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mackem

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  1. Depends what your offences were,they aren’t too enamoured with people who have been inside etc,I have a mate who got an enhanced check and didn’t get out of the airport,next flight back to Blighty.I had a sticky time once,kept me in the airport for maybe 45 minutes when I did a currency disclosure on how much cash I was carrying.
  2. Always have an ace up your sleeve (or better yet,two).
  3. His show was far too short to be honest,even with bear Grylls doing a Q&A it was only about 90 minutes?He is a raconteur par excellence,been seen and done the T-shirt.I am at a Les Stroud function next week that’s 3 hours,Ranulph Fiennes could easily fill three hours and more.
  4. Very good evening,his story of having the heart attack on the Tibetan side of Everest was raw,certainly inspiring.
  5. Yes,I have been to parks Chitwan,Corbett,Bardiya,Karakoram etc,your in one at the moment,Lake district
  6. Passed this place yesterday,cannabis store sandwiched between a pharmacist and an alcohol store.Yup,it sells medicine.
  7. Is this him with the guns?
  8. Watched this last night,BBC documentary on the phenomenon 1990's Yes its Chris Packham but quite interesting.
  9. I don’t think Plummer could ever envisage blokes chatting about him on a small handheld device in real-time separated by thousands of miles decades after his death,would have blown his mind.
  10. We went out lamping with him,very hospitable bloke.
  11. I think Tommy McPhee triggered the rush,his pics in a letter in Shooting News of a pile of rabbits and hares and his bitch ruby,everyone wanted a bit of that.I think Tom Burns a SN columnist even moved up there.
  12. mackem

    Tenerife

    Predictive txt is the bane of my life.
  13. mackem

    Tenerife

    Predictive txt innit
  14. Maybe mate,probably fathom and penguin and suchlike,that’s when he teamed up with Hancock to brand-name collie Lurchers.
  15. It was balaam and Balak from the bible,I think plummer called them balaam and Barak.Eye catching dogs but probably also-rans as a dynasty was being founded,if they were decent dogs they would have been woven into the tale instead of being mentioned in passing.
  16. We both got one of a very small number of books from the first print run before they spotted the error,I think he did his own proof reading.
  17. Hebrew and Sanskrit,both ring a bell.
  18. Tony Lip the loud Italian American,films called Green Book.
  19. Doing a 20 kilometre,halfway through looked up and watched a dogfight between a crow and a turkey vulture,bit further on snake on the path.
  20. mackem

    Tenerife

    The pyramids are right on the edge of Cairo,and it’s continuous hassle from people,hope your experiences are better than mine,take it as it comes,you might enjoy it hopefully.
  21. Which part of Sutherland was that Leo,I was up there often around Dornoch,Helmsdale etc,my cousin still lives in Caithness,her husband is a fisherman.
  22. I remember he wrote about Filipino slasher derbies,when I actually went to the world championships in the Araneta in QC I realised he had never actually been to one.
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