This is exciting, I've met a gamekeeper

[Confortableorwhat]

I don't know why it that feels exciting, but the way it came about...

I'm doing a long distance trail on my own and having a marvellous time enjoying some solitude.

This evening I'd booked a table at the pub where I'm staying, but when I went down for dinner (not before!) was told the chef had a family emergency and they're not doing food. [Shock]

So I went to the only other restaurant in town to be told they didn't have a table, unless the man at the bar table didn't mind sharing....

He's lovely. About my age, an interesting history, good conversation and, I don't know why this tickles me, a gamekeeper.

He's gone to the loo, but conversation is easy and wine is flowing....

Also people love to trot out this oooh there's no wilderness in the UK any more as if it excuses any behaviour, especially when they're from London and the SE and seem to think the whole country is suburban sprawl with a few green fields, but it isn't, and Northern England and Scotland could recover so much without this stupid attitude and the weird belief that animal agriculture is the natural way of existing in the country and rural landscapes somehow belong to the people who trash them with sheep and pour carbon into the atmosphere raising cows.

I hope you’re speaking with a posh accent Lady Chatterly

What an ignorant post. Nature remains in this country and is precious. There is no excuse to degrade it further.

Much degradation is due clearance for livestock grazing, and the extirpation of predators (itself to protect game and livestock). The majority of the country used to be forested.

Pheasants are factory farmed (after being fed soy grown in the former Amazon rainforest) and released into the wild for posh people to shoot, where in the meantime they compete with native wild birds. While being factory farmed, lots of rodent poison is used to protect the fodder, resulting in poisoned rats and mice (which take about 5 days to die) at large in open country, a big cause of poisoning for wild birds of prey.

There is nothing noble about disrespecting the environment or killing animals, and it says a lot about you that you find this attractive.

I know a lovely gamekeeper, lovely man, he’d be an excellent dinner companion, and great friend.
Hope you had a lovely evening.

Exactly, appalling imo. Would not find anyone who does that for a living attractive in any way.

And does he look like a younger Sean Bean?

Come on OP! Have you shown the ghillie your frillies?

I'm thinking that the restaurant owner fibbed and they could have been a single table coming up. They were just trying to set single Gary up for the night 😀

Gary is really a salesman from Wigan.
He was told that there's a lonely aristocratic lady in need of a dinner companion, but he'd have to pretend to be a gamekeeper.

I have no love for game keepers 😁 local one had followed me around with a gun and threatened to shoot my dogs if I should ever let them off lead (just cause they are a type of dog he hates)

most are anti social bachelors so you’ ve done well to find a nice one 😁

😂

…and ruthlessly ensure that no other predators within miles can access the game so that the weekend wankers can have their fun.

Ooh what fun!

It’s not even just the shooting. It’s the poisoning as well 😭

@lawnseed I was talking about the references to Gamekeepers being 'womanising twats' and living in rancid houses.

I once knew a Fireman that was an utter creep, a regular sex tourist, and stupid enough to have managed to set his own house on fire twice, but if the OP had been having dinner with a Fireman I wouldn't have warned her that they're all like that, because I strongly suspect they're not.

Oh well, it was a fun and interesting, unexpected evening.

Actually he asked me early on if I knew what a gamekeeper did because some people are squeamish about it, but I was never going to marry him, so I'm not sure whether it was necessary to be so concerned about his employment!

He was very interesting on environmental issues, with what appeared to be a real passion for conservation, obviously with a slant towards protecting his business interests.

Anyway, I'm not saying he's right, but it was interesting to talk to someone from a life I'd never usually meet, and livened up whay could have been a disaster of an evening.

I'm really surprised at the number of posters who couldn't just take it as something a bit lighthearted for one evening. Life must be exhausting.

Did you exchange deets?

@Confortableorwhat did you swap numbers? Sounds like you had a great, unexpected evening.

And to those turning this thread into something it wasn't meant to be, I hope you're happy with your miserable lives that you suck the joy out of any funny, innocent thread! You must be great fun at a party!

Nah. I'm not about to get "involved" with a man with a "complex" personal life, who lives 350 miles from me. Fun for one night though.

Also, for the people that totally embraced this thread! Should we write the novel or screenplay?

Shouldn't that be keets? Arf!

Yes ! It gave me Cameron Diaz and Jude Law vibes in 'The Holiday' 😂❤️

So many committed vegans on one thread, I'm quite surprised!
Glad you had a nice evening op

Hope he's not on the run

https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/02/28/former-employee-of-notorious-edradynate-estate-shot-dead-police-launch-murder-inquiry/