Had to dispatch my first chicken today. It was not a pleasant task, and I didn’t manage to do it very cleanly. I’ll see if I can find better ways of stunning the bird first, so I can cut its head off without it struggling 🙁
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Making sausages part two
We made batches of sausages, loosely following recipes from here The Spicy Sausage Batch 1 5-lbs ground pork 3/4-lbs whole milk mozzarella, cut into ¼” cubes 1-bunch Italian parsley, finely chopped 6 ½-oz sun-dried tomatoes in oil, coarsely chopped 1-tbsp dried basil 1-tbsp fennel seed 1-tbsp coarse black pepper 4-tsp salt 1-tsp oregano 1-tbsp ground…
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Excellent! Aged just 9 weeks, Fog has caught his first mouse. He’s currently enjoying playing with it in the garden.
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Having moved into our new house our first task is to decide how we are going to tackle this project. It’s likely to be the work of a lifetime, but we do need some kind of plan as to what our priorities are, and how we are going to do them. Our first priority is…
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Started our Bulgarian language classes yesterday, in Wigton of all places! I’m looking forward to getting to grips with the language, and being able to write a bit too.
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Driving past Vratsa, lots of girls, dolled up to the nines, standing in laybys. Julie says “Look at them, all off for a night out in town”. Er, no, they’re prostitutes, waiting for clients.
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