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  1. I saw him at one of the C L A Game Fairs many years ago on the Eley stand , the ole boy was well over weight and very abrupt , not the most friendly person you will come across , we were only interested in getting a free diary from Eley , mind you they were already seven months old time you got them so with them being free you couldn't really complain
  2. Ring up your local shoots ( if you know of any ) and if you can go weekdays then you have an advantage , your local estates will no doubt run a shoot so give the estate office a call and tell them what you would like to do this coming shooting season , they will get in touch with the head keeper or give you his telephone number , it shouldn't be to difficult but you will have to do some leg work and make a start at the nearest ones and then work your way out further afield . GOOD LUCK MM
  3. Times have certainly moved on , we had several game dealers and butchers who were crying out for all sort of game and none of them would have asked where they came from , I well remember a tenant farmer where I worked shot some Hares that were eating his Spring barley and asked me if I wanted them , as I was going to take some Pigeons up the game dealers i said yes I will gladly take them off your hands , I took my Pigeons up to Frost Game in Brockdish and I didn't know at the time you were not allowed to sell Hares from the 1st of March , he bought the Pigeons and when I got the half a dozen Hares out of my motor he said he was not allowed to buy them , as I went up to his a lot he said , to help me out he would take them and pay me later in the Summer when it was legal to sell them , he kept to his word and paid me when the time was right , I also know at one time he was paying £5.00 for large Hares and that would have been at least 40 years ago , sadly like many of the Norfolk game dealers they have all packed up and are no longer trading , as far as I know we have only got one dealer that serve the whole of the county , times have certainly changed . MM
  4. Just looked it up from Harveys the game dealers , you cannot sell Hares from the March 1st to July 31st .
  5. Hares normally make good money at the game dealers but I don't think you can sell them after a certain date in March , might be changed now but that was how it once was .
  6. Three pigeon shooting books , all in very good condition and from a smoke free home . Pigeon Shooting by Archie Coats , This is a first addition and published in 1963 Shooting Woodpigeon by A E B Johnson , This is a second revised addition and was published in 1980 The Pigeon Shooter by John Batley , This is also a first edition and was published in 1996 REDUCED to £15.00 Collected , or £19.00.00 Posted ( these will be boxed up for safe delivery )
  7. I must add that me and Simon ( ditchman ) are both widowed and get a 25% discount on the council tax , before my discount it would have been £1710.69 , which would be very close to your's if you were not getting any discount , although you are virtually right with the value of the two houses in comparison . MM
  8. Slightly better here , just outside of Yarmouth in a nice quite area , in band b it is £1283.02 , I don't know where they got the 02p from
  9. Is it where the Bubble and Squeak got it saying from I G ? , never heard any of my veg making a noise in the steamer , but then again , my ole hearing isn't that sharp . MM
  10. I know exactly what you mean , I went roost shooting the four Saturday afternoons in February , I say went because that is about all I done ( went ) , after a good walk round to have a yarn with anyone else who was nearby I would give it a hour or so and if things were quite then my warm house was more appealing than the cold wood I was in , a sure sign that old age have arrived
  11. Well done Ben , moving that lot a fair distance would had took some doing and it was a good job the ground have now dried out a bit for you to drive down the tramlines , we have had a cold Easterly wind for most of last week and although fairly cold it have dried out a lot of the wet fields , thankfully the sprayer can now get on with some work and some drilling should be done next week , again weather permitting .
  12. An excellent bag BB , not for the faint hearted if you had to lug that lot off a wet ole field and did the quad bike come into play , some of the rape around these parts are now coming into flower and at long last the tractors are now getting back on the fields . MM
  13. Yea no problem , the A + E told me just keep taking the pills and add plenty of fibre to your meals
  14. These things happen from time to time Chris , slight dip in concentration I got a funny smell in my other motor when I put the metal dogs bowel in the back of the motor and it just so happened to land on top the battery terminals , needless to say a lot of smell and a scorch mark on the bowel but no harm done . MM
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