tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87924927682603079032012-01-18T22:29:03.883ZDungeon WoodA place for my pictures, and some random other stuff, links, videos....whatever. Pull up a chair, and "Bide a while" "All general statements are false."....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comBlogger5071100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-80720600377811741792011-09-20T15:18:00.003+01:002011-09-20T15:21:52.331+01:00GhostWritten at least ten years ago, but as I'm spending a lot of time walking my dogs (plural, the dog with me in the poem was "Pagan") in the same area as when I wrote this it seemed timely to post it here....That's probably enough poetry for now.....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-77354140814329999142011-09-20T15:11:00.002+01:002011-09-20T15:17:28.952+01:00Garden LoveThe lawn-mower told me to do it.To change the plane, twist a set degree,And to cut right over the edge, To neaten the edge first Was my own idea.The moss lay at your feet,Twigs in our hair,And love in our grass boxes.As I compost in your cool moist darkness,With wood-lice, worms, leatherjackets and ants,Spiders, grubs, and deep tidal motions,My love exponents the moment,And brings Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-88602820125747247072011-09-20T15:07:00.002+01:002011-09-20T15:08:36.587+01:00Dare To Be DifferentGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-14312928875521843962011-09-20T15:02:00.001+01:002011-09-20T15:04:09.375+01:00Time There was a time Split the universe into two equal parts Draw a line, find some dots if you have to Right in the middle, that’s where My life started and ended Stupid line crossing mistake I’d spell it out, but who’d give a second thought? Shit. I’d say somebody would, but She’s not the one I loved. But, oh, you know. There was a time.Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-43201635188038845412011-09-20T14:59:00.000+01:002011-09-20T15:01:00.399+01:00Off CentreGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-10121427807411004502011-09-20T00:58:00.002+01:002011-09-20T01:01:55.382+01:00Escape Velocity<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-79442615265181510642011-09-20T00:38:00.001+01:002011-09-20T00:42:23.887+01:00Dark Dreams.Running into the mirrorAway and before, in front and bleeding brow,Cheeks, shards, glassy emotion.No authority, just anonymous threats,Instinct drives you into survival, bloody,Cornered, no papers or legitimacy,Run rabbit, come with me…..Face to face with fear,The tattoo, the world’s pain now,Hundreds of thousands of reasons, instincts,Threats. Silent phone calling, locked boxes.Hand in hand we Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-12432845881511791852011-09-20T00:37:00.000+01:002011-09-20T00:38:35.000+01:00PainGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-78750151394739258972011-09-20T00:32:00.001+01:002011-09-20T00:35:22.464+01:00Beginnings<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-62688173867803610712011-09-20T00:30:00.000+01:002011-09-20T00:32:19.278+01:00Anger Works in Mirrors. How many times have I driven home? Slept in the van, the lounge, Gone over the edge, but lived? Shout louder if you really want me to die. Passion’s one thing pussycat. You throw fifteen different angers. My footwell’s full, of blood, of tears, and beers, I smoke another, drink tinned soporific, Freeze my head and heart. Hardly the song I’d choose to sing. Shout, but onlyGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-9763420770872800452011-09-20T00:24:00.001+01:002011-09-20T00:28:12.445+01:00Ambulance Some crashes happen for no madness Others create it, forlorn understated belief That it’ll all just work its way through The articulated dream, hybrid mad thinking Took you to caves, to dark twittering caves, that drank you in. The ambulance couldn’t get, Snowed in by your early dark decisions, But we lie here with blue lights dancing on the bedroom ceiling, And its siren inGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-90461948622012315902011-09-20T00:22:00.000+01:002011-09-20T00:24:26.324+01:00Air Fingerprints<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-47278052261960047832011-09-19T01:50:00.003+01:002011-09-19T01:56:39.734+01:00The Jolly BoysYou've (pretty much) all got a YouTube account, even if you haven't then get one and subscribe to these gents. It's only a suggestion, but a strongly emphasised one.... ;)Uh oh, "random" again....but I have to credit the Spill blog rather than claim I'd "discovered them" for myself..Look out for covers of Amy Winehouse & the Doors among quite a few others, all performed with gusto and more than aGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-48068349699566439742011-09-19T01:17:00.003+01:002011-09-19T01:37:03.618+01:00Just a Vagabond.......After drifting around the net rather more than normal, for one reason or another, and posting odd (but I hope, helpful, comments on various sites....) I found myself commenting on a Thin Lizzy post somewhere, and thought back to one of my personal favorites, which, until tonight, I hadn't heard for some time....so, (maybe I ought to add another "tag" as in "self indulgence", but can't be botheredGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-57137202950630284562011-09-19T00:24:00.006+01:002011-09-19T10:16:24.840+01:00Imposters!The local & real "Gypsy Jim" about (harumph....) quite a few years ago......Removed... with a delayed attack of sense....