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1 hour ago, ditchman said:
critall frames ....the french windows had brass locks...........they are worth a bloody fortune now
IZAL " now please wash your hands"
when you went in the loo after lunch at skool if you peered down into the bowl there was always a sheet floating there looking like a negative impression of a down shot of mount Fuji
We had the luxury of some perfects bits of paper that started off life as The News Of The World , these were hung up in the outdoor loo , for many years we never had an inside loo , this came later when the landlord bricked the outdoor doorway up , turned the pan around and cut a new doorway in the end of the kitchen , no more running down the backyard in the rain , the snow or when we got a flood warning , you could not imagine what difference it made to the six of us who were still living at home at the time .
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1 hour ago, islandgun said:
Saw this today and thought it was apt
"It was a lot more fun being 20 in the seventies than 70 in the twenties"
I was a teenager in the 60s and in my 20s in the 70s , the 60s was decade we will never see the likes again , I remember me and a friend went to London on the train as my dad worked on the railway and somehow got some free return tickets , we were in a different world from our towns and cities in Norfolk , walking down Carnaby St and seeing the latest fashions was something else and the sights in the windows at Soho made you shake at the knees , we also went to London to see the man in Black , Johnie Cash with the Carter family and the Swinging Blue Jeans both live , now that will take you back a bit. .
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A lovely way to spend an afternoon MM , nice lot of shooting and you don't do yourself an injury in lugging a load back .
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58 minutes ago, B686 said:
Shot these in paddoc at the side of mine last year . With my camera. Havent seen one like this real dark compared to the others.
You said in your last post that you doubt you will shoot any more Pigeons till you go on the rape , I take that will be rape stubble , if that was the case then please be careful in letting your dog run around if the rape stubble is fairly short , this will scratch or cut your dogs belly , I always used to take mine and apart from the odd scratch I more or less got away with it , then last year , I am not sure why but our rape stubble was lethal , the stalks were like Aluminum rods and would had cut my dog to bits , I was getting some off our Pea and the Barley stubble's so I left the rape alone to whoever wanted to shoot it and apart from the keeper who took his boy for one afternoon no one else wanted to go . MM
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For a while when we were young we had a lot of powdered milk , this was in the White tins and called National Dried Milk , when things money wise were suppose to be better we had that thick , sweet ole Nestle's tin milk , the soap was carbolic , the cleaning powder was Vim and the washing powder was Daz.
One thing I really miss from the past is walking up the English Partridge , at the time we had good numbers and we never dreamt there would be a day when you can walk all the marshes for mile after mile without seeing a single Grey Partridge , the days of walking onto a covey are unlikely to ever return . MM
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Another decent bag in a few hours shooting , yes the spotted / mottled one is unusual but I have seen similar ones over the years , some with the odd White feather and others that have more White than Grey , only ever seen one pure White one and that was in the game dealers , what ever came of it ? , I haven't got a clue .
Can you move the bag on , or is there no demand in your area ? MM
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Brilliant and may you have many more , congrats to both of you
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52 minutes ago, enfieldspares said:
My advice is get rid of the very apparent seam along the back of the head and into the neck. It casts a shadow that is most unnatural.
Or use a Flexicoy decoy as they are seamless and moulded into one decoy , they have stood the test of time and would still take some beating as far as a full body decoy go . MM
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I am certainly no gun dog trainer and would not try telling other people what they are doing right or wrong but I have found since I had my first puppy in 1965 that every Lab puppy I have had since then and including the one I have got now have all been different in there ways in doing things , some will be easy to train and others will take a lot longer .
I used to go training with two of my pups with our ex head keeper , he was brilliant with dogs and one year he won the English retriever championship , after we done the basics with sit and stay we would move on to dummy work , this would often involve throwing three or four around and over the dog, he would then go out and pick them up himself with just leaving the pup one to pick up , he was a great believer in only letting a young dog pick up what he couldn't pick up himself .
I must admit that my first dog would run in but in those far off days I only shot duck and just about every bird I shot would had been a job to pick up over deep water or mud in and around our estuary , it wasn't till I started to shoot pigeons in a hide that I realised that running in could be fatal and then I concentrated on making sure the pup didn't move out of the hide until told , this was made a lot easier in leaving the easy ones that lay dead around the decoys and pick up yourself while the dog is sitting down nearby , if one had dropped well out then the dog get a retrieve , this way of training have worked out well for me and the only time they get a free hand is when the session is over and I have been shooting over a tall crop .
We have all seen a dog try and run through a net and bring the hide down with the owner having to put a lead on and tie it to something man enough to stop him when he see a bird drop , this could have been avoided with it all starting in the pups early training , this is when prevention is better than cure come into play . MM
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1 hour ago, JDog said:
Well done Motty. I have missed your erudite posts.
