One night I lay broad awake, perhaps from having shot a curlew, and eaten him, without an onion sewn inside while roasting, but he had been so hard to shoot that I was full of zeal to dine upon him, and had no onion handy. R. D. Blackmore - The Maid of Sker (1872)
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Waitrose do them ("Fresh-shot ResponsiblySourced Wild Duchy Curlew with Single Organic Spanish Red Onion") but you'd never get them in Asda.
Just bought a smoked gammon yesterday, being frozen as we speak, and its replacement is ready to bake today...
The new one is for Christmas, and as a whole chicken seems to last us for a week and a half,, a turkey would take us about two months!
Sam - the word 'Duchy' is not going down well in Kent, a bit East of your goodself. Charlie-boy wants to double up Faversham, which is a delightful Kent market town! I never buy anything with that dislikeable expensive term anyway, so anyone living near there is welcome around here from now on!
Scrobs:
Yes, I lived in Dorset in the '80s, and was amazed at how badly he wrecked Dorchester. Poundbury is an insane toy town monstrosity, and the man is a complete hypocrite.
@Sam Vega
This summer we re-visited Poundbury. The place is more relaxed now that the rendering is beginning to show stains and the tiny gardens in the front of some houses are full of flowers and life. The town still has a creepy vibe, like a film lot or the place Stepford wives would live. An architect friend calls it a genteel London suburb transplanted into the countryside.
But we still like to visit occasionally - rather like running your tongue around the place where a tooth has been removed.
Is this the vision old 'chipolata fingers' has for Faversham...
"The estate aims to be a 'walkable community' of tree-lined avenues and 'designed more around the pedestrian than the car', with no driveways."
how very medieval.
Sam - Tesco does a butterball self-basting roast in the bag curlew with a pack of microwave roasties and two litres of cola as a meal deal.
Scrobs - fortunately we don't see much 'Duchy' stuff up here. It always reminds me of National Trust offerings, uninteresting and overpriced.
DJ - the nearest we get is Maiden Castle. That certainly is impressive.
Wiggia - it's his feudal instincts.
O/T: any interest to you?
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/09/the-british-dance-band-phenomenon-of-the-1930s/
dearieme - yes thanks, it is of interest. I've bookmarked it for later.
Wiggie.
"The estate aims to be a 'walkable community' of tree-lined avenues and 'designed more around the pedestrian than the car', with no driveways."
Where are they going to park their electric cars whilst charging?
DAD - Charles didn't think of that.
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