Pigeon a la mondeo

qwert_yuiop

Driving home last night, a fat wood pigeon flew straight at the car and hit the windscreen, killing itself. I stopped, jumped out, put it in a bag and drove the two miles home. Quick nip with a knife and scissors, pluck, gut and chop, and the pigeon's in the pot with an onion, carrot, leek and potato.

Delicious. A completely natural, nutritious meal for the price of a packet of crisps. I'm so Green I could almost photosynthesise.

Mrs yuiop came home with the kids from her sister's house just as I was washing up and throwing the bones in the bin. She's decided I'm an eccentric savage.

What do other money savers think? Am I a green, virtuous money saver or an uncivilised weirdo? Or both?

Valli

Where I work there are lots of pheasant etc; apparently you're not supposed to stop and pick 'em up if you hit them - but if another car hits them you may.

Now, whether this is actually true or not I don't know. But this has been passed to me as 'law'.

I prefer metal (or paper) Roadkill anyhoo;)

But well done for not wasting it.

warmhands.coldheart

many moons ago a friend was in a car with a guy on the way home after a night out and they hit a young deer about 3 miles from his house (in the sticks)... they threw it in the boot and took it home and had it butchered........ Why not ????

Cuilean

A good friend tells a great story about her dad who lives in the countryside. About ten years ago, he hit a deer. He decided to indulge his inner caveman, dragged it into the back of the Land Rover and took it home for preparation.

Having read up on the internet for an hour, he considered himself an expert butcher and "hung" the animal from the garage rafters to...er...drain it. About a week later, the wife forced him to bury the deer. The blood emerging from the under the garage door was raising eyebrows, and the stench was beyond offensive :rotfl: