D Brian Plummer

[higgins 75]

 

 

 

since when did everyone believe everything written in print. from the bible to any autobiography if you had any sense will take it with a pinch of salt.

they are authors and there job is to entertain and write stories.for peoples enjoyment.

agreed,my book will not read well,went out all night missed 4 rabbits ,i fell over,crushed me back wheels on a fence ,went home totally pissed off

did you just write that to make it more entertaining or was the night worse than that...?

worse i did nt even have a lurcher with me

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even worse was you did nt even have your heath robinson baler twine sliplead....?And your lamp battery wasn t fully charged.

Edited March 16, 2013 by higgins

[Qbgrey 4,096]

 

 

 

 

since when did everyone believe everything written in print. from the bible to any autobiography if you had any sense will take it with a pinch of salt.

they are authors and there job is to entertain and write stories.for peoples enjoyment.

agreed,my book will not read well,went out all night missed 4 rabbits ,i fell over,crushed me back wheels on a fence ,went home totally pissed off

did you just write that to make it more entertaining or was the night worse than that...?

worse i did nt even have a lurcher with me

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even worse was you did nt even have your heath robinson baler twine sliplead....?And your lamp battery wasn t fully charged.

lol,no dog no slip lead,i dont own a lamp i was actually in front of the wood burner writing another load of horse shite

[higgins 75]

it wasnt John Higginbottom's Big Blue Book Of Lurchers was it buy any chance?It;s an old favourite of mine.....

[higgins 75]

it wasnt John Higginbottom's Big Blue Book Of Lurchers was it buy any chance?It;s an old favourite of mine.....

Just realized John H could be John Higginbottom!.........

Edited March 16, 2013 by higgins

[higgins 75]

here's the book,what a rivetting read,i was impressed that much and couldn t stop laughing hence my username Higgins...

http://www.users.daelnet.co.uk/lurchers/john_higginbottom.htm

[wirral countryman 2,110]

Well,22 pages on a man that no-one seems to have a good word for other than enjoying his early books,I met Plummer on many occassions at a mates farm and he was always odd,to say the least,he suffered a lot from mental health issues and found solace in writing about other peoples exploits as a form of escapism from it,the big knowledgable ego in my dealings with him was a front to impress new comers to the game like "John H".I suppose he enjoyed impressing lads with little or no knowledge of different forms of hunting and his genetic knowledge of different breeds was second to none,he surrounded himself with young kids and the likes of "John H" hung off his every word looking upon him as some sort of "GURU"

I have to agree about the poor kennel management but that was the responsibility of the young kids that adored him,this was their payment for allowing them to be about,the one thing that sticks out for me was that Brian would give you his last shilling,he may of been many things but he was generous,he gave me 2 bitches in the late 70's before they were called "Plummers" and just asked me to test them.

I also met "Hancock" through him as the 2 conspired to concoct fairy stories of "Merles" prowess with foxes and other vermin so as to create a business for the Hancocks to make a few bob,Mr Hancock was a nice pleasant man but never spoke well of Brians exagerations,in fact he was somewhat embarrassed by it at times,he used to say if Brian said he caught 300 rats on his famous "thursday nights excursion" then just knock a zero off and that would be more accurate.

Well John if you never met him untill he went north and he had his white alsations then you were a latecomer to the party mate,the rabbits gave themselves up easilly and could make any dog appear proficient,there are many decent hunting lads on this website if you had only taken some time to read a few threads before trying to be the big man,WM

[Qbgrey 4,096]

Well,22 pages on a man that no-one seems to have a good word for other than enjoying his early books,I met Plummer on many occassions at a mates farm and he was always odd,to say the least,he suffered a lot from mental health issues and found solace in writing about other peoples exploits as a form of escapism from it,the big knowledgable ego in my dealings with him was a front to impress new comers to the game like "John H".I suppose he enjoyed impressing lads with little or no knowledge of different forms of hunting and his genetic knowledge of different breeds was second to none,he surrounded himself with young kids and the likes of "John H" hung off his every word looking upon him as some sort of "GURU"

I have to agree about the poor kennel management but that was the responsibility of the young kids that adored him,this was their payment for allowing them to be about,the one thing that sticks out for me was that Brian would give you his last shilling,he may of been many things but he was generous,he gave me 2 bitches in the late 70's before they were called "Plummers" and just asked me to test them.