So have many others , glad he is back in the fold and hopefully a video will be along shortly
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Nice one , You can still have an enjoyable day without shooting big numbers , no doubt you would sooner shoot 50 good sporting Pigeons rather a 100 dropping on top of each other after each one is shot .
After a wet Winter and early Spring you are now finding if the conditions are right for one farmer then it could be the same for his neighbour's so several fields are all drilled at the same time , a bit like when they start harvesting , nice write up and a respectable bag . MM
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4 minutes ago, CoventryWire said:
Agh damn! I wish I'd sent your post!! I'd have snapped that up from you!! Just my luck need to keep looking then.....
What a shame , it didn't deserve the melting pot but it's always the same , you have it ages and as soon as it go you find a person who is looking for one
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On 20/04/2024 at 18:01, CoventryWire said:
Exactly! I was £2 under the winning bid but I'd have happily gone for more if I knew!!
Is this a BSA or something else? I was really after a BSA since I'm not allowed one of there bikes!!!
Would you believe it I handed in a B S A ejector, 30 inch barrels with a pistol grip only a week or so ago at the local police station , it was a sound gun but needed a spring in the back trigger , I did put the f o c offer on the forum a few months back and no one wanted it , to late now but you could have had for nothing . MM
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2 hours ago, Old Boggy said:
Saw and heard my first cuckoo of the year yesterday.
Hi John, I`ve never seen seen a bittern but have heard a few out on the marsh over the years.
Saw and heard my first cuckoo of the year yesterday.
Evening Chris ... There is just something about hearing the first Cuckoo and seeing the first Swallow before the Summer kick off , within a day or so I normally see my first Swallow around the last week in April and that need to be a nice warm day , I do normally hear and see the Cuckoo throughout the Summer with spending a fair bit of time in the woods , the Bittern on the marsh have been on these marshes for the last three or four years so I imagine it would be the same one.
The late Jim Vincent who used to be the warden on Hickling Broad had a photo in one of the books I had where he was holding a couple of very young Bitterns , this was at a time when they were nearly extinct where now they are still fairly rare but numbers are building up nicely , you will see one before long MM
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2 hours ago, London Best said:
My Grandparents lived in what was then in the 1950’s quite a large village. The population hovered around the 1000 mark.
For sake of argument we will assume that each couple had two children.
Again, for sake of argument we will assume that the 500 adults were split 50/50 male/female.
That means approximately 250 men lived in the village. Very rough figures, I know. It is (just) possible that not all the men were drinkers.
If you count the working men’s club there were 10 pubs in the village.
That is one pub to every 25 men (women did not go in pubs very often then)It make you wonder just how many pubs were in the U K at it's peak , our town ( Yarmouth ) is not that big but one of the local books I have got said at one time there was a pub for every day of the year ( 365 ) when I started with a local building firm the boss used to tell us where the next job was on a particular road , at the time I played a lot of darts and if I didn't know the road I asked him what pub is near by and I knew straight away where the road roughly was , now I doubt if there is a pub for every week let alone a day
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10 minutes ago, marsh man said:
P M now on it's way THANKS
SOLD to hoggs ( Pete ) THANKS
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1 hour ago, hoogs said:
yes please
P M now on it's way THANKS
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Another nice bag on the drilling , I go along with old'un as far as letting a young dog pick up that many on her first day out , we all do things differently when it come to training a gun dog , they say you learn by your mistakes and that also apply to gun dog training ,
I took a young dog once in a bale hide in the middle of the field , he had been a few times before and I was just letting him pick the live ones up which he was getting good at , I fired at a Pigeon that must had caught a single pellet as it started to tower up in the sky and then fluttered down , I sent my young dog and just before he was going to pick it up the bloodx Pigeon took off , my dog had no more to do than try and catch it , he ran across the field just behind the Pigeon and what was bad training on my side I couldn't stop him , he ran towards the road and my heart came up to mouth , he crossed the road and this Pigeon hit a tall hedge and he finally got it , I was then crossing the field as quick as I could and when he came back to the road a car had stopped to let him across , I put my hand up to thank the lady , I put my young dog on it's slip lead and he never done no more retrieving for a week or two , now if I have got any doubt I tell the dog to sit and go and pick it up myself . MM
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Cracking bag on drilled Peas , I would have to go back many , many years since I last got a three figure bag on Pea seed and I very much doubt I will ever do it again .
You done well to stick the cold out , I went a little while this afternoon and I was well sheltered by a thick hedge , I went when the Norwich football started and I wasn't sorry when it finished as the cold was beginning to get through my extra jumper I stuck on , my dog enjoyed it as I let him pick the nine up , when I got back in my motor it was 6 degrees and then it started to rain , now sitting at home with the heating full on, roll on when the warmer weather come back . MM
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Due to weight loss , three pairs of unused M + S trousers , Blue ones are 38 x 32 , Green are 38 x 31 and the Beige are 38 x 31 , all three are spotless and unused . £12.00 Collected , Posted £16.00
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51 minutes ago, Grandalf said:
Sorry the delay in answering Marsh man.
It's a combination of things. I don't have the urge for fowling as bad as I used to and that's come on slowly over the last several years. This is mainly due to the fact that, as we all know, the best fowling is when the weather is at its worst and the inclination to sit out there cold and wet is not the same as it once was. My wife went into a care home just over a year ago and I had been home caring for her for more than ten years. (She was disabled but now has Alzheimer's badly as well and is totally confused all the time). This meant that my free time for fowling and other things was limited to when I could get a relief carer and this could not be done accept on a pre arranged basis. No last minute decisions. So I would have everything ready days before and go whatever the weather - Good or bad for fowling. Now I can go more or less whenever I want but find that I would much rather go stalking which I took up a good few years ago. (I have just done a DSC1 course - Not that I needed to but wanted to. It was very informative). So now I still get up at silly o'clock but don't have to do long approach marches on the marsh. A gentle wander to a high seat or a slow and sedate stalk through the woodlands is far less strain on this old body of mine. The drag out can still be very taxing though.
However, I think the main reason is that I have had glaucoma for many years and my eyesight has deteriorated very badly in my right, master, eye. This meant that about six years ago I had to start doing all my shooting left handed. I got on with rifles straight away as my left eye is still very good and you ususlly have lots of time with a rifle shot. Shooting shotguns cag handed is not so easy though. Simple birds get missed very easily and it has never got any better. It just feels all wrong after 70 years of doing it the other way round. I have handed all my shotguns bar a Hatsan semi over to my son.
So now I am getting out just as much, maybe more at certain times of the year, but I never go stalking in bad weather as it is usually a waste of time anyway. The deer bed down in the thickest brush and stay there.
The other thing is that the resultant venison is much valued by many of my neighbours in the small village in which I live. I also enjoy the butchering and basically live on venison myself these days. It is super stuff to eat.
So I am still very active but just doing something different but similar, if you know what I mean.
I intend doing a sponsored half marathon for Alzheimer's Society funds this coming August so I am not sitting on my backside watching daytime telly yet.
I can fully understand your reasons in giving up the shotgun side and just concentrating on the stalking side , we can both look back and say to ourselves we have had a very good run and all good things have to end at sometime , rather than pack up overnight I hope to have the odd flight this coming if and when I want to , as you say it is down to a combination of events and under normal circumstances if want something bad enough then you can normally find a way around these issues , in my case I now feel the cold and it's not that healthy keep getting cold and wet when you are past the mid seventies , then with failing eyesight it was getting difficult to see duck in bad light , then the last people who had a few fowl off me are now all sadly passed away and as you most likely know that my wife passed away in her sleep just before Christmas which I am still finding it hard to accept after 47 years of happily married life.
I still enjoy a couple of hours Pigeon shooting and I did make every shoot we had on the estate last year , so I am still keeping active and I am at peace when I am in the countryside , but taking a gun is not as important as it once was and it's all down in doing whatever you are happy with and enjoying the amount of time we have got left , hopefully a few more years yet .
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2 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:
Hello, Oh lucky you !!!!!!, not heard a cuckoo around Abingdon Lock for a few years now where before there were here every year, they was a Kingfisher nest in the old mill but not seen for now, maybe river pollution with fish, plenty of Cormorants !!!!
There was a nice photo of a Cuckoo in flight in our local paper this morning , mind you it don't look very happy , still far to cold around this way at the moment , the Swallows would be better off staying in Africa for a few more days until it warm up a bit
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23 hours ago, marsh man said:
P M on its way THANKS
SOLD to Acerforestry ( Phil ) THANKS
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8 hours ago, ditchman said:
4 fish and chip shops all trading at the same time.............where were they >?
One when you first came into Cobholm between the Railway pub and the Two Bears pub , that one was called Begarnio's this was one of the cheapest ones where you could get fish and chips for a shilling , 8d for the fish and 4d for the chips , they were alright but a bit greasy . Then you had Brewer's near to where I lived at Dolman Square , these were the best ones , another one that opened was near the entrance to where you used to live at Tyrolean sq , this one was near the juniors school , the fourth one was at the middle of Century Road near the Salisbury Arms pub , the last two were only going for a year or two as the first two were well established and were trading for years, in fact where Brewers was it is still a fish and chip shop to this day .
Also , including the two pubs coming into Cobholm we had at one six pubs that could all make a living , now there are just two . sign of the times Simon .
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