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    Sideboard ?

    eastcoast replied to micky's topic in General Talk

    Looks what would be called arts and crafts style in England, late 19th early 20th century. Just a guess but nice. £150 at auction £1500 in a shop ?
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    I think it would be fair to say that 1st well known and recorded use of an out cross was by George Newcombe. I am only going on things that I have read and did not know him but apparently the reason behind the outcross was not due anything lacking in his Bedlingtons but becoming too closely bred and he did not consider unrelated Bedlingtons worthy of introducing into his own strain as a means of making the gene pool healthier.
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    I came across this today when looking through some old mags. Off topic of the thread and of historical interest only of course but maybe of interest in regard to the bull types being used in fairly recent years in a working capacity? The breed listed as Bull Terrier I assume to be EBT. Not many listed. Interesting to me are the breeds listed in the "sounder" column. Nothing described as a Patterdale. Not saying that Patterdales were not being used for proper work in the field at that time in Ireland though and the name itself was probably not in common use at that time in the UK or the Republ
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    My introduction to those parts of the Tyne was tagging along with my dad and his mate when they went digging for ragworm. It was filthy back then with turds and condoms bobbing about in the water. Somehow the ragworm thrived but it was hard graft. They could only be found below high tide level which was completely covered in lose rock. The trick was to dig quickly on the edge of the ebbing tide before they went too deep. Maybe they had evolved like that due to constant overdigging on the easy parts, a bit like trying to catch rabbits on heavily lamped land? My dad and his mate would work in ta
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    I stand corrected, my apologies. Even back in the day I did not know that anything other than rats or feral cats lived there.
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    North Shield fish quays? North Shields? When it was in rack and ruin we hunted rats and no one owned the cats. A nice place now but no animals live there apart from sea birds and rats.
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    There also used to be a lot of feral cats around in that place. All changed now though.
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    Do the people who try and keep the Bedlington type alive as a working terrier do so in the hope that they will have a strain of the perfect working terrier? I don't think so but I have never owned one and it has been a good few years since I knew someone who did, but people still seem to be trying to keep an old English breed alive as working dog. Good luck to them.
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    I've seen the odd 1 with white patches, piebold but brown and white
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    We had a cross bred terrier type when I was a kid that was a difficult animal. A fighter with other dogs, a pain with bitches even when not in heat and dodgy with people. Castrating him did not change him. He lived longer than he probably should have due to me defending him but got pts at 8 year old. But he was useless as a pet and later at my attempts to hunt with him and had no breeding worth carrying on. Does that description fit your terrier? I think that he may warrant a bit more time with his bollocks, taking them off I doubt will change him. They do calm down with age and graft.
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    Thank you for the reply morton. I have not owned a Bedlington but hope to one day. The most time that I have spent with the breed was when a friend who lived next to me got one and lost interest in him. The man was into terriers and working them but the Beddy ended up too big for his criteria but fair play to him he kept it until its' death. I used to take it out for exercise and general rabbiting and ratting type stuff with my terriers. He was purely a digging man and his dogs spent most of their life in kennels :-). It was a shy reserved type of dog initially but gained in confidence and lo
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    Do you give any credence to the theory that some primitive type of water dog, pre-curly coated retriever or Irish water spaniel, may be in the Bedlington way back and account for some of it's unique, or at least none typical terrier qualities?
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    I would expect emailing the man would not be of any benefit other than boosting his ego and making him think that he is a proper journalist. But passing off lies as fact to the generally uninterested public is something that does bother me. The masses may have little real interest in what goes on in the countryside but if they knew the facts would possibly be less compliant with those in positions of power making radical changes due to their own personal agenda rather what is beneficial to the environment. We had the Hunting Act of course that was geared towards stopping hunting with dogs and
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    letters@the-sun.co.uk.
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    I may write to the Sun. Used to do that sort of thing. But these days it feels like trying to fight a battle in a war that has already been lost.
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    I don't buy newspapers these days and was not a fan of the Sun when I did but came across this today when doing a bit of cleaning at a family member's house. Not sure how readable the scan is but basically some "journalist" at the Sun who has obviously never set foot on a grouse moor has given his readers the low down. I used to be far more philosophical when coming across anti - shooting/hunting attitudes, it is only to be expected in a nation of animal lovers even though most of their opinion is based on a total ignorance of the thing that disapprove of and hypocrisy as their love of anima
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    Does anyone know if the floral arrangement in the Wycombe Wanderers function room is any good?
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    He did indeed. No complaints there. We were the only Premier League club to end the 2018/19 season in the black according to some reports. His business savvy cannot be questioned. But in regard to improving the club where it matters to the supporters, the football being played, can you honestly say that we should be happy? Asking for your honest opinion from a self entitled wanker.
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    My point was, using your car analogy, is that Maserati's don't come cheap and do not always appreciate in value. Skoda's on the other hand are relatively cheap (actually decent cars these days and not that cheap but I digress), and it is easier to buy a Skoda and work hard with the ambition of trading up and in the future ending up with a Maserati. I'm not sure that seriously wealthy businesses or individuals buy big football clubs these days in the expectation of it staying in the black. The benefits of owning a high profile football club these days is maybe more complicated than that.
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    The self entitled wankers that you refer to? That would be me Max. But this self entitled thing is an invention of the media not a true representation of the expectations of Newcastle supporters. When relegated most lads I know feared and expected the worst, in that we would plummet down the leagues and end up mid table 3rd Division with no prospect of getting out of the mire. How embarrassing would that be? We count our blessings to still be in the Premier League and hope to find an owner that will allow us to compete on an even keel with the clubs in England and in Europe, that we once did.
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    I think on some levels SAFC are a better long term investment prospect than a Premier League club. They already have the stadium and fan base. If you could get it for next to nowt it could pay off ...eventually.
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    Chopra? I think he scored more goals for Sunderland than he did for Newcastle.
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    I've just read that a Singapore based consortium have now tabled a bid and if successful they want to appoint Alan Shearer as manager. I've been furloughed for quite some time now and started loosing touch with reality a bit so had to check what today's date is but did not think that I could be that out of touch. I'm not , and the date is not April the 1st.
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    A nice read but smacks of a showman justifying a breed standard. His points make sense but are relating to show points? The original work of the Stafford has long since been illegal of course so function over form has no relevance now regarding breeding but the physical faults listed by Mr. Philips would not necessarily prevent a dog from being a winner, outside of the show ring? The Fox Terrier has a head like an anteater due to the distance from occiput to stop needing to be less than the distance between stop and nose in order to protect the eyes when facing a fox. It probably made sense wh
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    ... be careful how you treat people on the way up as you may meet them on the way down ...
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