kennett

Best bit of Christmas 1👌

Duck can be a bit liver-y, I tried soaking mine in salt water over night which seemed to improve it. I also recommend crispy chilli duck

Obviously not on labs, but in general with working dogs 🤨

Friend of mine made a years wage from one litter of Lab pups, even allowing for docking etc it's still a tidy earner. Which is fuelling the rise in dog thefts

My wife works in a vet's, last week a client came in with a French Bulldog pup. All the paperwork was "in the post" and it has several underlying health problems, all for the bargain price of £8000

At the price dogs are at the moment, and with realistically no chance of the price coming back down, the two dogs I have now are the last I'll ever be able to have. Which is sad, as I enjoy working them as much as shooting.

I dont think it's a waste of money, if nothing else it will teach him responsibility and once granted keep him on the straight and narrow. As a teenager with a SGC I was very aware of not doing stupid teenager things that would risk losing it, so stuck to cheap lager on the park and girls 👌

A man very much after my own heart (except not having the money or time for travel!) I keeper my own shoot so from drilling covers in May until Feb 1st it really is a way of life, with beating on a few other shoots and working my dogs. Luckily my wife and kids also enjoy the lifestyle

This season has reinforced how much shooting and the socialising that goes with it means to me, as sad as that may be!

Or was it your last? 😆

Must have been around then, I was born in 86 and can remember that winter in North Notts we had no power for ages, no pumping station so no water. My dad had to hike to what is now Asda and they were giving it out in the car park. I think we only had gas?

Excess food going rotten / algae bloom? I got a bit over excited and tipped a load of wheat and peas in before the ducks had really built up. Smelt terrible and went a cloudy orange colour. Cut the food back and plenty of rain has cleared it up

I know a few farms round my part of the world on the clay that have resorted to spinning winter wheat on and harrowing it in this autumn

First one is a shaggy parasol, they lack the snakeskin pattern on the stem of the Parasol. Some of the others are wax caps, pretty sure the second isn't a Chanterelle as it doesn't have the wavy margin.

Nothing, don't worry about it and enjoy the day.

What would the decibels be on a Moderated .223? As others have said I hardly hear the shot when lamping, the impact seems much more obvious.

It's easy to say close the schools, but what about parents who have jobs they have to go to? I work in horse racing which has carried on right through and my wife works in small animals vets, we have no parents within 2 hours to baby sit (even if it were allowed) and we can survive on one wage.

I can assure you it hasn't, there was an empty plot down the road from me that had a elm hedge that had been left to grow into a row of scraggly trees. Our contractor smashed it back to sticks for the new owner and it looks a great hedge now. I'll take a picture when I remember, left to get too tall it would definitely succumb to Ded.

It looks awful but give it a year or two and you'll never know. It might actually save it, Elm only tend to get DED once they become more prominent and are easily noticed by the bark beetle.

261 is a good quick saw with plenty of grunt, I use a 261 and 462 at work.

We had a Salus wireless thermostat which worked ok for 8 months or so, then for some reason starting getting through batteries like they were going out if fashion. Most reviews say they are pretty poor over all and ours was replaced with a Honeywell one which seems much sturdier

I had a couple about on the shoot a week ago, but also Fieldfares in the next field which is an odd combination!

I dug a pond partly for duck flighting and partly because I had a weekend spare and was bored! It fills up with rain water and when the ground water comes up. Built on heavy clay and made sure we grubbed the land drains out. It attracted ducks from the first winter it was dug and after a year was full of plant and animal life, amazing how they find it.

This gets done once a year, burning five year old hardwood logs (which are too dry really, but burn clean!) From pulling up on the drive the sweep was here for 26 minutes this year and commented on how clean it was.

On most phones now you can in effect move the call screen to the background and carry on using the phones other features as normal. So you would call 999 and once connected close the "phone" screen and then you can go back into W3W and use is as normal while speaking to the emergency services