eastcoast
-
Content Count
2,919 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Gun Dealer's and Fieldsports Shop's
Reloading Room
Blogs
Calendar
Store
Classifieds
Everything posted by eastcoast
-
I've posted some rubbish photos of birds on here and this must be the worst, but for a reason. Some type of gull and thinking Herring. One of our jobs is nearing completion and the site compound got relocated to the next phase of works across the road. Some daft sea gull had built a nest on the ground. We've had problems and delays with pigeons nesting so it has been cordoned off. 2 chicks hatched today and wanted to photograph them but problem is her mate is on guard duty and attacks. I'm not scared of his attacks as he veers off before making contact but does sometimes shit on you. I was hea
-
Are you sure it's a Wood Pigeon? Looks like one of the new species that I thought I had discovered a few month ago.
-
War is the mid-wife of reform ... just popped into my head, the only thing that a history teacher at school who hated me said that has stuck with me.
-
I would draw to the attention of the jury that those tie wraps in the photographs have been used and cut off, most probably by a strip out crew or cable thieves, ipso facto not generated waste from an electrical installation.
-
A great song, but Shane himself did write a darker more poignant song IMO, the Dunes, the Great Hunger possibly being a better term than the Famine. People starved to death cannot be denied no matter the political evil behind it or not.
-
Note to self: the next "love job" that involves removing skirting and putting right the previous lazy spark's work removing surface sockets and flushing into wall... call in favours from plumber friends to take rads off the wall and collar an apprentice from work to chase for the back boxes.
-
I grew up not far away and car theft was the entry level/apprenticeship. I always found the Ghia interia thing quite poetic justice. Steal a posh Ford, strip the interior, sell it to a lad who could not afford the top spec but was posh (had a job and legally owned a car), wait until he pays someone to install it, then steal it back and sell again. The gift that kept on giving. Then ram raiding happened. Hard to imagine now, you could drive a Transit and Land Rover into a shopping mall and straight through Curries window. Zero mechanical protection to stop it happening. Not me, I was neve
-
I do try to listen to new music but most of it these days is self indulgent miserable derge about failed romantic relationships. Is that all people have in their lives? Enjoying Counting Crows Butter Miracle, stand out song Spaceman in Tulsa.
-
I suppose another way of saying that is many of us would not be English if not for the famine? Me personally, if thinking of my own lineage as a dog's pedigree, obvious know Irish outcross over the years but the foundation stock remained a mystery and all we really had to go on was a surname. Repeated attempts by a few only managed to get so far back before hitting a wall. The missing part of the jigsaw was discovered almost by accident by a gentleman who helps people of Irish lineage trace their ancestry. On an unrelated search he remembered us when going through records of a workhouse in Gl
-
Way off topic but hammer and chisel related. Been off the tools for years but you never get off. Phone call from sister yesterday who has recently moved "I'm getting new flooring and skirting boards next week, any chance you could take the old ones off and flush the sockets into the wall" "no problem, I'll bring my magic wand". Joy of joys, breeze block not brick, bollocks, they have frogs in them!
-
Seen that. Terrier men who dug only badger, not law breakers or the sort who regard prison as an occupational hazard, had no choice but to pack in. Something that was once legal became illegal.
-
Rabbiting season ?
eastcoast replied to Tariff2's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
Interesting AW. Is that your personal taste, I've never found rabbit that nice apart from being free meat, but many did, and some still do in the British Isles before we became islands of hypocritical animal lovers ( cannot eat a lovely bunny but don't give a damn about how the cheap pig and poultry products are produced). My question/interest, do your rabbits taste like shit because of the fauna that they eat in your country? -
Rest easy, my knew found skills are to be used only when the situation demands. Hare Krishna.
-
Be aware, I have been trained in having an argument today, but please elaborate.
-
Thomas Gainsborough "Greyhounds coursing a fox", one of the greatest English artists. Painted the great and the good, but loved his dogs and horses.
-
I always preferred Landseer to Picasso anyway.
-
The course was Critical Thinking (I think) and how to have an argument was only a part of it. This was followed by a course on Creative Thinking, that used Picasso as an example of "abstract" "thinking outside of the box" which inspired me to start drawing pictures of terriers knacking foxes and lurchers striking hares in my notebook, something that I used to do at school and would get twated by the teacher, but not today.
-
So is this the right room for an argument?
-
I had to do a course today, the latest drive from HR that everyone needs to complete 1 training session per month. They don't understand that sometimes proper relevant courses are happening in order to retain professional competency or people are busy doing the job that keeps these HR and admin types employed. Anyway, this month's was Critical Thinking, I think, wasn't paying too much attention. A big part of the course was arguing. I had not received any training in this before today other than the Monty Python sketch which is more us useful in many circumstances. I did learn today that
-
Cushing's disease in dogs. Not so much the disease, shit happens, and certainly the dog is not at fault. But rather a symptom which is increased appetite which has manifested itself in my dog becoming obsessed with hunting and eating crap. Even that is not the "pet hate", the pet hate is the amount of discarded human food, EVERYWHERE! Think of a good finder, searching every inch for the scent of something to flush, now he is finding bread or suet balls left for birds, half eating McDonalds in the grass, pork chop bones(!), who the f**k leaves the house eating a pork chop? In a relatively nice
-
A bit late to the party but just unearthed these forgotten items on a Spring clean. Bought in 1996 and used again yesterday. 10-12 pumps still gets the .22 Daystate to full power. 60+ shots. Rifle still shoots straight.
-
I was doing some late Spring cleaning last week and properly dusted off most of the books and found both.
-
Nothing wrong with a bit of Bargain Hunt on catch-up, pure escapism from the doom and gloom, even if they do lie about the rules of the contest.
-
No No Yes Kind of, but the person was not a stranger Kind of, more like not willing to change Not shed tears, but have been more saddened Only play fighting with ferrets, never been brave enough (or daft enough), to wrestle a wild mustelid Kind of, shared the steak.
-
Wild caught newts and frogs are good eaters, until they start eating themselves (that's when you need more space) but terrapins not so much. That's when the water born food turns into crazy looking wild biting air born pests.
