Field Sports - Ferreting - Why ferreting is a more humane way of controlling rabbits than the alternatives: gassing, snaring, shooting and myxomatosis.
Country Persuits - Personal page about hunting with ferrets in Nothumberland.
Pakefield Ferrets - History and practise of ferreting. Ordering information for the book 'Ferrets: Taking Their Work & Welfare Into the 21st Century'. Simon Whitehead.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Ferreting Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Ferreting
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Ferreting "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Ferreting
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Ferreting Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Ferreting
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Ferreting The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Ferreting
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Ferreting We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ferreting
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Ferreting Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Ferreting
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Ferreting May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Ferreting
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Ferreting Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Ferreting
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Ferreting "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Ferreting
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Ferreting You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Ferreting
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Ferreting "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Ferreting
