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BessieBooBoo wrote: »Hello HSC
Although I have been shown how to deal with a bird (i.e. pluck, gut, etc.) it was already dead. I thought I would feel squeamish about it, but, found it fascinating.. Everyone wanted chicken for dinner, no one wanted to kill them - except for one. Step forward 'M' - hunky ex Foreign Legionnaire
. He wrung their necks I believe (I hid). But I did pluck and prepare them.
I was helped (he said it was allowed) by a buddhist monk we had picked up en route. To this day I have this surreal memory of me and the monk sat in the moonlight surrounded by snow white feathers and blood. :eek:
One might well have been smoking something - though one wasn't.0 -
homesteadchick wrote: »Although it does take some getting used to moving away from thinking of the rabbits as pets, and cute and cuddly bunnies.
The customer was not amused!0 -
I was picking up some rabbit at a shop in Hebden Bridge. One of the customers pulled a face and said she had a rabbit at home. 'You mean you did have,' said the shopkeeper in jocular fashion.
The customer was not amused!
Whoops! Oh dear.
Yes, I have relatives who have ginnie (sp?) pigs and house rabbits, and look askance at the idea of eating them. Nothing wrong with that, we are all different, but I have heard that farmers can still be affectionate to their livestock, and end up keeping some as pets.
I just feel that we have become so disconnected from nature, from where our food comes from at times, it's like, well, not a good analogy but, it's like comparing a one night stand (takeaway or ready meal) to a long term relationship (grow it, rear it, cook it, eat it). All right at the time, but, not very satisfying...!
Cough. Not that I've had any one night wonders, of course. (Need cheeky smiley face here!)
BBBMy dog: Ears as high ranging in frequency as a bat. Nose as sensitive as a bloodhound. Eyes as accurate as Mr. Magoo's!
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homesteadchick wrote: »Yes, you feel much more connected to food, much more appreciative of food. It is not just meaningless 'face stuffing' body filler anymore.
I already felt that way because of growing my own vegetables. Doing all the work that goes into that yourself makes your really appreciate food.
And now I feel that even more with the meat. Although it does take some getting used to moving away from thinking of the rabbits as pets, and cute and cuddly bunnies.
Thank you for your kind encouragement.
You are most welcome - you are braver than some of us here. : )
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BessieBooBoo wrote: »but I have heard that farmers can still be affectionate to their livestock
Not if they don't want to be arrested.0 -
Bedsit_Bob wrote: »Not if they don't want to be arrested.
It was recorded live in 1959 I think and there's a rather nervous collective laugh from the audience at this point.
Whereupon Lehrer, with delicious comic timing, suggest the rest of them can look it up in the dictionary when they get home.
Tom Lehrer; if you don't know his stuff, you haven't lived a full enough life.......g'wan, treat yourself.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Ah, Lehrer. Wonderful ....'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park' could be relevant here?0
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Or even, "I Hold Your Hand in Mine"'Yaze whit yeh hive an ye'll niver wahnt'
(From Mae Stewart's book 'Dae Yeh Mind Thon Time?')0 -
I had a shock yesterday an haven't been able to sleep because if it, seriously. Somehow I've managed to run my stocks right down to a worrying level.
I store surplus in the under stairs cupboard (hobbit hole) on a shoe wrack. It's difficult to get to, covered in shoes, coats and bags and random bits of fishing equipment and toy odd and ends.
I pulled it all out to check and its dire. It comes right at a time when I need to be lowering my shopping budget further too.
If I'm honest I feel a bit panicky. Food stores help me feel secure. I can't believe I've not kept a better eye on it.
My plan of attack is simple but one that is going to take a while: this week and extra bag of rice 40p pasta 32p (that was 17p a short while ago!) and tin of beans 20something p. That gives me a start. Next week ill get flour. Week after some more water.
I just hope I feel more secure by the time the autumn comes. I can't express how annoyed I am at myself.
I mentioned. On the tougher tread that DH has had a pocket rocket for the last 10 years and only just told me. Remember I was collecting sticks to burn should SHTF with power? Deary me. My question is how many fuel cans would you suggest to have for power outages? I know, how long is a piece of string!
Seagulls coming inland? My gran always used to say trouble at sea. I can hear them go crazy outside and I don't live near the sea (not a million miles away but still not used to hearing them here) summat up or following the bin wagons?0 -
Don't beat yourself up over it, Fuddle, you've had a lot on your plate this year and late last year with the move.
Slow and steady as she goes. You can get a fair few preps still in the 20p bracket and adding a few of these a week should help.
Tinned tatties are 14p for a large can, a 2 litre bottle of water is 17p and rice and pasta are still reasonable.
Today I am on leave but am shattered from what we did to the shed yesterday; I hit the wall about 4pm and was in bed by 9pm. I have some errands up town to accomplish and then will see if I've revived after lunch and will go to the lottie then. If I haven't found some mojo, I shall lie around on the couch as will be at work tomorrow and need to be rested enough to function well.
Started reading a survivor's first hand account of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. OMG, the horror of it. What those poor people went through.
What's really striking me is that a lot of the troubles they went thru in the 7 days post-disaster were worsened immeasurably by the actions of the authorities, and the inhumane and degrading treatment people were put thru. And how people were dying of neglect in so-called safe places like the airport because no one had the will or the ability to help them. The Red Cross bringing in aid were being prevented from entering New Orleans by the city authorities in case their presence interfered with security.
Words fail me.
One thing to bear in mind from this book is the importance of having your ID with you if you have to evac. She'd had the wit to put ID for her and her OH in a waterproof plastic bag which she secreted in her underwear. They had to wade out of their apartment complex in chest-high filthy floodwater and go some considerable distance to get to dry ground.
When she and others finally got to an evacuation centre in Texas after seven days of struggling, much of it in the open air, many other people were without ID and having problems accessing federal aid programmes.
I do know that even here in the UK (and I live in my native county and only 20 miles from my birthplace) I had to show my passport to the DWP a decade ago when I had to sign on for a few weeks and also to my LA employer as part of the recruitment process.
Laters, GQ xxEvery increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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