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jackmichaels

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About jackmichaels

  • Birthday 12/08/1944

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    Originally Burford Oxon, latterly Northumberland
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    Ecclesiastical Architecture and Archaeology. Military History.
  1. We have a had subarus in the family for the last 35 years..as an all rounder nothing even comes close.
  2. In the mane I think the Dentist was probably ill-advised but the two hunters are a couple of lion cheetahs. When you separate it down to its basic denominator what's the difference between paying to shoot a lion, a deer or a pigeon... Nothing.! All should be done humanely of course and with the proper equipment. As long as the money goes to the right source ( conservation ) I cant see a problem. Although in this case it was probably pocketed by the Hunter and the Land Owner, which is the real crime imo.
  3. Yep and Swinton... Both good until something goes wrong. Read the small print carefully. At that level of premium I imagine you are like me a mature driver with an impeccable insurance record and plenty NCB so you can afford something a little more comprehensive The cheapest is not always the best. I'm with saga for my forester and have been for the last 5 years... £315 fully comp. plus all the bells and whistles.. I had quotes as low as £175 but they didn't have much substance too them. Just remember no matter who is at fault in the case of an accident one insurance company will try and explore every avenue to pin fault on and recover costs from the other, so make sure for the small additional premium you have legal and personal injury cover. Very often the occupants are more badly damaged than the vehicle !
  4. Too dark and ill defined for a immature lesser or greater black headed gull imo. Not big enough for a herring gull either.. Guess we will never know for sure.
  5. Quite so..espionage was never my strong point..and I always crack under torture...howeverr you can all spend the rest of the evening wondering. I did actually meet someone from PW once in fact...I cant divulge his name but he had a pigeon watch badge on. I turfed him out of a 30 acre field because he was effectively poaching.. He perhaps thought I was anti-social too at the time
  6. I love classical guitar..it takes a very special musician to play them well. I'm afraid I have no time for what you youngsters call "modern axemen" ?
  7. I would keep looking at your silly hat and wondering if when you take it off your head is actually the same shape underneath... No I'm not at all antisocial just old and crusty... I spent 20 years in the Army looking after other people, whilst trying to remain invisible at times, some of these tours were extremely unpleasant and its not something I would want to communicate to anybody face to face...and I'm sure they would be very inquisitive.
  8. No-one and I don't intend to. Not that I'm anti social I just prefer my own company these days. Solitude is best when youre out in the country.
  9. Doh....Should have gone to Specsavers ! Art is subjective of course but I think its bloody brilliant...I bet the photo doesn't really do it justice either . I'm going to try and win his next effort,
  10. Its a Buzzard imo. If it were a juvenile gull it could only be either a Black Backed, or Herring Gull juvenile and on both the primaries , secondaries, lesser, median and greater wing coverts are well bordered and defined. Are there any peregrines in the area in fact...they will often take down juvenile buzzards, seem to delight in doing so. I've witnessed this many times on the moors and cliffs around these parts. I Assume the boot is a size 9 or 10 would it be about 2ft 6 from joint to tip Shame it wasn't flipped over it would have been easy to identify then.
  11. I know what you meant and you construed my post correctly.. I think one or two on here do hit the keypad a tad too quickly before really thinking about what they have just read. Its a sad indictment of the times that moral standards have declined excessively in my life time. Nobody really cares anymore. They may say that they do especially after a tragedy like this but after all the rhetoric has died down this lad will be forgotten about by all apart from his immediate family and perhaps the owner of the construction company. Someone should have been looking out for that lad, whether it was his parents, neighbours, older kids or just joe public..but no, we are all so bloody insular these days and nobody really gives a toss.. About time National Service was reintroduced, but that's for another topic.
  12. Impossible though to make any construction site 100% childproof if they have a will to get in some way they will. At a site in Berlin several years ago I witnessed 6 7 & 8 year olds dig a tunnel under 8ft high solid perimeter anti-climb steel hoarding and that was after digging a scrape in a tarmac footpath as well.! What concerns me most is the fact that you cannot leave a child home alone at 7 years old but its OK to boot them out onto the street it seems. No doubt if it was a tragic accident the construction company will be made scapegoat. My Kids lived on an Army compound for most of their childhood, but they were still in bed at a time corresponding to their age and in all cases before 9 even in the height of summer. Sadly moral society as been undermined in post war Britain to the extent that Darwins theory of evolution seems to be in reverse.
  13. Sorry not me ..MBE is enough imo. I don't believe any sportsman or woman should get a Knighthood, especially one in a minority sport. Nothing against George he is a nice chap, but I have my principles.
  14. http://www.glassandlock.co.uk/upvc-door-closing-and-locking-problems/
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