Minky

I had a BSA snipe back then after the Webley & scot bolt action single shot 410. A 12 BORE. A BIG gun. And an ejector to boot. The snipe was a cheapo but I shot well with it and still have a few memories of spectacular shots with it.

Yes. When I was young you just rocked up asked and generally you were allowed to mooch. There were loads of small farms and the fields were smaller with ponds hedges and woods. The majority of ground is now medium mega farms. The ponds have been filled in and the hedges dozed out. The other smaller bit's of land are now pony paddocks and the other thing is that attitudes have changed and people just either don't agree with shooting and don't want the risk of people wandering around shooting and posssibly splogging the neighbours daughters pony or dog.

It's a sad state of affairs when you can't even give them away. I was told that a person took 6 guns into a local RFD and GAVE them in. The silly thing is that the RFD didn't really want them.!? A friend and I were in a gunshop a few months back and there were two guys in there and asked if they would buy in some guns from an uncle who was packing up. The answer was a definite NO. the counter man said LOOK HERE we have a rack of S/H guns that no one will buy or even look at. Now to me these S/H guns looked brand new. I couldn't see any difference between new and S/H. The counter guy said, We sell a few NEW guns but People won't even look at S/H not even with a massive price difference. When I was a kid guns were thought of as a tool with a purpose. Now they are a sort of short lived fashion accessory. It's like shot game. My mother would deal with the blood and guts then make a meal out of it. 99.9% of women /Girls wouldn't even touch game let alone butcher it. Dirty, smelly, disgusting, cruel, unethical. It's a bad state of affairs. Then you have fashion. "SBS kick like mules and you can't shoot anything with them". It has to be a new 30+ inch multi choke , O/U or it is no use. I like my 25 " sbs's with fixed chokes and double triggers.

I find it difficult to understand how/why you are running your houses so cold. Someone wrote 7c. That crazy. It's warmer than that in my unheated conservatory. !! The floor temp out there is 8.5c and the air temp is 11c. When I checked it out to see if the underfloor heating needed to be turned on I was struck how bone cold it was out there. In the house it is about 23c. I would have thought that anyone who is living with temps as low as some are saying they are, then surely there is a possibility of getting very unwell.

That was pretty hard-core and I believe that you have to realise your limitations or else you can end up in serious, even life threatening situations. One boxing day we had a bit of a walk up along the ditches and a couple of small drives with a turn around, so beat then stand until about 11.30. Then it was home for 20 mins and then a group of us went with the keeper to a place for a duck flight. We met up with a couple of blokes and then we loaded up into two hiluxes. we were taken to a place where hides made by stakes and pallets covered with plastic sheeting and some black plastic paraweave had been set up overlooking water. The trucks left us to it. Now I had foreseen this being V cold so at home I had put Damart on and several layers with scarf. Gloves, woolly hat and a windproof outer shell. Well prepared and kitted out. As the afternoon went into dusk the temp dropped like a stone well below zero. The water started to freeze over and the dogs were like frozen hedgehogs where their fur froze as they shook the water off. It got dark and we couldn't see anything. Considering that as soon as we arrived I had gone over to the next hide and taken off some of the plastic sheeting to wrap around our hide to help shield against the biting wind and driving snow. We were frozen and shaking keeping the dogs bodies in between our legs to absorb heat from them. We really wanted the trucks to come back and pick us up. Eventually they did come and we then had quite a distance to cover crouching down behind the cab out of the wind and snow with dogs and ducks. I don't think that Hypothermia was far away for both us and the dogs. Just getting back inside our trucks was like getting into safety. That was a bit of an bad experience. A bit further along there was a young bloke who only had on a pair of trainers and a track suit. Totally ill prepared. Apararently he had been out on the booze. But how he didn't end up in hospital with hypothermia was a surprise, inexplicable.

What you mean like when it feels like your finger nails are going to peel off and you've shut your hand in a door.

Roll on global warming. Yesterday I watched a youtube video about how over thousands of millions of years going right back before animals were on the planet that there have been several period of ice ages. One of these lasted for over 350 million years. These have been found by the deposits of rocks showing how continents like Australia have shifted. Humans have only been here for the blink of an eye. Considering that we can't settle on the moon, the human race would be in a really dire situation. Still none of it will happen this side of Christmas.ļ

The last three nights down here in Kent have been a hard hard frost with everything looking like there had been snow showers. Nice sunny if chilly days with beautiful dark pink sunsets. The sky has been a beautiful midnight blue. But holley molley is that cold outside. In the sun room/ conservatory it is about 11c but in the house it is about 23c which is nice. especially when you come in from outside.

In this in case it isn't practical. The seller is in Yorkshire and the buyer is in N Ireland. And has been stated you'd only get in bother on the doorstep... for £25. Really.? Also. .. as has been written . If it irks so much go through plod, get the crime number and harass eBay. You'd probably get your money and a bit of satisfaction.

