Who would you like to (Or liked to have) spend a long week-end with?

[FrenchieBoy]

A question that might come up with some interesting answers during this rather wet and windy week-end - Who would you most like to spend a long week-end with and why?
For me it would have had to have been Jack Hargreaves! As a child I worshipped the ground he walked on and believe learned a hell of a lot about "country ways" from his TV programs! I spent many a happy hour out with various local "countrymen" in the Cotswolds learning about the countryside, nature, wild life, ferreting, hunting, fishing and shooting etc and I feel blessed to have had those opportunities. However I feel that no matter how much those "Local Countrymen" knew and taught me I would have given anything to have been able to have had Jack Hargreaves and a house guest for a long week-end or even longer - Or better still as a mentor! In my opinion he was one of the all time great countrymen!
Who would you have chosen and why?

 

[tozzybum]

Tbh Fred Taylor " the rabbiting man" came across as a very knowledgeable and down to earth bloke.
Not afraid to share his ways with others and you'd never starve with Fred to show you how to put meat on the table.

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[FrenchieBoy]

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Is this some sort of a joke, unless you were going to spend the week-end with him using him for target practice?

 

[fallow me]

Shakira, why, she could cook me breakfast on monday morning

 

[pendle]

For me its Jack Hargreaves.
Coming home from school in the 60s . To watch country boy on Westwood TV. Over the years as I got older watching all his other programs out of town . Gone fishing etc.
When he went to Appleby fair awsome.
Then it be came a pilgrimage to go there for me . Watching him driving his pony on set . Set me on the trail of fell ponies and driving them also breeding them .

 

[User00053]

I think w d m bell and Rita Ora and Michael Whitman for me

 

[User00053]

correction Michael whittmann

 

[monarman]

The late Richard prior...... his roe knowledge was the best... thankfully I have his books to re read ..

 

[bowji john]

Norman Carr

 

[Howzat]

Met Fred Taylor once at private cook in at Rudry near me, very interesting bloke, and some good grub

 

[User00053]

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Mmmm, sweet cheeks, going my

 

[Grannysmith]

Frederick selous for me with Jack hargreaves in close second place

 

[YoungGun]

Rachel Khoo

 

[VIGILAIRE]

Colonel Jeff Cooper or failing that +1 for Rachel Khoo for other reasons!

 

[User00053]

Mmm, rk could do a nice spit roast.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Charles Singer Landis

So he may sign my 1st Edition of his seminal work as above.

K

 

[willie_gunn]

A long weekend you say?

On the Saturday it would be meeting up with Willie Gunn, the Sutherland ghillie, so we could wet his eponymous fly on his favourite river. For dinner we’d be joined by Hugh Falkus, Frank Sawyer and Izaak Walton, with maybe the chance to go fishing again afterwards for sea-trout on the Teifi.

Getting up late, a leisurely Sunday would start with a long walk to the Wessex hills alongside Richard Jeffries, the Natural History writer. At the pub we would meet up with Thomas Hardy for a pint or two and a natter. Jinky Wells would be there to entertain us on the fiddle, with John Spiers accompanying him on the melodeon, Karine Polwart on lead vocals and the Fisherman’s Friends on backing vocals.

For Sunday lunch there would be Richard Prior, G Kenneth Whitehead and Ian Alcock seated on one side of the table, with Norma Chapman, Finlay Mackintosh and John Buchan seated on the other.

Monday would be spent in the company of Betty McKeever, Capt Ronnie Wallace and R S Surtees, pursuing sundry quarry.

After all that lot I’ll be needing the rest of the week off, as the following weekend Jim Corbett is coming down for a visit!

 

[Woodsmoke]

Kylie

 

[Klenchblaize]

If we must get down to basics:

K