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  1. There’s a fantastic book called The Falcon Thief about a guy who travelled the world stealing falcon eggs for the Arab market,even went to the arctic circle for white gyr falcons,really good read.
  2. Some things don’t end suddenly,they slowly morph into something else over time,the transition is long since underway,I had never saw a real live black person as a kid,there’s loads living in Sunderland now,and a couple of mosques.
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    Pet hates.

    It’s not a good watch I agree,just to see what’s down there.
  4. To be honest it’s what I see,fly into Heathrow your guided into the immigration line not by brits but by Indians,some of the border control officers at Heathrow are Indian,the prime minister and many MP’s again Indian,London our capital city is mostly foreigners all living in their little enclaves.Go to India no brits in the airport nor parliament,we got it wrong a long time ago,no turning back now,we already took the wrong turn.
  5. We are past the threshold,past the tipping point,unity should have been a long time ago,it’s beyond that,that’s the reality,the harsh truth.
  6. Because the average Brit is apathetic,all bluff and bluster but nothing else,I went to a stop the migrants march a few years ago there was less than a thousand of us made the effort. Conversely I recently went to a pro Palestinian march (method to my madness,market research)and there was estimated at 250,000 and the marchers had even came from Ireland and Scotland.Unity,United we stand divided we fall.
  7. I am in there maybe once a month, also check out the science museum, we are spoilt for choice in this country with good museums.The Natural history museum is huge.
  8. There's been quite a few locally, many a true word said in jest.
  9. No more foot aunches from sarangkot for a while then?A life less ordinary, he sounds an interesting guy.
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    Pet hates.

    I have been in a few caves,not claustrophobic at all but they are normally smelly,filthy and wet,the lad in that nutty putty cave is sealed up in there forever,trapped upside down in a tight tube.
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    Pet hates.

    Some people never come out.
  12. I wonder if he actually read the “script” before filming and thought that himself then just shrugged and thought of the payday,some films are so bad they are good,the beekeeper was just “That bad” it was crap.
  13. I am not as quick on the uptake as you,I thought it might actually be watchable,I still don’t know how it ended as it was that bad I turned it off.
  14. No,but the audience watching the film that day may have went to see how close the film was to real life. I saw the beekeeper yesterday,a solid 1.5/10,the bees played a better role than statham,no real storyline nor sting in the tail whatsoever,it’s a crock of crap.
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    Hobbies

    I remember the first time I ever saw one,beautiful birds,you in Tenerife now?
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    Hobbies

    Auctioneer faces jail and huge fine over birds’ eggs WWW.ANTIQUESTRADEGAZETTE.COM ONE of the North East’s best-known auctioneers faces a substantial fine and a possible...
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    I have seen a disused humming bird nest at mud lake in ottawa, absolutely tiny, the eggs must have been smaller than a pea.
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    Hobbies

    I found a killdeers nest a few years ago in Ontario.As kids we found grouse nests which were quite good find. cuckoos egg would be quite a prize,as would a fire crest.
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    Birds Nesting and Egg Collecting BOOKS.GOOGLE.CO.UK Originally published in 1920 when collecting bird's egss was a legal and accepted pastime for... There's a few books on bird nesting written in a time when it was quite a gentlemanly activity.
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    Hobbies

    Go and visit, that's the sort of thing I would have done, you could have probably picked the lock on the cabinet.
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