North Country Boy

Its mad, there is so much free fruit out there just falling and rotting. I went to do some coppicing in a womans garden the other day she asked me if I wanted any apples off her tree when I jumped at it she took me round to her mums who had loads of apple trees and told me to take however much I wanted and I can go back every year and take what I want. This is on top of the dozen or so trees that are on waste ground near me that were positively groaning with fruit this year. Definitely making more next year.

Ive tried making cider for the first time this year. Had an abundance of apples so I thought Id give it a go, got a load of wild crab apples to press as well as apparently they contain the most wild yeast and I wanted a cider that was just pure apple juice with no chemicals added. It was a bit time consuming even doing it as a group with one washing and cutting, one smashing the apples to a pulp and one pressing and putting in the fermenting bin but we had a good day and it was very social. I left it on the fermenting bin till it started to bubble then decanted it into demijohns were I left it

Hi mate, have you still got the sprocker? Whereabouts in Yorkshire are you?

Makes our bag of 56 look pretty lame, good write up and a good day by the looks of it.

I'm suprised you get beaters without paying wages........ Most beaters dont do it for the money, i beat for the enjoyment of working my dog. The shoot has a great atmosphere and there are many more rewards than money. I also shoot in a syndicate, £550 per year and £15 to cover beaters fees and a hot meal at the end of the day.

Whereabouts in mids are you based mate, interested in the drill, how old is it?

You jammy fecker, now thats luck for ya. If i fell in a bucket of Tit$ id still come up sucking my thumb. Some blokes have all the luck

Fook me, that actually freaked me out

And I bet you leave them to rot like on the hare drives. Well done. I do a hare drive every year and not one gets left to rot, there shot for 2 reasons, to keep the dog men off the land and to stop the damage to farmers crops.

She retrieves on every shoot i go on and every shoot i beat on, at least twice a week but has been up to 4 times a week during the season. Shes not short of experience or days out and it looks like she treats every shoot as her first shoot.

Have a great, well trained ESS bitch that is 6 years old. Just lately she has started to push on a bit, she will flush a bird then chase it even though its 40 yards in the air, i can normaly counteract this and stop it before it happens but on the last 2 shoots shes just gone beserk and chased everything shes flushed, shouting and whistling to her doesnt register and she seems hell bent on retrieving the flushed bird, even though shes no chance of ever getting near it, any tips on trying to combat it?

Wouldnt pi$$ on my old man if he was on fire, my mum too come to think of it, there both wasters. Its the only subject that gets my back up.

Never trust a dog breeder with 3 hands Only kidding pal, cracking pups and good luck with the sale.

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