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One of the lads spent half an hour while we were steaming out attaching a muppet to the treble on the jigger, making three loops to his leader and attaching more muppets on single hooks then topped it off with a swivel. He was so chuffed with it he forgot to tie the mainline to the other end of the swivel before he dropped it over the side. ?
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Not too far away. The wife went there for a day out with the girls on Tuesday and I am dropping a friend off at Limoges airport tomorrow. We are only about 30 minutes west of there. What ville was your place in?
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France. There are wolves in the southern mountain areas, but we are many hundreds of kilometres from there. The wolf was photographed on the north side of a large estuary similar to the Humber that is at least 400 km north of the area where wolves exist. And we are 200km north east from there.
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There is a wolf roaming about these parts. About two years ago it was photographed about 200km away from where we live. The photo was clear and has been verified as genuine. A few months later a farmer who we buy our meat from had several lambs killed ovrernight. Another farmer in a different area abiut 50km away had a similar experience and since then there have been several kills that have been attributed to a wolf using forensic examinations.
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That bit of plate reminds me of when we used to sea fishing. I would go down to one of the local bus dismantlers and buy some chrome tubes. Basically those uprights you used to hang onto on the older buses. Another yard supplied the lead for melting down and the police vehicle workshops were commandeered after hours to cut the tubes, close one end, fill it with molten lead, close the other end and drill the holes. I can't remember how many of Her Majesty's drill bits we broke. ? On one visit to the bus dismantlers I saw some checker plate sheets. I got one thinking we could cut fish shap
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There are lots of different shapes, profiles and types of metal in the spoons on sale at car boots and in the charity shops. I bought one that was a large shallow serving spoon. Very bream like. It is probably still hanging from the tree I nearly caught with it. I had also thought about using fish knife blades to make the Toby style lures that were popular in the 60's and 70's. I have a bench vice and grinder, but haven't got a drill column stand and so find it difficult drilling the thicker utensiles.
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What about kids being influenced by tv thinking that is the norm?
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As long as the pilot doesn't drive home via a tunnel he'll be OK.
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I think people would be more surprised if Clinton hadn't featured.
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I think spoon lures are vastly under rated. All the predators round here must be sick and tired of seeing the same latex jig heads going past them. Show them something new like a spoon or blade spinner; Ondex or Voblex. I used to fish the Vienne with an old Voblex I found in the river. I put a new treble on and used it for catfish up to around 25lb.
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She's agreed to have a leg amputated and speak with a lisp to fully meet the quota.
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There is a very fine line to be trod here. Anybody who has enjoyed going out for an Indian or Chinese meal, had a pizza or burger delivered, supports a football team with foreign players, etc, etc is accepting some foreign culture as part of the British way of life. But when the line of law is crossed then it gets more complicated. Catholic priests and nuns abusing children is just as abhorrent as Pakistani sex grooming gangs. Both predate on vulnerable children yet one is publically hated and the other seems to have been shrugged off as an insignificant part of British and Irish culture. Paed
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Yes, in theory. But, as you say the legal situation has yet to be tested. And Pakistan could simply refuse to accept passport holders who were not born in the country or spent any meaningful time there.
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You are spot on. The evidence required bg CPS to bring charges is very hard to find given the closed nature of the suspects and the quality of evidence and status of the victims and witnesses. And, as they are second or third generation from the original immigrants they cannot be deported even if convicted.
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Why bother with all that. In Wilf's world all you need is a tone chart. If the defendant's skin colour is darker than off white they are guilty. Simples!
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What about those ground floor bathroom extensions stuck on the back of terrace houses? I had one that seemed to be colder than the lavvy down the yard!
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Just turn your hearing aid off. Job done. Sorted!
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Thanks. I have used the gravadlax method before. Pouring rock salt over the site stops future smells, but doesn't rid the area of all that residual scent that is clinging to the furniture and curtains. I don't do much rodent work these days. The typical scenario is the customers ignoring all the early signs of dormice activity then wanting them trapping when they start screaming at the kids. By then it is too late. A nest full of dead young in a void isn't something that adds to the ambience of country life.
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Could have done with some of that yesterday. The customers who put mouse bait down a couple of weeks ago got back from holiday early yesterday morning and the smell hit them ? I got there around lunch time and they had identified the source as being in a bedroom. The bedroom is over their lounge where they have a log burner. So I reckoned it was in the void under the bedroom floor. I found the hole it had been using. As the house has been unheated for a week the mouse was on a slow decay. Now they have the stove going it should dry up.
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We were posh. We had a paraffin heater hung under the ball cock to keep it from freezing up. The seat was never warm though ?
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I honestly don't know. But the site looked like it had been ploughed rather than dug with paws and there was some other ploughing nearby. It might just have been coincidence that the boar worked the trap site. Last year the caretaker called me out as moles had taken over the whole garden overnight ? Turned out to be boar damage in 8 or 9 areas. From afar it looked like molehills all over the garden. I regularly lose traps to foxes and badgers and sometimes find the traps nearby. My old spaniel saved me a fortune in the ones she found. Still lose around a dozen a year though.
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Tuesday's mole-patrol takes me to the north Haute-Vienne and into the Vienne departments. 16 calls today. Last but one call is a 3 acre riverside plot guarded by a single half barrel trap. Something had beat me to the trap site...... There are foxes, badgers and boar visiting this garden and I reckon it was boar that dug the trap up. There was some more ploughing nearby. If it had been one of the other two the trap would have gone. I lose up to 12 a year to four legged thieves.
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You're right for once. Because you will never answer the questions you'vd been dodging all week.
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Been out fishing today. By noon the coat was off, then the fleece leaving me in a T shirt. Frogs are still about, damsel flies were mating and one kept coming onto my arm to rest. I could feel the down draught of its wings as it landed. It stayed over ten minutes. There was only one thing missing - fish!
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I'll watch that after you post answers to those awkward questions I asked you about ?
