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Lobster ‘front’ targets fisherman

19 April, 2005 by Alistair

A BBC story about an animal rights group that targets a lobster fisherman. A fisherman has become the latest victim of an animal rights group targeting the Dorset lobster industry. Former soldier Nick Ford, who has worked out of Kimmeridge Bay for 17 years, has had his nets slashed. A group calling itself the Lobster…

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The OSSCAS

17 April, 2005 by Alistair

Just for fun I entered myself into the OSSCAS competition . = Organic Shadows SITE CONTENT Awards. Here is a little blurb There are so many competitions going on around the place that are focussed on design and layout that we thought it might be a good idea to do a backflip, twist to the…

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Who to vote for? 2

15 April, 2005 by Alistair

I have found a Tory stance on angling……..youwill need the pdf acrobat reader

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Using IE ?getting a funny error messege?

13 April, 2005 by Alistair

If you are using IE and are getting this messege a runtime error has occured Do you wish to debug? line:116 error:’google ad client’ is null or not an an object” It is not a problem with the blog it is in fact a problem with Explorer. I use firefox so never noticed it. To…

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Who to vote for?

12 April, 2005 by Alistair

In case the UK readers have not noticed there is a general election coming up pretty soon. It throws up many questions about who to vote for. In the past I would probably have voted for the green party but after their pretty intense …and I can only call in anti angling manifesto I do…

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Countryside staff warned as big cat is sighted in Glasgow

2 April, 2005 by Alistair

Around 11 years ago I worked in a nursing home at the “top” of Clydebank…..Duntocher, just next to Faifley (sp). I used to get a bus from my flat to Duntocher and then a minibus would come down from the Nursing home and pick me up to take me and the rest of the staff…

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10000 unique visitors

28 March, 2005 by Alistair

On a similar theme to the last post I see I have just sped past the 10000 visitor mark. That is 10000 unique visitors, not to be confused with “hits” which can essentially be just a bot bumping into your site 🙂 Thats against ::Total Page Hits: 28948 in the last couple of months! Seeing…

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Hey WOwzers!!

27 March, 2005 by Alistair

Just noticed that this little blog is sitting at number 30 of the top 100 blogs with regards to total hits from blogpatrol. #Bows#

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A stat post!!

26 March, 2005 by Alistair

Another one of thos posts where I tell you how people get here from the search engines Last 20 searches to get here:: 26/03/2005 11:33:47 fly fishing for carp (Yahoo) 26/03/2005 10:58:06 kylie glasgow (Google) 26/03/2005 10:05:47 hummingbird Smartcast (Netscape) 26/03/2005 09:33:38 “Czech Nymphing” (Google) 26/03/2005 09:07:27 fly tying storage (Google) 26/03/2005 08:33:45 Jamie Olivers…

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New Gierach Book!!

26 March, 2005 by Alistair

There is a new Gierach Book!! out…….. Looks very very nice, over the winter his books make you want to tie flies, grow a beard and fish bamboo!!

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