the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

Panto is 2/3 of the way through this month rozee, but a majority of the tickets have gone already.

We're fortunate in having people talented enough to write fresh Pantos, although ours is loosely based on the legend of Robin Hood. The original Robin didn't have the advantage of Gok Wan as fashion advisor though, nor did Friar Tuck have three legs & a sat nav!:rotfl:

I think Alfie's Mabel is like our non-laying australorp, so justifies her existence in ways other than the provision of food.

alfie_1

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

evening all............MABEL is getting a lot of "air time"....:rotfl::rotfl:

MABEL was a rescue from a family that was sold her as a mini pig....... shes a large white and ive had her 4 years. she costs me the same as a large dog per week. and her full name is.....

NOT FOR THE TABLE MABEL

she wont be having babies cos i couldnt send them away OR upset mabel in doing so ........:)

Rummer

Itismehonest wrote: »

Oooo I always fancied spinning. Rummer. I considered trying it when we had angora goats but never did. By the time I'd clipped them (like shearing a cross between a sheep & a snake :rotfl:) I decided I didn't want to see another 'fleece' for the year
What sort of wheel are you thinking of getting?

I think I want an Ashford Traveller although it is going to be a loooooooong time before I can justify spending that amount of money on a spinning wheel :rotfl:

rozeepozee

Cripes, I'm beginning to think the country life might send me back to vegetarianism! I've just watched a humane society of America's undercover expose of Walmart's factory farming for pigs. Hideous. Maybe, given that I do eat ham & pig meat occasionally (don't tell my dad!) it'd be far more ethical to have some free rangers than to say I can't bear to send them to slaughter & instead buy intensively farmed meat & poultry.... Hmmm...

We've finally got a few people to show an interest in doing the static installation job. Hope to see some progress there soon.

I'm totally shattered as one of the twins was awake half last night teething (which means they're both awake) so it's an early night for me.

Very glad Mable is not for the table, Alfie.

choille

I only buy pork/bacon that has been British ( prefer Scottish if I can get it) raised because of the way European welfare standards are well below our own. I don't want to be part of the cheap meat brigade. I do not buy much supermarket meat but prefer to visit my local butcher. It isn't just welfare issues that cause me concern but also what the animal has been fed.
I would rather not eat meat if I couldn't afford to pay for decently produced meat. It's a no brainer for me.
The whole MacDonald's thing makes me sooooooooooo cross. The environmental impact of such huge companies is massive & makes me want to SSSSSCCRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEAaaaaaaammmmm.
Cheap sausages - people should be made to make them so they can see & smell what goes into 'em.

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

I only buy pork/bacon that has been British ( prefer Scottish if I can get it) raised because of the way European welfare standards are well below our own. I don't want to be part of the cheap meat brigade. I do not buy much supermarket meat but prefer to visit my local butcher. It isn't just welfare issues that cause me concern but also what the animal has been fed.
I would rather not eat meat if I couldn't afford to pay for decently produced meat. It's a no brainer for me.
The whole MacDonald's thing makes me sooooooooooo cross. The environmental impact of such huge companies is massive & makes me want to SSSSSCCRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEAaaaaaaammmmm.
Cheap sausages - people should be made to make them so they can see & smell what goes into 'em.

people who know me as an animal lover always seem to ask me if i saw this/that program on tv/papers etc i know what goes on and i hate that i cant do more to stop it. my grandad was a pig farmer, his pigs were out on grass and he'd just whistle and theyd all troup into a huge barn with individual pens for dinner !! he collected swill and i can remember this huge vat bubbling away with what resembled a huge casserole/porridge type nosh....it smelt good. he had a butchers shop that all meat was freshly obtained as needed. i have a very old pic of him in a horse drawn trap delivering meat. all i can do is make sure [as best i can] of the source of the meat i buy. i cant sort the cruelty but hopefully i can reduce it by buying this way. as long as others make the change then maybe it will make a difference.

Itismehonest

It was a great shame when legislation led to so many small local abattoirs closing.
Some were bad but a great many were very good. They used to mean that you knew the people who slaughtered your stock (often they were also the local butchers) & you knew you'd get your own meat back.

Now a lot of animals have to travel miles for slaughter.

Everyone is a little in the lap of the gods as to exactly what they eat.
You can't always trust it's from where they say it is anymore.
Even the guys once thought reliable bend the rules to make an extra bob now.

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

It was a great shame when legislation led to so many small local abattoirs closing.
Some were bad but a great many were very good. They used to mean that you knew the people who slaughtered your stock (often they were also the local butchers) & you knew you'd get your own meat back.

Now a lot of animals have to travel miles for slaughter.

Everyone is a little in the lap of the gods as to exactly what they eat.
You can't always trust it's from where they say it is anymore.
Even the guys once thought reliable bend the rules to make an extra bob now.

ooo er !! thats not good at all....think i will ask my butcher a few questions !!

choille

http://www.crofting.org/index.php/scpbrand

It is difficult & can be more expensive but I think meat has lost its specialness if that makes sense.
Although I'm quite optimistic in that customers are driving change in that the cookery guys are educating folks about where their food is actually coming from......I think>>>....

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

http://www.crofting.org/index.php/scpbrand

It is difficult & can be more expensive but I think meat has lost its specialness if that makes sense.
Although I'm quite optimistic in that customers are driving change in that the cookery guys are educating folks about where their food is actually coming from......I think>>>....

i do hope so..... i too can do without meat if nescesary if i dont know its provenance. i do love a bacon sarnie tho.....i can say that now cos mabels asleep...:D