big mothers aint they. probably just bite it off and spit it out. swallow you hole chris. well maybe after your diet anyhoo.:Angelic::smile:
would you swap the weather, if it meant you run the risk of getting eaten by every thing that moves? looking out the window right now, your dam right i would.
same here, but what about that Lochgilphead Leopard Fin? Nothing new under the sun as ever, 7 years ago (skip to 1.05) : -
feck, can you imagine a worse time to develop a miss fire? could tell you a story about a day on skye, but it would only serve to confirm my madness
regarding leopards in lochgilphead i have seen what i believe to be pure wild cat in inverary which is just along the road.
only messing :smile: there was a lockeeper I knew well who swore he saw what was to become the Surrey Puma, resulted in a newspaper article. I doubt I could find it now.
Back when we were kids my brother and I hopped over a fence into private land to do some fishing. A while passed and for whatever reason I looked behind me, and what I saw nearly stopped my heart. I carefully turned round and nudged my brother, "Don't look now, but there's a lion behind us". Grinning like a twat, he turned, and froze to the spot. There was a fucking lion sat right behind us! We slid down the bank slowly and crept along to the fence, then hopped over and ran for our lives. No-one, not one person believed us. I told the story for years and everyone without fail said I was seeing things. Then, maybe 20 years later, my favourite pub got a new bar manager, and he used to be a security guard on this estate (Sutton Place if you're interested; Paul Getty's old gaff). I told him the story. "Yeah, there were two lions on the estate. We had to catch them a couple of times after they escaped". At last, proof!
There are some scary things in around the seas in Scotland, I can confirm that Finm is telling the truth there are all manner of stuff you wouldn't think was there I can remember years ago out with my father on Islay at Portnahaven. Standing on the rocks early evening in pretty atrocious weather, he was sea fishing with a local who took us the is spot. Anyway something I still don't know what to this day came out of the water, I can only think whale but I suppose it could have been a basking shark. Anyway this thing was BIG & completely cleared the water by at least a couple of feet probably a lot more went in with a helluva splash then disappeared. Scared the shite outta me
about 20 years ago a pile of us hired a shooting lodge for a party on some moor, 5 miles off the road up some dirt track at the back end of skye, ten of us and a black Alsatian called Barak. we all got there early Saturday morning and got cracked in to the whiskie. after a wee while some one pulled out a bag of pill's ( how these guys hold down the jobs that they do while pumping that in to themselves god only knows), anyhoo not being my thing, with it being a beautiful day and being a bit pished i thought it would be a good idea to fill my hip flask and go and take some photos and a walk down to the pub i remembered passing a couple of miles back up the main road, i got about 5mins from the lodge and realized i had forgotten my camera but thought feck it, cant be arsed going back to get it so on i went. after about an hour i made it to the main road and being a bit inebriated i couldn't remember if it was left or right to the pub, i chose right so again of i went. after about another hour i was starting to think i had chosen wrong but i kept saying to my self just around the next corner, just around the next corner. but nope not a pub insight. seeing as my flask was near done and getting late in the afternoon i thought it best to head back. i make it back to the track some time later getting on late but still light and very warm i take a breather and neck the last from my hip flask and roll a wee bifter for the last stage of the journey. again off i went feeling good thinking this is the life and how good it would be to move away from the cold city up on the east coast to a slower warmer lifestyle on the west. i get about half way over the moor and spot Barak or so i thought pacing around in circles in the middle of the the path about a hundred feet in front of me, which gave me a giggle imagining 9 dudes wandering the hill out their faces and hugging every tree they pass, nutters. i get get closer and realize SHIT that aint no freeking dog it's a fucking panther honestly a fucking panther, now i know i was a wee bitty pissed and a wee bitty stoned but it was a fucking panther. i looked around on the ground for a weapon and spotted a boulder which i was gonna skull fuck it with should it attack. i just stood there for what felt like an age then it just jumped back in to the heather. i thought wtf now? i cant just stand here like a tool all night so i picked up the weapon and tiptoed on past where the beast had been prowling. fucking mental the things you see when you haven't got yer camera. i have told that story many times including the father in law who did a lot of shooting including taking groups out in his chopper over the hills and the reaction is always the same BOLLOX. but hay i know what i seen. and it wasn't no big black Alsatian.
I can believe you Fin,, ( tho many will not ),,, one summers eve , tho late and getting dark I was driving up the Black Isle, about 5 ml before Cromarty , not going fast or nout, and I saw what I thot was a great dane type dog in the middle of the road, so I slows down not to hit the bloody thing thinking wtf is that doing out here and just as I approached it it leaps across the ditch and the fence in one bound,, no bloody dog twas a fkn cat !! jeeeez I think, glad I not on my bicycle,, when we got to the Piza restaurant ( you may know it in Cromarty , well respected ) I asked the others who were following me,, nope none had seen anything, mm I thot , I am going mad,, well I was not because I saw the exact same cat at almost the exact same place on the way back home 2 hours later,,,,, true story !! ( worrying bit is it is only a few miles from my friends cottage where he lives with his young family,, )
