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The deniers Two new members to the WHO is Beth Rigby club 😂😂🤷‍♂️ Not just Sky The Financial Times. The Times. BBC Andrew Marr show BBC politics on Sunday Radio 4 This week in Westminster and what the papers say. Etc etc Named the “stand-out political broadcaster of our times” by the Royal Television Society. I’d suggest maybe a broadening of the horizons is in order.

Recipe, singular. Don marigolds and proceed to driveway. Tear bird in half. Crop and neck out, guts out, peel it. Chop the feet and wings off. Don’t wash it. Food hygiene is for cowards. Into a pan (I’ve been using a pressure cooker recently) and loads of water. Boil fck out of it for hours. Add water if necessary. When done, take the meat out and put it somewhere where your dog won’t steal it. Add a tin of coconut milk to the stock. Fry onions in a wide pan, ideally in lard or dripping. I sometimes salt and sugar them while frying. Add the holy trinity to the fry: garlic, chili, ginger. Once it’s all done, push it to the edge. Add more fat, probably butter, to the clear bit of pan. Fry coarsely ground black pepper, garam masala, cumin and turmeric in that until you’re dribbling like Zed in the tear gas chamber in Police Academy. Flood the onions with the stock + coconut milk. Hope the meat has cooled down enough. Pull it off the bones (a lot will have fallen off if you cook it long enough - like hours plural) and add to the mix. The legs have fcking annoying little bones in. There’s a reason Tesco sells chickens and not pheasants. Put the bones somewhere where your dog won’t eat them. When he does eat them, worry for 48 hours that this is the time his luck runs out. Hysterics will tell you dogs sever their innards and die if they eat cooked bones. Sailor once ate the cooked bones of about fifteen pheasants in one sitting. He’s subsequently eaten cooked bones of all sorts, ten or twelve times. Never been a problem. But Sailor is the sort of dog who, if he was a man, would do his own dentistry and sell ferrets to schoolchildren. Take that for what it’s worth. Serve from now until the pheasants run out. Squeeze of lemon really lifts the whole thing. Fresh parsley too. If you want pheasants in the feather, you can get any number from shoots from October until February. Facebook groups (national and regional) called ‘Giving Up the Game.’ Take them or they’ll end up in the bin. Roast pheasant is shit. If it was good, Tesco would sell them. But they don’t. They sell chicken, pork, lamb and beef, which are good. “Oh but game is so healthy and rustic and, like, so part of the rural zeitgeist, yah.” Fck off. It’s free and you might have had some sport getting it. Same for venison. I’d rather have beef but you can’t shoot wild cows here and they’re heavy. The thing pheasant does have going for it is the fabulous yellow fat. You get more of it on the hens than the cocks. Velvety and rich and well camouflaged by the turmeric for any queers who think fat is bad for them. It also mostly stays with the meat. Unlike a duck, where you have to fck on with keeping the skin (plucking etc) if you want the fat.

Works really well with chicken. Thigh fillets, not breast. Cheaper and more taste.

I buy some prepped ones and get a couple with the feathers on and everything! I do like roast pheasant, just looking for something different. Ill try it with a tesco chicken just in case I fck it up.

Looking at the title? I've had a few and met a few more since swapping rands/sizes......

Steve Cropper. 84. Epic guitarist and writer. Booker T and the MG'S, Otis Reading, Blues Brothers to name but a few, Thank you for your talent Sir. RIP.

Tbh mate, if you’ve paid for prepped whole birds I wouldn’t casserole them. Roast pheasant is delicious, wrap plenty of bacon round them to stop them drying out. @AHPP is your man for pheasant recipes.

Diced pheasant. One sliced onion. As much garlic as the kids will stand. Thinly sliced carrots. 1 cheapo packet of chicken casserole mix. Salt. Pepper. Water to just cover ingredients. Chucked in the slow cooker the night before, flicked on at 8am for ready any time after about 3pm. Thickened with chicken gravy granules or cornflour according to taste.

In my early days in France, we once removed a large cedar to make way for a new sceptic tank installation. Again, I was told the 'terrassier' would deal with the stump despite my sales pitch. Weeks later, a call to say they got the stump out but cannot lift it onto a truck. Could I come back and grind it ? I was running a Bandit sidewinder at the time. In no rush to return, I breezed in at my convenience to be met with ball of clay and stump part blocking the drive which was almost head height (O.K, I'm 167cm so at least 120cm) Local professional tips won't take stumps here as they cause subsidence when they eventually decompose. Instead there is a biomass depot with a large grinder for such things if you can transport them of course.

Anything I think. The Fir bit is just part of the name of the place that the OP owns.

Post up the recipe mate, I always buy pheasants from the local markets at this time of year but I just end up making a boring roast. That looks nice!

Derby police evacuate around 200 homes as men arrested on suspicion of explosives offences NEWS.SKY.COM People have been told to prepare for being away for 24 hours. It is not being treated as a terrorism incident. It will be interesting to see what they where upto!

Two Faltheimer cubes. You definitely need at least 2 line and 3 or 4 bags for when the bastard things get stuck.

Thanks for the replies. Piston, rings and cylinder all look good on inspection. Compression is fine. Air filter is fairly new and clean. Fresh fuel mix . Tried a new carb kit, diaphragms, gaskets, metering leaver and spring - set at correct height. I'll check the butterfly positions and movement as well as the choke. Not sure where to locate the check valve. I'll do some research and find out.

It sure does. I do love a hot dog.

It also Grills sausages judging by pic👍

Here it is this evening.

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Just don't do this when tired, cold or in the morning after a session. Those things are there primarily for these reasons - oh and being stupid, but you aren't that and still alive in the main.

Got asked the same a year ago. When I gave them a quote, they said that was to dear, and I said if you had got them ground out there would of been no cost as would have just been left on site. They think as we are tree surgeon we can just make them vanish.

I did use a tr6p last year, felt very top heavy, tracked well and chipped amazingly well. The timberpup 150tr I have seems fairly well low in comparison and at least gives the illusion of a lower centre of gravity.

Yes that is definitely a pro for being slow at tracking but trying to cover any distance is darn annoying. Very easy to find yourself in a spot of bother when tracking about.

You don't need to tell me. I pulled out a load of fences on my farm. Tracking over the field on way, then tracking back, that was beyond tedious and took days

The original had a D-shaped idle screw. I know this because I bought a D set to piss around with it myself before I sent it to Skyland to have a new carb fitted! I did put an X on mine afterwards with insulating tape.

Nope The original issue was unstable idle in certain conditions. First it was corrected by changing purge bulb with tighter return valve (went from standard orange to special black material), but later it was changed to active idle control altogether. Presence of that system can be recognized by PI (Programmable Ignition) symbol next to laser etched S/N, X logo on the starter logo and D-shape idle screw (as it is otherwise useless for untrained person without carb tools anyways).