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Stir in a load of chopped bacon pieces as well, fried to crispiness - perfick !

Every luscious moment. Sausage in hand hoping she was going to demonstrate a new stuffing technique.

Then uncovered, cut off rind but left a layer of fat. Scored fat, studded it with cloves , then another coating of black treacle, dijon mustard and brown sugar. Mixed and smeared over the whole joint. Back in oven for another 25mins to glaze it completely. She made some fine noises putting portions in her mouth 💋

We used to do Christmas turkeys. One day went to the shed to feed and couldn't open the door. With a bit of effort managed to push it open to find a dead turkey, missing it's head with the neck stuck inside a rat hole under the door , and firmly wedged behind the door. Always knew there was a rat problem in this particular shed, so threw down a few live capture traps. Next morning astounded to find a mink captured. Took it outside to get the air rifle to finish it off . Never having seen a mink before, held it up to study, - this little bastard was at the cage door screaming and hissing at me, (and Jesus what a stink!) Whereas rats would be at back corner as far as they could get away. Not the first one I've shot here, but what incredible strength. Turkey was close to finishing weight so prob 15 - 18 pound. Mink was firmly intending to pull the entire bird through a 3" rat hole when the head came off!

"A mate of mine at work went to his local group and said it really helped him to get out of a hole." "Problem is men dont talk, then its too late ..its never easy recovering a body and explaining to family" The hardest task I can ever do in life is to open that door handle and say 'hello, I'd appreciate some help'. My own stubbornness may (-will) one day be my undoing.

....with the wife's sister. 🤣🤣

Yep , spot on. Was one of those nothing ventured nothing gained situ's. The landscaper I was subbing to already had digger on site for constructing boundary wall on roadside, and he'd seen some of my other hedgecraft, to consider 'heck, this might work' so minimal loss if it didn't

Some of the stems came out with practically no root at all. These were just trimmed to a single stick with no branch at all, then laid over ! There was a pleacher every 1-2' to try to give some hold to the hedge in the absence of sound established roots.

I actually did this once on a road widening situation where the land owner was adamant he wasn't going to lose his hedge to be replaced by an ugly chain link fence. The trees were dug out trying to keep some soil with each stem, though most didn't. Swung over to new placement and then laid, removing as much side growth as practical to balance the water requirement from the dramatically reduced root system. All this was done in very late spring, with full leaf, so the owner was told to water well, which to his credit he did daily for the whole summer. The whole hedge survived, not a single loss. Total length 80m. 20 years later you'd never know what had occurred.

If only they didn't take 6 years to become impenetrable. The mindless ones have trodden them flat long before they become an effective barrier. Perhaps theres a business opportunity for soneone here, transplanting fully mature and ideally, laid hedges that you can buy on a roll !

Too many years ago I did my college thesis on producing constant rotation coppice firewood/heating fuel for a reasonable sized domestic/farm property. Calculated a requirement of 7 acres hardwood to be truly self sustaining, starting from a neglected site returning it back to constant rotation coppice with an increasing amount of off site firewood sales to recoup some of the capital expenses. The model never paid for itself if the woodland was actually purchased, but was theoretically successful if using family farm woodland

Not just heart meds do that. My migraine meds (triptans) shut down peripheral capillaries - great for the brain tissue but hell for hands and feet. Looks like they've died when exposed to cold winds, rain , frost or sea water. I look horrific after stepping out from 15mins in the Mediterranean!

The other children gave up talking to me

When I was seven I used to talk like this too..