the 'todays job' thread

[peds]

It'd be like a dog eating a bee...

 

[sime42]

4 hours ago, peds said:

Djaknow how when you get a thorn in the knuckle you basically turn into a cloven-hooved beast of the field?

 

I was chatting to a homeowner on teabreak just a couple of weeks ago (two day leylandii hedge removal pictured below, 36m³ chip; we were given tea, scones, fruit cake, apple pie with cream... bloody lovely customers), who shoots a bit of venison. Now, he was told, by some fella at some point in history, that if you take a beef roasting joint and stud it with blackthorns, in the same way that you'd stud a Christmas ham with cloves, then it pretty much turns it into venison. Ultra-traditional recipe, apparently. 

It's an intriguing idea which, let's be honest, sounds like total bollocks. But I wonder if whatever substance that causes the reaction to a blackthorn prick might tenderise your meat in some way...

 

We don't eat much beef, but I'm tempted to give it a go at some point. 

 

 

Interesting idea, but does sound like bollocks. We look forward to hearing the outcome when you try it.

 

I think it's bacteria on the thorns that cause most of the problems. Maybe that would perform the alchemy of turning beef into venison.

 

That shadow under the skin there is I'm pretty sure a blackthorn that I never managed to dig out at the time. I'm surprised to see it still there, not checked it in years. I thought that it had somehow been subsumed by the flesh. Unusually for these, it wasn't particularly painful, probably because it was nowhere near a joint.

 

[peds]

I bet you'd be gamey and delicious.

[kram]

I was cleaning a bar the other day, had a burr so filed that off. The burr caught and went through my nail, a little irritating but not painfull, which is odd!

 

[Rich Rule]

Horse Chestnut Re Reduction.

 

Back to previous points.  We didn’t reduce it previously.

 

also raised the canopy and cut back over roof and lights on the RHS.

 

Basically to stop smack heads from using the play area as a shooting gallery by making it more visible to the residents.

 

 

[peds]

Nice little warmup for the day, I actually brought the waders as well just in case, but it turns out I can read the tide charts well enough so it was dry feet while tidying up this fallen oak in a tidal estuary. 

 

 

 

@billpierce Your 357 earning it's keep today!

 

 

Salmon season starts any day now, but there were none running this morning. Baldric was disappointed.

[slack ma girdle]

Group of 12 Leylandii to be felled and removed. For once plenty of space for the toys,  and nothing to hit. The TP 215 is an awesome chipper, filled 2 silage trailers today .

[peds]

17 minutes ago, slack ma girdle said:

 

 

He's a leggy fellow. Very clean.

Those yonder don't look as easy though. 

 

No photos from the second part of my day, but topping three spruce that should have been taken to ground level. Two ivy-covered c*nts that tried their best to annoy me, but they could be dropped as two big heads at least; and one sparse and gangly thing right over a new shed and two little corrugated perspex buildings (henhouse and greenhouse I think) with the wind blowing the wrong way, so it had to be taken apart twig by twig. 

 

Still. Beats being indoors.