(Look like I needed a good feed to be fair...still slim, but that doesn't look right all these years later....)Then I find....GYPSY JIMA drama in three acts by Oscar Hammerstein, 2d, and Milton Herbert Cropper.Produced by Arthur Hammerstein at the Forty-ninth Street Theater, Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-48402889341134716982011-09-12T17:58:00.002+01:002011-09-12T18:04:17.966+01:00Heaven & HellA thousandth of an inchThe gap between sea and skyInvisibleThe moorland heath touches cloudsSunsetDawn gets fogged at times like thisPassion? Let me tell you about passionJustNot now, this tide has turnedThe ice-cream seller's packing upThe postcards writ and sentThe mountain's teeth grazeThe rainbow's cheekAt the valley's headStood on this cliff edgeI kiss the void asYou kissed me.Dark and Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-10806780665899498752011-09-12T17:57:00.001+01:002011-09-12T17:57:54.400+01:00Wolves Years unveiled old dreams, and scents,Clear sight, hindsight, clarity,Think you worked out what they meant,Your dragon's slayed, naivety....Assure yourself with goods, and bads,With things that you possess,Some make wise, some bounders cads,All make more of less....Wise man, woman, now see the truth,Where will you be when come the calls?Couldn't avoid it, now await the proof,ThereGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-33264951624382448702011-09-12T17:56:00.000+01:002011-09-12T17:57:05.224+01:00Sunday Afternoon Passionate strains of 'Jerusalem'...Then 'Rule Brittania'En chorus,Come over the oak tops, into the garden.Strangely incongruous,With brass, and power,With love, with pride...A step too fast?No matter,The pigeons, tits, woodpeckers and owls,Take up the silent pause,And chatter, with swishing woodland accompanimentAnd the honk, honk, honk of the old crow.The busy wren curses the Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-29307913391117308522011-09-12T17:50:00.001+01:002011-09-12T17:52:08.583+01:00WinterAnother time of veiled tearsLong moorland dreamsA dawn that never comesA sunset that never endsThis time of ending doesn't.No new beginningsJust perpetual winter.12th Sept 2011Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-58586638580021925902011-09-12T17:49:00.001+01:002011-09-12T17:50:47.458+01:00Black HoleBlack Hole gapingDrawing all the lightGravityPlanetsBlazing cometsRed giantsPulsarsQuasarsMoonsAsteroidsAnd all my loveDeep into the dark void where you wereEternally emptySuch loss, immeasurable.12th Sept 2011Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-38017939498153176892011-09-12T17:43:00.002+01:002011-09-12T17:48:59.962+01:00HistoryWhere the rainbow meets the hills....Dark, green, gloomy, a storm coming?Simple, nature,Deep spirits stir, as years listen.The leaves kiss the earth.Tender, fierce, loving, angry,Lightning bolt kills the hazel,The holly burns but survives,Scarrred.Two lives, welded, cut, re-joined,Fragile, as it turned out.Tombstone split in fury,Calm though and natural.Songbirds silent, just waiting,To kiss the Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-12004304803200421192011-09-12T17:39:00.002+01:002011-09-12T17:43:31.836+01:00Not to DieWhen we were together you hated meI love youWhen we were apart you loved meI love youWhen we struggled to reconcileYou tried but hated meI love youThen we decided to "try"I love youYou continued to hate meBut I just didn't get the messageHow dumb?Now we're apart, again,I love youBut for that very reasonHave to give it all awayTo stop your hurtA sad but honest choiceThe only truth you ever had Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-17006920583583745122011-09-12T16:58:00.003+01:002011-09-12T17:38:23.672+01:00LooseI brought rosesLilliesMy heart and nervous systemAnd brain, my liver and lungs and a sharp implement, just in case.Anger? No, just sadness and loss.The address was clear, eternal, etchedPostcode and street, bravo, deltaNo number just a centre for our love,Immeasurable history.White smoke over the Vatican? Black?A package of offal rather, for naught,Negative address meant my worldSplit Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-79029014403776714782011-09-12T16:55:00.000+01:002011-09-12T16:56:18.627+01:00Dry Deep dark cool woodland airsHidden businessLife and not, an absence of thoughtOf place and hour, invisible joinsSecretsLiesNothing but innocence, cool shady truthAs the trees enter your heartRevealedWith coarse lush bracken, and birdsong reality....There should be waterWednesday, June 11, 2008Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-58137471856731136872011-09-12T16:54:00.002+01:002011-09-12T16:57:45.624+01:00The DamFriday, June 13, 2008Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-3826465266531088532011-09-12T16:49:00.000+01:002011-09-12T16:50:35.016+01:00Got. Forgotten chips of granite and calcite, And unknowable string, mermaids’ hair. Put my shell to your ear: You’ve got me, you’ve got me, you’ve got me, Now, never lose me…. Dancing across white hot beach love, Too much for the simple barefoot approach. Crash into waves then crash on love loungers, Water, wine, beer and song: You’ve got me, you’ve got me…. Hear Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-32126322662351176892011-09-12T16:48:00.003+01:002011-09-12T16:58:17.151+01:00The Last WalkerGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-39677063465675093542011-09-12T16:47:00.005+01:002011-09-12T16:47:55.625+01:00Nocturne Body temperature duvet darkness invitesTo restless slow grinding descents, a struggleA bilateral, opposing (but apposite) attempt to stick to the pathTo inner darkness and nightly womb returnings.To knowingly try but revisitTo accept the held out hand,Face Nazis and wolves, and estranged strangersRare loves, Mashed towns, familiar twists,Flight and conundrum martyrs.Internment in self Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-27014350334865632632011-09-12T16:45:00.004+01:002011-09-12T16:46:36.160+01:00"Sees Wooden Seas" Washed up, on this tiny stone shore, Thrown up,  from the troubled surf. Strangely inclined sea of leaves; Oak and ash, silver birch and beech. Damp driftwood and stone islands. Cool wooded beauty with ranging dogs… Turning inward, tried hard to turn off. Reflections and conundrums, unknowns and ‘what if?’s The threats of adventure, impending dark loss. Decanting thoughtGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-52658808990882780022011-09-12T16:42:00.001+01:002011-09-12T16:43:00.574+01:00Poetry and Dungeon WoodFor one reason or another I have avoided posting many, if any of my own "creative writing" on this, my "main blog". Instead, at least until a couple of years ago I used "The Birdman" (My old college nickname, well one of them...) although as you can see if you visit it, it got infinitely less traffic that this one, a total of only just over 150 in how many years??? I mean, come on.   So afterGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-60652694664259813532011-09-11T00:14:00.001+01:002011-09-11T00:14:17.997+01:00  It's been a while, again, since I posted anything, sorry for that, but that's just how it sometimes has to be.... In a creative frame of mind I've been playing with Audacity again, and GCFScape to extract a whole raft of sound files from the Half Life series.....(I don't need to post a link for that, either you know what I'm talking about or you're not likely to be interested. Either way I Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-49549614938685062072011-06-29T19:26:00.003+01:002011-06-29T19:29:19.177+01:002012 CVB Calendar Sneak Preview....As the title says......most, but not all are my Dad's pictures, as they were for the current calendar, but I've slipped an odd one or two "others" in there for luck.......The final selection will be made in the very near future.BTW, comments are now re-enabled, and will stay so unless I start getting mountains of spam again in which case off they go......Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-43211373062162445922011-06-12T14:02:00.002+01:002011-06-12T14:11:33.598+01:00Photobox ProjectI don't really harbour any misconception about my photographic skills, as it has long said in the by-line above I am just a keen amateur, but after one or two of my pictures have proved to be "promising" I have been encouraged to try to market them.....hence the slide-show. These to be honest are only the ones I'd already uploaded to Photobox previously. now comes the hard part, or at least the Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-11308713654042101762011-04-21T20:03:00.005+01:002011-04-21T20:25:44.347+01:00(My Last) Huntsman's Report 2010-11 In the summer of 2001 I wrote my first “Huntsman’s Report” based on a fairly shaky half season beset by bad weather, and a pretty unsettled pack of predominantly draft hounds…It (then) had been over twelve years since I’d regularly carried the horn for our friends and neighbours at the Holme Valley Beagles so I was a bit out of practice! When I’d only been going for some six or seven weeks theGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-86984223646768322862011-03-08T18:31:00.001Z2011-03-08T18:32:25.455ZTen, Twenty, Thirty Years Ago.....Grommit sings at the recent Goathland Hunting Week......Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-42225006244208133452011-03-07T20:39:00.002Z2011-03-07T20:48:32.795ZBob Sings....Bob sings what I think is called "From The North" by Cicely Fox Smith, though I stand to be corrected on that, at the recent Bill Busfield Memorial Sing at "The Will's O'Nats".The video is deliberately "aged" as the original quality was pretty poor so I had to lighten it, which made it even worse....adding the aged effect more or less saved the moment.....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-67607549349358236442011-03-06T21:54:00.002Z2011-03-06T21:57:36.726ZTen Years as CVB HuntsmanI have little to say on the subject right now, but will have an end of season report to compile before too long and doubtless will air that here in due course. Suffice to say though that yesterday was my last official day as huntsman and our hounds didn't let me down one bit. The clip(s) above are actually from Wednesday just gone, but I didn't take any to speak of yesterday so they'll have to doGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-58382241182449798762011-02-06T15:02:00.003Z2011-02-06T15:09:12.114ZMore SpamFor the foreseeable future I've turned the comments off, this is due to a surge in spam lately. No, I do not need any of the chemicals, surgical procedures, or otherwise off-the-wall links to sites that hold no interest for me......so don't waste your time, or mine in trying to post them.Existing legitimate comments have not been deleted, just hidden for the time being, at some point in the Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-56685088420577128752011-01-30T19:33:00.002Z2011-01-30T19:39:52.279Z"The Doors Alive"YouTube ChannelTheir siteThere are many other user-submitted videos on YouTube, if you're even remotely a Doors fan, then do yourself a favour and go have a look at them when they're in your area, just superb.If you do go, remember to charge your camera battery up first.....Doh!:(Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-969656533761194762010-11-18T17:58:00.005Z2010-11-22T21:35:44.135ZAnother Hunting Song"The Chidswell Hunt Song"Drat, there were two to post, then I realised I'd already posted the first, and now I've just realised I've already posted another version of this one....by the same singer. After wasting over an hour faffing around trying to convert it down from 355Mb to a more manageable format....There are others to follow but I've had enough tonight.Sunflower/Venus Flytrap cross?More Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-15880268773899249132010-11-14T20:39:00.002Z2010-11-14T20:45:19.489ZSpamObviously I haven't paid enough attention to the handful of comments I occasionally get here as one particularly "racy" Thai website had commented on the 7th November post. I didn't notice as their link was just a