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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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    Hope you didn't share your beer with him;if only to avoid the obvious joke:)
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    They'll be long gone . The images are 25 years old. I would imagine the main reason to use a tame cock pheasant is that it will be calmer around people. my cock pheasant was wild caught.I had the impression that once he was in breeding condition and the joys of spring kicked-in he wasn't particularly fussy what he mated. I've actually seen a cock pheasant mounting a road-kill hen!
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    I bred some by running a cock pheasant in a mixed pen of pheasant hens and little red bantams. The chicks were bigger and stronger than pheasant chicks straight from the egg even though the bantam hens were smaller than the pheasant hens. The phantom chicks were more advanced from the start and also more wild. They turned out quite leggy and speckly and though they could fly ,tended to run a lot. In fact they became known as the Roadrunners and eventually spurned our little Shoot for the big woods over the boundary Eventually one of the Keepers on the neighbouring land shot one
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    That's in general, ie you don't need to have reasonable justification to carry one to those specifications. Anything bigger or locking then you need to be able to prove that whatever activity you're doing warrants it, as long as it's not something illegal like a flick knife or butterfly knife. That's about it. As Malt says, as long as you have justifiable use for the blade you have nothing to worry about. Fishermen,butchers,hunters and a host of tradesmen use knives habitually and legally. My mate's son is in the army and has been known to carry a ceremonial sword from Sussex to Edinburgh o
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    Any chance a tawny owl- possibly with young in tow- could have found its way in? . They will take quite big poults and often single out the funny coloured ones. Talon marks on the back and decapitation are the trade marks but if the pen is covered by fine mesh its unlikely. You could spread some smooth sand round the pen and look for tracks. Having just googled "Polecats IOM" it seems Manx polecats are descended from escaped ferrets. Even so, if it looks like a polecat, smells like a polecat;best assume it is protected like polecat.
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    Having done a fair bit of scouting about when I was looking for a vehicle and having read forum comments and reviews it seems that there are several good little generic 4x4s available .They all have their loyal following . If you like the jeep-look it seems hard to get a fag-paper between the Pinon ,Vitara and half a dozen others as far as performance and reliability are concerned. In fact you could probably mix up the badges on some of them em and nobody would know the difference . With so many well-rated ones to choose from , the question" What's the best little 4X4?" is perhaps not the be
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    It will certainly help me look more cleverer when I show people:) Thank you.
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    I ran a 1997 Vitara for the last seven or eight years. It had 40,00 on the clock when I bought it and only started showing its age with emission problems at 150,000miles plus. It cost me nothing but consumables like plugs oil-changes,tyres,brake pads and half an exhaust.MOTs were never traumatic. I only had to replace the clutch because the diaphragm had worn; the original plate at 140,00 miles had tons of wear left. Good enough off road for anyone not into the serious "let's go off-roading" assault course stuff even with road tyres. The trouble is that most of the old type Vitaras are all get
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