Other creatures.

[OldPhil 5,381]

Yes, you are right about life being different,. back in the day...

I have also met a fair few Authors, Country characters and sundry, well known folk..

Many have been incredibly interesting and enlightening,.. and some went on to become firm friends..

Facts are, the life of a hunting man has changed drastically, sad, but true...

 

 

Edited April 25, 2022 by OldPhil

[mackem 23,851]

11 minutes ago, sandymere said:

It’s a funny old world, we meet people and see things that for us are just normal but for the rest of the world are completely unknown. I remember meeting an author, he’d done a book about white fronted geese, supposed to have been in the style of Tarka the otter, it wasn’t, but in truth not a bad read. (Mind I’m fecked if I can remember its name lol). He was doing a book signing and by coincidence I went into the bookshop and for what ever reason we got to chatting. I’m a bit of a birder so we chatted about birds and wildfowl in particular, I said once upon a time I saw them more as a challenge to capture than a tick in a book and he was a little shocked, I explained a little about my childhood and egg collection and then he was a little horrified  but after a bit of explanation he saw it all for what it was, basically the past is a different country. I can’t remember giving him my address but a couple of months later I received at letter in the post, (that ages me ), in which he enquired more about how we grew up and the “adventure we got into” alas my life was very busy at the time and I never got back to him. Shame seemed a nice fella and another I should really have kept in contact with but life gets in the way. Another time I had a book given to me by E G Walsh and would like to have got to know him but once more life was to busy. Both are long past as so the chances are gone but perhaps there’s other people and experiences in the offing and hopefully the future will give me a little more time to seek out interesting people.

Wouldn't have minded meeting EG Walsh but there's an old saying about never meet your heroes as they are sure to dissappoint, met a few authors who once you glimpse behind the scenes, hear the unedited stories, you realise they are no different to any of us. 

[Maximus Ferret 2,055]

14 minutes ago, mackem said:

Wouldn't have minded meeting EG Walsh but there's an old saying about never meet your heroes as they are sure to dissappoint, met a few authors who once you glimpse behind the scenes, hear the unedited stories, you realise they are no different to any of us. 

Authors are just people who write books. Doesn't make them any better or worse as hunters.

[mackem 23,851]

2 minutes ago, Maximus Ferret said:

Authors are just people who write books. Doesn't make them any better or worse as hunters.

100% I have met a few people, internationally renown, once your in their kitchen drinking tea, and they pop to the bog to have a shit, yup just people

[Maximus Ferret 2,055]

2 hours ago, ijf said:

Deerhound caught a mink last summer as it made its way across a rocky beach. 

 

Anyone ever catch an otter ? would always thought that one would do a lot of damage to a lurcher. 

 

I was walking a couple of dogs up the riverbank near my house one morning when a couple of otters came running up the path towards me, playing chase like they do. The dogs had never seen an otter before and when the front otter ran into the front dog she scooped it up in her mouth as she would a rabbit. It gave her a good bite, cutting through the leather of her nose and she dropped it. It was away into the river like a shot.

[levigsp 938]

1 hour ago, sandymere said:

It’s a funny old world, we meet people and see things that for us are just normal but for the rest of the world are completely unknown. I remember meeting an author, he’d done a book about white fronted geese, supposed to have been in the style of Tarka the otter, it wasn’t, but in truth not a bad read. (Mind I’m fecked if I can remember its name lol). He was doing a book signing and by coincidence I went into the bookshop and for what ever reason we got to chatting. I’m a bit of a birder so we chatted about birds and wildfowl in particular, I said once upon a time I saw them more as a challenge to capture than a tick in a book and he was a little shocked, I explained a little about my childhood and egg collection and then he was a little horrified  but after a bit of explanation he saw it all for what it was, basically the past is a different country. I can’t remember giving him my address but a couple of months later I received at letter in the post, (that ages me ), in which he enquired more about how we grew up and the “adventure we got into” alas my life was very busy at the time and I never got back to him. Shame seemed a nice fella and another I should really have kept in contact with but life gets in the way. Another time I had a book given to me by E G Walsh and would like to have got to know him but once more life was to busy. Both are long past as so the chances are gone but perhaps there’s other people and experiences in the offing and hopefully the future will give me a little more time to seek out interesting people.

Was the whitefront man Stan Leyburn ?

Edited April 11, 2022 by levigsp

[sandymere 8,261]

10 minutes ago, levigsp said:

Was the whitefront man Stan Leyburn ?

May have been, I just can't remember, must have been 20 years ago or thereabouts.

[levigsp 938]

31 minutes ago, sandymere said:

May have been, I just can't remember, must have been 20 years ago or thereabouts.

I have had an obsession with Greater Whitefronts for donkeys years and Stan is the only one I know who wrote about them in the past 30 years or so. He hated me with a vengeance, but he accepted my knowledge of WF, I even went to their breeding grounds etc to watch them.

Edited April 11, 2022 by levigsp

[THE STIFFMEISTER 14,571]

I used to email an African author fairly often a few years back . Was a lovely geezer to chat with 

[gnipper 5,968]

On 11/04/2022 at 15:08, sandymere said:

No but I have met him, along with Johnny Morris and Phil Drabble of course, Animal Magic on the telly and copy of A Zoo in my luggage beside one of Of Pedigree Unknown on my bookshelf. Halcyon days.

Lucky bugger, I'd of been in my element as a kid round there.

[levigsp 938]

My memory of P Drabble is a painful one for he was a dab hand with a catapult!!!

 

[levigsp 938]

On 11/04/2022 at 18:43, OldPhil said:

Yes, you are right about life being different,. back in the day...

I have also met a fair few Authors, Country characters and sundry, well known folk..

Many have been incredibly interesting and enlightening,.. and some went on to become firm friends..

Facts are, the life of a hunting man has changed drastically, sad, but true...

 

Is that derry on the left

[OldPhil 5,381]

No,...it was a Lurcher show organiser, I think...

[levigsp 938]

16 minutes ago, OldPhil said:

No,...it was a Lurcher show organiser, I think...

Has his silly stand