Off to the hunt.

[threaded]

My horse for today is getting tackled up as we speak. I can hear the hounds shouting in excitement in the background.

Any of you saboteurs get in my way and I'll give you a good thrashing.

[Buffoon]

Good man.

[Mailman]

Ah, proof enough of English societies inability to change with the times. No wonder you f8ckers dont rule the world anymore

Mailman

[Cowboy Bob]

I grew up in the country. Those so called "country lovers" used to ride their horses roughshod over my parents property without any permission whatsoever thinking they owned the place. I'd have shot the horses myself and sold them to the French for Xmas lunch. Feckers...

[wendigo100]

Ah, proof enough of English societies inability to change with the times. No wonder you f8ckers dont rule the world anymore

Mailman

Cane toads. How much fun is that?

[Denny]

[QUOTE=Cowboy Bob]thinking they owned the place. QUOTE]

They probably did or at were at least on first name terms with the owners.

Foxes unite.

[Buffoon]

Ah, proof enough of English societies inability to change with the times. No wonder you f8ckers dont rule the world anymore

Mailman

We've just been a bit poorly of late. Once we've thrown off this sickness we'll be back. There are signs of a revival, but it may take a little bit more time.

[threaded]

Darn it, wish this government would stop making things illegal. Everytime they make something illegal, more people do it! There must have been well over a thousand people at the send off, lord knows how many horse and riders.

When I were a lad it used to be such a cozy little thing: gather up outside the pub, have a little drinky, bit of a chat with friends and relatives you hadn't seen for a while and then off. This year couldn't even get into the square there were so many people. Finding parking for the boxes? Oh my! Used to be that it'd be a few down the lane, this year it was whole fields.

And where were the sabateurs? It used to be they were so much fun. It'd be like 'whack-a-mole' when they'd pop up from behind a wall as you jumped. This year I was told there was a some woman arrested, but don't know if she wasn't actually a care in the community case caught up in the excitement of it all.

[Churchill]

Threaded, the term is "tacked up" and "saboteur" is the correct spelling.

But then again, you'd know this, you being an educated member of the landed gentry.

Churchill - In "or maybe not" mode!

[threaded]

Threaded, the term is "tacked up" and "saboteur" is the correct spelling.

But then again, you'd know this, you being an educated member of the landed gentry.

Churchill - In "or maybe not" mode!

Sorry, you being a foreigner/towny/fsckwit you'd not be understanding the difference between tackling up and tacking up, but I shall explain. Tackling up is the act of dressing the horse, tacking up is the act of tightening the buckles. As the horse was getting dressed before, and put into a box to be taken to, the hunt, it was only tackled up, after arriving and taken out of the box, and just before being riden, it was tacked up.

HTH