Thread: Pointer and Setter Trials

El B, I admire your stance on this but we have to consider our forebears and just what makes this country. Many were tenant farmers and the like who through adject hardship and the class systems of the Old Country, emigrated to the Americas, the colonies and so on. For it meant that no matter the immediate struggles of such undertakings they were free in will and yes, Gladstone's land settlement reform where you cleared a patch of bush to have first refusal on the adjacent block must have been diabolical for some (and goodness know how the women coped) but it meant that they could have opportunities for themselves and their children; opportunities that they would never had achieved back home, just as when the government was urging the large landholders to sell off parcels of land suddenly opportunities became reality for many. And for many, shunning the constraints and mores of a class system meant they could be themselves...no more clutching of forelocks...!!! Many did not want to have to recall their supplications of the old country. So to that end, many customs were downgraded and often simply because of lack of supply of what made those customs in turn made them no longer really relevant.

Tweed is interesting...before changes were made to dyes, etc, the natural dyes used in tweed was set by soaking in urine (who's or what urine I cannot say) so those members of the English parliament who wore tweed in the House and without the luxury of air conditioning made the place smell like an urinal!! So maybe the new freedom fighters in the Antepodies just abandoned the whole thing as a piss off

I for one would love an European St Hubert's Day...but how? Comparing a driven shoot on a preserve which costs the guns a decent packet is not the same as a wild game trial. Our wild game trials are special. Are they not about the dogs? Some people worked very hard to have them introduced into the trial world; we must never forget that.