Where I am today

[Easydrinker]

Guess what I had with supper tonight?
Nom,nom!

Robert.

[Swedish Pride]

No just dont put on my plate!!!

yeah, if it smells like feet it does not belong on a plate

[Easydrinker]

How many REALLY smelly cheeses can I name?.....

Robert.

[Maker]

How many REALLY smelly cheeses can I name?.....

Robert.

4?

[Easydrinker]

Limburger
Stinking Bishop
Gorgonzola
Stilton
Camembert
Époisses
Crottin
Comté
Brie de Meaux
Taleggio
Roquefort
Munster
Pont l’Eveque
Valdeon
Rainbow's Gold
Morbier

Gonna stop now before John Cleese and the bouzouki player make an appearance.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

All set for a quiet night tonight, the cottage pie was in the oven, the kale was picked and a large carrot pulled.
Then the message came, "There is a dead deer on the road, just two miles away.
Long story short, it is gralloched, and skinned.
Tidy torso, it's future is mostly sausages.

Robert.

[Mash]

Good man. It is typically Munty around here,an guessing you have slightly bigger?

White pepper sausage with some pork fat. Yummitiville.

[Easydrinker]

Mostly Roe here.
Deliberately saved lots of fat from our piggies for just such use.

Robert.

[Mash]

I dug out the recipe for you...

Seasoning per kilo sausage meat mix..

5-10g salt to taste
Generous dessertspoon ground white pepper.

Simples. Gorgeous.

[Easydrinker]

All change here today, woke up to find this lolloping around the yard - ..

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This morning I knew very little about wallabies, I am now semi-proficient.

I caught it and put it a well fenced paddock.

I read up on them and watched it.
Realised it was not feral.
A young Bennett's Red neck.
Males cost £350, females £12,000.
Decided it had not come far, and rang a farm a mile down the road, as they were the only ones possible to have lost one, even though I did not know that they had them.
I ask "This is a strange question, but are you missing any exotic animals?"
"A wallaby?" she replies.
It seems one has been gone a week, and four others more recently.
It will go home in the morning, just it's buddies to spot now.
Something to brighten a dull, cold and wet day.

Robert.

[Jennysgin]

That will certainly make for a bit of variety today
It is rather cute though!

[Swedish Pride]

did you just do yourself out of 12k or was it a fella?

[Mash]

Lol. Great minds.

Just goes to show. They are considered vermin in NZ.

[Easydrinker]

TYPO ALERT!
I put an extra zero in there, it should read £1200.

Robert.

[Mash]

Disappointed. Was just about to start a breeding herd.

[Jennysgin]

I am slightly intrigued as to why they're being kept. Just interesting pets or a tourism opportunity?!

[Easydrinker]

From the brief chat today, 'cos they're so cute, and £ symbol's in the eyes.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Disappointed. Was just about to start a breeding herd.

Do knock yourself out with that.
Told today that females are so rare that the clique selling them have a nationwide monopoly.

Robert.

[Mash]

I am slightly intrigued as to why they're being kept. Just interesting pets or a tourism opportunity?!

Years ago I was given this piece of advice by a veteran smallholder.

"If you can't eat it, it's a scam"

Hmmm.

[phantom]

Years ago I was given this piece of advice by a veteran smallholder.

"If you can't eat it, it's a scam"

Hmmm.

Lots of stuff can be eaten, but still gets "farmed" for different reasons - we don't eat guinea pigs, but they're farmed, Alpaca, etc etc....

I'm thinking less about "scam" and more about the size of the end market for whatever......

But also, yes "scam" is a possibility, as is "rare breed X" for whatever........

[gaza the instructor]

I have eaten Kangeroo steak, very nice too.
As for Guinea Pigs, "If you pick'em up by the tail
their eyes drop out" my Nana said, so 'tis true.

[Easydrinker]

One of my first google searches for wallabies came up with 'wallaby stew'.
What can't you eat that you breed and grow on a small-holding?

Robert.

[Mash]

Christmas trees

[Easydrinker]

North koreans may argue with you.

Robert.

[gaza the instructor]

yes but they eat anything that will stay still long enough
to shove in the old cake hole.