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Zadok the second
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Just been reminded that the season for shooting grouse and ptarmigan (what...?) opens today.
Why is there a 'season'? What happens if you shoot a ptarmigan (eh...?) out of season?
And - natch - anyone want to suggest more up-to-date targets than ptarmigan (who...?)?
waylandsmithy
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The season is to protect their breeding season, same as with fishing. Grouse are great: they attract people with bundles of cash to shoot them, thus preserving the moors as a profitable, going concern. And they're bloody tasty.
rickwestwell
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Never mind all that - who the hell is it that remembers Carter USM??
waylandsmithy
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Yeah, that is weird. Saw them at Brixton Academy, 1993. Not my tag, though.
rickwestwell
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Saw them at Brixton Academy, 1993
I was there. Loved the first two albums, then went totally off them. Still listen to a few of the best ones. "Every Time A Churchbell Rings" is a cracker.
Carter Bar and Coldstream (Bridge) are both Anglo-Scottish border crossings...the thought occured to me as I stopped at the former earlier this week.
That apart, they are back!
"They have been confirmed to headline the Beautiful Days festival in Devon on Saturday 20 August."
Not my tag either...never really into them, and I was not at the Brixton Academy in 1993.
waylandsmithy
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Ah, I didn't think I saw you.
Carter did go downhill after 30 Something. I took the Love Album back to Our Price and got it exchanged for Screamadelica, I think.
rickwestwell
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Yes, it was just you, me and Rikkor there.
Post-30 Something Carter for Screamadelica sounds like a great deal. Carter brought out an album about dinosaurs and I knew it was all over.
waylandsmithy
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Well, they both had a major malfunction.
Quaz
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The glorious 12th means for some people that one of their 'difficult' directors goes on holiday for a couple of weeks so they can get loads of stuff done without him interfering. I hear that they have various red letter days based on board member's proclivities for skiing or for France in the summer. It's just a rumour.
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