Hay and Tatties
Posted: Monday, 14 May 2007 |
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Thank you for a very interesting article, the content was brilliant and your power of description took me back sixty years to my childhood. i could smell the freshly-turned earth and hear the sounds of the sea-gulls. in those days the furrows were turned by two draught horses and a plough with blades so shiny they could be used as a mirror, as for planting the seed tatties it was a case of heads down and hands into the bucket and set them one by one.
plough-boy. from primrose farm
Thankyou plough-boy I am sure that farming was a great deal harder then than it is now. Would have loved to seen the horses pulling the plough
Barebraes from Shapinsay
There is a fine pair of horses hanging about the pierheid here in Stromness. They don't seem to be doing much....
Flying Cat from The Pier Heid
Flying cat, If those horses are real do not chase them away, they are probably the steaks for this weeks visitors from Canada.
plough-boy. from primrose farm
They eat horses do they?
Flying Cat from ancient filmfiles
no offence meant to the people of orkney or our canadian guests, actually horse steak can be very nice , i know , ihad plenty of it during the war.
plough-boy. from primrose farm
Of course, Canadians eat horses. At least in Quebec they do (following an old French tradition). # Horse meat is pretty good too: smoked and cut ultra thin, spread over a nice piece of baguette, with some red wine. Ask Carol, she knows all about it.
mjc from NM,USA
to mjc, of course i loved horse-meat but i found the bits at the bottom of the legs a bit hard to chew, my mother would boil these peices for hours and what i could not eat my father would use to stick the kitchen furniture back together. Im only kidding ,we did not have any kitchen furniture, my dad sold it to buy the horse- meat.
plough boy from primose farm
No horsing around then when growing up, ploughboy. It crossed my mind that a good taxidermist could turn a trusty steed into a piece of furniture. One could play cowboy and indian right there in the parlor (eh, FC?), and a Lazyboy would be superfluous. Join the action while watching Silverado or High Noon on HD tv screen, and blaze away with the best of them, sitting on the saddle of an unflustered Appaloosa. An ercol piece of furniture, indeed.
mjc from NM,USA
I heard that Roy Rogers had Trigger stuffed. After he died of course
Barebraes from Shapisnay
Dont be daft we eat them raw
THE GOOSE from Canada
mjc: yep over here quite a lot of people eat horse meat:hubby nused to love it,although i always to have it in the house!! scoop for you-did you know that the new prime minister-francois fillon's wife is welsh?? hubby's cousin told me this morning-so if there is a "leek" in goverment papers we know who to blame. no??
carol from basking in the sun
Trigger would be ercol, of course.
mjc from NM,USA
Yes Carol, I did hear that Fillon had the good taste of marrying a Welsh. # If there are too many leeks, I expect they will be in the soup...
mjc from NM,USA
Was Roy Rogers a necrophiliac, then? Think of the splinters...
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
Roy Rogers had Trigger stuffed! What with? and did he eat him all at one sitting?
Hyper-Borean from The Hole in the Wall
Yes, Goose, that's how you Canadians keep your carbon footprint low (no barbecuing with charcoal for them). Horsemeat sushi.
mjc from NM
FC what a suggestion!! Did you know there was a nobel prize awarded to a Dutch researcher Kees Moeliker for his research into Necrophilia among ducks. Its an interesting read I found it on Google together with all manner of other stuff
Barebraes from Shapisnay
It gives new insight into the well-known phrase "Go f*** a duck....not that I would. When I could eat it instead.... I know my limitations!
Flying Cat from dribblingalloverthejoint
Methinks you killed the duck, FC. Let's have a new posting, and rev it all up. I am falling asleep going through the blogs.
mjc from NM,USA
Me too,MJC! meeting trevor for coffee at the market tomorrow-more to come!!
carol from counting the hours,in windy but sunny france
Well to tell the truth we have had 2 duck dinners so far and another 7 are fattenning up as we speak. I will try to rev it up mjc if I can. Must admit theres not a lot going on on the blog front of late. We need some scandal. Speaking of which good luck with your rendevous Carol
Barebraes from Shapinsay
There you are mjc, two blogs for the price of one, before I go into Big Cage again...satisfied?
Flying Cat from Creative Writing Course
We moved here in September 05 and have met many good friends. What more could you want from life.
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