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Yep ,l've been there too.... It just appeared ,wasn't any bother,never paid it much attention or gave it a proper name . Everyone just called it The Black Cat . Then when it went AWOL l missed it ,even dogs seemed to miss it . Eventually it reappeared. Shortly after which the little tart presented us with kittens!
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One thing l've noticed with cats is they gravitate to the person in the house who doesn't actually like cats. I think it's because they are ignored and get a chance to relax without getting annoyed by being poked about. I remember my old head keeper who wasn't keen on cats stalking round his cottage with a gun in pursuit of a stray cat . His wife and daughter were on the other side of the house with a tin of food. They got there first and the cat stayed Some time later we were sitting round the table with an elderly old- school keeper who had dropped by for a cup of tea . He co
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Thanks Steve. As l said my mate made this one himself ,using a cheap Chinese lathe. Only the anodising was out- sourced. Clever whotsit even made two interchangeable spools for it; one with bearings and the one in the picture which is a proper centre pin. l felt a bit honoured that he let me borrow it
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My last few fishing trips had been underwhelming, for me that is. A good friend had kindly blagged a couple of free guest tickets for me on a stretch of his club river. I blanked on the first trip- the river rose six inches during the day but l soldiered-on ,vainly. He ,fishing a few hundred yards away had better luck, with a couple of rather good chub. My last trip with him proved a bit better for me in that at least l was saved from total humiliation by half a dozen little dace . The lovely blue reel in the picture isn't mine. I borrowed it from my mate ,w
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Thanks Mackem This the same lady who once had a mange-ridden fox stroll into her living while she was knitting!
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One of my favourite customers is an elderly widow. She called today and opened with " Hello my dear. I am sorry. I know it's Saturday but l've got one of the buggers asleep on my lawn ." Ten minutes later l coasted the van to a halt at the top of her drive . Popping a couple of bullets into the old Brno l snuck on foot toward her cottage. Rounding the corner of an old stable l spotted the " bugger" concerned. It roused ,looked up ,then went to sleep again ,permanently. Job done l was met at the cottage door by the old lady who had been watching from the window
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Hello phiIpot , thought you would have had a few replies by now from more expert type people . All l can say is that when l bought my S/Hand Brno ,along with the subs l bought a box of 100 Reminton HV bullets This was 40 years ago, and l still have about half of those Remington H/Vs left. I thought they would be just the thing for those plus100 yd bunnies but concluded that a long range shot with a sub using the right hold-over was a more reliable way of getting the bullet where l wanted it on small targets. Since then l've learned that according to the wisdom of
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A few years ago l was kindly given some ferrets to replace my aging gang by THL member "Bob the ferret". Sadly this generosity coincided with the dwindling of the bunny population in my area. By the time my ancient workers had reached their use by date there was nothing left for the youngsters to hunt. Hence these particular ferrets had never seen a live rabbit. Today that changed when an old friend asked if l would mind getting rid of a rabbit or two that had been accidentally fenced inside a garden he was about to help landscape . There were about 60 old holes in a b
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Wow. This brought back memories ; several familiar faces. I know that Estate. As well running their own game- keeping department the Estate in the video ran the shooting on the ground where l worked . We were a fairly self sufficient department with a brilliant Headkeeper . I'm sure the other lot had more input than l remember , but what sticks in the mind was the day we were accused of unauthorised deer shooting . Somehow they had got wind of shots from a big rifle. A warm discussion involving repeated accusations and strong denials went back and fort
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Spent a day on the river as a guest of a very old friend. He caught two good chub . Unfortunately he had a hook pull out of a real big one just before we packed-up. I shall gloss-over my own performance The view from my swim was nice though
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The bream was still in exactly the same place last time l walked that way . Its head had been pecked about but apart from that, it had been laying undisturbed for about ten days . I'm leaning towards it being nabbed by a cormorant who maybe found the depth of its body too wide to swallow .
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By heavens. Rabbit porn!
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Strolling back from a reconnaissance trip ("reconnaissance trip " sounds better than l didn't get anything ) on my stalking permission l let the dog have a shuffle about . Not sure if the farmer who sold Edith to me suspiciously cheaply had a sense of humour or saw me coming. Whatever ,l am definately the owner of a comedy dog . Today's hilarity involved the surreal discovery of a perfectly formed bream in the middle of a field . The nearest water being a quarter of a mile away one can only wonder at the how it got there . Luckily it was frozen solid because she did the dog
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There's always a little story Seeing the deer in the area , then being too close for a shot when the chance came and finally having his perseverance pay off!
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Did your Dad give you the details ? Like ; did he stalk it , or was he in a seat? There's always a little story worth telling ...
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Luckily Edith knows that the mere production of the rifle means that she has to behave like stalking dog. Likewise there are times when she has to live up to her breed designation of sheepdog; not a particularly stylish one .Think of a canine Lemmy from Motörhead rather than the slick things you see on One Man and His Dog. Off duty she gets to follow interesting scents and rummage through brambles in search of stuff. She's pretty hot on woodmice. Today she finally nailed a real prize!
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I can see your point of view but in your earlier post you said feeding mixed foods was " a complete no no" . When really it's more a question of timing .
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I don't get the idea that it's wrong to feed mixer and meat due to " different times" either . Every item of food is going to have a different digestion time . Probably even greater in so called natural feeding. I've always though that mix is good because the dog's digestive system gets used to coping with variety. Come the day meat is short so a bit more biscuit , an extra egg ,tin of mackerel or weird table scraps go onto the mix the gut fauna won't blink an eye . I'm blessed with what l can feed my dogs now ,and for very little money. In the past
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What's wrong with different digestion times?
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Big fan of the BARF diet apparently
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There are times when my garden becomes a bit like feeding time at the zoo . When l do a hogget or a deer all the trimmings, lights, whatever spare offal ,chunks of fat and decent bones are frozen in convenient portions for the dogs and ferrets. In addition the dogs get a cup of cheap mixer a day and sometimes odd scraps or an egg . I've usually got a can or two of El Cheapo Tex Chunks from the local Indian corner shop if l get short of the real stuff or mistimed the defrosting . The dogs do well on it! Feeding mostly raw stuff though makes it really easy to
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The Beauty Of Nature, "add Yours"
comanche replied to kriti's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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Turned up to do wasps' nest in a garden about half a mile from home. It was the end of a very long , hot working day; l was stinky, scruffy and covered in dirt from customer's lofts . The door opened and l thought "Wow". A couple of days later l was asked back to check the nest on the pretext that one of her boys was supposedly still nervous about going in the garden. We still joke about her clearly having poor eyesight and no sense of smell
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Totally agree. I saw the The Shining at the pictures when it first came out and came out totally underwhelmed. Nicholson is ,l think , a pretty poor actor, but good at getting noticed . He was annoying in crap biker movies that launched his career and his performances haven't improved.
