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    and the Alamo big john = Davie crocket gets killed in it Can you name another classic (or two) that The Duke dies in..?? He died in The Shootist. And a war film ,Sands of Iwo Jima or something similar.
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    The Searchers has to be the benchmark; it has every ingredient including great, stylised dialogue and characters. The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven are up there too. In fact I spent New Year's Eve under a blanket on the sofa beside a blazing fire watching "Josey Wales" ,again. Best Spaghetti; High Plains Drifter -it works on a more ethereal level than the other Spaghettis. For weirdness,daring subject matter and set-piece imagery Burt Lancaster's "The Unforgiven " is worth a look. What other Western depicts Kiowas lancing a grand piano to death? My other favourites are the
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    If you want sausages ,gammon or bacon some slaughter-houses will do it for you. That really bumps the price up of course and you have to allow a few weeks for the curing process. Remember ,the pluck(heart,liver etc) are your property and unless they fail a health inspection you are entitled to them. Definitely get the trotters and heads back. If you don't fancy them yourself ,ask around, someone's mum or granny will love you forever if you say you have pig's head going spare.
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    Weaners are cheap this time of year for a reason. Kept outside the pigs and the land will end up an unhygenic mess and the ten or twenty quid you saved on buying cheap weaners will be swallowed up by extra food intake they need to stave off the cold. If you buy piglets at 8-12 weeks old in April or May they will have the benefit of the warmer weather and can take advantage of the autumn windfalls and should be ready for slaughter in October or early November at the latest if you want them for Christmas gammon as it takes time to cure the meat and there may be a seasonal rush at t
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    They follow the food. If its good for worms its good for moles. They travel along repair ,hunt and extend runs inherited from the generations of moles that have gone before and proved fruitful and use them according to worm abundance ,which depends upon the weather and season. The worms of course travel by the compass....
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    Rip Lemmy

    comanche replied to hawki's topic in General Talk

    They've got a bit of a band going up(?) there now. Don't forget wotsisname?,oh yeah Wurzel and Kelly from Girlschool. Resting in peace seems unlikely. I first saw Motorhead slumming-it in a school hall in Crawley when not even their own management would touch em with a barge-pole .The last time I saw them was at Brixton Academy about 9 years ago. Even my mate's other half who isn't into rock said it was the best concert she had ever been to. Alcoholic,diabetic,pace-maker ,smoker,workaholic, possibly a transvestite sh*gger ; Lemmy probably wasn't going to live for ever and there has
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    Rub a little oil and whatever pepper ,salt and spices you fancy over it. Then make up a sloppy mix of flour and water batter and smear it thickly all over the shoulder. If you rest it on some potato halves or a grid in the roasting dish it won't stick to the bottom . Then bake for as long as the weight dictates plus a bit more. Its actually very hard to over-cook the meat;it just steams a bit longer in its cocoon and gets more tender. When done, crack off the pastry which will be hard and on the well done side to reveal the meat. The resulting chunks of pastry make great dog biscuits t
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    Teach him to carry the dummy before you push-on with the retrieves. Put him on a lead and walk him with the dummy in his mouth. Make him sit or stand from time to time at heel with the dummy still in his mouth. Then carry-on walking with him at heel still holding the dummy. Once he is doing this and only releasing the dummy into your hand when you ask try having him stay with the dummy in his mouth and walk back the length of the lead and call him for a controlled release into your hand. Only do this a couple of times. Stop on a high note with one good "retrieve" and praise. Its that good retr
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    As the song goes-Those were the days my friend. I'd spent hours drooling over the airguns in my Mams Catalogue. And of course the women's underwear. My first was the plain ol' Relum Telly from mum's catalogue. It cost a tenner and I still use it though its had a few new springs and seals over the years. At the time I couldn't go the extra fiver for the Tornado as there was only so much school dinner money I could hoard without mum asking too many questions as to the source of my wealth. The blurb in the catalogue certainly inferred that the Tornado was superior and more powerful
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    Mead. I had a go on a small scale many years ago using an old, supposedly traditional, recipe and honey from a friend' hives and only ended up with a two or three bottles It was unveiled at a party but not being a "drinker" by the time I got round to thinking about sampling some it had all gone. It was proclaimed "Good stuff,"by the greedy little cadre of "New Agers" that had hogged the bottles but I was a bit miffed that nobody had saved any for me . Never trust a hippy! In hindsight I was lucky as over the next few days I started to hear reports of hideous hang-overs of eye-bursting prop
