. chartpolski
    I'm not saying you have or haven't done anything......I'm simply saying, in my experience, most people exaggerate times and distances. Get someone to time you while you estimate one minute, and I'll bet when you think you've counted 60 seconds, only 45 or 50 seconds have actually passed ? Cheers.
  14. chartpolski
    Of course there's runs that last five or more minutes, I know, I've had them, but the number of times I've asked " how long do you think that run was ?" and the answer has been, " five minutes" and I've replied " no, it was just under two minutes" ! And people tell you they've had 500 yard slips on the lamp, and I say you couldn't even see the rabbit at 500 yards, and when it's paced out it way less than 200 ! Stand at the scratch line at a whippet track and look up to the finish line, 150 yards, then imagine 500 yards ! Yes, of course there's long runs, five minutes or more, a
  15. chartpolski
    Just like course times and slip distances...........? Cheers.
  16. chartpolski
    You have to be stoical about it ? Take my quest to educate young mC; to say it's a challenge, is like saying the 12 labours of Hercules were a walk in the park ! But will I give up ? NO SIR ! I see something in him, it just needs channelling in the right direction ? No matter that the likes of shaaark and green lurchers have given up on him......I'm there until I see positive results. Its like a modern day quest for the Grail, maybe just a little bit more difficult, but I'm a trier ! ? ! Cheers.
  17. chartpolski
    Take care, mate, get well soon ! ? ! Cheers, Richie.
  18. chartpolski
    When an American soldier died in Vietnam, he was said to have "bought the farm". Cheers.
  19. chartpolski
    Huge badger freshly killed on the southbound A1 yesterday just passed the Cramlington turn off. I almost stopped to take the head off for the skull, but the missus and her family from Cyprus were in the car, so I thought it may not be my best idea ! ? Cheers.
  20. chartpolski
    I've hunted around that area for many years, I see roe almost every day on the walk from my house to my Allotments. In fact I see more roe and hares than rabbits these days. ? Cheers.
  21. chartpolski
    Could be.....those whippets come in all shapes and sizes; Cheers.
  22. chartpolski
    OK, there was a couple of lads off that job in there, accents weren't local. Like I say, a long shot ? Cheers.
  23. chartpolski
    Greb, just a long shot, but were you in a Beefeater restaurant not to far from Morpeth last night, around six ? ? Sorry, Friday night. Cheers.
  24. chartpolski
    I've met a couple of Texas Rangers, and they were the politest law enforcement officers I've ever seen, but I got the impression they could have you disabled, in a choke hold, in the blink of an eye ! Cheers.
  25. chartpolski
    There would be no "lurchers" without the greyhound as the base breed. Yes, ok, any sight hound could be the base breed for a "lurcher", but the greyhound gives the basic necessity of speed. Thats why people crossed collies, Beddy, bull, Saluki , Whippet, deerhound, whatever, with Greyhound, to put the speed into the mix. There wouldn't be any " coursing types" if men hadn't crossed greyhounds and Salukis. The holy grail was to breed a dog with the speed of the greyhound and the stamina of the saluki, which has damn near been achieved ! The coursing type is now almost b
×
×
  • Create New...