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    Old cars

    eastcoast replied to DIDO.1's topic in General Talk

    A camel hair coat, trilby and start referring to the missus as 'er indoors ?
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    I have had this one since bought new in '80s. .22 with carbine barrel. Cost £99.99, I remember the price because my budget was £100 and a retailer in AW was doing a sleight discount on them and it came with the sling swivels fitted. It has been retired for many years now but was a very capable hunting rifle with enough power and accuracy for day and night time rabbit shooting. Was only retired after a PCP was obtained about 10 years later. I was not aware that it was a direct copy of the Anschutz but certainly influenced by the German guns. At the time PCPs were a very expensive rarity, r
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    Kestrel.

    eastcoast replied to Greb147's topic in General Talk

    Please see attached probably the worst wildlife photographs that you are ever likely to see. They are of a kestrel. The dot in the sky is the subject being photographed. Seen it today on land that I have walked for 40 odd year. At one time they were so common that would not have warranted a second glance even though I have never been able to walk past one hovering without standing and admiring and hoping that it would drop and raise back up with a mouse or vole. Haven't seen one on this land for a few years. I do see buzzards now which never existed on this land, during my time, until abo
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    Read this again today. I was forced to read it the 1st time as it was on English syllabus at school. I would liked to have read it before everyone thought it was a masterpiece in the same way that I would liked to have listened to the Beatles before everyone thought that they were great. Never really got the Beatles even though I've tried listening to them. Read 1984 once again today and did not really enjoy it, even though I get it.
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    Bedlington cross or working Sealyham Daniel cain?
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    I think none but the most naive or optimist of Newcastle supporters are expecting established and proven world class players being signed in the period between this season ending and the next one starting whenever that may be. But, if the club is sold to the people that the media are having us believe then those type of players will be signed by NUFC. If not then the buyers will have been proved to be fools or Ashley has proved to be a genius.Ashley is most certainly not a fool but are the new buyers fools? It will take time but not too much time. Four seasons at the most before they are
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    A cheeky request, and the answer will probably be F O and not Foreign Office but...any picture of one of these dogs? Cheeky request but it is an internet forum that you have commented on so not that such an unexpected request?
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    Ignore...too much red wine, don't know how to delete.
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    Modern KC lumps trying to catch rats or proper working Sealyham type terriers?
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    It was 1 of Plummer's claims. Don't think he achieved it, but then again we do have the Lucas terrier ?
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    If this deal goes through, and there is still plenty of time for Ashley to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory, and if I ignore the takeover from a moral and ethical point of view regarding Saudi human rights record (and I am), I would not welcome the sacking of Steve Bruce. From and ethical and moral point of view but also potentially from a football point of view. I was pissed off when Benitez left. I thought that he was good fit for the club. I had no opinion one way or the other on Bruce other than liking him when he played and have never seen a manager appearing so shell shocked
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    Re-read this today. Devastating weapons, the people not the tools. Took European top brass a long time to accept that a lowly but skilled soldier with a brain and balls could be more effective than rank and file controlled by an officer.
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    A friend of mine bred a 1st cross of this type many years ago. He bought a young adult Bedlington simply because he had always wanted one. It was KC with Gutchcommon blood (weren't they all?) and the prefix Foggyfurze rings a bell. It sired a litter over a smooth coated black terrier that he also owned at the time. The bitch was from Nuttall lines (aren't they all?). It was not to create an improved type of Bedlington or improve the terriers that he had and may have been an accidental mating. I cannot remember exactly. The Beddlngton sire was a very nice dog that I liked. A poor coat and
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    I would hazard a guess at working terrier to working terrier? Funny how most of the ones supposedly bred that way are a lot prettier these days. Maybe a bit of bull blood could smarten them up? Sorry for tagging this on your post foxdropper, no offence intended.
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    I agree with the comments on Sopranos. Used to try and watch it "live" when 1st broadcast on C4 but they kept changing the time, ranging from 10pm to midnight. I think it depended on how many times the C word was used ? Ended up getting box sets on VHS, my God that makes me feel old.
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    Just re-read this. A lot of the actions taken during that period formed the world that we are living in today, some of the fires lit are still burning. A good read though if you like military history.
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    It is just something that I have noticed with several KC breeds once they become very popular with pet owners or peddlers. They don't selectively breed for the unnatural show points that came about due to poorly drafted or misinterpreted breed standards and 'accidentally ' start producing animals closer to the original within several generations. Seen it with Staffords and also probably why some lines of Fox Terriers (not pet breeders or peddlers) on mainland Europe are not as 'freakish 'as the ones that show people continue to breed. Probably got way too much time on my hands at t
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    From Colonel Hancock's the Heritage of the Dog. No details of the dog given in the book other than a German Boxer. Always assumed post WW2 Germany as the author was stationed there as part of the British Army on the Rhine. I like the dog but always find the picture a bit comical from the aspect of dogs looking like their owners and vice versa. I have noticed a slow but steady increase in Boxer dogs around were I live for quite a while now. The original dogs that people owned tended to conform with modern show Boxer ideal, rather light weight and uncharacteristically athletic. There seems
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    Something that I have noticed now that so many more people have discovered the delights of walking in the same places that I do, judging from what they are wearing colour blindness must be more common than l had previously assumed.
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    True. A philosophical approach I tend to take on life always. There but for the grace of God go I sort of thing. I still get pissed of with clueless fuckwits though.
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    Handsome is as handsome does. A cliche often quoted but no less true for it. Actually a bonny terrier anyway. It's odd what people like. Prick eared never been popular with working terrier breeders of course but some show breeds that require it occasionally mature to be drop eared, much to their breeders annoyance and panic.
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    And all your kids and your granny, be sure to all walk shoulder to shoulder and not cede an inch to anyone coming the other way, and most importantly DO NOT walk on the path, go straight across their flower beds.
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    No sign of the barber opening anytime soon so gave myself a haircut. More difficult for me than most as I don't have any mirrors in the house. Took a selfie though and not too bad a job even if I do say so myself.
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    The original dogs weren't all black and tan either, even used to throw merle. Showing farm/cattle dog origin. But that got swept under the carpet and modern breeders prefer to think or rather promote the idea that they're a mastiff type dating back to ancient Rome ?
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    Not films but with this unplanned time on my hands have been watching Minder, the Professionals and the Sweeney on TV. Still a good watch IMO. Some very good actors appeared not just the main cast. Enjoy spotting them and trying to name. Particularly the actresses that I used to fancy. Gabrielle Drake, Carol Royle, the lovely Suzanne Danielle and the easily recognised but ever effervescent Joanna Lumley to name a few. And the old Fords. Ended up owning some of them but by the time I could afford them they were rust bucket bangers just one owner away from the scrap yard.
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