The Retirement Thread
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welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
That is a great view, even better on a sunny day I expect.
Yes it is. I can see bunnies and sparrowhawks, and all sorts of things running around when it's nice.
It does look nice when the sun is out.
classic33
Leg End Member
You've food that talks!
randynewmanscat
Veteran
- Location
- Vienne, Poitou-Chrentes
I am still recovering from a social attended on Saturday. There are two sorts of people around here, city retirees/second home owners and "locals". Social events of the well heeled retirees do not include the drinking of punch (an aptly named concoction) served from a milk churn with a lorry windscreen washer pump powered fountain. So the event was the 40th birthday of a local woman who lives up the lane. I saw no wine, the beer ran out before the afternoon did but the punch flowed until about 2am the following morning, I saw three cases of white rum under the "bar" (a farm trailer).
They know how to party and are able to get out of bed to tackle the day after, I didn't try on Sunday. I am still marvelling at the contraption used to roast a wild hog. It was a large steel frame to carry the unfortunate beast powered by another vehicle part repurposed, a wiper motor. The wiper motor had a small pulley driving a belt driving a bicycle wheel welded to the end of the hog carrier. The whole thing stood in front of god knows what huge cast iron box with oak logs fed in from the top. I regret not taking my phone to get some pics, never seen the likes.
I can confirm that roast wild pig with a tarragon and onion rub is very, very tasty. A diet of acorns, hazelnuts and various tubers makes for nice meat. Hunters registered 290 kills of wild pigs in the forest by my place last year and the farmers complain that there are still too many this year, they scoff maize and other crops.
A photo of a lucky/not so lucky hoglet that lived over the road for a few weeks before being found a home with humans. An orphan whose mother is probably in the happy hunting grounds of hog heaven (poachers sometimes hunt out of season which is truly terrible)
They know how to party and are able to get out of bed to tackle the day after, I didn't try on Sunday. I am still marvelling at the contraption used to roast a wild hog. It was a large steel frame to carry the unfortunate beast powered by another vehicle part repurposed, a wiper motor. The wiper motor had a small pulley driving a belt driving a bicycle wheel welded to the end of the hog carrier. The whole thing stood in front of god knows what huge cast iron box with oak logs fed in from the top. I regret not taking my phone to get some pics, never seen the likes.
I can confirm that roast wild pig with a tarragon and onion rub is very, very tasty. A diet of acorns, hazelnuts and various tubers makes for nice meat. Hunters registered 290 kills of wild pigs in the forest by my place last year and the farmers complain that there are still too many this year, they scoff maize and other crops.
A photo of a lucky/not so lucky hoglet that lived over the road for a few weeks before being found a home with humans. An orphan whose mother is probably in the happy hunting grounds of hog heaven (poachers sometimes hunt out of season which is truly terrible)
randynewmanscat
Veteran
- Location
- Vienne, Poitou-Chrentes
I feel some egg envy. The neighbours give us hens eggs and they are nice but like any greedy person I want want is not availableRicher yolk and stiffer whites.
We have duck eggs fairly regularly.
They're very nice.
I buy duck eggs from the farmer across the lane, when he has them. Not always available though.I feel some egg envy. The neighbours give us hens eggs and they are nice but like any greedy person I want want is not available
dickyknees
Guru
- Location
- Anglesey
The club are in their centenary year and have a load of regattas, sail past and saily things sailors do.
Finding the golden rivet?
classic33
Leg End Member
Blame the ducks.I buy duck eggs from the farmer across the lane, when he has them. Not always available though.
I have to be very careful when I type 'duck' on this phone, due to the predictive text.........
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Good morning all. Just finished my breakfast then walking the dog. I am collecting my new glasses from specsavers today, then my son is coming to see me on his way to a off shore medical. If the weather holds, I need to make 4 kitchen doors for my stepdaughter, at least give it a start. And then, going to the quiz tonight. Busy day then. No time for a ride but hopefully tomorrow.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I had a pair of ducks. To be honest I could never bring myself to eat the eggs they produced as scrambled, or fried or poached. I could only eat them when I used them to make cakes (the eggs not the ducks). 
dickyknees
Guru
- Location
- Anglesey
One of the reasons I keep well clear of Trearddur Bay drinking establishments during the month of August
Why not?I had a pair of ducks. To be honest I could never bring myself to eat the eggs they produced as scrambled, or fried or poached. I could only eat them when I used them to make cakes (the eggs not the ducks).
Out of interest do you know the life guard at Trearddur Bay? Age nid 40s(ish). Long hair worn in a pony tail.
