ditchman
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Its happening across the pond- why trouble yourself with it?
its happening here too thats why.....................the old excrement is going to hit the fan sooner or later...its the perfect storm ...very slowly coming together...
im not a doomsayer ...for me the glass is always half full.................
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certainly seems that way now........these small far left "pressure groups"..........have an emmense amount power for their size...
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It was the removal of the General Robert E Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia that caused the riots.
sorry i missed that.............i didnt realise it had been taken down.......all the reports i saw ..it was still in place
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Just seen some footage of ...............anti confederate ? / anti slavery lobby persons....going around Charlottsville lassooing bronze statues of what looked like Davey Crockett etc and pulling them off their plinths..............
this is not good...........in my time working and living in Florida...i know for a fact this aint going to go down well......"dont mess with our history and identity" they will say.................
i think there is going to be a big problem with the reasurrgence of the right wing groups..........which will highlight a dividing line ....seperating the Confederate and Unionist battle lines........
This is not good there will be some stuff that comes out of the woodwork that aint been seen in a long while..............
Dont think they have done the General E Lee statue yet.....bet the confederates put an armed guard on it.........
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Other than your magnetic personality of course.
you slimey piece of work...............................you are taking grovelling to a totally new level..........i think im going to throw up......
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the day i shot my good bag a few weeks ago was on a rape field that had been cultivated 2 days previous...........so dont write off fields that have been cultivated......
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+1 a lot of people seem to forget about the filters in them. Cheapest option and probably the one that will work!
even landrover have a filter in the transfere box.................not a lot of people know that...
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Fairly sure it's Tanners he uses, BIL was adamant his Gayllon had to be fitted by the maker, when I asked a direct question I got the asnwer.
when i was there last sitting in the kitchen having a cup of coffee...he was bemoaning the fact he has no sons but only daughters...and work was still being carried out in a converted barn at the back of his house....that was a fair while ago tho'
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I'd have waved him down and asked if he wanted a cuppa and a chin wag, not all townies are ignorant to country living.
quite right tooo....its all down to attitude...we had (long while ago in lynn)...a typical londoner bow bells and all that stuff......bought a local paper shop and worked part time as a labourer on the docks..........them dockers are a funny old lot..............in a week he was thick as bloody theives with them....to the country life right to heart he did...
all downto attitude..
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Tried that made big Mary look anorexic
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give it a kiss and it will turn into a beautiful very rude princess.................(and then take her in the potting shed)
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ring Richard Gallyon...he will sort it for you........my mate bought a Baikle off him which was greatly altered for him ...as he only has half a hand due to an accident...he didnt charge silly prices either......
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another interesting topic.............................
"DID JOINING THE E.U. HAVE AN EFFECT ON PIGEONSHOOTING"
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With all of those extras being looked into it will be:-
Vanity!
you know where you put your coat.................
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Hi all am i the only one who thinks that groups of pigeons sedn a few pigeons out infont of the rest of them to be scout pigeons??? whilst out shooting last week it seemed like id see a few pigeons come infront of a main group. might be being stupid but wondered if anyone thought the same as me.
Cantremember.................i do apologise for my poor humour...
at the end of the day this is a forum where people ...learn...discuss...have a larf...............this is not the first time this subject has been mentioned....im sure the scout pigeon thing....is very enticing.....and sometimes the way birds find their way to the pattern makes you think...........
its very like modern physics.....they ponder the problem and make up an answer that fits..........until it is busted....
pigeons have good eyesight and they can see the flash of the wing bars and movement at great distance...........watching a field......preparing the whatever pattern...placing the magnet...........is all part of the skill.............
in one of my posts recently i (for me ) had a good day out....what i didnt say was the effort i made in watching that field twice a day for 5 days....watching the numbers build up...and i clapped them off several times, so they got used to being moved off...............the day me and my mate set up....we drove across the field...the birds lifted and circled and dropped in behind the landrover to start feeding again........
im not for the scout thingy............but if you are then stick with it...
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change oil....aaannnd filter in box......?
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very clever, but its not going to happen
are you still on to get it ?
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Till it goes wrong big time Or breaks down and becomes
damme Van
quite clever................
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to cut they use a modern version of the Allen Sythe....powered by Honda....
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I'm always up for a bit of logical, reasoned debate. I am yet to hear anything about how the pigeon scouting system works. Anyone?
call yerself a naturist.....dont you know....................................the scout bird comes back and does stuff like bee's do....they waggle their bum this way for 2 or 3 sec's...then they do the funky chicken...for 2 secs...and what this does is lay down a map as plain as day ...as to where the best nosh is on that day....and what combine they were using..
you learn something every day on here..
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the problem is all about money...........The RSPB and the Broards Authority...give out subseties to the reed cutters/ bed managers.....managing and cutting reed /beds is bloody hard work..........students from uni try it and last maybe as much as 2-3 days before they escape there is a lot to to to maintain a bed....digging trenches...dykes....burning...cutting ....stacking ...all of which is done at the time of the year when it is the wettest and coldest...........
there also has of late been a problem with the quality of the reed.....proberly due to the lack of management of the beds....and as a result there needs to be more time spent sorting the reed into different lenghts....which is what my mate does down the road.............
so all in all ...it is the easy option to lift the phone and ask for 1000 bundals of so and so lenght reed.....and a few weeks later it arrives from god knows where.....
cheap imports....thats all it is down to
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the shame is most of the norfolk reed....for thatching comes from Holland...and i believe china............what reed we produce is done by half a doz blokes on the broards now ...one of them lives in the village and has a drawing out and sizing barn just down the road from me , where he works everyday........
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Those were the days..................
i was lucky enough to witness thrashing time...im not that old but where i was born there were several thatchers in the area...so the farmer cut one field everyyear with the binder....we with the women stooked it....then we later pitched it on the trailer ...off to the yard to be stacked off the ground then sheeted over.....
in the early winter...the steam engine came along towing the thrashing machine....it would set up next to the stack.......then around the stack a chicken wire fence was erected...
....then the local book maker would turn up...with his betting board...and all the lads in the area with terriers used to turn up....and thrashing would start....and the rats appeared ...and people used to take bets on the top ratter.........it was bloody pandimoniom.....there were flying rats ........rats blood....fighting terriers....the noise was blood curdling...and alcohol was present.....at my age it was 2 gulps of whiskey and i was sloshed....
the grain was bagged...and the sheaves were stacked on the lorries for the thatchers...............
its all gone now..............wonderful memories.......
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What about Van der Valk.
Which you aren't going to do as its not going to break down is it.
good one....
Charlottsville USA
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i suppose we can put in a claim to Scandinavia....for all the theft.......rape..........pillage........and slavery.........
should we pull down the statue of Winston Churchill........because of his veiws and what he said about Gandi..........