barisaxman

That Ferrari was a bit good. No good for me tho, unless they do an estate version!

I just love em! Most of my experiences of low flying aircraft have been when out fishing. I was fishing out in Worcestershire countryside back in the late 80's when I had Tornados that seemed to be flying at me all day. They were so close I was getting a backdraft and fumes. It wasn't till a few years later I was told by a serving RAF pilot that the bridge by I was fishing could have been the designated target for the day. Anyway, deafening but fun. I had Chinook come over me last year at treetop height, think it was coming into land. What a racket, sounded like a carpark full of backfiring motorbikes and nearly blew me over! We get a Chinnook that flys over us about twice a week, can hear it coming from miles off. Used to live not far from Birmingham airport some years back. Had a great bank holiday one year, the Red Arrows were using it. They used to come over our house all through the day. Brilliant! The dog wasn't too happy tho!

Don't need a break, just let it go where I am!!!

Sorry misread this thread, thought it was Philopino recipe!

History! There's no future in it!

Salmon 21.lb 9oz (This was my first ever salmon & caught on a Devon) and a seatrout 11.lb 12oz caught at night on fly. I've had plenty of double figure salmon, pike and a 12lb ,barbel too! Best salmon on fly, just over 10lb.

I've got a few. I've mentioned these 2 before. I was following a pigeon across a field from my hide, raised the gun, just about to shoot and a Sparrow Hawk took the pigeon and flew into the hedge. A second or so later and I might ahave shot both. The other was my mate, whose eyes are not as good as they once were, but he won't admit it, shot a pigeon so close that when I picked it up it had no shot in it but the wad in its crop! My late father told told me a few. He was once walking the edge of a field one evening when a bunny made a dash across the front of him towards the crop. He mounted his gun followed and was just about to pull the trigger when he noticed a bare **** sticking up in the long grass, right in his line of fire! He managed to abort his shot and for the hell of it let both barrels go into the air. Anyway, the couple managed to cover themselves up and the bloke had a right go at my dad for disturbing them! Cheeky sod! Shook the old man up for a time, so close to a tradegy. He also told me about uncle shooting a pheasant from his bedroom window, blew all the panes out and he missed it! I shot a pigeon coming towards me at a high rate of knotts once, good job I ducked, it buried itself in the hedge behind me just about where my head would have been. I've also witnessed some hiker wench take a pee in the hedge the other side of a brook from my hide! I did the decent thing and looked the other way... Honest! Not a shooting story this, I was out at daybreak just finishing a nights seatrout fishing when I was in need of a "toilet break". Bearing in mind its about 4 in the morning and I'm miles from anywere I thought I'd be ok. Anyway, I found a secluded ditch, did the business, just pulled my kegs up and I get a "good morning, loverly day isn't it" from some wench walking her dog! I've also had a Barn Owl nearly take my head off one night when I was sea trout fishing, I can only think I has a moth on my cap or something.

I just hate everybody and everything... equally! So thats me covered

Depends on where you're fishing! I fish the Severn and early on we tend to use 2.5in - 3 in floating devons fished off a patonoster rig. Black/yellow and black/orange go down quite well, so does a traditional yellow belly. ( the Severn can be a bit dirty!) Flying c's and Raps work too and I've had success with Tobies. All depends on river height, temperature..etc...etc

The Smurfs, Rolf Harris and at a push the St Winifreds School Choir Being serious now, I'm into Jazz coz I'm a sax player! Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Mike Brecker, Ronnie Cuber, Count Basie, Buddy Rich..... I could go on for ever....I like Beethoven and Mozart to!

I ate just enough this year. Mind you we were at the outlaws and my father in law seems to think he's a Michlin star chef. We had, well, I think we had turkey and beef.... The beef looked and tasted like balsa wood and the turkey wasn't much better. The ma in law don't like any sign of pinkness in her beef so its cooked till an inch of igniting!!!! There's well done and there's ice hockey puck! I find turkey a bit dry and tasteless at the best of times but this was like eating a cream cracker! Put that with veggies boiled to death and a microwaved (burnt) christmas pud with custard out of a tin, bloody great!! We has our own chrissy dinner on boxing day, goose with all the trimmings. Really enjoyed that, in fact we still are...

I've got no problem with hot and cold its the waste pipe from the bath/sink in bathroom! The ******* won't drainI! I know what the problem is, the pipe running from the bath/sink joins the waste stack on the outside of the house and I think its just a little frozen!!! It was -12 here the other night. Ah well, I'll just have to wait till it thaws and stay smelly......

Its actually snowing here in Kidderminster, makes a change most things with any sense usually avoid it! Hasn't stopped since before I got up at 7 this morning and really coming down hard again now! Had about 5ins or so,( so the wife tells me!!) so far. We seem to miss most of it here, this is the first real snow we've had so far this winter and has made the place look quite pretty!!!!

What about the Countryfile brigade? I heard that Matt Baker had a clay shoot at his wedding do. I think Julia Bradbury shoots clays and was filmed shooting on a pheasant shoot on one episode of CF, don't know if she carried on with it. I wouldn't put it past Adam Henson to own guns and shoot after all he is a a farmer!!! I bet that really would **** off John Craven who I think is one of the "fluffy bunny" brigade, certainley comes across as one. Others who do shoot are- Various TV chefs, James Martin, Marco Pierre White, that tall chef from East Anglia!!!! Hugh Wearnley-Chickenstall is another. I wouldn't be surprised if Rick Stein does. Don't know about Heston Bloomineck, he probably uses a ray-gun he converted from an old microwave oven!!! so he can kill, cook and serve the bird instantly!! I think Jamie Oliver partakes as well. I know he had a keeper on one programs recentely and he seemed really supportive about game and shooting. Mind you, its Channel 4. Jeremy Clarkeson shoots.....anything!! Usually cars.... I used to work with a wench who had a go at me for shooting clay pigeons once. She said "they have just as much right to life as the wood ones!!!!" She was blond!

My late father had loads of them and used them, mind you he was a barber! I remember when I was very young poking him in the back with my plastic sword when he was shaving..... Nearly a nasty accident there!!!! :o He was ambidexrius, he could use either hand with his cut throats. He used to lecture in hair dressing and I remember him telling me when it was "cut throat time" he had the first aid kit out and a nurse on stand-by!