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  1. comanche
    Halfway down a roll of stock fencing. Last year it was inside a wire hay rack . Very security conscious.
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    I guess if you are considering city environmental conditions, things like unhygienic conditions, dodgy diet and secondary poisoning from rat baits come into consideration . Then again a smaller ,short - legged fox could have advantages in the city . Hiding in small spaces ,hunting rodents in cramped conditions ,licking dead pigeons off the road ,crawling under wheelly bins and stealthily stalking dead kebabs, favours a small animal with its head near the ground . Taking Vesey Fitzgerald's localised study of urban foxes in the early 60s as a convenient start point ,that gi
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    Hybrid vigour is usually at its peak in the first cross. Subsequent matings between the hybrids tend to lose the initial advantages . Not all hybrids display vigour; some are degenerate failures. The only real advantage biologically is that rare animals that suffer a scarcity of breeding partners of their own kind that can sometimes find a partner of a commoner and related species . Assuming the hybrid young are fertile they will be be a reservoir for 50% of the rare parent's gene's. A mating of the correct type will produce young with 75% of the rare genes. A subsequent ma
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    You can do the preparation yourself with a hacksaw. Get a road spike ,cut a bit off for the T handle. Then jam a couple of big nuts or a bit of hollow tube on the pointy end and take it to the blacksmith or a mate with a welder . It's only a minute or two's work to weld everything in place. Then file or grind the nuts into the taper you want
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    Probably you already know but if you ever have to delve further into the engine ,check the flywheel for cracks while you're in there. Commando cranks had some odd habits. Can't wait for your first road test report!
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    That's going to make the pizza delivery brigade really jealous! Does sound hairy though! One of my friends from my distant teenage years had a Lambaretta 200 (or possibly 250?) that he thrashed about in the most suicidal manner. I recall that it did over 70MPH on a good day . Unfortunately there were quite a few bad days and he spend a fair bit of time pushing it home . I was told that the main reason that old bikes only had 6v electrics was because it wasn't until the late sixties that small 12volt batteries became readily available.
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    This one looks shiny in the picture thanks to the wet weather and oily rag When dry the original faded 1956 vintage paint took- on a rather unmanly shade of dull pink. It would've taken over £1000 just to replace the chrome parts like exhausts, rims ,handlebars and seal holders . That's before entering tank restoration territory! Hence silver paint. Ditching the mouse-chewed Prince of Darkness spaghetti that passed for a 6 volt wiring loom in favour of a simple 12 volt system was a practical deviation. The engine didn't need much work other than adding extra
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    If you hobby is home mechanics the way to enjoy yourself and make few quid is to concentrate on getting bikes roadworthy and running properly. Forget cosmetics . Paint and chrome, new wheel rims and sourcing the exact correct factory fitted do da whotsit will suck you into a money- pit. i Even if the bike is to it builder's eyes spot-on ,when it comes to selling some rivet- counting collector will still find fault. My crappy Norton could easily eat a couple of grand before getting anywhere near factory condition . Which is about the same as what it would be worth. Hen
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    What was several boxes of bits is starting to look a bit like a motorbike. Now it has wheels l can at last move it out of the sitting room. Maybe into the kitchen
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    Sorry for the delay. I know l have some pictures and literature relating to Fuller's but they are probably in the loft . I lived a couple of hundred yards from the workshop for a while. The company moved to Worthing ..
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    That's a good method bird. Horsey folk and gundog trainers have a saying along the lines of " Make the unusual into the usual." In other words something tempting, alarming or distracting becomes part of the common landscape and no longer prompts a reaction.
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    My Mum's last whippet was 22". Definately a proper whippet .Sire Cancerick Kaspar (Shown at Crufts several times and also coursed). Dam: Layer Albertine. If l recall Because he was on the big size and was mostly white he was quite cheap . Ted Walsh was very taken with him though . He was a very keen hunter . The vet's bill's stood as testimony to that! And he sired two litters of whippet×collie lurchers for me .Which found homes so quick l never got to keep one myself.
