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sorry, p.s Happy Birthday Pete. Christmas dinner and drinks....Lovely. Have a super day.

Hi Les . Sorry to hear you are down in the dumps mate . I suppose Welsh rugby is no help ! I got depressed after my bike accident back in 2005 . It was life changing in as much as I could no longer play any sport and when I look back on it I was not a nice person to live with for a while . Gradually I realised its the cards I had been dealt and got on with life making the best of it . I do hope you can do the same mate . Not much I know but us wallys are always here on the key board matey . You know who we are .

Sorry to hear Les. Keep strong. You are seeking help so that is positive. Onwards and upwards.

And happy birthday Pete 🎂 🥳 🎉

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Take care Les 🙂

Happy Friday Arbtalkers 😊

Good Morning Clear and cold. Blooming Super-Moon revved up the cockerel. He's been crowing since 2 it feels like. Off to Oxfordshire-ish. M25 Friday, what could go right? Have a great weekend.

Morning all . Clear sky , big moon , hard frost . Happy Friday .

Happy birthday Pete btw. Rain disappeared so a couple of ash to come out, priced it months ago so can’t quite remember if it’ll be easy or not! Watching a few minutes of the Ashes before getting the vans ready. England struggling with the ball atm.

Les sorry to hear you are having a hard time. It's always easy on the outside looking in. Maybe dark days ahead but each day is a step in the right direction. I had some troubling times when we had the news of a 3rd sprog in the oven. I was more than happy with 2 she didn't want to get rid of or couldn't, sorry language a bit coarse, so I was stuck. A life impacting situation that I had no say over. The other two were off at school, Mrs was back doing what she enjoyed and we were about to go back to the beginning. All I could see were negatives, and each day was dark and heavy. Nobody was in my situation and no amount of talking could change the facts so I just had to take it. Obviously that has been and gone, probably would be easier without a third but stuck with him now. He likes machinery and the like and can be good fun. Enjoys being out on the farm. Three boys, their energy is sky rocketing while mine seems to be plummeting. Some people find ploughing on with work helps others that's not the case. Good health to ya brutha

Works party today. Shooting clays in the morning and Xmas dinner in the afternoon with a few drinks and a night in the hotel! Enjoy your Friday! Come home safe! Cross, Aries.

The tablets take a while to work and sometimes the dosage might need tweaking. Seek a visit with yout GP....be strong for your family and friends, take care Les!

I hear its not an easy thing to deal with. Stay strong Les.

Merry christmas to you all guys i think i can say that now we are 3 weeks away. I wanted to share this as been getting so down lately and chin wagging on here is always fun, I know eggs suffers a lot with depression and i have looked for the thread but nothing comes up on my search. The last couple of months i have been getting horrendous days even thinking about doing silly stuff. No matter how hard i try it will not shift and consumes my thoughts. I went to see my Gp a month ago and she put me on some happy pills but they do not seem to kick in as yet. I just felt the need to share it as we suffer in silence and try to be strong.

No christmas cards for him this year then mick. Excuse the pun but it does grind you with clowns like that.

Lamb chops for you sir unless you can bring up the fire power count 🤣

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.