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Couple near you - Aldbury Gun Club - last sunday of the month - 50 bird sporting. Also 2nd sunday of the month is Three Counties Gun Club shoot in Aston Clinton, also 50 bird sporting. Very informal shoots.

Give us a chance! I have a life outside web forums. Will send you a pm.

Hello. Its been a few years since I posted on here. I'm free for beating with my dog (GWP - bit barmy but a very good game finder and picker up) on the Saturdays I'm not shooting over the season. Based in Berkhamsted, not looking for any payment, just like working the dog. If any local shoots need someone let me know.

So how much glycerine does one put in a 750ml bottle of gin? I'm bottling some for my new years ski trip and need to know!

Snow? Pah... Bring it on...

Here's another thought. I vowed in the summer to get fit again as I've let myself go over the last 5 years and put on 2 stones (seems to happen easily once you hit 40). I came back from my hols and downloaded the 'Couch to 5K' Podcast onto my ipod. I've never been a runner, even when I was fit, but now every chance I get I go out and run. I'm now the fittest I've ever been and am happy running for an hour at a time. If I can do it anyone can!

In my house now, we have a tupperware box where I put sunflower seeds, pumpkling seeds, sultanas, almonds, dried cranberries etc. If I or my family are peckish we have some of that and it fills us up. I've lost about a stone since stopping other snacks. It makes a good breakfast too, very slow release of carbs.

If you go onto the BBC website it is incredibly easy to register a complaint which is why the numbers get so large so quickly. I couldn't give a monkeys about what Clarkson said, in fact I have no real feelings about him either way. I would like to complain about the lack of a facility to offer my support to Jeremy Clarkson regarding his appearance on 'The One Show". I have searched the BBC website and found that it is incredibly simple to register a complaint about Mr Clarkson but not to offer any support. This country is in danger of suffering a sense of humour failure and the BBC should stop encouraging it and move on. Please accept this email as the opposite of a compliant about Mr Clarkson. That's it, I'm sticking it to the BBC :yp:

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I'd be interested to know this too. A friend of mine took a tumble at a recent party and emptied a bottle of beer into mine. The right side of the keyboard doesn't light up any more

I think they've got a long way to go yet before thats a goer. I guess they want to get rid of the DVD so you'll download all your films from iTunes. I got my kids all ready to watch a film on my AppleTV. Popcorn all ready, all sitting comfortably, bought the film ..... got the message "Film will be downloaded and ready to watch in 5 Hours" ***

I was sitting in the pub the other day and a chap came in with a young GWP. I of course got chatting to him as my dog was in the car outside and it turns out he is a German working in the city for a couple of years and the dog is a Draahthaar that he's brought over with him. I'm taking him on my pheasant shoot tomorrow, so it should be an interesting day...

In my opinion its a tool not an ornament. A nice tool is a pleasure to use and to look after. Over time it gains the patina of being used and cared for. I've never been one for locking things away because they are too nice to use.

I'm off to Verbier over new year. I have a friend who lives in Switzerland who says the earliest he's ever skied is 17th Nov, so the snow's not too overdue yet.

CWD in Richmond Park?

If you're stuck in Davos without any snow get yourself down to the Eau-La-La Spa in the middle of town. Fantastic scenery

Just a quick thanks to Bakerboy for his generous offer. He even wrapped it up for me so he could leave it outside for me to collect as we couldn't get a time when we could both meet. My kids love it. I still can't get them to understand the snooker scoring system though.

But as we've both said, that's probably down to our training. I think your type 1 and 2 seperate those dogs that have been well socialised and those that have been well trained. I don't see any reason why you couldn't have both if you're willing to put in the time. Or, are you saying that a dog that is part of the family is 'spoiled' and can't be a perfect worker?

I'm in the same boat as Dirty Harry, in fact my dog's from the same litter. Fantastic temperament, my kids abuse him terribly, dress him up, stick their hands in his mouth etc and he's always been great. He is an instinctive hunter and a good pointer and retriever, but he could have done with 15 mins intense training a day from an early age which I haven't been able to give him. They can be quite aloof, so I think if you want one as a pet you need to treat them as one from a young age. They also are slow to mature, mine's three and he's still as bouncy as he was as a pup. I can see the potential's there with him but am aware it would take a lot of time and effort to get it out.

So how would you use an e collar to sort this? all the vids I've found on the net about collars are for american style obedience training where they are used on very low power just to 'tap' the dog to reinforce commands. i can't see our friend Fenton paying much attention. Not a hater of collars, but I've thought about this for my dog before he gets himself killed on the road and not sure of the technique you'd actually use.

Billy, I'm not going to pretend to know much more than the average layman about physics. I made the error of thinking that doing a degree in it would be all about mechanics, nuclear bombs and dropping things off tall buildings etc whereas in fact after the first year it was all particles and quantum mechanics, basically philosophy with stupidly complex maths used to test ideas. I wish I'd done engineering instead. My thoughts about the GPS clocks being to blame are the fact that up until this time it has not been possible to find one single set of laws that explain both the motion of large objects (planets, satellites etc) and small objects (sub-atomic particles). They are currently using a measure of time defined using calculations and more importantly corrections based on the General Theory of Relativity to explain movements of particles which can normally only be explained using the Special Theory of Relativity. I think its here that the problem lies. Maybe this discovery will lead to a theory that can unify the two. We live in interesting times.

Maybe you're right on the first bit, probably not the second. I did get interested by the neutrino thing and dug out a few books on special relativity to try and get my head round it again. There have been so many experiments done that seem to lead to Einsteins theories (Michelson-Morley springs to mind) that I think they're onto another 'cold fusion' type mistake. My money's on the error being due to the GPS clocks they use. Each GPS satellite has a caesium clock on board but they have to compensate for the time shift due to their motion relative to the earth below. A tiny error there would account for the errors in this experiment.

I think this thread should be closed now before someone hurts themselves. I've got a degree in physics and am lucky if I know what day of the week it is nowadays.

Welcome to my world. I live on the edge of Ashridge Forest with 3,000 deer in it and my GWP used to chase badly. I found it quite hard to knock out of him but we're getting there.