Ossie
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down my local with Gyp & my cousin's terrier, Tatty, my apprentice busher/ratter... pint of ale, big comfy leather sofa, a pair of chilled-out dogs, perfect!
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had a near-miss with one in november, opened the bin where i keep the pony's barley straw, grabbed a handful of straw, and a wasp wandered out of it onto my hand. feck i dropped the straw quick!
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right, a few things it could be. right-click on your desktop, choose "properties" from the menu, then "settings", and chech your screen resolution. i think 600 x 800 is the norm. the other thing to try is adjusting your monitor, as it sounds more likely it's something up there. when i had my pc re-jigged, and plugged it back into my old monitor i had to readjust the monitor to make the screen fit. maybe you knocked the buttons in the process of putting everything back together. i just had a tinker with my monitor to see if i could make it do what yours is doing, and the vertical stretch thin
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Gyp has a load of straw, with a duvet on top. my duvet, to be precise! i sleep in my parents spare room, in a sleeping bag straw? messy?... riiiiight..... it does make the dog warmer, straw is a fantastic insulator, the hollow stalks trap air, which warms up. it's not that long ago people were sleeping on straw mattresses. and the current trend for environmentally sound, well-insulated houses dictates that strawbales are the best thing to build your walls from. maybe australian straw is shit. now, where in Roystoncrankted's post did it say he's letting his dog piss in it's bed? i do
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Why lurchers dont get judged correctly?
Ossie replied to grewgirl's topic in Gamefairs, Meet Up's and Events
myself & a friend went along to a show on sunday. he hasn't been to a show in years, but used to do all the norfolk & suffolk shows in the 70's, and a few out of the area. he was appalled. no beer tent, no racing, the only dogs that looked like they'd been worked were ours (none of the rest had even a scratch on them), no fights, no bacon butty van, 4 quid to park, and NO SMOKING!!!! -
i've seen a spaniel x patterdale, i could see a market for them... it was full-grown, still had it's tail on, and looked like a chocolate labrador puppy!
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not much doing to be honest... lurcher shows aint what they used to be... it's all getting too sanitised, even 15-20 years ago when i was showing my terrier it was more of a craic. a few good dogs, but the best ones weren't shown, highlight was seeing my first poodle x grey. now that was worth getting out of bed for!
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you have way too much time on your hands! most likely otter shit. or you're looking for a mink with a very sore arse! leave a tube of pile ointment out, and a camera with a motion sensor.
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official site lurcher & terrier show on the Sunday, a good laugh last year, with good weather, and a lot of stuff going on. discount advance tickets available til 20/04/08.
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the ILPH are holding a lurcher & terrier show at their Snetterton farm (just off the A11), sunday, judging starts 11am. (and yes, i meant to post this a couple of days ago, but i'm slack & i forgot!)
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an excellent read, great pics, and very true!
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he didn't say he was against immigration,but he was against mass immigration. he felt that the 40,000 immigrants the country was receiving at the time was too many to be absorbed into our society, he would turn in his grave at the number we let in now. i read in the paper today that child benefits are being claimed for 34,000 children of eastern european immigrants, even though the children live abroad! it's costing the taxpayer £28million a year...
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let's see yours first!
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do a bit of research on them. learn to spell the type of dog you want. then pay your fiver & put your ad in the "Buy, Sell & Swap" section, like everyone else has to.
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he's still very young, i didn't do anything with Gyp until he turned 1, and i don't think you really know what you've got till the dog is 18 months old at least. it's a strange habit, but i'm confident he'll grow out of it. a bit of time off, and he might actually forget about it. Gyp was a sod for not retrieving as a pup, so i gave it a rest for a while, then got a shot rabbit, and spent a night or 2 chucking it out of my front door across the garden and going back to watching telly. within a matter of minutes (no more than 15) he twigged that no retrieve = no more fun, and was bringing it ba
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ah, mystery solved.thanks Borderboy, and good guess Kay! you're not the only one...
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honestly, there's bugger-all money in pelts these days. a fair few blokes i know in their 50's/60's used to make a tidy sum from them back in the day, but they're hardly worth bothering with now. learn how to cure them, and have someone run you up a nice moleskin waistcoat
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ok, this has been bugging me for a bit... what does YIS mean at the end of a post? see, where i come from, 'yis' is how we say 'yes'... i can't think what it stands for (took me a while to get that 'atb' means 'all the best' - in my world of weird sports, it means 'all-terrain board'!)
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nah, this is a fat cat. he's called bruce & weighs nigh-on 2 stone, poor fecker...
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not all that famous, unless you're from Norfolk, but Glen Roeder, Norwich City manager, is a coursing man.
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bloody hell, not another one! btw, poacher2225, what's a garyhound? one that wears burberry & takes corners on 2 legs? sorry mate, but round these parts, car-mad loony young male drivers are called "gary-boys". couldn't resist!
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bloody hell, not again!
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got cookies enabled? go to tools ---> internet options ---> privacy, click on the "sites" tab, and type in the hunting life address, and click allow. might work!
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i told Ted Walsh's daughter about the smooth coat/first cross thing, she said she'd never heard that before. she dug out a photo that ted Took of a rough-coated brindle saluki x greyhound, we found a few more in his albums.
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not about the ages of my dogs, and not by that much. i've not heard "nob head" since i was at highschool! no nob here! not on my head, or anywhere else about my person! right-o. endo of. play nicely, and think before you type next time.