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    Good tutorial Gaffer, top man.
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    Thats interesting, I am getting a staff when it's 8 weeks on dec 4th. Pretty sure we got the last one done not that long after we got him, but that was over 25 years ago so I could be mistaken. Think I'll have a visit to the local vet this week for a chat and a bit of clarification and advice.
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    Agree fully with that. Remembrance and Respect.
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    Nice one Gaffer, looking forward to reading about the rest of the procedure Do you always burnish the edge with the slicker by hand or do you use one in a Dremel?
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    Absolutely horrendous, we just don't know what cranky b*stards are out and about. Good result with the tazer, but it don't bring that poor girl back.
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    Haggis

    Mister Gain replied to Brewman's topic in General Talk

    When I used to buy the occasional lamb carcass from a smallholding for processing, I would always request the pluck (heart, lungs, liver) and make my own haggis. Wife wouldn't touch it, but quite happy eating lambs liver and loves chicken livers.. funny things women, defy logic sometimes. So I used to make single good sized portions using plastic casings, and always have some in the freezer. Also used to make black puddings, but with dried pigs blood. And my own faggotts, no old crap in them like commercial ones. Even used to make offal pies. Used
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    Congratulations grandad... the beauty of Cyprus will pale compared to grandparenting. In fact you've started already by thinking about claret and blue jim-jams I only had 18 months of proper grandparenting until my son emigrated to Aussie, and the sense of loss hit me like a sledgehammer, I really bonded with my first grandaughter. I've just found out that I will be a grandad for the fourth time, and I know it's a mere 10,500 miles away, but a 3 week holiday isn't the same. I know what decision I would make if I were in your position. Give it a year or 18 months until you finally decide
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    I don't think we should be bringing them here and training them in the first place. They are reckless and undisciplined, as has now been proven, and any training given now is liable to come back and bite us in the future. Are these not the same people who were pleading for our help not so long ago when they were fighting against Gaddafi's regime?... then after they overthrew him they started smashing up the Canadian, Australian, US and UK war graves... Leave them and let them get on with it in their own countries.
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    You're bang on 100% Newkid regarding the commercial carp puddles. It used to be that catching a carp, or tench for that matter, was a special achievement, be it by design or by luck. Although the carp puddles do undoubtedly serve a purpose and have probably brought a lot of people into fishing, I don't get as much enjoyment fishing them as I used to when fishing a proper old established mixed fishery, or fishing a river. Well done with the 2lb+ roach , I've not achieved that, came close a couple of times from the River Beult, thought I had at Horton Kirby but sure it was a hybrid. One
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    Had some cracking roach out of the mole ( molesey near Hampton court) fished the Thames around there too. And the ember, Fished them quite a bit as a kid. Used to belong to Dorking and liked to fish the Deepdene stretch, mainly for chub. Had to work for them mind. The chub were not massive, 3½lb was a fair fish, occasional 4lbs, but mainly chublets about ¾lb to 1lb but on the bonus side of things I used to get the occasional big dace which were a similar size to the chublets, cracking fish indeed. My best nets of river roach came from the Medway just upstream from Barming Bridge i
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    Before taking the bottle to the diving shop, or the gun to the gunsmith, I would check that the purge valve is full closed on the main bottle valve. Then I'd make up a frothy soap and water solution, using a small paintbrush check every area of the main valve through to the filler. If you can't find out where it's coming from, and consequently you are unable to rectify it, then take the gun/bottle to the appropriate shop.
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    Saw this on the web, don't think you could use it though, it's politically incorrect and might upset someone.
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    Would honestly like to see them banned, except for public events, like they do in Australia. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just for bonfire night, but around here it starts about mid september and continues into the new year. F*ck knows how they can afford them. Years ago it cost me a tele when the dog got round the back of it and tried to crawl up its own arse and knocked it over.
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    Nice work as per usual gaffer. Love looking at hand crafted stuff
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    Enjoyable read that, brought back a few memories of bygone trips to the middle Thames, Medway and Mole. Can't beat getting them going on a river.
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    Someone say candles I can't resist lol Watched it so many times, but still watched it again... classic
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    Undercover sniffer dog
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    Nope... not then, probably like him now though
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    I was scratching through some of my old fishing photos a while back and came across one which I had completely forgotten about. It was taken with a little plastic camera with a roll of film in... remember those . Was taken by my son who was about 6 or 7 at the time so that would make it 27-28 years ago. He almost never got me in the photo. I had taken him to a club water in Kent for some early morning tench fishing. After the tench had gone off the feed and the sun had come up, 3 canada geese wandered along, and kept a safe distance away. Over the course of about an hour or so I had l
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    WARNING... swearing 18+ http://youtu.be/nT0Vz156AdY
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    The uncle I never got to meet... eldest brother to my mother. Frederick John Boorman, Private 14517075, Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Died 5th January 1944 aged 19 years. Son of Frederick Hector and Francis Kathleen Boorman of Mottingham, Kent. Born South East London. Resided Kent. Buried Carbonara di Bari War Cemetery, Puglia, Italy. Grave reference VI.A.4.
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    That's what we need, what is basically another stealth tax. Something like this will always be aimed at people who drink or smoke or drive. I would argue that a great many more people are admitted to hospital because of injury through their own stupidity or carelessness than anything alcohol related. They could make a fortune if they charged those as well. As I see it, the NHS has been (and still is being) milked so much over the last 30 - 40 years by those who have not contributed to it, that's why it's going down the pan, but this government won't address that for fear of upsetting peopl
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    Bought myself a Jack Russel Terrier, he's mainly black and brown with a small white area, so I've called him Bradford.
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    When I first started shooting (after becoming deadly accurate in the garden ), I had a few bunnies when I was plotted up, but the lamping after dark was a different kettle of fish. Hurried shots on skittish rabbits, unable to estimate the range accurately. Both my shooting mates said at the same time "He's missed again", so there you go. I will add that I cleanly shot the next rabbit
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