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    Its good for holding birds as they can amuse themselves for a long time scratching in the straw for corn. A good long straw ride with food spread along it means there is plenty of space for a lot of birds to feed at once without the competition that can occur around a hopper. It also gives the Keeper a chance to count the birds accurately as normally they don't mind being watched by a familiar face and will often be waiting for him to arrive with his corn-bucket. Done in the traditional manner the Keeper gives a morning and afternoon feed and whistles to let the birds know he is on the rou
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    You are actually lucky to live in East Sussex rather than the more uptight "Wild West " of the county.They are like two different worlds when it comes to getting rabbiting. It may not happen overnight but my experience of the Eastern Front is that if you make a good job of rabbiting the permissions you have it won't be long before your name is passed about. As for getting a chance to use the air rifle; mention to your landowners that although you'll not be able to ferret through the summer you could ,possibly,if they were really desperate,try to pick-off a few bunnies on the odd summer eve
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    He knows.... I'm glad some fecker does,,,,I've read the title ten times,,,and I'm fecked if I know what specialist stroke means...lol I had to think about it; having read it I decided it wasn't a reference to being touched up by a member of the medical profession while under anaesthetic. My simple mind would have responded better to Specialist/ultimate..... Then my simplistic approach is that any dog that has good manners , marks and is nimble enough to pin potential net-flippers without chewing them up is good enough. Different if you have wide-open country and forgo the use of net
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    Plummer in a rat hunting man? Usually attributed to Grizzly Adams I believe
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    I've only had pigs for a couple of years so I'm no expert . On the other hand the mistakes and lessons learned are very fresh in my mind! . Just about all the other posts are spot-on. Pigs have great potential for escape . When they get their heads down and go into ploughing mode they can lift gates and stock mesh with their noses with ease . Once they know what an electric fence is they are clever enough to avoid it and it may take a while but they are also clever enough to realise when a fence has stopped working. Any playthings like logs and pipes are best tied to trees or the escape
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    Apart from the size of a fox element the description could fit a pine-martin
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    Yes, the same question came up a while back and though its not a paper-back this is the only book I would bother with if you are a novice mushroom hunter. Its worth noting that the author is also a fisherman and hunter . I've recommended his book so often I should be his agent:)
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    Bet you live miles from me but if not ,I have one from a 97 if its any good to you .
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    Part of the trouble is that nowadays the cost of insurance ,safety and security that is demanded before such events get approval is crippling. These cost are fixed by councils and companies who know they will get their cut whatever the weather or whether or not the event is a success for the organisers. The result is the organisers have to charge more as attendances fall just to cover fixed costs and pray for some sun. The knock -on is that stall-holders pay more and charge accordingly; gone are the days of genuine show offers or cheap old stock that made a trip to a show worth the e
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    Is that a 4 1/2 disc?: if so its clearly been abused. From the state of it I'd say it may've started off as a 9"incher(possibly running in a 4 1/2 grinder with the guard removed? and someone has paid the price of trying to eke that little extra from a knackered disc. As said by some ;an accidental touch from a grinder is more likely to leave a burn than a gaping wound but those thin cutting discs have a habit of letting you know when they are passed the wear limit!
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    Mullet :infuriating things but also intriguing. Hence a ten second google of Mediterranean mullet turned up the flat headed grey mullet. It may not be your fish but it does have yellowish fins and tail
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    I think the picture is brilliant! Edit out the little lightening effect and you have something worthy of hanging on the wall or using in a book. Or perhaps I have a funny appreciation of art....
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    I've often wondered if a poodle greyhound cross might trump the Bedlington cross . Poodles are scored as the most intelligent of dogs.They are trainable and athletic-witness the number used in circus acts-, have a weatherproof coat , can be quite fiery and were originally bred as gun and service dogs. Whether the cross would gel in the way Bedlingtons do with a whippets or a collies with greyhounds would be interesting to know. I also think the idea that a lurcher is the essential dog for ferreting is a fairly recent one. I bet many site members will have tales of all sorts of mon
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    Forget all the field guides. There is only one book for the novice mushroom hunter and that is Mushrooming With Confidence by Alex Schwab. The book doesn't bother showing you what will kill you it just shows you how to identify the safest and very best ones to eat!
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