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chas

chas

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I'm looking over my shoulder today as I've had a good day.
Just prepped a 9lb pork shoulder joint for the oven as the eldest is over tomorrow with the feral spawn. It'll go in the oven just after 8am for a slow six hour cook. Crackling and melted meat aplenty.
It was my Ma's 87th in the week and I took her present over today. A train set. Bloody loved it. We're going to set it up in her garden. It goes with her 'homage' to Dungeness in her gravel garden with (working) lighthouse, shacks and fishing boats.

I want to add the power station but she's not sure. We'll def do a replica of the pub that we visit that is by the lighthouse and terminus for the RHDR
 
DD67

DD67

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chas said:
I'm looking over my shoulder today as I've had a good day.
Just prepped a 9lb pork shoulder joint for the oven as the eldest is over tomorrow with the feral spawn. It'll go in the oven just after 8am for a slow six hour cook. Crackling and melted meat aplenty.
It was my Ma's 87th in the week and I took her present over today. A train set. Bloody loved it. We're going to set it up in her garden. It goes with her 'homage' to Dungeness in her gravel garden with (working) lighthouse, shacks and fishing boats.

I want to add the power station but she's not sure. We'll def do a replica of the pub that we visit that is by the lighthouse and terminus for the RHDR
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Sounds great Chas, especially the train set in your Ma's garden! 😃
But "pork", I thought you Yids were excluded from such delights, on religious grounds? 🤔
 
BAD LUCK DUCK

BAD LUCK DUCK

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Covering a blonde bimbo driving an Audi convertible in black smoke and soot from my exhaust causing her to choke and hopefully teaching her a lesson at the same time made me happy yesterday..
I think she saw the funny side of it as when she finally passed me I think she was shouting hello you gorgeous hunk of beef cake and she was gesticulating enthusiastically...😇🤣🤣🤣
 
GaleForceEight

GaleForceEight

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Glyn said:
Sorry Duck, it it’s like this,my youngest loved little lambs, then she actually tried one and fell in love with the taste 🤪🤪
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on occasion we’d get ‘orphaned’ lambs - where the mum had mastitis and couldn’t feed all her lambs. If the young lambs went hypothermic and the dog was full we’d sling it in the bottom oven of the aga (with the door open) to warm them up. The way we saw it was a familiarisation recce for when they were older!

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1. the orphan lambs had a heat lamp for warmth but sometimes one would go to sleep away from the lamp and get too cold.
2. reference the dog being full - our labrador had an armchair in the kitchen that she used as a bed. first port of call for the lambs was Tessa’s armchair as the lambs used to snuggle in with the dog who became a surrogate mum for them. one time Tessa climbed over the arm and pushed two lambs that were asleep in her chair out just for enough for her to lie down behind them. When the lambs were of an age/size where they had to join the rest of the flock in the fields they had been known to hide behind the dog because they weren’t sure what those bloody great white woolly things were....
 
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BAD LUCK DUCK

BAD LUCK DUCK

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GaleForceEight said:
on occasion we’d get ‘orphaned’ lambs - where the mum had mastitis and couldn’t feed all her lambs. If the young lambs went hypothermic and the dog was full we’d sling it in the bottom oven of the aga (with the door open) to warm them up. The way we saw it was a familiarisation recce for when they were older!
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So you the sort that sends innocent little lamb's to the oven..I think that makes you the number one candidate on this forum for being his lamb aphobic..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😳
 
GaleForceEight

GaleForceEight

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BAD LUCK DUCK said:
So you the sort that sends innocent little lamb's to the oven..I think that makes you the number one candidate on this forum for being his lamb aphobic..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😳
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When I'd been out rabbiting, you could tell from the flavour of the meat which side of the farm the rabbit had been shot, because there was a load of wild garlic growing along one hedgerow; the rabbits ate the leaves and it flavoured the meat.

So we planted out a field with a load of mint and kept the lambs in that field for a couple of weeks before they went to slaughter - it pre-minted the lamb and the flavour was amazing.
 
Glyn

Glyn

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GaleForceEight said:
When I'd been out rabbiting, you could tell from the flavour of the meat which side of the farm the rabbit had been shot, because there was a load of wild garlic growing along one hedgerow; the rabbits ate the leaves and it flavoured the meat.

So we planted out a field with a load of mint and kept the lambs in that field for a couple of weeks before they went to slaughter - it pre-minted the lamb and the flavour was amazing.
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Here’s a bit of useless information, if you eat Rabbit on it’s own for every meal you die👍
 
Sarky B’stard

Sarky B’stard

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Maybe not if you religiously eat all the offal and stomach contents. Useless information expanded.....

Excess of lions in Kruger National Park SA some years ago. They culled a loan of males. Bugger me if the reproduction rate and cub growth didn’t accelerate phenomenally...... Most kills are by lioness & their Cubs often killed by other males. The males muscle females off the kill and, once full, allow the rest of the pride in. With far fewer males the Cubs were getting liver, kidneys etc., of all the ruminants and far more of their stored nutrients than they otherwise would - growth rates took off. The lionesses didn’t do to badly either.

Moral of the story? Shoot the bitch!
 
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