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    It's great being a Grandad. My daughter with the " Grandlings". This was taken a few years ago ,the oldest one is now doing a Masters degree ! You'll get to do the stuff you did with your daughter all over again. And you van give them back at the end of the day! Congratulations
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    There were a few second hand Norbury and Shelmore traps for sale recently. They looked like Kania 2000s and 2500s that had been heavily modified with elaborate tunnels and self feeding bait hoppers . They looked a bit like a case of over-engineering for engineering sake. As you say , one version had a trap door to let dead squirrels fall to the ground. Not quite sure how they managed that . Perhaps the base of the trap was cut out so the killing arm pushed the victim onto the trap door instead of the original metal floor . I suppose that would allow other squirrels to feed
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    Sometimes ,but l think a flair few are brats who are used to getting spoilt rotten at home. They grow up with a sense of entitlement and immunity to other people's feelings. Factor-in teenage hormones and you have a little cxnt. We had a lot of Italian kids at school Nearly all acted the hard nut but were actually real mummy's boys .
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    I was a bit of a shy nerd at school and didn't really grow much until l was in my final year . Luckily l shared an interest in fishing and ferrets with some of the "hard lads" so didn't get too much of a hard time. One day though l was in my favourite place - the school library. I was the only one there until two big lads ,one a noted bully , from another class came in and sat right opposite me despite there being plenty of other seats. The nasty kid started kicking me under the table ,flicking my book shut and moved on to clipping me round the ears. While the other giggled.
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    Changing the subject a bit , but l'd be interested to know what you do with the raccoon skins . Do you tan them ? All the best
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    A raccoon foot would be a great prize for my dog too. It's not uncommon for a dog to find a dead fox without a tail in the British countryside ( the tails probably get caught in car radiator fans , farm machinery or wire fences etc ,, ahem ). My bitch just has to be different. A couple of days ago she found a tail without a fox! Wolfdog , l think you should explain to your Beloved that a compromise between outdoor cur and pampered pooch is perfectly feasible. Give it a deer carcass and let it eat it in front of the fire . Domestic bliss Guaranteed .....*
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    Sounds like he's embraced Scandi-noir to the full ..... Twenty two years of work ,paying the bills and raising a family and "nothing to show for it " Doesn't raising a family count as something to show for it! Moaning about broken boilers and cars...... like even the appliances were out to get him in the UK. Someone reckoned the older generation had it better . Growing up , if we wanted to watch TV we went up the road to a neighbour. I think there were only two or three cars in the street and they belonged to other people. No one had central heating,we
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    I took a few spare pheasants to a friend yesterday . Her culinary skills have been honed in some pretty high places . Any way ,while l watched she surgically dismantled a bird and flipped a fillet onto the centre of a large plate. With the words" There you go. A lettuce leaf and a blob of sauce . £54.99" I sent her the picture as a joke .
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    From field..... To table....Breast of hen pheasant glazed with a Memphis - style rub, roasted in hogget fat and served with slithettes of baby cucumber and a drizzle of..... Who am l kidding; this is what it really looked like.
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    Yes. I reckon Indian peasants who have tended to be historically unarmed make relatively easy pickings . Whereas African leopards and lions have possibly learned the hard way over the centuries that tribesmen and white men tend to carry weapons . A bit like the the reported depredations of wolves on lowly Russian and European peasantry in past times. Yet wolf attacks in America seem to have always been rare . Possibly because it was populated by migrants who arrived complete with hunting skills and weaponry to deal with predators and generations of wolves have learned not to be t
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    That's a bit weird. The leopard is in place before the woman sits down. She seems to glance at the camera a couple of times and the camera pans in just before the "attack" as if it was expected.
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    The customers were all farmer types so l suppose were out and about in the countryside a lot .I guess it wasn't an everyday occurrence but it's obviously something that sticks in the mind! One said she knew instinctively that it had dropped back because the hairs on her neck stopped sticking up .
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    What's always interested me is the sheer intelligence, for want of a better word, of wild cats. At fear of anthromorphism on my part ,the seeming ability of the man eaters to risk- assess sitations, execute attacks and escapes indicates senses and thought patterns of incredible levels . The way that they sometimes refused to be driven from their prey despite attempts by the victim's friends indicates the ability to recognise and be disdainful of poorly humans. Luckily we only have to worry about foxes pinching an unguarded chicken. Se
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