How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

GreyQueen

silvermaid wrote: »

I agree city centre birds don't appeal but the big fat ones picking around in our garden would make a tasty bite - just not sure how to catch them and then wouldn't really want to gut, hang & pluck them unless I was very, very hungry:o

I think that wood pigeons are classified as vermin so you're allowed to shoot them but it's probably not a viable option on my lottie, which is on a suburban road. I suspect if I started to take potshots at the beggars (don't have a gun and wouldn't know what to do with it of I did) the Police would soon be called as its on quite a rough estate anyway.:rotfl:A lairy friend did offer to come up and pot a few with a catapult but I haven't yet taken her up on it. Still, given that they eat every bl*ody brassica up there it would just be closing a loop in the food chain. One of the geezers told me how he was transplanting out a line of cabbages from the greenhouse, looked up and straight into the eyes of a row of wood pigeons parked on a scaffolding pole frame above his head and waiting to launch like the vultures they are the second his back was turned!

mardatha

Any old countryman/woman could tell you that about rabbit meat. It's not anybodys "views" - its fact.

modern_millie_2

Remember eating rabbit pie as a child in the 60s, was delicious. However, I've been veggie now for over 25 years, so no idea if it would taste the same - or any meat/fish, come to that. Cabbage certainly doesn't taste as good as the ones my dad used to grow!

Haribo, hope you get your hot water and dishwasher sorted out today without too much expense.
Gailey, hope you are having a rest!
Kitschy, how exciting - love new starts. Good luck.
Mardatha, you need emergency sweetie stash, somewhere difficult but not impossible to access, for times like these!
Sure I wanted to reply to more but thread is moving so fast.
New job is going well so far, will be heavy on petrol but I will combine with as many other journeys as possible - able to drop off DD for college bus on the way, and will be able to do shopping and weekly volunteering as part of journeys.
Hope everyone is having a good day.

zarazara

When cooking rabbit I always add butter,also when cooking pheasant or venison,I always add butter. Thought this was common knowledge. However,who on earth wants to eat nothing but rabbit meat? rather wierd diet.
More interestingly, I think, is the subject of the price of oil.

ginnyknit

Haha the thought of Mardatha having an emergency stash of sweeties is a good one :rotfl: How did you know I have a machine gun - the black market up here is pretty good you know. I actually asked the police if they could build a wall between us and 'junkie towers' over the road but the thought of me installing a gun tower on it was too much for them. they love me really. I once mentioned a lot of shotgun fire on the local waterway and one cheeky copper asked 'how do you know its shotgun?' His mate said if she said shotgun its shotgun - many hours wandering the fields when a child and even more hours on gun range with Oh.

So, she says wandering to back door and eyeing up the pretty birdies , one for the pot? :rotfl:

BitterAndTwisted

brandeberryj wrote: »

All of which you would do automatically therefore I am right you can replace all your meat consumption with rabbit so why are you others and others saying you can't?

You appear to have misunderstood what we were talking about. I said something or other about eating rabbit-meat "exclusively". By that I meant, in the pretty conventional way, to mean to the exclusion of anything else. To spell it out for you if it's too hard to understand, the anything else means any food whatsoever that is not bunny-meat.

I'm all for an interesting discussion which is what most of us seem to do in this thread but it can be done without being didactic or argumentative, even when we've got the wrong of the stick about something.

I might be a delicate flower but I'm finding your posting style a bit too argumentative, so I won't be engaging in any more discussion with you about anything else in future.

lostinrates

I see no reason to be rude about any of this.

Pitlanepiglet

I think it's worth repeating MSE Andrea's suggestion from a few pages back that it's worth just ignoring those that irritate you rather than rising to it

I'm not sure where it is but I gather that there is an ignore option...

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kitschy wrote: »

Phew - got a lot of catching up to do!

Went to visit OH today (he lives on the IOW), and we've decided definitely to make the island our home. I had 90% decided, but he spent the day driving me about, making sure I could see they had "real" shops (see how he knows which buttons to push!), showing me the villages he likes, and then taking me up to the downs, which clinched it. Complete silence, miles of uninterrupted countryside in one direction, and the sea in the other. So now, I need to find a job! But I'll be able to join in with all the wood and oil talk!

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My late OH was born and brought up on the Island and I spent many happy visits there when my late ma-in-law was alive with my OH and our children My DD and family and I go back on holiday fairly often and our annual trip to the Island is looked forward to by all the family .Newport is crammed with lots of shops and you have Tescos & sainsburys and M&S there .When my OH was a little boy he and his brother would go shooting for rabbits for the pot as their Mum was a very young widow of 28 with very little spare cashThey also went fishingand in the summer you can collect lots of 'free' berries and fruit if you know where to look for them My ma-in-law used to get us all up before dawn to go 'mushrooming' she was a canny lady who knew where the best ones grew.Its a wonderful way of life over there and if my DD and son-in-law could find work over there they would move tomorrow . The village folk do accept you even if you are 'grockles ' or as my ma-in-law called them 'oveners'
My husbands family goes back to my knowledge at least 10 generations and originated in Godshill then moved to Northwood.Northwood is a nice frindly place not too far from West Cowes and the villigers are very friendly.Good luck if you manage to move there you won't regret it

SD-253

zarazara wrote: »

When cooking rabbit I always add butter,also when cooking pheasant or venison,I always add butter. Thought this was common knowledge. However,who on earth wants to eat nothing but rabbit meat? rather wierd diet.
More interestingly, I think, is the subject of the price of oil.

Venison is so so good.
Don't worry about the price of oil long term it could be a good thing. The OPEC countries are increasing output constantly Last week by 400,000 barrels a day and there is more than the loss of Libyan oil in reserve more than a years Libyan output. The last thing they (OPEC) want is the price to get out of hand as that will cost them a fortune. When they forced it above $100 a barrel in the 1980s there was a collapse all the way down to $10 a barrel.
Because
1st people use less. Car sharing, going shopping less often buying less goods which are derived from oil. A lot of clothes are derived from oil.
2nd Increased production (as OPEC is doing) & old wells being re exploited as they become cost effective again.
3rd recession. There is no difference between raising tax or interest rates to high or in raising oil prices to high it results in a recession (decreased demand in the world economy) and therefore a huge reduction in demand for oil.
4th this is just related to the 80s some of the countries in OPEC started cheating i.e. selling more than there quota.

The only real problem would be loss of certain types of oil as refinery are not built to do any oil but certain ones IE Libya is "Sweet crude oil"
The reality is that if it keeps going up the fall will be big very big. Can't remember what the Maximum it went to in the 80s but it was over $100 and that Brent went down to $10 a barrel. Of course $100 a barrel would have had a bigger impact then?