Ey up Dave...

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[Dave Burgess]

Re: Ey up Dave...

"Gods Own Country!" thi call it Don, but the fukkin luck av ad lately eee aint dun fukk all fer me! A musta missed mi target n slotted a fukkin four bi two!

[bob9739]

Re: Ey up Dave...

Did the Coast to Coast a few years back, it is great walking over the Dales and North York Moors ! The Lake District is great, but for visibility the weather has to be just right!

[Dave Burgess]

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The South Yorkshire/ North Derbyshire "Dark" Peak is a great place to bimble Bob. I,ve spent many happy times wandering those rugged hills and it,s a great area to find WW11 crashed aircraft sites.

[bob9739]

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Sounds an interesting old place Dave, never been over the Peak District. Must be missing out mate.

[Pat Harley]

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Peaks probably weren't there when you were about the region Bob,cos you're older than the hills!

[Dave Burgess]

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The Dark Peak Bob is deffo fer the rugged ta explore,peat bogs galore and gullys full o brackish watter. When a used ta beat fer mi gamekeeper mate, thad set off carryin thi flag headin out towards wot looked like pretty level terrain covered in heather n bracken, all of a sudden tha fell 15ft down inta a gully full o watter n see Yank 75mm solid shot rounds stickin outa tha steep peat sides. N when tha climbed up n appeared at the other side some clever kunt wud shout, "Naa den Dave, keep level wi the skirmish line. reply wuz "FUKK OFF!" In one or two o the dried up gullies tha can see big fukk off fossilised tree roots from yesteryear, wonder who climbed them fukkers?

[bob9739]

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Did they give you any birds Dave? normaly the old beaters got a coupl for the pot.

[Dave Burgess]

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Tight bastards kept em all fer theresens Bob. Used ta laff mi bollox off when after the 2nd drive, job stops fer NAAFI break, all terrain vehicle wud come over the moors loaded wi picnic baskets n Champers, n while uz plebs lounged in the Heather, Toffs wud av a picnic while we necked watter n ad a smoke break. A birds eye view o the class system!

[Pat Harley]

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I used to beat on the local estate over here for 10 yrs or so,and we got the offer of a brace of birds to take home but no pay. Our 'reward' was a beaters shoot at the end of the season,which didn't really light my fire as I never shot enough with a shotgun to be any good at it,but it was a good day out thrashing round the bushes and a feed of stew halfway through while the toffs went off to the gun room for a session of port and stilton to stagger out for the afternoons entertainment. One day the head of BASC came to give a talk and said "It's only due to you great beaters coming out for 20 quid or so that these activities can continue". The lord nearly had a heart attack as he revealed that they don't pay beaters this side of the water,just gave us a couple of birds and let us shoot the scraps they'd left at the end! I finally gave up after some drunken twat unloaded his gun into my back from 50 yards away and denied he did it,leaving me with a dozen pellets in my swede and a bruised back where my thick jacket had protected me. Time to leave I thought!

[stephenfrank new]

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In the US you would have got a Purple Heart for that, Pat.

[Pat Harley]

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At least!!!

[Dave Burgess]

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It wuz common Pat fer some thick toff twat ta keep blastin away after the signal ta cease fire n tha got peppered wi shot like a fukkin hail storm.

[Pat Harley]

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This was during the drive Dave and I think he just had a ND as he raised his gun after loading,after the lunchtime port and whiskey session of course. When I got up from where he'd knocked me and called him a c.nt for shooting me he denied it,even though he was the only gun behind me,and there was f.ck all action from the lord who owned the place,except to ask me not to go for treatment unless needed as the police would ask questions. Made my next head xray interesting a couple of yrs later with a dozen star shaped bits of lead flattened on my skull! A few weeks after the same syndicate was back,minus the guilty party funnily enough,and shot the lone partridge that had been hanging around for years. The lord said "I say which one of you bounders shot my pet partridge?" and when I asked "How come you didn't ask who shot your pet Englishman last time?" he had a sense of humour failure and I walked off never to return!

[Forever Young]

Re: Ey up Dave...

You had a lucky escape there Pat