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On a personal basis, I hate killing them, but they do a tremendous amount of damage and apparently spread weils disease through their urine. There is more than one apple tree as well, several apples, pears, plum, cherry etc. The main attraction would appear to be rose hips, there are thousands of them surrounding one of my borders. The apple fruit I can keep clear now I know they are onto the same, the hips, they are not mine and the task would be enormous. The southern neighbour has poultry on his land, this is another attraction as well, they go for the poultry food and eggs. He gets the ferrets and Jack Russels in about December, that is a crazy weekend to witness.

All you can hope to do, is keep on top of them, you can't beat them.

I'll catch you a few live ones if you want, you can add them to the pubs menu, they are a delicacy in some countries you know!

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Do any of those countries have a thread dedicated to them. You could go on there discussing rat cuisine.

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We could have one on here discussing the various forms of life in abundance on this earth, perfectly edible, and yet we shun the same.

I have witnessed Gypsies eating hedgehog, have you ever tasted one of those?

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nah its illegal, even eating gypsies.

shouldnt be though...its free range meat, low in chlorestoral I understand

and tasty

needs to be well cooked. Watch out for clothes pegs.

ok no more cullinary delights, back to....whatever

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You cook hedgehog by first catching one of course. Like when it says to add a dash of pepper and you have to have been to get the pepper from the shops in order to comply with the instructions in the recipe book.

You really ought to kill it quickly next.

They you pack it all around with thick mud, or you can use malleable clay if you have no mud, and you put it on a fire. You have to keep adding twigs to keep the fire going long enough to allow the skin, and all those nasty bristles, so carefully evolved, to be easily removed and discarded.

I can say that without salt and HP sauce it's shite and there's not much of it either. You need at least ten to make a satisfying meal. And that's just for one.

Finding ten hedgehogs is a daunting task too.

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A2K makes it easier.

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spendius wrote:

You cook hedgehog by first catching one of course. Like when it says to add a dash of pepper and you have to have been to get the pepper from the shops in order to comply with the instructions in the recipe book.

You really ought to kill it quickly next.

They you pack it all around with thick mud, or you can use malleable clay if you have no mud, and you put it on a fire. You have to keep adding twigs to keep the fire going long enough to allow the skin, and all those nasty bristles, so carefully evolved, to be easily removed and discarded.

I can say that without salt and HP sauce it's shite and there's not much of it either. You need at least ten to make a satisfying meal. And that's just for one.

Finding ten hedgehogs is a daunting task too.

so you were in the boy scouts too eh?

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Not likely. Be prepared is not on my agenda. And I don't rate uniforms either except in deference to Her Majesty of course.

The bar staff are in uniforms now. They used to wear what they fancied and it was quite exciting some nights. All gone.

Hutber's Law I suppose.

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In a victory for the antipodean art of banter, Cricket Australia has deemed that the expressions (Pom and pommy) do not fall foul of its toughened up anti-racism code ahead of the Ashes.
The Age

I was led to believe the expression was derived from POME Prisoner of Mother England which would in fact be better applied to Aussies, however I am recently told that the expression has come to apply to a Person of Mother England[/B]

So how do you brits feel about the expression.

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well I have to admit to looking up Mr Hutber and his law. Is self improvement also deterioration?

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He got killed driving his flash sports car into a tree wearing a cravat so I suppose that might well be the case.

DP- We don't give a flying fornication what anybody calls us. They'll never improve on perfidious Albion.

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dadpad wrote:

In a victory for the antipodean art of banter, Cricket Australia has deemed that the expressions (Pom and pommy) do not fall foul of its toughened up anti-racism code ahead of the Ashes.
The Age

I was led to believe the expression was derived from POME Prisoner of Mother England which would in fact be better applied to Aussies, however I am recently told that the expression has come to apply to a Person of Mother England[/B]

So how do you brits feel about the expression.

We don't give a toss mate!

Actually the word POM was derived in comparison to the so called resemblance of the red faced Brits to pomegranates. Nothing more, all the bull that gets written is sheer codswallop.

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The codswallop that gets written is sheer bull. I'm in a position to know, because I write some of it myself.

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Hi Mac, I thought you might be Boris incognito on a secret trip to Liverpool. Then again there was a good article on mysterious reporters never written because it might have given the Sheik away and he would end up getting plugged.

There are a tremendous number of pages needing filling up seven days a week, it must be impossible to write fact or original.

I just laugh at what they push down their when I'm stuck with a simple cross-word clue, Richard Littlejohn floats between heaven and earth like a preying mantis, you couldn't make it up! Mr Waugh must be turning in his grave.

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McTag wrote:

The codswallop that gets written is sheer bull. I'm in a position to know, because I write some of it myself.

and me

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Hello everybody, are you all happy?

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Of course we are happy. Why do you ask. Do you think we might not be.

Did you used to work for Butlins in the good old days?

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Your never going to get Lyn on the casting couch if you maintain that tone Spendi, are you?

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Good! As Bob said -"That's the best news I ever heard."

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Dear Britons:

I've come across a personal difficulty with which I believe you may be of some assistance. I understand that the British are, by acculturation, experts in tact and avoidance. Also, I have heard that you, en masse, are rather fond of dogs.

I've received the following as part of a slightly longer email. I am at a loss. How should I respond?

Quote:

1. List the possible causes of preputial bleeding in a dog.
2. Watery ejaculate-- What questions would you ask? Exam findings?
Diagnostics?
3. 5 y.o German Shep. male. Last 6 bitches bred to him didn't whelp.
What do you do?
4. Attempted semen collection- failed b/c dog resisted penis massage
(shocking, I know). What are possible reasons?

Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Again, I am, as I alluded to earlier but perhaps did not state with ample clarity and force, quite taken aback. I would welcome your advice. Or, rather, (perhaps), advise.

Best regards,
Your humble and faithful servant
And one with you in worship of commemorative china and cricket,
patiodog

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