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  1. Leo Sayer
    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
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    Arrrrrrrrŕ the wisest of things !!!
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    For me growing up , I loved the books. As boson said took me to a place in the countryside I wanted to be. To meet the rogues and hear there storys and see there dogs. They deffo helped me fall in love with running dogs . Funny thing is and I've told this story before. An old mate of mine was a good friend of Brian's,. So I ad the opportunity to go and stay with him for a week. He was in Caithness at this point. But wouldn't let me take my beloved pride of joy my 3/4 collie grey up there with me ( which was bought I may add off the back of his books lol ) so me being a stubborn tear away and
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    Search a few posts up pal , I did for bakerboy
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    Dead easy mate, just simply mix Greek yogurt and any self raising flour but I use gluten free. Mix in a bowl till a consistency to roll and roll out with a wine bottle and flour and just simply a very quick fry each side in a frying pan till brown ish . Then done , can freeze or last a couple of days and a healthy bred
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    You tried there brewdog ipa copies ? There not bad mate
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    Nowt wrong with good old Aldi, u remember my mum's range years ago lol
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    Am not sure weather am gluten fee tbh mate, just sometimes bread makes me feel bloated and tired. So I knock these up as a healthier option and are great with a ruby and they only take 5 mins to knock up.
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    Knocked up some Greek yogurt and gluten free flour flat bread things for freezer . So morning butty , turkey sausages on flat bread with mustard and black coffee .
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    Av got 4 cars dodge , a old banger for the dogs, a audi and a van for my business and a transit am converting into a camper. All 4 have roughly gone up a third and I can't get em cheaper and av got full no claims on 2 ov them. And road tax has gone up as well ffs.
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    Awsome pics and am sure the same with the trip and memories mate atb
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    Must admit I have almond milk on cereals, but can't be doing with in a brew, so it's a black coffee or a bullet proof one
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    Himalayas ? Awsome . I must admit I chase light weight now as I've dodgy knees. I was pissin about the other week in a 30 litre bag and got a base weight of 3.9 kg for a summer night out excluding food and water , but tent sleep system and cooking set and essentials
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    When I say yesterday’s about UL cottage company’s. I picked up a bargain second hand for just over three hundred quid . A Zpacks one person tent , an older model but a bargain and never been used and only weighs 472 grams ! Pretty ultra light in my book .
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    Think they fetch a pretty penny now and sorry not sure were with out Facebook. But they look really nice frames .
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    He used come in were I was working as he was a shooting man and was a young tear away we got on. He used buy all the deer and hares we caught with the runners. Was funny to him put a red hind carcass on the milk float to drop off at butchers on his round lol. Happy days
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    Checkout some of the cottage industries over in the states ect, Zpacks, Hyperlight Mountain Gear and Mountain Laurel Designs are a few of my favourites for light weight gear. Expensive but quality gear.
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