Minky

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.

Double post.!

Yeah but RM do do a darn good job of delivering junk mail on a daily basis

Ah, BUT, we have always had years which have had more or less snow and that doesn't show regional variations. I remember standing in the midle of a field on a duck drive last thing in the afternoon. The snow was coming down like cotton wool balls and by the end of the drive it was nearly up to the top of my wellies. We went to a meal after the shoot at a local pub and I thought that I wouldn't be able to drive home and would have to dock into the pub by the fire overnight. Well I took a chance and got out. I drove along steadily and as I got nearer home the snow got less and less. By the time I got home there was only about an inch and a half. SO over a distance of about 20 miles there was a BIG difference. Live there it was bad, Live here it wasn't much at all. NOW The bloke that I was apprenticed under used to come out with all sorts of weather lore sayings, one of which was .... If the ice in November will bear the weight of a duck then the rest of the winter will be mud and muck....ll NOW I haven't seen any ice at all this year so make of that what you will. Time will tell.

So how does that equate to the fact that if you've got a flat you still have to stop the car and attempt to pump up the wheel wth a toy compressor or the fact that if for some reason you can't inflate The tyre you are stuck waiting for recovery.? Generally if you've got good newish tyres then you don't get punctures. But if you do get a flat it probably have a wrecked tyre. Yes. Sledge hammer.

We bought a new Honda and all it had was a 12v compressor and a container of tyre goo that you plugged onto the compressor. There was no Jack or even a wheel nut wrench. I asked about the cost of a get you home and / or a new spare wheel. No get home sold and if I wanted an alloy road wheel complete,. With tyre, I think that this was over £500.!!. as previously written ,when do yòu every really need a spare.?ŕ. I really wanted a spare so Icmesured the pad and looked up what vehicles had the same pcd and dish depth. I found that a Rover 75 was the same. Armed with this info I headed off to a scrap yard. They did have a few Honda get homes but these were so small that it would be like fitting a wheelbarrow wheel. The ole boys there said that they thought that there was a 75 up The end of the yard. After a bit of rummaging around I found it and the spare was like it had just been sold like new. I emptied the boot of the wheel which is the same road wheel size, a Jack + handle, a warning triangle, a nut wrench, a set of wheelnuts, a tow rope and a can of Holts foam stuff and a small fire extinguisher. The ole boys took £12. The wheel fitted on the studs correctly and the dish was clear of brake pipes and the caliper so I was equipped. I don't expect to use any of it but if it does go wrong I'm equipped. I did ask the main dealer the form with the compressor and tyre good if the tyre couldn't be pumped up in the event of a cut tyre. The dealer just said I'd have to call out a tyre company. Great waiting for hours on the side of the road in the dark, wet and freezing cold as would be the way.

From the limited image of the single barrel jobby, I think that it could be a Baikal. I have a similar 20 bore and there is a barrel opening lever on the trigger gauard that opens the barrel and recocks the action in one movement. Without going and dragging it out I can't remember it I'm pretty sure that it has Baikal and the type number stamped on the side of the action and a Brown bakelite butt plate with Baikal moulded in it. The20g one that I have is never going to be worth much but the gun is, as all Baikals built SOLID. AND OK FOR A summer's evening walk round but saying that it is a 3 inch mag and loaded up with the corŕect stuff would take anything going. You probably wouldn't want to shoot many Magnus, but how many shots at geese or a marauding fox does one get or need. A real strong gun built for lifetimes of solid work. Like a keepers gun. If you put the lead on the target it does a job.

MONKEYS.? !!! Not monkeys. Are they some of the 4 monkeys up three and a half sticks.?

No matter The cause or reason every number is a person. It's such a waste. It's a bit like all of the young lads over here who get knifed due to being in a gang or just in the wrong place at the wrong time or the people who were killed in Ireland in the troubles. Apart from those close to the victims/ other Who remembers.? Who knew/knows my grandfather who was killed in the first world war. Still if there wasn't a continued cull of humans how would the human race survive being shoulder to shoulder. Eating ourselves out of house and home living in our own excrement and disease.

Son in law has a place down in the middle of France and when the shooting season starts the great majority of people do not go outside at all. I don't know how long it is like that but apparently the loons are shooting at everything that moves, and this is with firearms. What goes up must come down and that lncludes a 308 shot at a sparrow on a telephone wire. It can't be as silly as that can it? He says that all of the shooters have to wear hi vis vests.. why.? Surely They should identify The target before pulling the trigger, although I did hear of a bloke who shot his own dog on a fox shoot and saw another bloke shoot into cover at a target that wasn't identified. Needless to say he was given a right stripping down and was never asked to another shoot. A bit late though.