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Never, dedicated footie. But I have followed fox hounds on foot, likewise Mink hounds and Beagles. Even been know to whip in a bit. ******** to that

I love fox hunting, just wish there was a lot more of it. Trails are painfully boring unless you are in the mounted field out for a gallop. Only thing better than a good fox hunt would be a good otter hunt. Got to turn the clock back a long way for that though. Tally Ho

Alarm at 17:30. Always snooze for 8mins. Six paces to lovely hot shower. Get dressed. About 40 steps to the office for a shift handover at 18:00 but usually detour to the galley to pick up a coffee. Then back to the galley with my colleague to continue our ‘handover’ official shift start at 19:00. Nothing happening in my department so in the cinema for 19:30 to watch a movie. Go through to 07:00 on shift. switch over day today, night to day shift. Bit of a killer for the body clock to adjust to days but I find taking melatonin helps me a lot. Saw daylight today for the first time in a week.

Good lad

Cannot see the issue?

Saves you right for shooting it

Saw little trick on a YouTube video for a quick conversion from grey goose to Canada goose decoys. Cheap black socks! Run over the head and neck of the decoys, splash of white paint on each cheek ( I guess white tape would work), and hey presto, a Canada Goose decoy. They certainly looked convins from a moderate distance.

Don’t know much about crypto currency. Very sceptical like many others I suppose. but this summer I was speaking to a full time loader about his clients, the type who can afford to shoot big game days very regularly through the season. As I expected most are older wealthy businessmen, but an increasing amount are much younger ‘bitcoin’ millionaires, they have made large fortunes in crypto, they are real people and there are probably more out there than we realise.

The various reserves locally are starting to report a handful of Whitefronts and Beans here and there. Anyone seeing them in any numbers elsewhere?

A few points in no particular order. I live in the arable east. Many smaller family farms have gone, usually bought up by bigger family farms, some of which now own in excess of 4,000 acres and may well lease in as much again. They are not estates, just slickly run farming businesses. The owners are asset rich and cash rich. Unless a farmers son / daughter inherits the family farm (I am thinking here of second - third child etc) it is just about impossible for them to get a farm of their own. There are few rented farms coming available and they are often to the highest bidder if they do. The big old estates are increasingly taking tenanted land back in hand when their farms become available. Thus reducing the number of rented farms available, and therefore the number of farmers. a large arable farm was on the market locally to me this year. Not residence but it had farm buildings. Went for £16k an acres, rumour has it that it was a three way bidding war between non farming business men wanting to invest their hard earned. some farmers have made large fortunes selling land on the periphery of villages and towns for building, and have then reinvested the monies in more farmland somewhere else. I believe this avoids paying tax on the initial sale to developers (?). They remain both asset rich and cash rich.

You are in my thoughts, difficult to put into words Peace and comfort

No fan of Labour but the guy probably deserved it. the MP had been harassed before and was likely at the end of his tether with mouthy idiots

RIP Eddie.

I cannot stand the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party, nor most of their cabinet and most of the MP’s. But this really is a nonsense story, a Labour peer gives assorted gifts to the elected Labour politicians, I believe all of which were subsequently declared , so what?!? I cannot see the issue.

Whoops. My sums were miles out. Cheap as chips…..got any more at that price?