What’s made you happy for a change
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Sarky B’stard
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Actually the seafood in that neck of the Clyde knocks spots off your Portuguese dogfish.... especially the shellfish.
Hopefully CalMac will have some functioning ferries by then because the scope to island and isthmus hop is huge. You could make a pilgrimage to Islay if that’s your bag. I have only done it by yacht but the ferry timetable should permit some poor bastard to decant you back to your 20+ bed longhouse.
Dunoon itself is pleasant enough. I tend to think of it as more mini Morecambe than Blackpool.... shadows of its heyday and day trippers on the Waverley!
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Hopefully CalMac will have some functioning ferries by then because the scope to island and isthmus hop is huge. You could make a pilgrimage to Islay if that’s your bag. I have only done it by yacht but the ferry timetable should permit some poor bastard to decant you back to your 20+ bed longhouse.
Dunoon itself is pleasant enough. I tend to think of it as more mini Morecambe than Blackpool.... shadows of its heyday and day trippers on the Waverley!
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You can't knock Cumbria for being a stunning location.
Great photo
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MartytheMartian
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An island hop to Islay is a very good idea @Sarky B’stard It would be a simple matter to ride over from Dunoon to Portavadie and then take the ferry for the hop across Loch Fyne to Tarbet West Loch Fyne and then a short hop over to the ferry to Islay. Using the same hop from Portavadie will also place you at the top of the 'Kintyre66' route.
chas
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Well Portugese shellfish has generally travelled. From Scotland.Actually the seafood in that neck of the Clyde knocks spots off your Portuguese dogfish.... especially the shellfish.
Hopefully CalMac will have some functioning ferries by then because the scope to island and isthmus hop is huge. You could make a pilgrimage to Islay if that’s your bag. I have only done it by yacht but the ferry timetable should permit some poor bastard to decant you back to your 20+ bed longhouse.
Dunoon itself is pleasant enough. I tend to think of it as more mini Morecambe than Blackpool.... shadows of its heyday and day trippers on the Waverley!
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It's a shame the natives are unable to sustain the industry and the fishermen have to export to sell.
I am partial to a bit of dogfish, very underrated fish and the skin makes good sandpaper when dried.
Bacalhau is cod.
MartytheMartian
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I think that for years Scottish people have been trained to believe that shellfish in Scotland was dirty and to be avoided @chas and then bought up cheap from the pickers and sent off to Spain and Portugal to be sold expensively. The cynic could say that the Scots have been hoodwinked into allowing themselves to be robbed by the shellfish traders. When I lived in Saltcoats Ayrshire there was a guy locally who would pay pickers a couple of quid a bag for 'winkles' (I am talking a big, orange string 'onion' bag size) and then ship them by the lorry load over to Spain. Here the Loch Fyne oyster bar do a roaring trade in selling seafood at extortionate prices in their restaurant while also exporting Lord alone knows how many tonnes of farmed oysters overseas and probably at a much lower price. Funny to think that at one times they were poor mans food and anyone could go down to the shore and collect them. I wonder if it really was an accident that they became extinct in the wild.
chas
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Wasn't a particularly regional dig, more a dig at the British Isles in general. It disgusts me that there'll be outcry about the fate of Fishermen yet few (apart from moving their gobs) are prepared to support them. I always try to buy off the boats either directly or very indirectly if I can.
MartytheMartian
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Some of it is downright ridiculous @chas I recall some years ago that Young's closed their prawn processing plant at Girvan as they had figured out it was cheaper (that is they could make more profit) by taking the prawn catch, flying it to the Far East and processing it into Scampi etc. rather than continue to employ Scots processing workers. How's that for 'Eco friendly' using all that aviation fuel rather than paying a decent wage?
