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The Navy ratings manning the gun carriage were fore and aft so the Italians could have worked with that should they needed to go backwards.
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Is that a tick in red pen above the bottom drawing? Go with your instincts.
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I was aware of that but the "brand" is still considered to be worth investing in. A far more downmarket example, I bought a modern Mini last year. Still built in Britain but owned by BMW of course. The Mini brand is the selling point both here and around the world and BMW know that. I watched lots of video reviews before buying one and something that I found odd was that the English reviewers got rather embarrassed when it came to new Union Flag rear lighting configuration. All the overseas reviewers where "now we come to the best part of the new Mini, rear lights in the shape of the Briddish
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I know. Still watching the ceremony at the moment.
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When watching things such as this I cannot help but try and spot those who may be doing a more security focused job than it appears. Usually the "footmen" on horse drawn carriages who's eyes seem to be constantly flicking around the crowd.
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In regard to the British brand, an obvious and trivial observation maybe, but the vehicles used today... Bentley, Land Rover, Range Rover and Jaguar.
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That looks like a nice team of dogs that you are putting together Daniel cane. ?
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Let's See Your Phone Shots !!
eastcoast replied to mattybugeye's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Parked up for mam and dad's ice cream with a sea view and captivated by these charming little chaps and chapess'. Holding their own amongst the gulls. Used to consider them stop gap ferret food. Very common at one time, hundreds or even maybe thousands of them would be around at certain times of the year. Don't see that many around now. -
Doesn't he/she look cute and at peace... probably just swallowed something half its size ?
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I used to know a person like you described. Only for a few years and he was a friend of a friend, we lived in different worlds. The dogs that he kept himself were working Lakeland types. He did not hunt with them just liked the type. He used to clean up at at shows, his terriers did so much as glow with health they almost had a halo of light around them.
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What is "osw" if you don't mind me asking?
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I can't remember if I have wrote this on here (THL) before Ken but I used to collect newts, frogs and toads. Just the ones to be found locally in the wild. At 1st I would keep them together but stopped doing so after 1 day sitting watching them (as you do) and was horrified to see a largish frog snap up and "swallow" a newt. The newt's head and front legs reappeared a few times but eventually disappeared for good. The newts where probably Palmate and the frogs Common Frogs. I could be wrong, never looked them up in books. Wish I had. Ultimate predators frogs though, if something comes in
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The bottom picture looks more "froggy".
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This may be very pedestrian for you folk on here but what's your thoughts on what should or should not be in a Bolognese? The 1st "exotic" food that I was introduced to. My dad would just about put up with it but mam had to make a different batch for him without garlic. The modern self loathing thing that some Brits have dictate that what we consider to be Italian or Indian etc is nothing of the sort and we should be ashamed. I don't care. Nice food is nice food whether it is historically correct or not. Got one on the go now and it consists of: minced beef - white onion - fresh garl
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Dead right. The cats were easier to catch than the rats during daytime. Not that the dogs were rubbish just that it was extremely difficult to shift the rats from their strongholds and I had never seen a smoker at that time. In my defence regarding the cats I was young and daft and mad keen on any sport with dogs. These days I'm scared to walk a terrier even on a lead on any land within miles of a badger set for fear of the helicopter appearing to be shortly followed by several police cars and being informed that a member of the public has reported me for badger baiting. Again. Had
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It was weird reading that until the end bit. I used to frequent N S fish quay early mornings with my terriers for the rats and erm... whisper it... there were a load of feral cats. I had a red cortina estate. Cortina was pre-1992 though.
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Had no choice but to try and watch today's events on TV. One thing pissed me off and another I found dumbfounding. Pissed off - Our new PM thinks the country directly north of England is called Scollan, even after the King was trying to help her by always pronouncing the word Scotland correctly. Dumbfounded - Coldstream Guards re-enacting the momentous moment in British history when Charles II returned to England with a tin pot army to be met by General Monck. Would he be "driven back into the sea" or welcomed? The people on ITV no idea what was happening or the significance of it. I
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Any pics .....Small lurchers past and present
eastcoast replied to Shortstraw's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Could a mod not put a stop to OldPhil posting pics of ugly dogs? -
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Jesus, that was posted 3 year ago.
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Something that someone once said that shocked me at the time "there's all sorts in them son". This is not meant as a slur or a derogatory comment of any terriers on this post, far from it. And many lines/strains/families of white terriers are the result of many generations of known breeding. But at times people added this and that and the blood is still in there. They closed the gene pool on the Fox Terrier late 19th century, look at them now. Sealyham a bit later. Parson Russell late 20th century. All for "breed purity" and conforming to a breed standard, choosing to ignore the evidence
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Interesting flicking through TV channels from around the world. Nearly all running this story, and respectfully. Other than an assassination of USA president I can't imagine the death of any other individual resonating around the world like this is.
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If you have not already done so I would highly recommend a read of this. The most interesting book on working terriers ever written IMO. One time he's digging badger at Chequers with his Sealyhams (must have been mates with the PM I assume) in the company of the bishop of Liverpool on 11th November. Come 11:00hrs they down tools to hold a minutes respectful silence for fallen comrades. Now that's an England I would like to have lived in.
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Any pics .....Small lurchers past and present
eastcoast replied to Shortstraw's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
The Thistle bitch in the photograph very similar to a dog that I knew. Racing dog x mongrel (collie/lab type). No speed or class just an obsessive and driven dog that wanted to catch everything that he found and would hunt all day to find something to catch in places were there was very little to find. Without him or a dog of that type/CLASS there was no point trying those places. Something that I learned when we got prettier and more fit for purpose looking dogs. Of no importance but been racking my brains to remember the dog's name. It was Chachi, named after Fonzie's cousin in Happy D -
Possibly. I was only art school for a short period of time. The people there didn't really like me. My favourite artists such as Landseer, Stubbs, Gainsborough et al were dismissed as "chocolate box lid" artists. Fair enough, I understood how more progressive artists felt as though they wanted to create something other than what had already been done, but did they come to this decision after they had perfected how to draw a horse, or a dog, or the human form? If required to do so could they? Nah, most of them couldn't draw for toffee.
