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| Caro | Apr 17 2018, 05:21 AM Post #1 |
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I have been busy for the past week, as my son and dil and their little daughter were over for a visit from Nottingham. She is delightful, 19 months old, but just a little dot. It took her a couple of days to recover from the trip over, but she was fine after that. And a lovely moment for me: she let me cuddle her for quite a few moments, and then Louis said it was the first time she had let anyone cuddle her when he was in the room: she is very much a "Dad's girl". No wonder really - he dotes on her. We had a big get-together at my sister's place with my cousins and their children, and she very much enjoyed my niece's little girl, just turned one. They sat in their respective highchairs and laughed at each other. She doesn't say much yet, but Malcolm was certain she said "Gramma". They have now left to spend a few days with his brother and other family in Christchurch and then are up to Cambridge (NZ) where her parents live. While we were down south my second son arrived and said he had been deer hunting. And there was a deer hanging in our shed!! He took it all away the next day wrapped in one of our sheets, just leaving us with the kidneys and heart. We eat lamb's kidneys but not heart, so today I cooked them all up for stock. My husband will use it for a meat based soup sometime or I will make a very tasty French Onion soup. Yesterday we took them up to the airport and watched them fly out. (Not quite - the plane spends an inordinate amount of time on the runway before takeoff, so we got sick of that and left, seeing it flying overhead as we were down the road.) Lovely to see them, even if it was for a short time, and we didn't manage to do everything we hoped for. |
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| rumbaba | Apr 17 2018, 01:47 PM Post #2 |
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Lovely
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 17 2018, 02:31 PM Post #3 |
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Not sure about the deer hunting. Don't you have enough sheep to eat? |
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| rumbaba | Apr 18 2018, 10:32 PM Post #4 |
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I'm humming 'Cavatina'
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| Caro | Apr 19 2018, 02:04 AM Post #5 |
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I was going to reply to Tickle yesterday, but forgot. Eating mutton and lamb is all very well for those of you in Britain, but it is more expensive in NZ. Even NZ lamb was cheaper in Britain when we were there than it is here. My husband ran round supermarkets taking photos of the lamb in the freezers and their prices. It is ridiculously expensive here. And you can't just go out and shoot someone else's sheep; you would likely get their gun turned on you! I don't shoot anything or ever use a gun, and we don't own guns. But my son does and he hid our house key in a difficult to find place so his gun was safer, though still probably not legally locked away. (Then he had to spend ages explaining to us how to get into our own house. We have a pamphlet on homekill and the rules are quite strict mostly because of Health and Safety concerns. You are allowed to feed it or give it to friends and family but not to sell it or exchange it, or use it for selling it at a farmers' market, or give it to your local school to raffle or donate it to a food bank. And then there are pages on keeping it safe, how to feed it to animals, how to process it, how to avoid contamination etc. Rumbaba, I didn't know Cavatina, but see it is from the Deer Hunter. |
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Don't you have enough sheep to eat?
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