shows yer tats!!

[coffeejo]

Hmmmm.. this is getting my skin itching for more.

My original plan was to add more to the ones on my arms in a sort of freestyle, 'find an artist who can improvise' sort of a way. If anyone's got some spare cash they want to donate ...

 

[ianrauk]

My original plan was to add more to the ones on my arms in a sort of freestyle, 'find an artist who can improvise' sort of a way. If anyone's got some spare cash they want to donate ...

All of my tattoo's was done that way. It wasn't really a plan I just told the artist that I wanted traditional Japanese Kimono style, so using the 4 elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire) as a base, came up with what I have. Mixing in Dragons (3), Demons (2), Fish (4), A Bird, A Phoenix, Snakes (2),(One snake wraps around my wrist, all the way up my arm and finishes on my shoulder the other around my other wrist) and Flowers, smoke, swirls and what have you.

 

[MacB]

Pervert.

yeah, you'd slide straight into a, rather large, pair of 'tiny' shorts if I asked you

 

[potsy]

Never been a fan of tatoos, but this could change my mind

 

[coffeejo]

It is from where I'm sitting.

Blimey Jo, Potsy could do with a shave.....................

Well, yes, it *was* one of my pigs, but he was called Bailey, not Potsy.

Separated at birth?

 

[Lisa21]

Well, yes, it *was* one of my pigs, but he was called Bailey, not Potsy.

Separated at birth?
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That photo of Potsy Bailey is cute!! I LOVE pigs
The "was" in that sentence.....you did, didnt you..................

 

[coffeejo]

That photo of Potsy Bailey is cute!! I LOVE pigs
The "was" in that sentence.....you did, didnt you..................

Alas, yes, damn near broke my heart as he was a fantastic old boy. Still, three months later I had a breakdown and the whole herd had to go, so at least he got a proper send off.

 

[rich p]

Alas, yes, damn near broke my heart as he was a fantastic old boy. Still, three months later I had a breakdown and the whole herd had to go, so at least he got a proper send off.

I know HFW would sneer at me but I don't think I could eat a pig I'd nurtured.

I know, I know, I'm a soft old pussycat at heart. Everyone says so

 

[coffeejo]

I know HFW would sneer at me but I don't think I could eat a pig I'd nurtured.

I know, I know, I'm a soft old pussycat at heart. Everyone says so

I'd rather a smallholder's pig than intensively-reared destined-for-the-supermarket. Quite apart from the welfare issues, free-range and spoiled rotten with belly rubs tastes so much better.

 

[potsy]

It is from where I'm sitting.

Are you sitting very far away from your monitor?

 

[coffeejo]

Anyway ..........

Back to tattoos. Anyone? I've got a third, but there are NO photos and that's all I have to say about that.

 

[rich p]

I'd rather a smallholder's pig than intensively-reared destined-for-the-supermarket. Quite apart from the welfare issues, free-range and spoiled rotten with belly rubs tastes so much better.

Jo, I agree about the taste but it's separating a pet from a food source I'd find hard.

 

[coffeejo]

Jo, I agree about the taste but it's separating a pet from a food source I'd find hard.

It's not easy, not at all. I was always flippant about it, but that was just to make it easier. First time I sent a pig off, I told myself that if I couldn't raise and eat my own pigs, then I shouldn't eat meat at all. That helped, as did culling my own chickens and preparing them for the pot. For me, there's much more guilt attached to eating supermarket meat than from my own animals.

 

[Davywalnuts]

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[threebikesmcginty]

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Ouch - did that hurt Davy?