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  1. A Good Man

    considered to be an incomer. Luke left town after selling what stock he could from the gun shop and only ... a dozen or more rifles plus the hand guns left over from the shop. I’ll stock up on ammunition and buy ... water behind the small dam to see them and their stock through the dry season. There was a twelve acre ...

    - 2021/12/30 - 2:50am

  2. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 04 The Beech o’er the Beck & The Snake

    the tree into logs leaving five foot on the root stock lying over the beck. I threw the logs over the ... onto my bank with the truck. I cut it up into sixteen inch lengths just leaving the root stock. I split ...

    - 2019/10/16 - 10:05am - 3 comments

  3. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 11 Granny's Holiday

    a farm had to be legally disposed of by the collectors of 'fallen stock'. They could not be ... was one of the legal ways of dealing with fallen stock, but there are few such packs in existence any ...

    - 2021/02/20 - 1:14pm

  4. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 13 Cats, Ladies, Vets, Pigs and Cauliflowers

    active hunters and the place was over run with vermin, so come summer we decided since we had stock, and ... where there’s stock there’s feed and hence vermin, we needed reinforcements. “I rang a number for what ... those who collect ‘fallen’ stock for rendering. They deal with animals that can’t be sold into the human ...

    - 2020/12/18 - 11:29pm - 3 comments

  5. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 15 More Medical Stories

    Warrington earlier the ambulance took her back there. Marie’s husband Nick rang me. I fed my stock early, ...

    - 2021/02/20 - 10:36am

  6. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 19 Recent Events.

    predictions in the world’s stock markets, which would have resulted in a firing squad if the authorities had ... that is, before they issue a restriction of movement order on the general public. The stock markets ... bread, and the same in dried beans or peas. Make sure your wife’s cupboards are fully stocked and your ...

    - 2021/02/20 - 5:19pm - 6 comments

  7. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 20 Somehow it Wasn't Quite the Same

    We were two days building those pillars, in Accrington stock brick, they were huge, I'd guess ...

    - 2021/02/20 - 8:19am - 4 comments

  8. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 26 Bearthwaite Folk to the Core

    and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally was cooked encased in the animal’s stomach though now ... cabbage, a large solid pale variety, widely grown for feeding stock as well as for human consumption. Often ... they are not harvested for stock. The field of cabbages is strip grazed using an electric fence, hence ...

    - 2021/05/16 - 1:56pm - 2 comments

  9. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 27 I Loved the Old Money

    reverse side. Silver round three penny pieces that my gran used to hold her stockings up with when the ...

    - 2021/04/04 - 4:26am - 2 comments

  10. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 28 Treated Like a Mushroom

    legal systems. Just think about it. How the hell do you improve the quality of farming stock? I’ll tell ...

    - 2021/04/11 - 8:54am - 1 comment

  11. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 34 Harriet’s Steak & Kidney Puddings

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) The Grumpy Old Men were ready for yet another Saturday evening in the tap room of the Green Dragon Bearthwaite. All was ready, beer glasses were fille ...

    - 2022/02/01 - 4:25pm - 1 comment

  12. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 35 Just Wear a Mask

    soup stock material, though most of it goes into the bone stock based soup the lasses are producing to ... definite upsides to it. A lot of local farmers are raising more stock just to sell locally and that means ... after paying all the costs involved. We need to keep being creative and flexible. The bone stock based ...

    - 2022/02/05 - 4:46am - 1 comment

  13. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 38 Bearthwaite Invests Even More in Itself

    valley were stocked with dry wood. It was now a normal annual event. All that was required was a couple ... housing stock that youngsters just setting out can afford to rent or buy. The boys are in agreement ...

    - 2024/05/22 - 9:41am - 2 comments

  14. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 40 Bearthwaite Acquires New Bearthwaite Folk

    “Davy is a hundred and three just turned and Granny’s hundred and first birthday is on the ninth of next month. Elle has telt Casper Lawton to be prepared, and to have a traditional Bearthwaite ash wood coffin ready for him. The allotment lads have said t ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 8:35pm - 6 comments

  15. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 41 Bearthwaite Politics, Law, Lore and Reality

    proportion of the entire share stock. However, if we consolidate them and Murray manages the matter sooner or ... utility company concerning Tommy and Luke’s ideas of stocking the reservoir with fish and offering package ... provide us with the initial breeding stock and any required advice. All of which would provide employment ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 8:43pm - 7 comments

  16. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 42 Adoption, Education and Death

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 42 Adoption, Education and Death After the first serious beating by forces unknown of the most vociferous bigot, an overweight fifteen year old who went by the nickname of Porky, behind the dining hall even the name calling diminis ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 8:56pm - 2 comments

  17. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 43 Bearthwaite Beck, Solid Fuel & Limned Letters

    considered for a short while, their shares were trading well and eventually that did restore enough stock ... any outsider put about by Adalheidis, on the stock exchange was that despite the presence of persons ... more than ever before. None on the stock exchange, ever looking for a quick profit, considered such ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:12pm - 2 comments

  18. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 44 Spring, Broadband, and Natural Justice

    maintained at two metres [7 feet] wide to provide stock proof boundaries. They still act as wildlife ... do have the contacts who would be prepared to provide the initial blood stock for all those ideas. ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:26pm - 1 comment

  19. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 45 Teachers and Tofu

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 45 Teachers and Tofu “However, we’d been talking for no more than ten minutes when I realised I was in way over my head. I’d already made my mind up about her. She is our kind of folk, and desperate to be seen as such, so I rang fo ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:51pm - 4 comments

  20. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 46 Bringing the Past into the Future in the Present

    produced the seed oil feed stock. The plant that extracted the oil had been simple to make and was easy to ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:05pm - 2 comments

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