Fun in Tardebigge

 

 

The old village of Tardebigge is home to the Hereford & Worcestershire Shooting Ground.



After some months away from shooting in France I got the opportunity to have a go, only 5 mins from home.

What a lovely place. And not a bad score, with a borrowed Rizzini - even if I say so myself.

Looking forward to getting my new gun, the rest stay in France so as to avoid the H&S, terrorist alert, jobsworths in Border Control.

I do like the new Bettinsoli - cheap but great reviews.

Point to Point

All ready to go to Chaddesley and guess what - snow!!

Ah well, a supply of sarnies, hot pies and wine plus a warm set of clothes should sort that out.

Long time no posts

Just enjoyed 7 weeks in Brittany - 3 more than planned due to an ageing mother and age related "issues" but no hardship.

Had a great time with my newly "plumbed in" woodburner and got through quite a lot of the apple trees that I had to trim back months ago after they broke branches in the early autumn winds, so laden down with fruit were they.

The Christmas & New Year went well - Turkey Crown, Stuffed belly pork roll, 5 bird roast and Pheasant. 

Not all at the same sitting ......

Much hunting going on before the season closes and Talbot showed her pedigree as she sighted, pointed and set up woodcock like she had been doing it all her life. That dog is half human - and that's what the guys down the pub say - not me...

The recession is biting in France - has been for 3 years now - but they are more resilient due to being on the whole more self sufficient, unburdened by personal debt and with strong community ties and sense of who they are. But that is only possible in a dreaded monoculture.

The UK on the other hand could descend into chaos if ever the financial/welfare state house of cards falls down.

I am watching the situations in Greece and Ireland closely.

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We were not asked...........

Its a mad world....

Off to Brittany shortly but not happy with the state of the UK I will be leaving behind.

Found out today that only Spain has national debts rising as fast as the UK - so much for the fantasy cuts in Public Spending. How long will be before the markets wake up, see past the Iron Chancellor hype, and punish us? Badly...

We have an unsustainable Public Sector & welfare system, a population explosion, community breakdown, environmental degradation, unrest. It will not take much for a breakdown in law and order if the wheel comes off.

For a long time I avoided the rush into gold but, rather than a profit making move, it is a definite hedge at present.

And the Arab Spring ? - more like Islamic Winter ! Our politicians have really f*cked up that one. Now we have Iran on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Pakistan a pariah, Afghanistan a lost cause and North Africans pouring across the Med.

As for me I think a nice bit of shooting and fishing over Christmas as well as a trad Christmas with tree, wood-burner and food.

Lots of food.

As an aside - here's a heart-warming, yet heart-breaking, video of some Beagles rescued from a laboratory for testing that absolute necessity - womens make-up... !

Vanity - thy name is woman.

Autumn again - favourite time of year

Nothing much to say this time - just enjoying the autumn mists today, the smell of the earth and call of the wild.

Big news is that British, and world, population is soaring - perhaps a mass extinction isn't beyond the realms of possibility. Overproduction, environmental degradation, community unrest and a corrupt political "elite".

The coming years should be interesting.

Looking forward to Bonfire Night -

The video is V for Vendetta - set in a corrupt Right Wing fascist state where people are surveilled, politically incorrect views are criminalised, terror plots are hatched, wars are fought - just like under Socialist LABOUR actually! The author, Alan Moore accurately predicted the kind of nation we would become but was 180 degrees wrong in predicting what kind of politics would lead to it.

And, to be sure, it is only National, International and Soviet Socialists who wear jackboots! Remember Oswald Mosley and Hugh Macdiarmid. Socialists AND Fascists.

Man of the woods

Nice video called Man of the Woods. Get the message?