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    Christmas started for me just before Easter, have been furloughed since then. Reverted back to living like I did as a teenager, but with money. I'm back to work full time next month though. I think Christmas should be cancelled this year and everyone needs to pull together and get the country working at full capacity again.
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    Could have been far, far worse. At least the knacker didn't lose you permission in a place you've just moved to.
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    But they do have a talent for making things taste nice ?
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    My mistake, I was wrong, thank you. I always try and avoid anything to do with those animals but ignorance is no excuse for posting wrong information that assumed to be true.
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    The protection has not been lifted. They are being "culled" but under strict licence and at vast cost to the tax payer.
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    I haven't eaten 1 but if they tasted any good would we not be having 1 for tea tonight? There must be a reason why people didn't eat them even in hard times and before they became, in the UK, 1 of the most protected species of animal on the planet and why they aren't on the menu in other countries.
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    This thing about working terriers being kept in close circles and the ownership of them being something akin to a religious cult is a load of bollocks. I do believe that some very dedicated folk do practice that religion and they have my upmost respect but they are the exception rather than the rule. Terriers have always changed hands for the right money, the right money being the something that can only be agreed upon by the seller and buyer.
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    Yes, but they have the power now. That's why projects are trying to be done to unachievable programmes with no profit on them (for sub-contractors) and mental health has become a big issue in construction. Go through the spec with a fine tooth comb, get your clarifications correct at tender and be water tight on programme and progress. When the shit inevitably hits the fan through their greed/incompetence hit them back with acceleration costs.
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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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    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.
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    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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