Brexit aaaallll the way !! Nowt wrong with Churchill - up there with the best of them - and then you have the also ran wimps - like Major, May, Brown - clueless with no vision or backbone - happy to be subservient to a bureaucratic cesspit called the EU - which is in the gradual, inevitable process of collapse.  Hope I get to see it in my lifetime.

My eldest daughter is an Alexander Technique practitioner ( I know - wtf is that? Google it!).  Obscure subject to say the least!  She would often grab me as a bod to practice on when I visited her - which didn't impress me as a 'non- believer'.

After qualifiying, she told me she wanted to write a paperback basic introduction to the AT system to enable the public to get a grasp of the subject - since all written matter to date on the subject was off putting to say the least.

Having trained and managed sales reps for many years - and listened to their gripes about how crap secretaries were in typing up their reports for customers, I would always point out to them that the typists only typed what they as reps wrote - rarely bothering to read their hand-written  matter or attempt to understand it.  Part of their training would then become the art of writing up a report that is simple to understand - even for a layman - without jargon, and is succint, short and to the point.

So when my daughter expressed this wish to write an easily understandable intro booklet to AT, I gave her the benefit of my rep report writing training stuff to utilise in her approach on this obscure topic.  The end result has won her considerable acclaim with the public and her AT peers.  Her name is Angela Bradshaw if you want to look her up - link the name to Alexander Technique.

Beyond belief that such 'bravery' is inflicted on an already defenceless wounded animal.  Target practice indeed !  I hope an 11 ft kangaroo related to the deceased decides to jump him at a later date.

A good m8 of mine was an armourer with the MoD.  He was also a Bisley pistol champion.  Like most people in the sport / work, he had a fair collection of legit guns.  One day, him and his missus went off to work - each thinking they had locked up - but neither had checked their back door!  Sure enough they found they had been burgled via the unlocked back door when they got home & worst of all his gun cabinet had been forced open. Missing was a shotgun, 0.22 live rifle and a magnum 0.45. He reported this himself at the local nick in Widnes - where they detained him for 48 hours & gave him very intense interrogation over the 2 days - then releasing him.  The shotgun was found thrown into a field nearby - but no trace of the other 2 guns.  A fortnight later CID called on him and his missus saying there would be no charges brought against him for the gun loss - but said a strange thing to his missus as they left - asking her why it was she varied her route to work in Liverpool.  Turns out they had both been under surveillance for 10 days - cops concerned they may have been involved with say the IRA or similar - allowing the guns to be nicked !  Fair put the brownstuff up my m8 Steve.

Quote from: mickyp on January 17, 2020, 04:41 PM

BSA Airsporter

Until 1997 i had amongst others a Colt Python

Airsporter legal without need for licence and more than adequate for the vermin job.  Late Uncle of mine was a gun club member - had all sorts in his time .38, luger,magnum, derringer, beautiful .22 target pistol - sadly all turned in with gun laws changed.

I have a 0.22 airsporter bsa rifle for ratty et al

My sentiments entirely Phil.  Oddly in this cold weather yesterday up norf, I found a bumble bee on its back in my driveway and detected a slight movement of one of its legs.  Remembering a bee revival article from years back,  I took it indoors and put it into a saucer with some sugar mixed with hot water and pushed its head towards the liquid in the middle of the saucer.  Almost immediately its proboscis flicked into the liquid and it began to drink some of it.  Shortly after, it was able to walk off the saucer.  Placed it among some leaves under my hedge - hoping it survives

Meanwhile in Oz - cretins set fire to a quokka - as if the problems weren't bad enough.  Drop them into the burning forests.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32346835

Chatting with the guys in Jai Kathmandu, Northenden M/cr last Friday and we got to talking about their chutneys & pickles - seems they blend their own from large tubs - and tasty / hot they are too. I mentioned I find Pataks lime pickle very good - they laughed and said Patak himself eats here often & is always trying to nick their recipes.  When they described him, I have often seen the guy there - skinny asian, usually dark blue suit - drives a Roller.  Never realised it was Patak.