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Si_Clist

GreyQueen wrote: »

* correct form for handling dead animals is to plant them in your garden

But not if it's a chicken, which DEFRA reckon is "livestock", and verily the EU doth say "In thy garden shalt thou not bury livestock lest thou be naughty in the doing thereof."

DigForVictory

Depending on how recently dead, surely correct form is to roast & serve? Then make stock from carcass?

DEFRA blew my plans for a pig to rotavate the back garden by describing a charming long snouted curious Tamworth as livestock & the raw paperwork required to borrow a pig for a fortnight halted that plan. So Far.
So, if you spot a bemused looking Tamworth stuffed in the boot of a Ka, in Lancashire, please avert your gaze...

thriftwizard

DigForVictory, it'd be a waste to roast a (deceased) laying hen. They're all legs and feathers, no breast to speak of, and pretty tough. You'd boil the carcass & make - well, probably something French with what you could strip off the bones afterwards.

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DigForVictory wrote: »

Depending on how recently dead, surely correct form is to roast & serve?

Reminds me of the Road Kill Cafe in America.

Their slogan is "From your grill to ours."

GreyQueen

I've eaten roadkill. As in killed by me personally, even a fiesta is an effective huntin' weapon on country roads in certain seasons. I blame the shooting estates for having their keepers raise the blasted pheasants by the thousand then releasing them to roam all over the roads with less road sense than gawd gave an apple.

If anyone likes a laff, wander over to the 'Hedge, where that bastion of truth and decency called WaPo is dissing most of the alt.news websites for being mouthpieces for Russian propaganda, providing an excellent list of some I read and some websites I've never even heard of before.

I must have a mooch over there and top up my propaganda reserviour faster than you can shout commie !!!!!!.

I've also checked for reds under the bed and I indeed have 36 cartons of passata under there, so the redness criteria is definately covered.

ancientofdays

We have eaten all our prepping stock of tinned tomatoes

I had no idea about the hand grenade restrictions So must be more careful

boultdj

jim-jim wrote: »

A really scary moment happened on a quiet street on Tuesday evening. Imagine terraced houses, the electricity supplies runs on cables fastened onto the back of the houses - like a long line of rope.

If you have facebook or not, google facebook clowne forum

https://www.facebook.com/Clowne-forum-1365111236849523/

scroll down for videos

Thankfully no one was hurt and the main power supply was off for a few hours after it

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I heared it reported on Peak FM, more scary for you I'm only 10 mile away from you.

GreyQueen

Si_Clist wrote: »

But not if it's a chicken, which DEFRA reckon is "livestock", and verily the EU doth say "In thy garden shalt thou not bury livestock lest thou be naughty in the doing thereof."

Cook it first and bury the leftovers and then you have 'food waste'. Or make broth, then food waste.

Or kill it, examine the entrails for augury, then bury it. If challenged, point out that its a perfectly valid and time-honoured religious custom and not naughty at all.

pineapple

Not strictly a prepping issue but a sign of how our world is changing. I posted on another site about Christmas tips and the reaction was disbelief/derision that I live in a place which gets coal and milk deliveries.
I'll swear they thought I was making it up
I'm actually shocked at the surprise! This has been the norm where I've lived over the last 15 years. In fact every other person I know has a multifuel stove. Maybe it's a northern thing
Sorry if this has been mentioned but did anyone see New Lives in the Wild this week?
It featured a set up in Ibiza. The guy is a bit of a prepper. Love that series!
https://www.my5.tv/ben-fogle-new-lives-in-the-wild-2/season-5/episode-5

moneyistooshorttomention

There's milk and oil deliveries here in this area. Milkman is obviously an independent and not from some dairy iyswim. Oil - well I guess that's all from a firm called "Oil for Wales". I still giggle every time I hear the adverts - because they change the advert at intervals - but always leave in saying that it's "a family firm" (something I don't recall ever hearing in adverts before I moved here.....and I'm still wondering why they say it...).

I don't know about coal - but wouldn't be surprised if there are coal deliveries - though I've never seen one.

So the milk and oil are normal here - though I'd never clapped eyes on an oil delivery in my life before moving here and I'm not sure whether we were still having milk deliveries or no (I know they were still happening in the 1980s - and think I remember still spotting the odd bottle of milk on a doorstep when I moved).

I've come to the conclusion that many people (and...yep...that included me) havent the faintest idea that "life is lived differently" in some respects in some other parts of the country to their own. I think we all just assume "our" way is how things are nationwide. Now remembering asking for a portion of chips I fancied in a chippie and finding I couldnt have them - as I "knew" chips are done in oil and hadn't realised there is a tendency to do them another way here (thankgawd the assistant took in my Southern English accent/appearance and told me before not after the event.....).

EDIT; I do watch some of that Ben Fogle tv series Pineapple and I specifically wanted to watch the Ibiza one. I was interested to see how one can do this "go back to nature" in company take on it this time. I liked the look of those buildings and was amused to see that one could tell what type of job he used to have by how orderly it all was. I always sit there in silent astonishment at the usual run of these programmes - as I can't quite believe why some of the other people featured can live in such solitude and with nothing "going on". My mind boggles at the thought of no social life - even if one has a spouse living with you.