I also met "Hancock" through him as the 2 conspired to concoct fairy stories of "Merles" prowess with foxes and other vermin so as to create a business for the Hancocks to make a few bob,Mr Hancock was a nice pleasant man but never spoke well of Brians exagerations,in fact he was somewhat embarrassed by it at times,he used to say if Brian said he caught 300 rats on his famous "thursday nights excursion" then just knock a zero off and that would be more accurate.

Well John if you never met him untill he went north and he had his white alsations then you were a latecomer to the party mate,the rabbits gave themselves up easilly and could make any dog appear proficient,there are many decent hunting lads on this website if you had only taken some time to read a few threads before trying to be the big man,WM

lock stock and f...g barrell

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

Well,22 pages on a man that no-one seems to have a good word for other than enjoying his early books,I met Plummer on many occassions at a mates farm and he was always odd,to say the least,he suffered a lot from mental health issues and found solace in writing about other peoples exploits as a form of escapism from it,the big knowledgable ego in my dealings with him was a front to impress new comers to the game like "John H".I suppose he enjoyed impressing lads with little or no knowledge of different forms of hunting and his genetic knowledge of different breeds was second to none,he surrounded himself with young kids and the likes of "John H" hung off his every word looking upon him as some sort of "GURU"

I have to agree about the poor kennel management but that was the responsibility of the young kids that adored him,this was their payment for allowing them to be about,the one thing that sticks out for me was that Brian would give you his last shilling,he may of been many things but he was generous,he gave me 2 bitches in the late 70's before they were called "Plummers" and just asked me to test them.

I also met "Hancock" through him as the 2 conspired to concoct fairy stories of "Merles" prowess with foxes and other vermin so as to create a business for the Hancocks to make a few bob,Mr Hancock was a nice pleasant man but never spoke well of Brians exagerations,in fact he was somewhat embarrassed by it at times,he used to say if Brian said he caught 300 rats on his famous "thursday nights excursion" then just knock a zero off and that would be more accurate.

Well John if you never met him untill he went north and he had his white alsations then you were a latecomer to the party mate,the rabbits gave themselves up easilly and could make any dog appear proficient,there are many decent hunting lads on this website if you had only taken some time to read a few threads before trying to be the big man,WM

Best post on the whole thread...

[darbo 4,776]

here's the book,what a rivetting read,i was impressed that much and couldn t stop laughing hence my username Higgins...

http://www.users.daelnet.co.uk/lurchers/john_higginbottom.htm

ive still got the book the article was printed in the running dog yearbook 1991. a funny read.

[higgins 75]

 

here's the book,what a rivetting read,i was impressed that much and couldn t stop laughing hence my username Higgins...

http://www.users.daelnet.co.uk/lurchers/john_higginbottom.htm

ive still got the book the article was printed in the running dog yearbook 1991. a funny read.

think Hosker wrote it,class pisstake

[thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,482]

He once trained a pig to retrieve better than a saluki so I read

[thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,482]

The man was mentally ill, in one book he says he was driving along a road and saw a rabbit that had been run over and started to think he wished he was that rabbit

[scothunter 12,609]

hope he comes back and haunts all you c**ts who question that mans wisdom! lol

[bigdaz 688]

As said in previous posts, I knew Brian well, as well as any man on here, he had his faults, which I won't go into.

Suffice to say, there where three types of people in the Plummer world, there were the middle of the road folk like myself who enjoyed his company, told him if he was talking pish and I think, no, I know we were better friends for it. Next, you have the haters and whilst there may be people who have genuine cause to there are far more who did and do so because it was deemed necessary to make you acceptable in others eyes. However to my mind the worst and possibly the main reason there were so many haters were the sycophantic brainwashed fools who hung on every word he said and believed it. I visited him two/three times a week when he lived at Abington and on many occasions I couldn't get through the door into his house for the same said fools being spun a yarn. I knew, he knew I knew, that was the difference.

[thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,482]

Interesting books to be fair, a diary of a hunter, cottage at the edge of the world and north and north again, good reads