Recent content by silva

Hi, Hoping to take the kids fishing soon.Just wondering if anyones been catching Mackeral on the North Wales coast yet ? Cheers

I've run both hilux's and landys and like them both very much. Off road ability between the two is just down to tyres. Landrovers require love and a gentle driving style regarding the transmisson and regular maintenance while hilux's just keep going on forever, what ever you do to them. If I was...

I think having a scaled up stoat after you would be very bad news !

Fantastic pictures ! Wonder what happened next ?

Hmm, that must be why the french never win any wars !

Hi, Thank you for the advice, will check out the Spyderco, the one i had been looking at was the Lansky system. Find it differcult to sharpen modern knives that have another little edge on the edge of the blade. Older ones that are hollow ground or the angle runs right to the edge of the blade...

Hi, Went out the other evening and it was swarming with rabbits, as I haven't hunted this ground for a couple of years now. There were full grown rabbits popping up 10 to 15 yds away. If it ever stops raining, I might do some plinking to get my eye in and try a bit of open sight airgun hunting...

This no doubt one of the best places to find out. Which is the best medium priced knife sharpening system ? I'm using an old oil stone, some very cheap flat chinese diamond plates in three grades and an old steel at the moment, which is ok but no doubt could be better. I was hoping for a system...

Found two horse mushrooms today - how early is this ! The one was big enough to have gone over - must be the hot/ wet conditions. You sometimes see them in late august but never in June. Also saw perhaps 150 / 200 or so orchids which was a treat !

With all due respect, the marketing men and the accountants make us buy this way - do you really believe, hand on heart, that supermarkets can't use their immense buying power raise the quality and welfare standards of food ? Why should we be thankfull that a small group of supermarkets have a...

Meat farming is booming, farmers are making more money than ever - they just pretend to be poor, its just something they all do. Theres only a range of supermarkets left to shop at now, theres no choice involved, people have become accustomed to shopping there. Indeed most of the new roads in...

I never said the good old days were better, its just the food was better quality. Old people bemoan food quality more than youngsters who haven't known any different. To be honest I don't think food is cheap anymore. If you don't earn much money like most normal people, you probably still spend...

You are right, in terms of protecting livestock, now when the youngsters are out and just before lambing are the best times, otherwise I think there is always a fair number of drifter foxes circulating that just move into the deceased's territory. For conservation reasons - ground nesting...

I don't think its anything to do with helping poor people eat meat, commercial interests and government don't give a monkeys about poor people. Factory farming is about agribusinessmen, processers and supermarkets making the maximum profit for the minimum amount of investment and bother. If the...

That was a rare sight few people will have seen - how did it come together ? Have watched them mousing and seen them stalking and pouncing at birds and darting in trying to grab a rabbit, but never actually catch anything.