plain underline at the end of their words..... This has now been pointed out to me by someone who doesn't believe me no matter what I say, but the offending comment has been removed.ForGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-63845105312159467772010-11-14T18:48:00.012Z2010-11-23T21:01:55.254ZCatch Up2e walking to Holme MossYou can never have enough dead flower pictures A bit random to say the least, but a lot has happened over the last few months, and in some ways absolutely nothing has too. This is scary Master George and his evil older sister Mistress Jessica about to scare the living daylights out of our village.....This is a plaque on the rocks over Standedge/Castleshaw where the ashes Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-71925334690132172242010-11-14T18:40:00.001Z2010-11-14T18:47:14.735ZMore BeaglingPosted out of date order, but I don't think it really matters.....a few clips from the recent "Pots & Pans" meet, near Saddleworth. Another blinder for the CVB....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-4735312441095699462010-11-14T17:27:00.005Z2010-11-15T19:41:06.950ZOff The WallClare (Sort of sister in law several times removed) sings Snow Patrol...The pub I seem to spend most of my time in these days will, for now at least remain nameless. Years ago I made the mistake of telling someone which pub I went to, (Not this one as it happens) and not my telephone number, or address, on the basis that I probably wasn't actually all that bothered about ever seeing them again...Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-35491875302885072192010-11-07T20:28:00.006Z2010-11-07T21:20:56.731ZNovember's Here Again....I am so utterly proud of our hounds after their performance yesterday, in fact virtually every day we've managed to turn out has been quality.Here's a little clip or two for future's nostalgia sake....I can't go into too many specifics, so won't but scent was excellent, hounds packed together pretty well all day, which was mild for the time of year, and they virtually never stopped from turning Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-8145528723889177162010-10-03T18:20:00.003+01:002010-10-03T18:47:35.485+01:00More Hunt SongsFrom my archives......will try to avoid duplications.Not sure what it's called, but Rogers & Blackie duet...A certain Master of MinkhoundsGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-12024224942255169932010-10-03T17:55:00.003+01:002010-10-03T18:01:50.732+01:00Hunting SongsThese first two are taken from yesterday's Opening Meet, or rather they were performed in the pub afterwards.....Nigel (Nobby) O'Brien sings the "Chidswell Hunt"Nobby is one of the best hunt singers I've ever known, though the sound quality on these leaves a little to be desired. I was in the middle of recording another when the camera informed me that the memory was full....I'd forgotten that Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-35226064679754366372010-10-01T17:56:00.002+01:002010-10-01T17:58:46.687+01:00Lakes Trip 2010After posting the report, I remembered that I had some videos from the Lakes trip to post, so here they are, nothing major, or over-taxing, just a bit of beagling.....Thursday & Friday clips, stitched together.....Saturday, just a shortie....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-3265614555967612232010-10-01T17:08:00.005+01:002010-10-01T17:34:11.114+01:00The End of SummerSummer Report 2010Me & the CVB, Lorton, SeptemberMike & the BCB ditto A much better affair all round weather wise, well, most of it was better than the last couple of summers even if we did get some torrential downpours in and amongst….Jack, Billy & Paul at our Hound Show (Honley) Another change of hands at kennels as we bid adieu to Adam and said hello and welcome on board to Jack Doherty.Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-13766313571640048792010-09-20T00:31:00.002+01:002010-09-20T00:52:12.463+01:00Flora and stuffI have no idea, you hairy caterpillar, you, but you're gorgeous.....reminds me of something.... HmmMuch as though I "do" the fungi thing, I have absolutely no idea whether this is one for the pan or to avoid like the plague......(story of my life right now, but hey)Here's another, without the flash...I can't say that I've been over impressed with the Canon Ixus 970, maybe because it was a Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-34158736101791819852010-09-17T23:48:00.002+01:002010-09-17T23:51:12.543+01:00Now I know that "American English" varies in all kinds of ways from the original...but really what on earth is an "accelator"?Even FF's own spell check doesn't know.......Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-87740724417435864652010-09-17T23:17:00.003+01:002010-09-17T23:24:06.157+01:00The old ones are sometimes the most appropriate....I know, I know. It's just one of those all time greats though isn't it?"Stellarnightdotcom" ... subscribed.Love Will Tear Us ApartWhen routine bites hard, and ambitions are lowAnd resentment rides high, but emotions won't growAnd we're changing our ways, taking different roadsThen love, love will tear us apart again --Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your sideIs my timing that Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-15545106545861018682010-09-09T10:51:00.008+01:002010-09-09T11:29:39.480+01:00The One I'd Die ForI know it's been another long while since I last posted anything here, three months in fact, and it might be some time before I get back into the swing of it again. There are reasons, as there always are, some being due to the simple fact that life couldn't have got any busier, but the main underlying reason I'm going to attempt to explain now.On another previous hiatus from the Blog I left a Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-7139092313420585902010-08-01T18:00:00.001+01:002010-09-11T18:31:12.429+01:00A Hunting We Will Go My Lads...