Hello all you lot,last Saturday night,12th,a very strange thing happened to me,I went out shooting to get myself a few bunnies for pies,the local farmers were hay timing,so it was perfect.Well,as I was parking my car in a country lane,I saw a bloke,who I knew,even though he was a couple of fields away,he was acting very suspiciously,bendind down and picking things up and digging in the ground,so I shouted to him,HEY YOU ,GERROFF MY MUSHROOMS,to which he replied with the reverse Churchill salute.When I got to the field,I loaded my gun ready for him,but it turned out he wasn,t pinching my mushies,but he was collecting lost golf balls,which had laid hidden in the hay which had just been cut.He apparently flogs them back to the golfers,he obviously is making a fortune from this.I even helped him for a while,cos I had to take pity on an old man,we must have picked about 40 or more,then I bade him good-bye and sent him home,while I went shooting.Now......... you may ask WHO WAS THIS FUNNY OLD CHAP,WELL IT WAS NON OTHER THAN OUR OWN CAROL LEVEY,S DAD,hehehehehehehehehehhehehehe,what a great way to spend my Saturday nights,collecting used golf balls,so I told him I,d tell Carol what he gets up to,and he just gave me another victory salute,.........reversed of course,hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha,Ken.

small world eh Ken ? We have several golf courses in our village & you see people all the time gathering golf balls to re-sell , I guess like everything else they ain't cheap

oh I forgot to ask did you make your rabbit pie or stew ? I used to like rabbit until I had one as a pet

Hi Ken, if there's one thing I like about living in Canada is most of em don't know what what the backside round Victory sign means although I use it often, I'm Very Happy
Philip

Hey up the boys are back together again.

What I want to know is does anybody bother getting golf balls out of the water?? Now that would be interesting? Who said owt about skinny dipping.

Sheelagh

auschick wrote:
What I want to know is does anybody bother getting golf balls out of the water??

Sheelagh:-
Haigh Hall golf course in Wigan runs alongside the Leeds and Liverpool canal for a fair distance. There used to be a few enterprising characters who 'dredged' the canal at strategic points using wire supermarket baskets on the end of a rope.

I don't know if they realised, but they were imitating their recent ancestors, who used to do something similar to get coal out of the cut near the wharves and tipplers where coal barges were loaded. They used to call this practice 'kebbing'.

Back to Ken's comments re rabbits. You can't beat 'em in a stew with boiling bacon!

Too right Finbar, about the rabbits.

When money was tight my sister used to make rabbit stew and tell her husband it was chicken!! He had no idea. LOL

Sheelagh

Long time ago when I was a carnivore I was conned into eating rabbit in a restaurant in Blackpool, it was not long after the myxomatosis infection. The menu said "French Chicken". When I realised that I had been caught I discussed it with the waitress in a very loud voice and made sure that everyone in the restaurant knew that French Chicken meant rabbit, everything went very quiet in there for some time after.

During the war we bred rabbits for the table, we had our own chicken as well, never regarded them as pets so didn't have a problem eating them.

By gum - I don't think I could eat rabbit either though my Dad reckons I did as a kid. Our local butcher has a specials board outside his shop, this week its Rabbit and Kangaroo meat! Hum spoilt for choice - NOT! LOL

Hi Nigel,sadly Myxamatosis is introduced by the government on a regular basis over here,it usually wipes about 80percent of an areas population out,but any young ones born during an outbreak,become immune to the virus,and so the population restarts quickly enough.Only trouble is ,Defra,the government agency,then introduces a new strain of the virus ,so it starts all over again.It,s a terrible thing to see hundreds of rabitts just sitting in a field,blind ,deaf,not being able to eat for scabs on their mouths,I just put them out of their misery,you can just walk up to them,they are so disorientated,one of the worst diseases man has ever introduced into the animal world,it,s a good job that it only infects rabitts,and nothing else,Ken.

Ahhhhhhh Finbar a man after my own heart,rabitt and bacon stews with a crust on,MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM,can taste them now,gonna have to make one tomorrow,hahahahahaha,Ken.

Ever tried stuffed saddle of rabbit wrapped in fatty bacon and roasted Ken? Out of this world!

Hi Finbar,no I must say I,ve never tried it like that,I,ve just been out and got half a dozen,so I may try it tomorrow,thanks,Ken.

I must say that Ken sure knows how to cook rabbit. We ate them all the time when we hunted together. He shot the most though.In fact he always shot more of anything than I did. He would tell me to leave a flock of ducks alone they were too far then he would knock down a couple. hahaha.