Bromsgrove top the league.

Bromsgrove 43

Malvern 10

Great result and still topping the league - although the accompanying photo is disturbing!!!

Last hunt of the season

There it was, the last of the season but the first for us.

What a lovely sight - over 50 riders by my count - and generous hospitality from the owners of the farm.

Obviously just a drag hunt but we hope that during this parliament Labours vile, illogical and oppressive anti-hunting legislation will be wiped from the statute books.

All people here - from the wealthy to the poorest - all in support of a truly English cultural sporting event.

Meanwhile......whilst foxhunting is banned (and shooting, poisoning, gassing and snaring encouraged) our government has sent in jets to bomb Libya, killing hundreds. O.K. they may be Gaddafi's troops but they will mostly be ordinary people doing what they are told - sons, brothers, husbands and fathers. And don't say that no civilians will die - they will.

Funny how ordinary people can be snuffed out with impunity whilst Gaddafi's life is being cherished.

But then again - you can't go around killing heads of state and politicians now can you - we might just get a taste for some of that in the UK.

......and be all the better for it.

Here we go again..

Lets invade another Muslim country and create a wave of crazy asylum seekers who, of course, we have to let in, house, feed, "educate" and care for.

In return we will increase the number of insane Islamist terrorists and sympathisers inside our own borders and further inflams anti-Western sentiments.

The Daily Mash has it just right here:-

http://bit.ly/hpMuyV

They say ""We got rid of Saddam not realising that, as well as being a prick, he was also keeping the lid on a big basket full of fucknuts."

How true.


How come a spoof newspaper can get it right so often when the BBC, Times, Grauniad (sic) and Sky News cannot?

This WILL not end well.

What a grey day.....

Talbot and Monty regard a wet day in 2009 and wonder when the rain will stop.

Funny, but when we first had the fowl Talbot regarded them as quarry, after just a couple of days and some gentle explanation she "got it" and thereafter regarded them as her responsibility - rounds them up and looks after them.

And who says dogs aren't intelligent?

However - if its not one of the flock - its still prey as rabbits, hares, birds and foxes soon find out.

The end approacheth....

End of the hunting season soon and not been out once.

New Years resolution - a bit late - to get out and get stuck in! Too much crap and nonsense over the last year, mainly courtesy of a deranged kleptomaniac. All sorted now though - hey ho, onwards and upwards. 

The Albrighton Woodland Hunt has it's new website. well done guys - terrific job.

http://www.albrightonwoodlandhunt.co.uk/

A new interest

For nearly all of my life I have never gambled. I remember being in a car with my father and uncle as a child and they were talking about money and the subject turned to accountants.

I, a 6 or 7 year old, said from the back seat of the car - "look there's one!"

My uncle said "That's a Turf Accountant - you only see one of them if you want to lose your shirt!"

I didn't understand....

Fast fwd to 2002 and I was invited by UBS to their box at Goodwood for a business treat. I went down to the bookies and was fascinated. I budgeted £20 (hey big spender!) and was ahead until the last race when I decided to go for broke and put everything on it.

Loser!

Next I visited the Point to Point at Chaddesley Corbett on Jan 3rd 2011. I won one race of four and my wife won all four!

Now, this week I visited the club for a a Cheltenham Gold Cup day - Bathams bitter and a seafood buffet - yum!

After taking an age to set up a Ladbrokes account - the site was under sever strain on Friday - I placed 4 bets and also doubles and trebles from them - £30 in all.

Well, what a day. The seafood was fresh that morning from Birmingham fish market - an enormous dressed crab, butterfly prawns, french bread and salads.

Result! Two wins and one double - £140.

Next day - Six Nations.

Two bets - contrarian - I bet AGAINST England and FOR Wales plus the double.

Didn't quite get there - Ireland won which gave me back my stake whilst Wales lost and I didn't get the win or double. Never mind - because England won the championship.

That's what I call a win-win situation. I can learn from that.

We all can.

Its dark outside.........

Dark at 7 p.m. and later time to go out.

Remarkably easy for Talbot to catch rabbits - she's a hunter but not a lurcher/greyhound.

I suspect that the main warren has an infection as we have found a few dead rabbits of late - all victims of dogs methinks. I even had to chase one away myself a few days back despite Talbot being within 6 feet of it.

Must watch closely tonight - I hope we don't have a virus or even myxomatosis in the area as we have a very healthy population - or did.

Owls and foxes very vocal at the moment - getting to that time of year. Lots of digging in the field as roots are dug up.

Mercian Regiment

These guys, my old regiment, are a reminder of what real Britons are like.

When this country needs them - they are there. Even when a mendacious Labour Government sent them to fight and die in an illegal war supported by false information.

So very different from the people marching through our streets complaining about the cuts arising from THEIR Labour Governments gross economic incompetency and the greed of Labour supporters/scroungers who continue to bleed this country white with demands for free housing, benefits and gold plated public sector pensions.

When the parasite gets bigger than the host - over 50% of GDP is public sector spending - the outcome is inevitably fatal for both.

The world is changing.....

This morning is bright, frosty and cold and yet you can already feel the warm in the sun.

"Talbot" still after rabbits - no success though - too big to get down the holes so she just sticks her head in and listens. Ah, the simple pleasures of life.

Skylarks present along with a buzzard. Black cat has started to get cheeky - teasing Talbot. I think it wants to be friends but Talbot wants it for dinner.

Good result for Bromsgrove RFC on Saturday - won the match against Longton 23-19 in the dying 3 minutes and so still at the top of the league. Great location... AND you can take the dog in the bar.

Despite shading 6 ft myself I felt like I was standing in a hole when a guy who must have been 6ft 10" stood behind me at the bar. Glad I don't play these days.

Finished up at the New Inn (dog friendly) and Talbot treated to a plate of carvery meat. Its good to spend time with real people - workers, farmers, drivers, builders etc. AND the Thatchers cider is good. Nice open fire, great staff and no trouble (you just wouldn't dare..).

This is the REAL England.

The beat goes on...

The last week has seen an upswing in the activities of grasping, soap-dodging, socio-lists (geddit?).

Whilst the country is heading for £1trillion debt and £1trillion unfunded gold plated public sector pensions, the local scroungers and layabouts have hit the streets, the blogs and Twitter.

All they care about is what they get out - they don't care about the people who put in. They will never have to pay the debts, fund the pensions or live on a basic pension.

All the screams of cuts in jobs, services, budgets etc is down to one thing - naked self interest- greed, selfishness and blackmail.

We cannot allow these violent anarchist scum to destroy the lives of decent people. Most seem to have criminal records, live off the state.............. and would rob their own parents given a chance.