Brian Plummer.

[Chaff 3,622]

I think he wrote using fact ,fiction and fantasy and when all put together created some great reads.

[Bush Rummager 4,760]

1 hour ago, mackem said:

Take the book from the shelf,nonchalantly look left,right,then left again then slip the book into your school blazer inside “Shoplifting” pocket or your school haversack,depart library with your “Treasure” #booktheft101

One thing I have wondered,what was he a Dr of?

Do you know where the cemetery is at mate just out of curiosity?

[tatsblisters 10,011]

Just now, Chaff said:

I thought perhaps he was a physics teacher or something and got the title from that.

 

Could have been mate I was told years ago by a lad from Doncaster who knew Plummer very well that Plummer had got recognition from Mensa and other intellectual bodies. I only met him once at Chatsworth country fair when he was signing books and pulled him about crossing two lurcher to lurchers and said and to this day I still stand by the comment will produce more hardy versatile lurchers than breeding pups out of a track greyhound bitch 

[mackem 26,946]

10 minutes ago, Chaff said:

I thought perhaps he was a physics teacher or something and got the title from that.

 

Good call,I thought he taught English as he had a love of literature,but you might actually be right.I went to his school once,forest comprehensive I think it was?in Walsall.I was a kid and got the National Express down for believe it or not a rat hunting talk,Hancock was there,and mick mansbridge the shooting news ferreting columnist who a few years later had an armed siege with police.

[mackem 26,946]

14 minutes ago, Bush Rummager said:

Do you know where the cemetery is at mate just out of curiosity?

No mate,shouldn’t be hard to find out I guess.

[low plains drifter 10,659]

15 hours ago, timmy k said:

You forgot Eastern promises. Class film

That's a great film, Michael Shaw playing charge hand at the maggot factory

[Leo Sayer 2,695]

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 declined . They say never meet your hero's ! But a part of me would of now if I  could turn back the clock. 

 

 

 

[low plains drifter 10,659]

28 minutes ago, Chaff said:

I think he wrote using fact ,fiction and fantasy and when all put together created some great reads.

That's Roald Dahl for you

[Chaff 3,622]

Glad to see your up and out of your day bed lpd

1 minute ago, low plains drifter said:

That's Roald Dahl for you

 

[mackem 26,946]

 

[low plains drifter 10,659]

8 minutes ago, Chaff said:

Glad to see your up and out of your day bed lpd

 

Born ready 

 

[Leo Sayer 2,695]

Arrrrrrrrŕ the wisest of things !!! 

[Leo Sayer 2,695]

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 

 

 

[mackem 26,946]

1 hour ago, Chaff said:

I think he wrote using fact ,fiction and fantasy and when all put together created some great reads.

I remember he wrote about Filipino slasher derbies,when I actually went to the world championships in the Araneta in QC I realised he had never actually been to one.

[mackem 26,946]

Just now, Leo Sayer said:

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 

 

 

Which part of Sutherland was that Leo,I was up there often around Dornoch,Helmsdale etc,my cousin still lives in Caithness,her husband is a fisherman.