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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy-One

9th March 2025 Going Postal 2390 Comments

Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of my ramblings. It’s rather wet this morning but still not cold. Legohead went off to Scottishland to speak to a half-empty hall of Scottishland Liebore supporters. [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Seven

1st September 2024 Going Postal 2103 Comments

Monday Good morning happy readers today is a bit dull, but I am pleased to see there is no rain forecast until the middle of the night. So Liebore have announced they are going to [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Two

28th July 2024 Going Postal 2542 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone and hello from No. 10. Another nice quiet weekend here in the street, no sign of JoJo cat yet, and Legohead only seems to come in during the day and even [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Eighty-Five

30th April 2023 Going Postal 1406 Comments

Monday Good morning merry readers. I don’t know why but something woke me early from my slumbers. Anyway, I ventured into the back garden and there was a grey tree rat on the bird feeder. [more…]

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Wildfowling: Of possible futures

11th January 2021 Columba Palumbus 5118 Comments

Sadly, this is the last in my short series about my great passion, and it is also the least satisfying part to write. It is no longer a missive about my personal experiences, but the [more…]

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Wildfowling: Where it all began

18th December 2020 Columba Palumbus 3923 Comments

This was harder to write than my previous two wildfowling articles because it’s not easy for me to clearly remember something that happened 25 years ago. I’ve never been one for recording stuff in a [more…]

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Wildfowling: The end of an era

18th November 2020 Columba Palumbus 2812 Comments

Having made my debut on this marvellous site with an article about my passion, I thought I would follow that article up with a slightly more personal account of a memorable day in my life [more…]

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Wildfowling: The magic of the foreshore

28th September 2020 Columba Palumbus 2921 Comments

Wildfowling is sometimes known as goose fever, for it is about the most addictive of the shooting sports. There is something primal about being out in the tidal marshes on a moonlit night, or a [more…]

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The Devil’s Bird

4th August 2019 rattuscatchus 3101 Comments

Some of you may have not read any comments by myself regarding swifts during the Summer months, usually noting their arrival, their numbers and when they leave. I’m not quite sure why but for me, [more…]

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