(Or Not)(1st August 2010)Who said hunting was all about posh toffs on horses recreating some sort of archaic feudal re-enactment of days of yore....?Well maybe Black Nick, Harry & Carlos might have said it, but they're not necessarily the most reliable of witnesses....No, it's not, it's about a whole raft of things, and even though the pack featured here have no horses, horses are one of the greatest Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-43391471296484403782010-07-22T18:04:00.002+01:002010-07-22T18:09:17.231+01:00More Pig Pics.....More of "Pork" & "Chop".........oh, and Gwyn!Tea-time at the zoo......Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-13662154591304295942010-07-19T22:54:00.004+01:002010-07-19T23:06:00.203+01:00Crop Circles....There are two sets of crop circles in my life right now, even if only on the fringes of it.... The clip below is taken from a couple of clips from the M62 just before/after Brighouse...and I spotted another next to Castle Hill, Huddersfield....We already know there are aliens among us, but I for one doubt that they would bother making pretty patterns in Yorkshire farmers' uncut crops..... Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-29184062661943144692010-07-18T22:04:00.009+01:002010-07-18T22:50:43.787+01:00CVB Puppy Show 2010These first few pictures were taken "in rehearsal"....Charlie Boy & "Milly" (Milly's the prettier one of the two..)I so wish I'd taken more footage, but when you're trying to get things together, and it's actually your shout this time rather than someone else's you have to get stuck in.... This was a few of us attempting to put one of the three "gazebos" up....Ignoring that..(No, please, it Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-45031604752791544632010-07-18T21:50:00.005+01:002010-07-22T18:04:16.823+01:00PigsAbout a month ago, possibly slightly more I can't recall...i got home at the normal sort of (tea-) time to find we'd got guests....Ones who are going to add to my calorific input at some point I sincerely hope....but never having been around pigs (well, not actual ones) watching & listening to them has turned out to be more than a little entertaining.....Let me introduce Mesdames "Pork & Chop"...Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-29160903496169379932010-07-18T14:54:00.003+01:002010-07-18T15:00:47.934+01:00CVB Calendar 2011An unashamed plug for our new venture, featuring photographs old and new of the hunt, it's hounds, people, and places...as well as an odd one or two of relevant wildlife.A snip at £7.00 plus £2.00 P&P (Probably a little more for overseas, but by prior arrangement)Design & layout by Neil Salisbury of the Betty Fold Gallery.Pre-orders via the "Mail here" button to the top right of this page.Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-34657933193537565372010-06-24T23:47:00.003+01:002010-06-25T00:00:54.463+01:00Glimmer's Puppies 2010This might be a post that I come back to and edit in time, we'll see.Back in the final days of our outgoing KH, Adam, Glimmer had to go in for a C-Section and produced a litter of 6 one of which didn't quite make it, sadly. The five remaining have now officially got names.....Two dogs: Buchan & BakerThree girls: Banquet, Blasé, & Bonny.As ever I have reasons behind all the hounds' names that I Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-81334430480453368122010-06-17T23:04:00.003+01:002010-06-17T23:08:46.275+01:00What Do I Do?A bit random, but as I'm in a posting frenzy I thought I'd chuck this into the mix...... Actually I've been playing with time lapse video and haven't had anything worth working with so far...this is the closest I've come...so far..........who knows, maybe some inspiration might hit me yet.....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-37083450417798945152010-06-17T21:39:00.006+01:002010-06-17T22:35:55.716+01:00Folk Time Again....I can't possibly explain what's going on here.....I can say though that this is Anita & our new KH.....Jack (more than that I cannot...)One's a Dr and one's a Lawyer...you decide.....One's utterly gorgeous and one's Grommet.....You decide....Master Mertin & AnitaAgain, forgive the fact that I'm posting restrospectively, though I know I could simply alter the posting dates to make it look like it Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-10620276881887760912010-06-17T21:00:00.002+01:002010-06-17T21:04:10.885+01:00Blog Trim TimeGoodbye to the video bar thing, and to the fish tank too. I don't know why I thought they should've been included to start with...if you want to see a Google or YouTube video then go find the one you want rather than some random one that just might crop up here.Keep it simple.Watch out sidebars you're next.......Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-75714755943322908482010-06-17T20:28:00.005+01:002010-06-17T20:58:50.059+01:00PUPPIES!!Ok, so it's a bit late, but hey, bear with me.Glimmer went for a few days out this year to stay at our friends at the Claro....on a bit of a blind date, to meet their "Butcher" (2002).Without going into the nitty gritty it looked as if our then KH might have got the dates across a bit as she was having none of it, even on days 12-14 which is when she should have been absolutely "bang on", and Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-37626405359744796052010-06-17T19:45:00.001+01:002010-06-17T20:20:40.302+01:00A Day in the DalesThe next post or two will have little chronological relation to either how they happened in real life, or in fact to anything else. Once again my blogging has become sporadic to put it mildly, and this is a rare chance to try to reset the balance a little.The pictures aren't labelled as they all relate to one of the two hound trails at this year's "Day in the Dales", and I was involved in showingGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-47154949961148543502010-05-27T23:17:00.002+01:002010-05-27T23:21:26.394+01:00Another Huge Gap Between Posts.....More to follow, probably over the weekend, but in the meantime here are some self-portraits, and nobody could accuse me of vanity in this venture.....oI have a couple of months to catch up on here, but this will do as a start....