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Wirehair pointer 1st cross
eastcoast replied to scottish hare hunter's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Are the HPR types already more akin to a lurcher than the "conventional" gundog breeds? Types of dogs developed to perform more than one task in countries with a different culture to the British Isles when "our" breeds were developed by those who shot over dogs lived in a world where you would have spaniels to find and flush, pointers/setters for the moors, and retrievers to retrieve? -
I haven't seen the documentaries but he always comes across as an interesting and charming man and a probable sociopath boarder line psychopath. Have not all great football managers not been the same? Fergie was, Keegan wasn't.
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Renault Fuego? Came close to buying a couple but by the time they were in my budget were 1 step away from the scrapyard and held together with bodge and old newspapers, interesting looking cars though. Before car designers started using the postman Pat van as their inspiration.
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The end of the Halcyon days of the common man hunting for sport? Has always been the preserve of a certain elite in the British Isles. Changed, when, mid- 20th century when people got vans and cars and knocked on doors or did not knock on doors. But got out there and hunted without the fear of being hanged or deported to the colonies.
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Don't know why they unsettle me, nothing with 6 legs or 4 legs or 2 legs or even no legs has that effect. Maybe that's it, they just have too many legs and too many eyes. I would imagine that being wary of spiders is no bad thing in your part of the world though
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To honest I'm the same with spiders. I'm not scared of them, I a can bluff it out and remove them from a room looking all brave, even worked under floors in electrical switch rooms that have small plague like populations, but when one pops up unexpectedly I shit myself. And it's always MASSIVE!
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People who aren't used to seeing rats never see a small or average size one, it's always a MASSIVE rat!
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There was a time when the police had no problem with having a more hands on approach to their work.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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Nice carpet. No laminate wood flooring or neutral colours back then.
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I was going to say hope you managed to avoid the pot holes, but too many to miss. A disgrace the way it has been allowed to deteriorate. Repairs starting next week, closed to 1 lane each way for 2 years! I wouldn't be surprised if it never fully re-opens. Bus lanes and cycle paths will probably be created. They closed the High Level for maintenance work some years ago and then declared that it wasn't structurally sound enough for a high volume of traffic, just buses, taxis and bicycles. Strange that, buses being heavier than cars like
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I got Albania in the office sweep. 1 of the young wiz kids (that's all of them except me) set up some kind of wheel of fortune App and I also got the bonus team, Scotland. Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd so if England don't go the distance here's hoping for a Scotland v Albania final. Come on Albania!
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Watching Foden this season in my opinion he joins Bellingham as being genuine world class and would start for any club or country. Again, this season and last, in my opinion Gordon has overtaken Grealish and Rashford. Rashford drifts in and out of games and does not give 100% for 90 minutes. Too often Grealish stops the play/momentum and just keeps to the ball until he draws a foul. Yes he wins lots of free kicks but that is not the way I like to see a forward play. But I have no axe to grind with any of then, just hope that they more than do us proud and actually win it this time.
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There's 2 threads with the same title.
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My niece, great nice and great nephew on their way to the game after travelling down from up north.
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In hindsight that was a rather crass post from myself. I loved the Shooting News and carried on subscribing to the Countryman's Weekly for many years. Some great contributors over the years such as Daergie (I forget the spelling?) and Phil Lloyd. Even D B Plummer, if nothing else his articles were never boring. I wish you every success in getting it off the ground.
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Let's See Your Phone Shots !!
eastcoast replied to mattybugeye's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Rubbish pics but trying to operate a phone with 1 hand and a terrier doing cart wheels on the lead in the other. Also her catch was still alive and didn't want to get any closer and put her off her game. Sparrow hawk on a blackbird. -
Late night ramblings after too much relaxing. I was taught at an early age never discuss politics or religion when relaxing, I need to remember that at times. Regarding the actual football, I hope Anthony Gordon gets a chance to prove what Newcastle fans already know, that he has more drive and hunger in his little finger than some of Southgate's mainstays have in their entire bodies. Not short on talent either.
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The "taking of the knee" was transient, almost gone now, but will probably happen at the England game tomorrow. It will not be BLM, something else. Against the wishes of those who orchestrated it. They won/got their way for a short time, now they are losing. Slowly but surely.
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Now only a lunatic or a self opinionated, Romany speaking school teacher would go for this rubbish.
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Those who wanted to change things that did not need changing, or to fix things that were not broken, have won. At present. Whilst we were carrying on living our lives they have worked hard to get into positions of power in order to change the country to their own ideals. Personified by hunting. Those of us who hunted devoted our time and energy into doing so, those who opposed us devoted their time and energy into stopping it. There was only ever going to be one winner. The best response to this England shirt bollocks is for the lads in the squad, those who care, to take more pride in "th
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When driving north (usually to south west Scotland) I used to love to see the modified deer warning sings at the side of the road once I'd crossed the border. Modified by being peppered with shotgun pellets. Happy days.
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Reading those words my oldest daughters communion dress, just seemed such a nice thing to read amongst all of the depressing doom and gloom of a changing world.
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That ended quite amicably. He was an amateur purveyor of fragrant herbs and medicinal compounds, which wasn't my thing, but a slab of Stella a couple of quid calmed the waters. Times was hard.
