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    I must've been the last person in the Country to realise there is a problem with petrol supplies. The van's probably got about a quart of petrol in the tank and hasn't moved since Friday night. Hence ; enter the Company Bicycle! I'm limited to what gear can be strapped to the beast and stuffed in a rucksack and I had one job yesterday where a ladder would've been useful . There were three nests in an awkward roof but Invention being the Mother of Frank Zappa l reached em all in the end. Customers seem to mistakenly think l must be really fit when l turn up. They don't
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    The pumpkins and Japanese squash plants went mad this Summer. This is only half of the crop and l only had four plants! Weirdly the green knobbly squash grew on the same plant as the orange ones . Just about anything that was available a month ago went into the wine ; apples, pears ,plums ,sloes,blackberries, bullaces and sprig of fennel. A pretty random mix . It's bubbling like mad scientist's experiment and shows no sign of slowing down . The damson jelly took a couple of attempts to get right but has passed the approval test. Well at least nobody l gave jars to has expir
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    On the other hand ; if the box is basically a Mk1 ( actually a misnomer as there were several marks of the "Mark 1"?) it will work with modern collars.
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    We had another enjoyable day's boat fishing out of Littlehampton today. After chugging out to sea the Skipper stopped long enough for us to catch a decent supply of mackerel to supplement the rather dodgy tackle shop squid we'd brought with us.Decent frozen squid seems hard to come by . It didn't seem to matter though as despite the bright sun and clear water there were plenty of conger about on the rocky mark we anchored over; none of whom had fussy palettes. Surprisingly , considering l was on board , there were few small fish caught. This might've been because the conger
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    ? Garbage collection truck. We call em dustcarts, bin lorries Biffa is the name of a company that operates some of them. We have seperate bins for garden waste , common recyclable materials like glass and cardboard and another for general waste. Shoving hazardous stuff like chemicals ,outdated medicines and old hand grenades in any of em tends to be frowned upon .?
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    Just been talking to a neighbour who pilots refuse carts. Apparently one of their lorries csught gire last week and the cause was traced to old shotgun cartridges that had beed slipped into the domestic waste! Heat or pressure in the cargo area must've set them off. The truck was at the start of its round and had only done a couple streets before it caught fire so l guess anyone who holds or has held a SGC on that part of the round can expect a visit.?
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    No you didn't ;you were being helpful ?
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    Funny you should say that Phil. It's a standing joke that the contents of my freezer would do King John proud Yet l live in a peasant's hovel?
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    Why ? There's nothing wrong with it as it is. Actually ,sorry that sounded a bit rude?. Marinading in milk or vinegar were among the various well meant suggestions for tenderizing the meat and obviously slow cooked stews or curries . And some of him is already bound for the Caribbean route. The thing is rather than just take people's word that he would have similar natural texture to the inside of a golf ball ; l just had to know for myself. Hence the lack of preparation and simple cooking and if asked what old ram meat is like l can now give an opinion from experience.
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    Poor old Clem had reached his sell-by date. We were not sure how old he was but his teeth were going and at close to 300lbs his old legs and feet were showing the strain. The consensus amongst thosr that claimed to know was that he woukd taste like a dead fox and be tough to the point of being inedible. Mince or burgers seemed the popular option. I wasn't so sure and decided that he deserved better treatment. Especially after talking to a friend with a Ghanaian Sister in Law . Apparently proper superanuated mutton is virtually unobtainable in this country. So there was one
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    Box the cage trap in with wood so it can't scrabble at the bait through the wire and simply has to use the door if it wants the food.
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    Must be all the rain. My two pumpkin plants and two Japanese squash plants seem to have turned into Triffids!
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    Hello Wolfdog. The trap is just over five feet long . Barely the minimum size for a fox cage to my thinking but l only a limited supply of (free?) material to make it. I think most designs for fox cage traps are flawed anyway . They all seem to be too small and based on the run-through type of cages with doors at the end . I can't help thinking that a much bigger cage with some of the panels being solid , and most importantly , a side door would be more efficient. Not unlike those old wolf traps where bait was placed in a round pen . The wolf circled the perimeter until
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    We do occasionally build something over here? Though my efforts are a bit sad when compared with your traps. I made this a years ago from old shelving that came from a shop refit. Its still surprisingly ( considering it's something l made?) in one piece and a few days ago caught the culprit that was sniffing around my chickens . I could tolerate it coming round at night when the girls were shut away . According to a neighbour it was seemingly waiting for me to go to work and spending it's day planning an attack on my hens. I've only two hens ,they are old and don't lay much . I
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    Thanks for the peek at the catalogue. I recognise several of those trap designs as the sort that turn-up in local sheds and gardens .Now l know why. Fir some reason I didn't associate Fuller's Engineering with Rudgwick (The address is now listed as a dog parlour ) . I had it planted on the industrial estate in Horsham . It could've moved. Or l could be wrong . A quick pick through a couple of books indicates that in1986 it was operating from Worthing , and still in the trap makng business.
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    "Not made in China." That set me thinking. At one time even my home town had a small part to play in the trap making industry . I remember the squirrel multi catch cages didn't really live up to their name and that Fuller made a neat little box housing a built-in spring trap for squirrels that's often referenced in trapping books. Fuller is a common local name and a garden machinery outlet and repair workshop still operates as a family business under it. They even dabbled in making remote controlled cars at one point . With this multi- facetted approach to busin
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    A customer gave me cage trap today; " Had it years never caught anything." Not surprising really when in an effort to catch the squirrels raiding his fruit cage he had baited the treadle with a single rasberry. Not a particularly good rasberry at that. But then l couldn't fly a plane like he did for a living. Each to his own and vive la difference , Nikki le singe est sur le poste de television. Anyway l caught some squirrels for him and he gave me the trap. It brought back a few memories .Just how do they fold? Fumble "Oh yeah. " Weird ,l've posted it in Old Trap
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    ??l know the gummed-up air valve scenario too well. Teach me to leave a Jimny standing for six months; hence the carb cleaner!
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    One baby left home two days before the others. I don't think there was room for all five in the nest but the parents fed it on the shed floor . After they dispersed l found a casualty in the garden but the others seemed to survive. But....just when l thought l had my shed back , today l realised the parents have decided to go for another brood!
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    I had a flurry at the begining of June . Then nothing until the end of last week when l did half a dozen when the Sun came out for a couple of days. Hopefully it will become s bit busier. Lots of foraging hornets about though so l'll polish my armour for the end of July?
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    "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?" That line ,credited to a rather notorious Actress of the Classic Hollywood era , can still raise a smile today . Though the firearm aspect of the quote has generally been replaced by a less subtle reference to a banana . Yesterday l set forth into the woods with not a gun ,or a banana , but a fishing rod in my pocket . A little forest ghyll that is for the most only a few inches deep and a couple of feet wide had been dammed many years ago to provide a local water supply . I had no idea if it even held any f
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    I had barely crawled out of bed yesterday when the phone rang. It was a lovely elderly lady . Her little two acres of wilderness in the middle of town seems to be the the place where any mangey fox on its last legs chooses to hole-up and die. It helps that the garden can't be overlooked due to its high walls. I get regular calls to help them on their way and usually go home with a pot of jam or honey and a small financial reward. I arrived ,parked the van just inside the gate and snuck towards the spot where the fox - a very bald and scabby specimen-was said to be having a nap
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