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-59352630434738705952010-03-29T18:11:00.003+01:002010-03-29T18:43:15.923+01:00Huntsmans Report Second Half 2009-2010 Remember these?? (Seen near Addingham, West Yorkshire and totally unconnected with any form of hunting.)The second half of the 2009-2010 Season has flown by, and as seems to happen every year, did feel to be a lot shorter than the run up to Christmas from the Opening Meet. No sooner did we get the New Year out of the way then it was time for our annual visit to the Goathland,Hunting Festival, Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-78876734013853344322010-03-19T21:43:00.006Z2010-03-29T18:47:34.520+01:00"Chinese Beagle Syndrome" aka "Musladin-Lueke Syndrome"This is "Relish":I am not quite sure how far to go with this one, but it does need some thinking about, especially so among KC & AMHB registered breeders, but if I try to push the ball along you never know it might end up in a pocket somewhere.....(Well it worked for me at Pool & Snooker so you never know...)"Ranter" & "Relish" (Above)The above pictures aren't in quite the order that I was tryingGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-72707374491403016832010-03-19T18:37:00.003Z2010-03-19T18:40:26.690ZCome Gather Round The Fire LadsFrom Boxing Day 2009. The two O'Brien brothers give it some after a lot of beer.......I still have more hunting songs & singing dos to try to post, but this one took so blooming long to upload, over four attempts that it might be a while before the next episode....This isn't really one for the serious "hunt song" archive, but more one for posterity, besides which, it's funny, and not at all Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-64546221474023522412010-03-19T18:06:00.004Z2010-03-19T18:25:02.285ZClimate Change or Political Control...?(Image from the Nasa site, but I just dropped on it in my "Not Mine" folder and thought it semed appropriate!)Watts Up With That? Like many of us, I go worried about the way things were going, or indeed, are going. Zillions of tons of goodness only knows what being pumped into the sky, the sea, and even more buried in the ground because we simply don't know how else to deal with it......and the Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-27478217515920558142010-03-15T21:50:00.009Z2010-03-15T22:50:01.253ZMC5Mega-City or Motor City....? The latter I expect, but why oh why am I so much the Jonny-come-lately on this??The other night as I thought about hitting the hay, I turned the kitchen TV on for a little mind-bending soporific moment or two. While hopping around the 5 local terrestrials I dropped upon a pretty interesting and thought provoking documentary on Detroit. Now not being half as worldly Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-348885674301027322010-03-05T22:55:00.002Z2010-03-05T22:58:54.664ZSaddleworth Moors(I realise it's been a while since I did so many new posts in one day....but even though this has been on my YouTube pages for a while it occurred to me that it seemed to be missing from the Blog....)As the title says, just three minutes forty five seconds of the CVB on the Pennine Way Crossing (South side) just off the A635 "Isle Of Skye" Road.Enjoy, I know that I did just now re-watching it....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-69656951153082335002010-03-05T22:39:00.002Z2010-03-05T22:43:33.126ZHebden Bridge/Erringden MoorFrom a couple of weeks ago, I just hadn't got around to posting it on here......Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-1970095752481677092010-03-03T23:19:00.006Z2010-03-05T22:12:01.898ZHounds in Snow......Having Fun!Just a little update as I ran out of time to include these hastily grabbed snaps of the day..... Chew ReservoirWhisper, Freya, Cador, and othersDovestone ReservoirJust a little collection of clips from today, hastily stitched together, with no editing or soundtrack, except the sound of the winds coming over the Saddleworth Moors....There would have been quite a lot more, and some slightly more Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-31817254219449500142010-02-24T22:23:00.003Z2010-02-24T22:31:28.917ZAnother New ProjectThis might seem a bit random, as it is....but, there's a teeny bit of thinking behind it, no, bear with me, there really is.I have an idea, for a "properly thought out" video, which, lets face it, very few of mine, at least the ones posted on here actually have been. Like I said in the YouTube description, the idea of splicing a load of travelling clips together, and then speeding them up has Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-61169838300527680672010-01-31T20:47:00.004Z2010-01-31T21:20:44.216ZHuntsman's Report First Half 2009/10Huntsman’s Report First Half 2009/2010(Just some old fossil....seemed appropriate somehow!)Back in the first week of January 2001, when the snow lay on the ground, and the icy blasts across the side of Standedge, first hit me while wearing the Colne Valley Beagles uniform……I didn’t for a minute think I’d be sitting at my desk (in the warmth!) some nine years later writing about the anniversary ofGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-54748598822796888522010-01-31T20:24:00.005Z2010-01-31T20:43:25.716ZMore Local Wildlife...I know I haven't....oh shucks, you've heard it before, but as ever, there are perfectly good reasons.Well, I say that, but hey, I can't possibly say anymore, so will press on with the pictures instead. Hope everyone had a good Christmas/New Year etc though?After finding a dead fox under a concrete slab, just over the stream from here, I wondered if our pal had met his maker....There are several Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-77837925428218514032010-01-10T21:19:00.002Z2010-07-10T21:24:49.829+01:00Snowy StuffRetrospective post created while going through my "New pics to work on" folder....There he was...the Beast........gone!As I type this many months later, the (here) frozen pond is more or less dry....but we weren't to know back then.....Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-43769251709174317502009-12-20T21:36:00.003Z2009-12-20T21:52:09.428ZLocal Wildlife.....I'm 99% certain that I posted these first three a couple of months ago, but as I'm so particularly proud of them I thought I'd do so again......as our red pal has been keeping his distance for a bit..However, the other morning, obviously before the snow arrived, he made another appearance....I assume he's the same one, but haven't (as yet) really studied his markings to make sure...I was just so Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-1824534137119597152009-12-18T21:44:00.003Z2009-12-18T23:07:20.905ZTwo Posts in a Row??The HTML on Blogger has a mind of it's own at times, as any other user out there could testify....I had a lot more to write on that last post, but it kept going bonkers, so I thought I'd have a fresh start, something which seems to be potentially a relevant issue, but not right now....I've missed a whole lot of posts since April at the latest, and have pix to prove it....(But I'll spare you that)Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-75078895523717968662009-12-18T21:32:00.004Z2009-12-18T21:44:37.084ZA Whole Month Has Passed....Again.For those who don't "YouTube" or follow my Facebook thingy, these are just a couple of vids I posted there.I wonder how many other Huntsmen video their own (nearly) incriminating evidence?? Not so many I'll bet!That is if we weren't hound exercising and (occasionally) responding to a shoot captain's information that they think there might be a wounded hare in the district.(Credit for the one withGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-20781513050724158922009-11-18T21:37:00.002Z2009-11-18T21:47:17.719ZNew Musical Love....I am so far behind the times, but you could be too.....Regina SpektorCopy & paste into your "Spotify" now, go on, just do.Then;Check out her Wikipedia write up HEREAnd watch this:(There are so many more on YouTube, but this one was one that I particularly liked.)It also made me think that this is what (as a small child) Kate Bush could have sounded like....though clearly she was pretty awesome inGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-28504162623741877622009-11-15T22:37:00.000Z2009-11-15T22:38:24.580ZFireworks.....Self explanatory really......Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-51613857835202930482009-11-13T21:51:00.002Z2009-11-13T21:57:50.166ZTwo Days in Dumfriesshire....The header says it all...There are some pictures to add, but it's bed-time, so I'll add them another time, but in spite of the poorish sound quality of the Ixus, mostly because of the wind rather than the camera itself I admit, this is just a little sample of our hounds doing their best....and I know that we need some hounds with more "boom"...they have had such a tremendous "voice" over the lastGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-15263068510418537062009-11-07T21:15:00.006Z2009-11-09T17:34:41.373ZSome More I'd MissedThese hark back to September, before Gwyn's injury.....I was about to post about how I'd converted from Firefox to Chrome, but at least in FF you can cut & paste photos on your Blog...(even if it takes a bit longer to load in the first place...) but then I tried to cut & paste the next pic...for which I'll have to save this as a draft and then go open FF.....magic, this technology thing....There,Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-19648045394887681422009-11-07T21:04:00.003Z2009-11-07T21:08:10.251ZEdible?Showing more than a tad of rural ignorance, I failed to identify these....What do you think? Edible or definitely not...?(I chickened out and left them for the birds.....)Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-29286927790268769102009-11-06T22:45:00.010Z2009-11-06T23:19:33.658ZValley Gardens(Not actually the card that I use, just an experimental one that really looked as cr&ppy in real life as it does here...if not worse!Valley Gardens Serving Kirklees & surrounding areas since 2000 All aspects of garden & grounds maintenance, weed control & clearance, selective and non-selective treatments Lawn treatments New turfing & turf repair Trees & shrubs, borders, Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-8432142046552252152009-11-06T21:11:00.004Z2009-11-06T22:00:02.452ZLong Time No Post.....They do say that life is supposed "to begin" at 40, not that it's supposed to go completely ape and challenge every aspect of all that you thought that you either believed in, or understood, or had indoctrinated in you from some early age....To try to write about the events of the last few weeks would be challenging to say the least, and possibly unwise in the circumstances, what with our Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-46389189192451809212009-10-12T21:28:00.002+01:002009-10-12T21:41:53.041+01:00Charlie Doesn't Like UnderworldSo he won't be spending any time on their site then....UnderworldliveI consider myself to be a bit "eclectic" musically, but have to admit that I do have a soft spot...Stick it in "Spotify" and "random" and find out if you are too......you might surprise yourself.Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-26841508710297453932009-10-01T20:13:00.005+01:002009-10-01T21:27:32.633+01:00Lorton, Cumbria. CVB September Visit 2009Adam walking hounds out at LamplughI don't know where to start, but let's try to recap a tiny bit first. Some time in the mid to early 1960s some Huddersfield lads started to go up to visit the Fell Packs, in Cumbria. Some went to the North, some the South, and some didn't mind as long as there was hunting, and beer, and good crack involved along the way......Some did both.Some nosey neighbours..Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-31097956583034434462009-09-22T22:08:00.004+01:002009-09-22T22:39:05.245+01:00Spotify and other MiscellanySome time ago I recommended Songbird and enjoyed mucking around with a whole raft of user-created add-ons, as well as the (then ubiquitous) SeeqPod (Wiki entry) and added to my various favourite artist folders a few choice tracks here and there.....But then the SeeqPod bit got squashed and Songbird became good, but just less so than it had been before....One of the Blogs I subscribe to, and have Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-35034233913295620802009-09-12T15:34:00.008+01:002009-09-12T15:54:08.136+01:00A New SeasonSummer 2009In my previous contributions to "The Beagler" I have written as Kennelman & Huntsman, anecdotes of new arrivals, of puppies escaping from the paddocks,and of the long lull immediately following the end of the previous season...."Lilter" & "G" Pups(She's the white one..)I wondered, briefly, if I ought to write a poem, as one of my illustrious forebears once did on leaving kennels, but Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-50514075163548533052009-09-11T21:20:00.006+01:002009-09-12T15:56:06.046+01:00Sites/Blogs I'm Not Following.....Tonight's post-sunset...& no, I haven't had to adjust the colours, contrast or anything, except a teensy bit of "sharpness" honest.Since trying out Google Reader some time ago, I elevated it to my Home page and lose hours trawling through all the updates, skim reading, delving here & there, & getting side-tracked into following some of the million or so links that emanate therefrom.....In short, Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-70209516124342496842009-08-24T22:30:00.009+01:002009-09-22T22:52:05.505+01:00Retiring HoundsA lot has been written by far more knowledgeable sages than I could aspire to become, on the subject of rehoming working hounds, be they beagles, harriers,bassets or foxhounds, or even staghounds for all I know...Far more has been passed down anecdotally though, and in effect, by rote.It was passed to me, many years ago, that hounds were used to living in a pack.hounds were difficult to Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-15433740313714729602009-08-23T21:35:00.003+01:002009-08-24T22:21:35.047+01:00CVB Family "Fun" Day (Oops, forgot to credit Aphex Twin for an extract used as background in the vid...)I will keep this short.I admit I had misgivings, but wanted to support our valiant committee's efforts to create a more or less entirely new CVB "Event", a "Family Fun Day", with lurcher racing, children's races & games, a barbecue & bar, other catering, and a model railway..... Quite what, if any other things Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-61975936002525367212009-08-15T19:41:00.003+01:002009-08-15T19:46:02.667+01:00Brought A Tear To My EyeI don't normally like pinching other people's "finds" but in this instance I'm going to make an exception, as it so hit the spot, and you might not be subscribers to "The Solitary Walker" as I am, so might have missed it....Enjoy "A Case Of You" Sung by Diana Krall. Lyrics by Joni Mitchell, at least as much as I did.Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-68472798480546791222009-08-14T20:09:00.008+01:002009-08-14T21:25:30.280+01:00ReunionIn this world of Facebook, Friends Reunited and so on, and having the added tools of various search engines....the overwhelming majority of internet users sooner or later find themselves attempting to track down figures from their past. Distant family members, old school or college friends and goodness only knows what else.G'wan, admit it, you have haven't you?To cut a long story short, some how Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-68097655240207789432009-08-03T22:48:00.008+01:002009-08-04T21:59:50.618+01:00Law Breaker!? Walking out to the yard yesterday morning I couldn't help but laugh when I saw next door's terrier house-guest going hell for leather after a fox..they ran round the paddock a couple of times before she gave it up as a bad job and slunk off home.Watching the fox I thought he didn't look like he was going anywhere so nipped back in and got my other camera. When I got back I'd got three of ourGypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-10243539002267209502009-07-28T18:14:00.007+01:002009-08-23T21:59:45.917+01:00More Hunt Songs....Carole sings "Hunt With Me"My Dad does his version of "The Horn of the Hunter"All at the Pennine Puppy Show & Chistening at Upperthong Cricket Club on Saturday.At last, the actual "Christening" (I wonder why the code hasn't been available all this time?? Maybe YT Mods have a warning tag out on Nicky Black..?? Or more likely "Pennine"!?)Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792492768260307903.post-57236865699850142842009-07-12T22:31:00.007+01:002009-07-14T22:39:24.707+01:00CopyRant & A Rainbow........I've already (moderately controversially perhaps...) stated what i think about the issue of internet theft & copyright issues, and had no intention of addressing the issue again, espescially given the Pirate Bay case and several other high profile site-closures.....But...THIS made me wince at bureaucratic/state stupidity.(France & Canada..Hmm, there's a connection there somewhere, if only my Gypsy Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865957155445990788noreply@blogger.com0