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I also still work in construction and you sound switched on. There are many levels and with us mark - ups are now dictated by the Client's QS' . They push to the bare bones on quotes to the point where some buy work hoping to make something on variations. Busy fools. No matter what the size of a business, the quality of your lads who actually do the install is as important as it ever was.
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I had some work done recently. Needed a new perimeter fence and the back garden was paved. Unfortunately I don't need that kind of set up now so decided to lift the slabs and do some basic landscaping. No way would my back be up to it now so as much as it pained me I decided to pay someone else to do the hard graft. I phoned some contacts but had no joy, one of the lads has a full order book until February 2021. So ended calling/emailing random companies. Not one answered the phone or returned email and must have left voice messages with at least six businesses with no comeback. I eventually s
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Lots of people were spending on home/garden improvements due to not forking out on holidays this year. A feast for the one man in a van types. The famine will follow.
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That needs to be taken in perspective. £300 for a terrier pup would be a lot of money until very recently. 1980's the big names in Russells starting selling off the family silver, mostly to USA and Europe then Lakeland/Patterdale men followed on. It's come full circle. Any fool can buy a terrier these days that would have been be a potential Great Yorkshire show winner 40 year ago, but it would struggle because other fools also now have them. They may all look the part but will they work like the ones 40 year ago used to?
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RHD seems to be more of a threat these days in some places. They don't appear to bounce back like with mixi. That coupled with the small breeding sets getting flooded during the last few wet summers we've had.
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Sounds like rabbiting heaven, enjoy ...ya lucky swine ??
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A realise that so much depends on the type of land being worked but I've owned a couple of what I would class as very good rabbiting terriers that very rarely actually caught a rabbit.
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Do those lines of working Airedale Terrier not still exist in USA?
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What is traditionally used where you live for the function that you have in mind? Others who have gone before you may have already solved your problem.
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Dorset’s getting hot again
eastcoast replied to forest of dean redneck's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
A farmer here ploughed in sections of barley after lockdown to discourage the zombies coming onto the land. There are footpaths but lots of people were just walking straight across the cultivated fields. -
19th century Scotland?
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Some posts on this thread have been roughly eluding to big game hunting or as it usually now referred to as trophy hunting. As for the rights and wrongs the only right is the welfare and continuation of the species being killed for money. In some places "trophy hunting" is the only that thing keeps these species alive and provides wages for the local people. I've seen a few reports on news channels recently in African countries on the problems that have been caused due to lack of tourism because of the worldwide pandemic. Animals are being indiscriminately killed by the indigenous population a
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I also love the tradition of it. The sight and sound of a hunt never ceases to stir the soul. Not to mention the importance that fox hunting in Britain and Ireland has played in the development of horses, hounds and most importantly for me terriers.
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FYI Terriero just from an historical point of view the dogs that you are producing have a resemblance to an old English type. Supposedly the English White is in the make up of the (English) Bull Terrier and the Fox Terrier.
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The way that the "registered" mounted hunts used to operate, pre-ban, only hounds and no fast dogs, no guns and attempting to bolt a fox when it had been ran to ground? Not the most efficient method of fox control if fox control is your argument for the reason to hunt.
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The "us and them" attitude together with horses and "red" coats is a great gift to the antis. It personifies the landed gentry but is often an unfair prejudice. Having said that they don't help themselves at times. I spent a season following a "local" mounted pack in the hope of being accepted and possibly even achieving my ambition at the time of working a terrier on a hunt day. I was always quiet and respectful (possibly too much so bordering on shy) at the meets, donating to the cap and following in my car. One day the perfect opportunity presented itself. Hounds ran a fox into what looked
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That's what our opponents would have been hoping for in order to turn the great British public even more anti hunting, and they don't really give a shit about animal rights anyway in my experience. As long as they have cheap meat, eggs and expensive puppies how they are produced is not something that they care to think about. Even Blair allegedly said he wasn't bothered about fox hunting one way or the other.
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The shows of strength may possibly have given the government at the time a reality check regarding what they had promised. One of the promises that new labour gave prior to wining the election was that they would ban all hunting with dogs by 2000. Yes they did serious damage but were never able to keep that promise. I believe that they were the recipients of a £2M pound donation from LACS on the strength of it.
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Something mentioned in the original post regarding the lack of media coverage annoyed me at the time and a realisation that the masses are only allowed to see what those in control want them to see. I was on the march and found it hard to believe when I got home that not many people were aware that it had even happened and the same at work the next day. A short time after the event the 1st gay pride rally took place. It was all over the media and a story line written into Eastenders by the BBC to ensure it got the exposure that they wanted. I may be wrong but I seem to remember the count of th
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A rare old stamp. Throw back or line or recent KC blood, none of my business just nice to see.
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I went to a little hunt terrier show years ago in north of England and the small turn out of Jack Russells was of the best quality. All working dogs. The last class was for entered terriers and an immaculately dressed elderly lady entered the ring. She was dressed head to toe in tweed. Like a character from an Ealing comedy that would be played by Margret Rutherford. She had a black Scottish Terrier. A modern KC type. We stood and watched and made derogatory comments questioning the old lady's sanity or understanding of what an entered terrier was. Later on in the pub it was explained that the
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There is a way of cleaning white dogs with out needing to bath them. Just give them a good rub down with your hands. All the crap comes off them and onto the hands. Keep washing the hands. You end up with a sparkling white dog.
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That's an interesting looking dog. I would have said EBT influence and seen later post with it's breeding listed. Has the look of the mythical Old English White terrier about it. Regarding the condition of the animal I can see where others are coming from but he does not look damaged or undernourished, just a bit scruffy and feeling sorry for himself ? . Another photograph on another day would look fine I'm sure.
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Nothing strange about that bonny lad, it would be strange if you didn't ?
