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I may have already posted this drawing sometime in the past on Show Us Your White Dogs thread, which is bit sad. But I like this drawing. Anatomy all wrong but the head is quite accurate, well not all of the head but the eyes. I did get more competent but used to give them all away, mostly to a friend who it turned out was selling them, believe it or not Not for much money mind but more than he was paying me for them, zero £. I only found out when viewing a litter of Border terrier pups and the vendor had a drawing of an European eagle owl on his wall that I recognised, signed by my "mate".
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Got tickets for Bruce Springsteen, Stadium of Light. Been a closet fan for years, these days I don't care who knows (Springsteen not the Stadium of Shite)
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He's only human and wants to be loved.
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You reference the 2nd Boer War, lessons learned from the 1st, don't wear red and stand in line with white webbing forming an aiming point for skilled riflemen to shoot you . WW1 did see the emergence of sniping as a potent weapon on the modern battlefield, as I am sure you know. The American Revolutionary War should have taught us that but we are slow to adapt. But during WW1 countrymen with decent levels of shooting and more importantly fieldcraft skills formed the basis of the early sniper units, many from gamekeeping and stalker occupation in civillian life. That's how the ghilie suit ent
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Her angst ridden songs of failed puppy love ain't exactly up there with Nina Simone or Billy Holiday but I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating biscuits. Would make her lick up all the crumbs though.
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The pleasure is to play Makes no difference what you say...
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Not what you were asking for but 1st book that came to hand. Sure there was a picture of the original Scottish 'keeper/stalker style in there but must in another book.
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I got a bit distracted from the job in hand on a site visit this morning. Never felt the attraction to trains and steam engines but seeing these in the flesh was impressive. Couldn't help but be put in mind of the days when Britain really was Great.
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I do enjoy your posts in the airgun section, a bit out of the ordinary. Air rifle hunting with a GSP as part of the team, great stuff.
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There's an old terrier that I still see that was the last true one of a friend of mine. He was gifted to people who are even older than us and the chap used to do a bit years ago. Standing joke they had to bath the terrier every day for a month before his personal odour was acceptable for a house dog. I think his farting was a big part of the problem but they must have came to accept that. He used to go mad every time I seen him, now he just wags his tail a little and walks on bye. He knows which side his bread is buttered and is loving it
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It wasn't a comment on how/why some make old bones, ideally they all would, just on how it tends to often work out. Sod's Law or bad luck? Might just be me.
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The good tend to die young. It is nice to see though when a dog that has earned retirement easily transitions from being a worker to a pampered pet.
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Django Unchained last night. Never bothered watching at before as assumed it would be a preachy black man good, white man bad sort of thing. Had not realised that it was a Tarantino film. More The Man Who Would Be King or a classic spaghetti western than Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. A good watch, even with the superhuman shooting skills and exploding heads Always struggle with Christoph Waltz playing a good guy after his incredible performance playing Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds. But I suppose he was still playing a psychopath executing people with impunity. And I now understand
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Then spotting the tag and realising you've put it on inside out. Bollocks, it's staying like that.
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I used to have a terrier that chased people on a bike. No one to blame but myself, I should never have taught him how to ride a bike. I'll get me coat.
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Very true. At the time I used to just pick up a pen or pencil and start drawing without any thought of composition or preportions. Would often get half way through and realise that it wasn't all going to fit onto the page
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Another from when I had the patience of a Saint before becoming a sinner
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Anatomically none of it is correct. I could probably do a better job now if I tried. But the colours, using coloured pencils, it took hours, over several weeks. That is the thing that I gave up. Thank you for the kind comment though,
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Not in the same league as the person who produced Greyman's beautiful drawing but something I did when at school. Making an effort every now and then to draw something not involving terriers or lurchers kept the teachers off my back for a short while.
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On one of the dreaded H&S courses today, face fit testing tester training. Had a walk around North Shields Quay at lunch time and admired these. We may need to re-commission them if those little dinghies start to appear at the mouth of the Tyne
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A person puts a lot of themselves into creating art and it is a precarious way of making a living and rarely lucrative. Same as being a musician or even being a hunt terrierman. Inherent talent will always remain but painstakingly learned technique fades rapidly without continued practice once you start doing a proper job. There are easier ways of making a living, but as self gratifying? I wouldn't know, I've had a proper job for most of my life
