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Wow! I looked it up and you're right. I'm surprised Billy Mackenzie of the Associates wasn't on the list that I found. He had an amazing voice with a huge range. I think he did an opera once with one of the women from Propaganda.

When my wife got one of those Alexa thingys I added a "favourites" playlist to it. I was surprised to find after a couple of days of adding different tracks that they were all Classical. Once I'd realised this I started another one of non-classical. Mine is almost exclusively 70s and 80s. All time favourites would be Madness, The Specials, Depeche Mode, Japan, Talk Talk, Blancmange...basically either 2Tone or New Wave. Without a shadow of doubt, my all time favourite vocalist would be David Sylvian. I'm transported to another place when I hear his voice. Seen him live a few tim

While trying to do a bit more research on the beardie sire to add to this thread (for other people's information) I found the pedigree for the collie lurcher dam. Very impressive. Off the top of my head, the names I can remember are Hancock's Rufus, Sharpe's Moss (who was great grand-sire to my last lurcher), Hancock's Katie (who was grand-dam to my collie x whippet) and a dog I've read about on here called Arri. On the other side was whippet blood from Sooty Sam via Zorro. While reading all that I had the feeling I'd read it before somewhere. Then I found it in one of my Phil Lloyd books

Yeah, I've been reading about her in the bushing thread.

Yeah, my wife bought me a copy a few years ago. It's a good book but I don't completely agree with his kelpie/German shepherd connection theory. In my opinion, a better book for kelpie origins and history is "Origins Of The Australian Kelpie" by Bill Robertson. Very well thought out book with a lot of miles put in to conduct his research. On a slightly related subject: my current two kelpies will be my last. When I got my first everybody said I was mad and kelpies are such hard work but I kept saying all the naysayers were wrong as mine was a piece of cake. Then I got three more (the last

Must just be a coincidence because of the colouring and build. No, not a pup from Ed; I'd never even heard of him until you mentioned him.

Do you mean in the same sense that in New Zealand they call them "big game indicating dogs"?

I think so. Is the bitch related to yours by any chance? When I saw the dam in the photos she looked familiar and then I realised I was thinking of your red and tan. I was a tad tempted but I've got my name on a waiting list for a litter later this year.

I know they're not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm sure I saw a thread on here earlier this year about somebody wanting a collie greyhound pup. While browsing for something completely different, I've found two dog pups that might interest some. The dam is a collie/greyhound (I think she's line bred with lines going back to the 80s so not a half bred). The sire is a working beardie. As I said, not everyone's cup of tea but they piqued my interest. The advert is on both Pets4Homes and Gundogs Direct. I think they're in Andover.

I can't remember what year it was, but sometime in the mid 80s, my cousin and I were walking along the cliff walk from Charmouth to Lyme Regis (we were actually going to the Radio 1 Road Show with Gary Davies!) when we saw what we initially thought was a cloud. Within minutes this huge cloud became a swarm of millions of ladybirds coming over the sea and heading inland. An amazing sight.

Crikey! I've got a locator with two collars that I've not used for several years that I keep thinking of selling. I've just looked on ebay and only found one and it was £225!

I've often wondered if road kill is a good indication of what wildlife is in an area i.e. I've always assumed it is. My wife and I were talking recently about how we tend to see different things in different parts of the country. A couple of weekends ago we went to Appledore and saw mainly pheasant (on the way) but with an increasing number of badger the farther west we went. Last week we went to Highclere for her 50th birthday and saw mainly roe deer. Pheasant and fox are the main ones near us...and fly tipping.

I opened this thread yesterday after not being on here for a week or so and thinking I must have misread the title. I read the first post, closed the computer down and went for a long walk up Windmill Hill. There was a hare at the top and I wondered if he believed in reincarnation. I only met Phil a handful of times, maybe a little more, but I learnt a lot on those few occasions, particularly when he once borrowed the two ferrets I had at the time to get one of his previous 'cur dogs' started (I think it might have been Dusty). However, despite his standing in the lurcher world, my o

In my case I've come full circle. I got my first lurcher because I'd always been out and about watching wildlife and I thought I'd like a canine mate to enjoy it with. As I grew up with a garden full of working terriers and lurchers it was natural to pick a lurcher. However, over the years (particularly the last dozen or so years) I've found that I enjoy the watching more than the catching again. Just in the last couple of weeks I've enticed a pair of roe does in to within twenty feet and watched them browsing, cleaning (and weeing) for an hour with the dog sat beside me, watched a l

Robin is definitely my favourite call (maybe because of nostalgia; reading The Secret garden when I was little etc). Second favourite, once again for reasons of nostalgia, is the blackbird. Another I like, both the bird itself and the call, is the dunnock; I think they're one of the most overlooked and undervalued birds in the UK. My favourite species is the wren but, although I like their call, it reminds me of those contestants on the Voice when they've only got a few seconds left and none of the judges chairs have turned so they throw everything at it and go a bit over the to