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Its refreshing just to twaddle ol' hopper!
My career is fading, and my fun days are beginning.
Look for no Sherlockian study from owd Lowell.

Rabbi t...Man I wish I was 25 yrs Younger....This Cyber World is the 'Tits'...Screw all the Hundreds of Hrs My Generation have spent building Best London Doubles..Shotguns & DB Rifles...I've had more fun'Prodding,' the Punters on this "Webers Warriors"Evening Standard'( One of the best London Rags when you had your Fish& Chips without the "Now Mandatory Health Conscious" Grease-Proof Paper)Ahh the tast of 'Fresh newsprint on the"Cod & Sixpeneth"!!2 Shillings got you a English 'Pint'.Sweet Stout...If by Happenchance your 17 yr old Apprentice Stockmaker System could'nt keep it all down.....I bet Old Squire Glenthorn used to give all his Hired-Help Somerset Scrumpy....While he and the'Missus' sucked down the Froggie Claret'!!! I gave an Estimate to ReStock back to 'Undetectable Quality"Purdey Price....Why Not..Wilber Wright once said, After the 1st Flight.....Pay My Price To Restock my Flying Machine, or Take it To the Gent over the Hill...(Ive put a 'Tag' on the Old Ladies Undies as long as the 'Fancy wood-thing is inside of $10k.) Some of the Pins (Whoops Gunmaker Lingo Keeps coming Up)Original Screws, have had the usual Lawnmower Screwdriver Attack done to them.....Not a Problem, with the Talented Craftsmen,(and Ladies) that are Practicing The 'Mystires of theCraft' within theShores of the U.S.of A. There 'aint nufin that cant get done' CC/DT

Oh, cor blimey, I'm a Brit but I cannot make out Mr T's posts at all. Can someone translate? Wait, if I can't who can?
Mike

Mr. T that's all good stuff cept mind splaning "Somerset Scrumpy".

Mike, I guess you just had to be in the London Gun-Trade in 1953, If I were able to I would celebrate my 70th B/Day by bringing all my Old Muckers over to America for a real'Pissup'..Some of the Purdey Boys have gone onto theWorkshop in the Sky, But the Humor that existed in that Workshop enviroment was something that could never..will never be again.If you did'nt have a sense of humor you couldn't work those 50 hr wks.If you were to ask Peter Nelson Peter Finch, Desmond Mills,Ken Hunt, Peter Chapman, Laurie Salter, Ted Combin,Brian Sorrell,we joked, laughed, sang. All the while building the Purdey Guns & Rifles that today I watch coming onto the world markets for incredible prices.( The Names I've listed are all that are left of the Purdey Apprentices that I grew-up with, I was,(Still Am) the youngest of Harry Lawrence's 10 Golden Boys!)So Mike,Where you from,Are you in the Gun-Trade?Have you Served Your Queen in her Armed Services?Why are you in Canada?(cor blimey is not allowed to be spoken in London anymore, went out with the 2.3/4" proof stamp in 1972!!!!)CC/DT

Shoot-N-Release....I stand to be corrected, but Scrumpy was 'Slang" for Cider made from Apples.And the Somerset Variety seemed to be Very Potent'At a very young age, I was introduced to Scrumpy,working in the hay fields on summer holidays(13-14 yr old)'Hot Sun,Big Brown Bottles of Scrumpy,Girls with legs under those cotton skirts,vision blurred,something soft and supple under the 'Hand'...Then the 'Slap'back of the head, Farmer Glowthorn ordered us 'Townies'back to work.....Shelia's got to be 70+ now! Wonder who got her Dads Pair of Wm.Powell 12 bores???CC/DT

I was born n raised in lovely Somersetshire....the Cider is legendary..I was weened on it meself
Scrumpy would be to me the Rough stuff..very good & very mind warping....some of it could either be drank or sprinkled on cod n chips if you were out of malt vinegar[sarsons]
This would be stuff brewed by small farmhouse outfits..You bring your jug after dark & your lead out to the shed style....the commercial crap like Bulmers don't really count.
I get Mr Ts lingo ok?
oooh aaarrr
franc

No,Mr T, I did not serve in HM The Queens Armed Forces nor was I in the Gun Trade, mate. I'm an East Anglian boy, Essex-Suffolk border, raised on a farm. Came to Canada in 1975 for a look, excellent shooting and big game hunting so I stayed. I did like the real West Country scrumpy with all the bits floating around in it. Packs a wallop too, never underestimate it, it's not apple juice! I now live on a farm beside a national park in Manitoba, elk, moose, deer and bears around, and a ton of waterfowl in the fall, fields are white with snow geese. Just applied for my elk draw licence today, hope i get it, elk meat is really good! I'm happy.
Mike

By the way, Mr T, we had a genuine gunsmith from Purdey's living nearby me in Manitoba for a couple of years. He had a brass zippo lighter engraved by a Purdey engraver, he said. Nick Tooth, did you know him at all?
Mike

Perhaps "T", should write erotic summer beach novels?