eastcoast
-
Content Count
3,118 -
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
-
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.
-
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
-
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? -
.
-
Jesus, that was posted 3 year ago.
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I spent a very brief period studying art history, long time ago, and I realise what was being taught was what the lecturers wanted to be taught, but... artists at that time could not paint what they wanted to paint. So I was told. They were at the mercy of their patrons, basically the Catholic church or wealthy families. They tended to produce whatever they had been told to produce for fear of ending up broken and starving or being accused of being a heretic. This does not answer Ken's question but the reason for the object being there was his patron wanted it there. Real art began with
-
Very nice. Lakeland blood?
-
That's a shame. A casino would keep mam happy and I could put dad at the back of the ship in his chair with a fishing rod. I will keep on looking but thanks for your input.
-
Looks the biz. Unfortunately I don't call the shots. After a lifetime of avoiding being dictated to by women I now find myself at their mercy. Does it have a casino?
-
Thanks for that Nicepix, I will mention it to my sisters at the weekly family meeting ?
-
I am doing a job now that I never expected to do or planned for, but should have. Working as a carer for rapidly deteriorating very elderly parents with individual mental and physical problems. Luckily I have 2 sisters who do the majority of it, they also still have full time jobs, and I help by doing weekends and using my up my annual holidays to cover for them on weekdays when needed. Not the sort of thing that I expected to be doing after almost a lifetime of graft and now in the position of not having to work weekends. Performing certain tasks are also not the type of thing that I hav
- 312 replies
-
- 12
-
-
-
A job defines that you are doing something that if you had a choice that you would not be doing? Am I missing something here?
-
It may be difficult living were you live trying to keep them alive what with the snakes and stuff. Difficult were I live when all they ever want to do is find badgers. They put you in goal for that. No longer have an option to be exported to the colonies.
-
Life has a habit of biting you on the arse just when you think you have settled with it and all debts are paid. Time and time again. If you have any thing to enjoy, enjoy it, f**k the future and f**k living in the past.
-
-
-
Didn't you say in previous posts that you had had enough of Parson Russell types? A hard habit to break? ?
-
Killing Eve, a bit late to the party. Just started watching after an exhausting time with no energy left other than to watch TV. Now I get all the hype regarding Jodie Comer. Very good.
-
Good thread this. I have nothing to contribute but enjoying reading.
-
I would quite liked to have getting through life without ever having a job. I know a few who have and have not done too bad. They've certainly enjoyed more hunting, watching football and drinking.
