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Reggie the eyeball cleaning Jack Russel.mp4

That image was supposed to be a video of him in action but I am not technologically able enough to upload it!

On a lighter note. Here is my mate Reg trying to murder a cow(with calf) by licking its eyeballs out. They seem to enjoy it as obviously does he. He reminds me of one of those cleaner wrasse you see on nature documentaries cleaning the gills of a big fish like a grouper

Yep, clever rebranding.

Yes, spot on. North Hallsands up against the reef at Tinsey head you can see the masts up on Start in the background, as you can see a place popular with spider crabs! I fish for spiders between Beesands and Start Point and it is a privelege to work in such a beautiful place.

Sure is.

I do a bit.

Litotes. Nice. Just expanded my vocabulary a bit more👍.

I may be completely wrong but isn’t that flue joint upside down. Shouldn’t the lower pipe be going up into the upper one. If the joint expands and leaks the fumes will come out rather than carrying on up the flue.

100% of my shellfish is exported to the continent, the only time there there is any demand here for spiders is when Rick Stein or some other chef features them on tv. That disappears after a week when people realise what's involved in getting the meat out of them! Spider crab meat has a slightly stronger flavour than brown crab I much prefer it. The Cornish are pretty switched on with their marketing and are promoting spiders as Cornish king crab, could be coming to a supermarket near you soon. I now feel guilty for derailing Ray Mears by mentioning fishing!

I chop lots of logs, my favourite things are my 560xp, Gransfors Bruks maul and rock machinery splitter. I enjoyed This fishing life it was a pretty good representation.

I have a 30' inshore boat and work single handed mostly shellfish. Just changing over from winter prawn potting to the summer spider crab season also get some brown crabs and lobsters. Also fish for Dover sole in the summer and red mullet in the autumn, with a small boat you've got to go with the seasons. If I get the time I also go rod and lining for pollack and bass which is more pleasurable. I am also in partnership with another fisherman in an oyster farm on the River Dart but that has been completely f*****d by Brexit and to some extent covid so after 17 years of hard graft building it up from scratch it looks like we are going to have to give it up.

Yes I am, one who also chops up trees.

The best Ray Mears programme I have seen is where he built a birch bark canoe with a Native American. The filming and building of the canoe were beautiful and the respect he showed for the man building the boat was heartwarming.