As a kid I recall the harbours of Scotland being full of Fishing boats and the coast having thriving fishing communities but then the Klondykers appeared stripping the seas around the coast bare and also under EU rules Scottish boats could be sold, along with their quota, to foreign, mainly Portuguese and Spanish companies, who could then operate from their countries, sail across, trawl our seas and offski with the fish meaning an end to Scottish fish processing plants, Ice factories, Fish markets etc. etc. Britain has been shafted for decades by the EU and no-one even took any notice not even the 'eco' mob. They seem to have been totally blind to it.
As a kid I recall the harbours of Scotland being full of Fishing boats and the coast having thriving fishing communities but then the Klondykers appeared stripping the seas around the coast bare and also under EU rules Scottish boats could be sold, along with their quota, to foreign, mainly Portuguese and Spanish companies, who could then operate from their countries, sail across, trawl our seas and offski with the fish meaning an end to Scottish fish processing plants, Ice factories, Fish markets etc. etc. Britain has been shafted for decades by the EU and no-one even took any notice not even the 'eco' mob. They seem to have been totally blind to it.
chas
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Mr Farage was our representative for fishing in the EU. Do you think he maybe cared for his own agenda rather than the people he was PAID for to represent? It's one of the reasons I have no respect for his views.
Where I buy fish, 40 years ago when I first went to that area there was a line of cottages owned by fishermen and they'd sell at least some of their catch direct. I now buy from a fishmonger as the few remaining day boats sell to him. Out of the maybe hundred dwellings on the Dungeness Estate now only six are owned by locals nowadays.
[edit] I couldn't 'like' your post as it's a sad decline. I raised a glass to a fellow howler at the moon.
Sarky B’stard
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Michael Gove’s adoptive family were fish wholesalers in the North East...... You can overstate Farage’s actual power but not his influence.....
There is no question the quality of our fish but the public buys insufficient. It’s an educational process and not new. Wild salmon used to be peasant food 400 yrs ago and chicken were kept for eggs not meat.....and bloody expensive for all the meat they carried. The problems are far from insoluble. Just needs a government with imagination. Now THAT IS a problem.
There is no question the quality of our fish but the public buys insufficient. It’s an educational process and not new. Wild salmon used to be peasant food 400 yrs ago and chicken were kept for eggs not meat.....and bloody expensive for all the meat they carried. The problems are far from insoluble. Just needs a government with imagination. Now THAT IS a problem.
Doc Strange
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Same with farming and manufacturing - if more folks spent their money supporting those they claim to support, this country would be better off all round!
DS
Put a couple of hooks in the garden to hang this target box/pellet trap. Ahead of more targets arriving.
One hook in the garden wall so I can shoot from the comfort of our picnic table.
And one in the man-cave wall so I can sit indoors in the shade with a cold drink & shoot from the sofa
It's a hard life
One hook in the garden wall so I can shoot from the comfort of our picnic table.
And one in the man-cave wall so I can sit indoors in the shade with a cold drink & shoot from the sofa
It's a hard life
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
I once had a target holder like that but to play it safe I backed it up with a spade. I could shoot down the upstairs landing into the bottom of a wardrobe through the open bedroom and wardrobe doors and get about a 15m range. Obviously I never did it when my wife was home. She would have gone ballistic.
We were out at some bash a few weeks later when she got all uncomfortable and retrieved a flattened pellet from the collar of her clothing. She went ballistic......
We were out at some bash a few weeks later when she got all uncomfortable and retrieved a flattened pellet from the collar of her clothing. She went ballistic......
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There's a thick carpet tile in the target box & an old car washing sponge.
The pellets are still making a rare old din as they bounce off the back plate
I had to put the target box up cos the pellets were ripping through those dog food cans with such force they were barely rocking them. Before hitting the wall 34" behind & bouncing off.
This was the result, complete with a bit of red brick embedded in it.
Allegedly it's a non FAC sub 12ftlbs rifle?
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
I've got a box of targets (50+) and a nearly full tin of pellets, I'll bring them to Sywell next week, or if you want them sooner I can drop them around (PM me).
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
You should see what a GPMG does to a cavity brick wall!