Leo Sayer
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I know we're your coming from and I get it. But I put that to the side to listen to a very interesting man.
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I think if I remember right Brian was big into gosses ? And a very respected falconer
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When I went there was 2 pubs on island one open one shut, a chippy that only opened on certain days . One farm that gave us permo had an ambulance on it and was the islands resident ambulance. I have fond memories of that trip as it was the last big trip I had with my long term hunting partner of over 30 yrs before he sadly died of cancer a few years later. He had been to Scotland with me numerous times and we had numerous escapades out poaching over the years . But the memories live on
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Deffo pal ! I could deffo lead a Spartan life up there for sure. Interestingly [BANNED TEXT] I was on sanday I was ferreting and the wind was blowing a hoolie and cutting into us , I bolted a curlew from a warren
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Some very early days up mallam
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We never got masses up there, but like high 30,s. We was only young and I remember drying to drag the rabbits off in post office sacks lol. If I go yeah deffo pics
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Got a few old pics myself of my old collie bitch up mallam. I used to love it up there, love the scenery, all the rocks and limestone slabs, looked like a moonscape in places if ya get my drift. I may go back and wild camp it, bit of nolstalga maybe.
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I did hear along them lines. To be completely honest Mac I can't remember. I bet Lee Stroud should be good.
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As he was coming on stage it showed some footage on screen behind him. A bit was of him training and he was marching up a heather hill at a fair old pace with 2 car tyres behind him on chains. And he looked well in his late 60s in the clip !!!
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I must admit it was short and I felt there was a whole boat load of interesting stories to be told. I also went to an evening with Ant Middleton here as well and enjoyed that too. Back in the 90,s me and a mate got tickets to see an evening with Plummer at a working men's club in Wrexham . But at the last minute he got ill and cancelled so Gary Hosker was his stand inn.
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Mint pmsl
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Yeah av a look bush pal
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Yeah I agree , what a mind set he has !!!!!
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Yeah went sanday but it had been hammered mate by time we got there . But I did love the islands . I think Scotland is our truly last wild place .
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Went to watch the mad bad and dangerous to know tour an evening with Ranulph Fiennes last night at the Buxton Opera house . Really really enjoyed this . His drive minerals balls get up and go or call it what you will is next level. I’ve read a couple of his books. Honestly found him a really interesting captivating fella . Well worth a watch if it’s near you .
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Lol yep that's old Clive and his kitchen pmsl . Thanks for finding that. Rodger would of sh1T himself ov old Clive lol
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My favourite book was rogues and running dogs ! Now am sure we have all met a Billy Robbins or suchlike in our travels in the dog world. I've met all sorts of unsavoury characters good and bad over the years. But a few would of been deffo straight out of a Plummer book lol. One was a old retired wrestler who kept deerhound crosses. But made his money on tv from wrestling in the big daddy era. Now when I met him he was a old fella. Lived in an old delapadeted railway cottage with a bit of land and belive it or not it had a proper swimming pool in the garden but now empty and broke and from a t
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I met Tommy, but had sheep dogs then , nice fella
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Couple more old Scottish pics , all thanks to reading plummets books
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Sadly I haven't been up for a good few years now. The last time I went we went island hopping off Orkneys. I took my old collie grey who I still have today but is 17 years old and on his last legs. I have given up the running dogs now. My only hunting is mooching with a catty for a few woodys or longtails or what ever. But that poaching blood never leaves you, that naughtness, that adrenaline is still there I always think. Some pics of my last trip when my dog was still able do a bit.
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The second thing that the books had me hooked on was Scotland. It sounded like a hunters paradise, the land of milk and honey and rabbits and deer ! I first got took up by one of the older mentors in the game. First night up there my bitch had 23 rabbits from 27 runs ! Nothing by today's standards, but when your ferreting waste land and tips and red letter day was 3 rabbits back then, them 23 was big numbers to me back then. So obviously no internet or Google or mobile phones back then. So I wrote to the Scottish tourist board and got sent back a list of cottages for hire. I literally picked
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Plummer and his books drew me to 2 things, the first was collie greyhounds and the second was Scotland. From the moment I'd read all the books I dreamed of a blue mere half cross. But back then I couldn't afford Hancocks prices and was far to eager to wait for a litter to be bred. So I scanned shooting news and found a litter of 3/4 breds out of a Richard Jones sired half cross put to a greyhound. Sadly there was no show stopping blue merles or any merle in fact just one small runt of the litter left a little back and white bitch. Now she wasn't my first lurcher but she was my first real lurc
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We have spoke before mack as are paths may ov crossed as I used to lamp brora , helmsdale , east Clyne ect. Also apart from my own little firm , I used to run with a manc inner city crew and I was up there with cloggsy aka g creswell net maker and Barry and the boys. I used to lamp brora golf club a fair bit
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A Plummer lurcher Brian gifted to my friend , I had the pleasure to watch work . I good nose on it and a good steady ferreting dog and generally a nice natured mutt. Also in one of his books he put a pic up of the last place in Scotland were a wolf was killed. Many moons later I was up there on my annual pilgrimage up there rabbiting for a week and took a pic of it. Still in my old photo albums now