We must have been a lot more hardy back when because I still had short trousers in the winter and walked to school and back in the dark on my own a mile and a half partly down a lane. Nowadays it would be considered almost child neglect. I don't remember my legs and feet being frozen solid though.

Dont forget that double glazing only became more common in the 90s. Up until them it was only single glazing and if it was -5c outside it wasn't that much more inside with frozen ferns on the inside. Paraffin heaters.? Then gas bottle cabinet heaters became more the main. I don't even know where I would it paraffin nowadays. All the garages and even greengrocers sold it loose from a small bulk tank out the back somewhere and the grannies used to Toddle up with the little beige cans with a little spout. Esso blue advert.

My eldest sister was married and lived in Hastings. Whilst out shopping she said that sparrows were falling of off the shop fronts into peoples shopping bags. The bloke that I was apprenticed under told me that that during that winter there was so much snow down near Folkstone that highways dozed it up into BIG PILES. These piles were still visable well into June . A year that I remember was 86. There are still the scrape Mark's on some roads around here caused by the teeth on loader buckets when they were dozing the snow up over hedges.

Yep. Totally true. They are just a load of gremlins stirring the pot for their own adjenda and ultimately costing the country a fortune. In wartime they would be considered to be saboteurs and fifth columnists. Vermin in other words

Yep it's all smoķe and mirrors. Free speech. Pahh. The press / bbc ned to be trod into the ground.... / controlled as vermin is controlled.

It's all a lot of hot air. it's like starmer and brown wanting to scrap the House of Lords. That was on the cards years ago. Liebor cant win at the box so let's ship the looney left militant faction in through the back door. Did you see the trade union bloke on the box the other day with his two hard men on his shoulders . It harked back to the days of Arthur skargill. liebor are still unelectable as they were under Corbin , Mc Donald and their hard men. Keir starmer has his hard women like that rough ginger thing and the ugly one with the tatty hair. Don't even know their names or anyone of liebor on the front bench.

Although those being hanged almost always deserved it, you've still got to be a head job to kill a human in cold blood like that. Their no different animal than the person that their hanging. There's a lot of difference to shooting something as to murdering something. I can't bring myself to drown rats..

I saw the results of coyotes on a Labrador that had been left on a running line in a yard. When the owner returned all that was left was the lower part of a back leg. The owner made it a crusade to decimate the local coyote population for killing his dog. Again failure to anticipate the actions of a coyote.

Holley Moley. Child neglect. .. failure to anticipate the actions of a coyote.!! MAUDE !!! MAUDE!! DO YOU HEAR ME MAUDE.... GET MY RIFLE MAUDE. .

All hot wind. The protesters will shout at the moon if it suits their idea. If you do it that's wrong and if you don't thats wrong. Any work will be monitored to a hair on a line. The wildlife will probably perch on the machinery and feed on the workings. Ok stuff will move out of the way but when its done after the protesters have gone home the wildlife will all return. This happens on all works like the hawks on the motorway embankments.

And suddenly the thread went dry. Shooting is really on its heels. A retired friend acts as a range officer at a smallbore club and although there are quite a lot of members on paper hardly anyone turns up to actually shoot. He says that it's hardly worth opening the club. A lot of gun shops in the south east have closed down and it isn't easy. Still I suppose that we could revert back to catapults or chucking spears at a cardboard box because that's where we're headed.

A bit late now that it has swollen. If its been treated before then either its the wrong treatment or not enough of it. Can they open and shut the door without slamming .? If they take material off of it the door it will have a big gap next summer. if you had another door to replace it with then the door could be slowly and carefully dried to avoid warping, shrinkage and splitting then be dried back to size and treated so that it repelled the rain /damp. Failing that replace it with a new UPVC door. My daughter had similar problem with a Harwood door. except that the internal panels split and when it was windy the door made noises cross between a cow mooing and a ghost. New door. Bur expensive. OR shut the door and use another / back door. IF the door keeps being slammed and barged open closed it will end up damaging the door and frame possibly damaging the brickwork.

Although my grandfather is planted (WW 1) out in France near Bethune, his name along with others is on a plaque on the war memorial in Alexandra park Hastings which was his home town. A wasted life. Pretty much the same as my father who served in the jungles of Burma. Although he did come home the experience and privations of such hard warfare conditions took their toll on him. He went out a very fit young man, married with two children and came back a wreck that I dont think that he ever fully recovered from. No coucilling back then.

That's a shame. And did he eventually return.?

How can anyone advise you of what they think is good. Surely everyone's tastes and likes are different. I've found jumbo oats at the cash and carry that are really nice. I take a quart Pyrex jug put about six desert spoons of oats then a heavy sprinkle of rice crispies, two spoons of sweetner powder and about a pint and a half of skimmed. Then into the meekro wavey for about 4+ minutes stirring a couple of times. Then topped off with more milk. Blooming gorgeous. Never though of salt in it. It's supposed to be healthy. At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, it's just fuel.

Did he mange to get a conformation of acceptance back to her on the 3rd post.? It would be bad if he was aircrew and got shot down over Germany that night.