Hi Having trouble with Pigeons coming in garden, picking up seeds dropped by the small birds from the feeders, Need a selective scarer, any-body recommend a cheap powerful water pistol, with good range ??? Thanks Ken
Comeing out of Watford running parallel to the canal I got straffed by a skein of geese just taking off and, presumably, shedding load before gaining altitude.
Shame I had the sun-roof out at the time - they were flying at about the same speed I was driving.
A small lark in France. Illegal to do it though Mitterand was allowed to eat some as he died. You have eat the whole thing, feathers and guts, and you wear a hood rather like a Ku Klux Klan barbecue. Or Dixie Pixies as Tom Lehrer described them.
Yeah - I know that, but I'm trying to remember /why/ I knew it. Perhaps a Gerald Durrell, or somesuch - I certainly remember reading a description of ortolan hunting and scoffing. Might have been on the radio, though.
It was on the box. For the life of me can't remember what the programme was though.
Got it. The Spectator December 2008 by: Simon Hoggart
"My favourite programme last week was France on a Plate (BBC4, Sunday) in which Dr Andrew Hussey investigated the link between gastronomy and la gloire; French glory and destiny. He began with a recreation of François Mitterrand?s last meal, which climaxed with the illegal consumption of ortolans, an endangered songbird which is blinded then boiled in Armagnac. Yum! As you crunch the creature whole, its tiny head dangling from your lips, you wear a napkin over your head which keeps the flavour in, and emphasises the sacerdotal significance of the act. Just as pre-revolutionary kings ate vast banquets while the peasants starved largely to prove they could, so Mitterrand feasted on a protected species because he too was the chef de l?état, and did as he pleased, especially when days from death."
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