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Post by Jim on Sept 20, 2021 19:02:20 GMT
Be warned, the mature man ... ! Who are you referring to? It's a disguise, keep up at the back.
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Sept 20, 2021 19:03:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 19:03:58 GMT
It's not a very good disguise if I may be so bold as to presume to suggest.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 20, 2021 19:27:37 GMT
This time of year always used to get loads of spuds. In Essex it always seemed that the farmers used tor try and carry too many spuds in the trailers from the field to store and at the first few bends on the narrow country lanes there were always loads of spuds on the verges where they had spilled off (some very big potato growers around some areas) "Gleaned" spuds and roadkill pheasant ...... proper grub In days gone by, camping with motorbike, all the gear went into a canoe on the sidecar chassis, we used to collect roadkill bunnies. Sunday morning, breakfasting caravanners all around, there was I gutting a bunny on a table outside the tent, guts in a bucket, meat in the frying pan, ready for lunch. Used to keep and use a ferret too, poaching bunnies. Mate had a shotgun licence, permission on a couple of farms. He had a WW1 Lee Enfield bored out to 410 as well as a 12 bore. Be warned, the mature man and clown outfits are just disguises for a rascal! As a kid, my best mate's Dad had a Martini Henry (Think Zulu wars vintage ) converted to a shotgun with some obscure calibre that you couldn't get (he used to do some reloads I think originally but gave up) we used to sneak it out of the house to play cowboys with it as the underlever action meant we could pretend to be John Wayne ...... terrible to think of now as as it was a proper museum piece ..... later on as a teenager I had a folding 410 with a poachers frame stock smashing little gun but pretty useless for anything that wasn't almost sitting on the barrel
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Sept 20, 2021 19:53:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 19:53:06 GMT
While I was at Stoke Brunswick for a mercifully brief period again in 1985 we (11 year old boys) had lessons shooting .22 calibre live round rifles at targets.
Somewhere in the woods on the school estate I remember the bangs from the powder. Quite good actually to use a real gun. No doubt the teacher was keeping an eye on the boys' arses. Bad place eventually closed down due to not enough people wanting their little sons to be placed into a nest of nonces. And a teacher was jailed for fiddling with the boys.
Nasty place full of scumbags. A hunting lodge which someone dismantled and had rebuilt brick for brick in East Sussex.
I felt very sorry for the boarding boys there. Even at that age I could see that the place was horrible and I used to imagine being the incredible hulk (real one) and sort them all out.
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Post by Jim on Sept 21, 2021 8:03:59 GMT
It's not a very good disguise if I may be so bold as to presume to suggest. Not been caught yet. Perhaps silver hair is an invisibility cloak. Seems to work for another member too, whereas those who use dye have been banged up.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 29, 2021 21:00:01 GMT
I just jacked in my job at the helium balloon factory. I said to the boss "Nobody talks to me like that".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2021 21:23:10 GMT
I was invited to a knot gardening job interview the other day. It was going to be quite a rigorous test of culinary and botanical knowledge estimated to last a couple of hours. Unfortunately I couldn't find the thyme.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 30, 2021 6:06:28 GMT
I was invited to a knot gardening job interview the other day. It was going to be quite a rigorous test of culinary and botanical knowledge estimated to last a couple of hours. Unfortunately I couldn't find the thyme. Rosemary distracted you ?
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Post by Jim on Sept 30, 2021 7:29:11 GMT
I was invited to a knot gardening job interview the other day. It was going to be quite a rigorous test of culinary and botanical knowledge estimated to last a couple of hours. Unfortunately I couldn't find the thyme. Rosemary distracted you ? Ha, the wit of an old sage.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 30, 2021 7:33:45 GMT
Rosemary distracted you ? Ha, the wit of an old sage. at least I don't bay at the moon
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Sept 30, 2021 7:35:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2021 7:35:01 GMT
It was Basil.
Annoying because with the pay they were offering I would have been minted.
And apparently hardly anyone turned up. The waiting room was parsely populated.
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Post by Jim on Sept 30, 2021 7:50:03 GMT
It was Basil. Annoying because with the pay they were offering I would have been minted. And apparently hardly anyone turned up. The waiting room was parsely populated. how dilletante of you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2021 20:20:12 GMT
Years ago I went to one of the last remaining steam powered papermills. It was in Apsley near Hemel Hempstead.
They made writing paper. Basildon Bond.
The power source was a magnificent stationery engine.
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Post by JohnV on Oct 7, 2021 7:22:08 GMT
Years ago I went to one of the last remaining steam powered papermills. It was in Apsley near Hemel Hempstead. They made writing paper. Basildon Bond. The power source was a magnificent stationery engine. I remember seeing a tv program about that paper mill, I think it is the oldest mechanical one in the world ...... another one of the many places I thought I would love to see ..... but never got round to !!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2021 7:35:46 GMT
Yes not sure if it's still going. It was very impressive with all the rollers and the enormous steam plant. Loads of drive belts etc real old school gear.
I went in there on a visit about 15 years ago.
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