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Had to go. Only a few feet from the house of an eccentric elderly couple(My parents ). Probably would've been ok until the shorter nights when the hornets would have started entering the house to buzz the lights. Don't worry I gave Mum a Senior Citizen discount Those Japanese hornets looked very impressive. Once did a bit of unscientific monitoring of a wasp's nest that was near a hornet's nest. The hornets definatly kept the wasps down and by the end of Summer the wasp nest was no bigger than an early season one. Short-staffed I expect! Anyone know how far North hornets are bei
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I've had them fried .Must've been Ok .Certainly not something stuck in the head as "won't try that again.
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The men and women who fought in the World Wars did so because most were called-up. For every one that wanted a crack at the enemy there must've been many more who were frightened .The option to go AWOL or into hiding was taken by some but most did their duty. Many fought beyond the call. Many died . Thanks to those who fought it is very unlikely that todays youth will ever be called upon to prove their worth in the same way. This is just as well .In the event of call-up we'd probably hear, "I ain't F***** fightin",from the Crack-arses( who when not off the head actually do s
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At risk of being nominated for my second THL Darwin Award I had to take these of my favourite insect . Sadly these had to go . I don't have any job satisfaction from dealing with hornets.
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Bit of an update on my earlier post.I've had a chat with my Dad . Seems that during WW2 Grandad held down a full time job investigating Post office theft and fraud(Dad said it must have been important because Grandad carried a pistol at work!),he was also a sergeant in the Home Gaurd and a fire-watcher. One night having survived a close-shave in a bombing raid he finally arrived home in the early hours of the morning.Instead of a sympathetic welcome he was refused access by his wife until he had stripped naked and washed on the doorstep because he was covered in brick and rubble dust!
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The owl.Magic!
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My Grandad ,a Sergeant in the Post Office Rifles,was Mentioned in Dispatches in WW1 and features in the Regimental history book. Saving vital mule trains and getting them through under fire I think. I'll have to have another look at the book and talk to my Dad....One Christmas in the early1970's He rolled up his trouser leg to reveal an horrific scar from his knee to his ankle. Even my Dad (his son) had never seen it. It was only then , over fifty years on from events, that Grandad felt ready to talk about his experiences. Having several horses shot beneath him and even one hit by a shell
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Don't worry .He'll soon tell you.. How do you know the guy you're talking to at a party writes articles on fieldsports? Ditto -
Neither did I.I am very new to computers though so I don't really know how to access it or if my general ignorance of chat-room(computers in general )ettiquette would spoil other-folks rythme. One day I'll have a go.
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Is'nt that typical. They can show East enders and all the other junk soaps that include rape ,murder,drugs ,drunkeness,abortion,gang crime... etc before the watershed.Big brother ,Ramsey's foul-mouthed tantrums .Oh it goes on.... A little series ,probably shown on BBC2 at that, about people catching and eating their own food using legal and fairly natural methods is considered unsuitable.
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I'd imagine that if a mole notices a trap in it's run it reacts as it were a stone or twig that had fallen in. An obstruction to shift and a tunnel to repair or block-off .Had success with Rolfe's back-filled Talpex tip (in a dead -end) for the first time recently .Reverse psychology?.....I've decided that this might well be the technique to try when a mole is plugging me up as I've found that this is when a talpex set in a more conventional manner comes into it's own. Sometimes I think I've cracked it.Everything "feels "right. Some mornings I leave every customer with a smile on their
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Thank You
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Someone must know ? Seems Welshmatt's "random post " has turned -up a bit of mystery.
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cant see the point in it myself last week i went out caught 300 rabbits 47 foxes 2 water buffalo 17 antelope 34 fallow 12 reds 97 muntjac 420 brown hare and my bitch lost the rhino fair and square in cover what was the poit in lyin the poor dog was tired hed had a good weekend and i usually double up on rhino anyhow,this was a black rhino by the way whites tend to be further south of cardigan!!! I know some dogs will take big-game in the right hands , but come on there's not a dog alive can take a rabbit single-handed.
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Clarissa and Jonny still bobble about appearing at shows and things.She was originally trained in Law ,and was one half of the Two Fat Ladies cookery programme team.When the other lady died she teamed up with Jonny to make the C&C series.There was a rumour I'm sure that C had been pulled for taking part in a coursing meet recently ? ?
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I can never quite remember it word for word (but spect someone out there does)but you don't have to be religeous or a member of AA to appreciate the Serenity prayer . Something like; " Grant us the strength to change the things we can,the ability to accept the things we can't and the wisdom to know the difference.."
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Too many to list but recently he League of Gentlemen and someone must remember "Dear John"from the 's? The Shakin Stevens disco and Kirk giving the dead terrapin a dignified end ....
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Hav'nt owned a TV for years (OK I do see other peoples from time to time ) and since giving it up I no longer get wound -up by lying B*stard politicians,"House-mates "who should be gathered together in the Big-Brother jacuzzi and made to play water-polo with an electric toaster, American military propaganda or the fact that no-matter how attractive a weather-girl is ,she always appears on the screen fully dressed. Hence my list is a bit mundane. In no particular order;TV - 90% of it anyway. Dangling/tangling electric cables (OTC )
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Fair question if you don't know. 410 pistols are, if Certified correctly , legitimate and ideal little tools for humane dispatch of snared /trapped foxes etc.Hope this helps
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I have given blood three times and almost certainly will again. I suffer from very bad fear of needles which I know is stupid as wounds from black-thorns ,brambles , barbed -wire and fish-hooks go virtually unnoticed. First time I gave was as much in an attempt to overcome this fear as from any social concience. Tried accupuncture for the same reason. To anyone who would like to give blood but dislikes needles I'd say that the whole experience was ,for me at least , very different from the terror of being approached by a syringe-toting nurse in a "hospital" situation . That come
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Its rotten luck. Years ago, I remember being told two weeks before we were made redundent that despite the rumours our jobs were safe..... Still if he's been layed -off early he will have the time to check on his rights and if the Reciever is involved there is every chance of things being done by the book and being properly accountable. Probably take time though. Luck with his finding a new job
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You will now!!!!!!
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No help bait wise and a little off topic but at our regular sea-fishing port their remains on the local statute -book a rule banning the landing of Skates and rays unless they have been cut-up and winged. This was originally to save the blushes of gentle-folk who might have caught a glimpse of their prominent human-like genitalia.
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I guess the effective depth of the .303 (and I was only quoting the experiences mentioned in an old book) against pike is as much to do with judging the effects of refraction as the actual penetrative powers of the round.After -all , pike make a fairly narrow target. The talk of spearing reminded me of one our brief school-holiday crazes. Catching eels with dinner forks. Little bootlaces would be stabbed with an un-modified ,straight from the cutlery -draw item. For bigger prey we had a second fork with one prong broken off. The eels did'nt actually get punctured. Being so firm and mu