Championing Proper British Food and Drink

Rocky 2 buckets

I think the pre history would’ve been a tad less safe tbh🤣🤣

Takethedogalong

It might well have been Corners. When we kept our horse, stabled at night, out in day, we used a thick shavings bed. The easiest method of mucking out was to donn rubber gloves, pick out the round poos, (which for the squeamish are merely grass/hay/feed balls, barely any smell) then use a shavings fork on the wet patches. That way you get out only what you need to get out, without wasting expensive bedding. We knocked it back up against the walls, allowed the floor to dry out, then put the bed back down, topped up with fresh shavings, before putting horse in. Horse and bed nice and clean. Once a week, a good proper clean out of stable with Jeyes fluid. Shaving beds barely smell, straw beds do a bit more. 

There’s quite an art to bed management for equines!😁

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Fisherman

Agree nothing wrong with treated human waste on land. Its quite common. It has to go somewhere. Its the thought of tomatoes growing in slush and not common and garden soil which provides the flavour  that gets me hence why I grow my own. When not available ( out of season) I dont each them.

Takethedogalong

We used to get followed around by gardeners. Whisked up before it barely hit the ground!😂 

Village where we stabled our horse was very "pawsh”, mostly keen gardeners. Except for one miserable old coot, an incomer from somewhere more urban. Always moaning about horse poo on roads. We always went round and picked up if any accident occurred outside her sterile strip of grass. We got the blame for it all usually, but there were at least a couple of dozen equines stabled in village, very horsey place. 

JVB66

We have quite a few livery stables in this area including a riding for disabled stables 

A few riders/owners still expect eveyone else to give way even if they are on Footpaths ,instead of the many Bridleways available to them, not that some counci officers have any clue about Horses and the semi rural area we are in 

I walked one of the council "officers" around our area a couple of years ago and (after a couple of calls from her office to remind her of a "meeting?" )i still insisted on continuing with  what she  had advised would not need a time scale ! ,we were walking along another overgrown council responsible footpath when we came across a mound of horse poo ,her response "oh my god what is that? do you want me to have it removed"

And she is one of the  people who are "responsible?" for all the Grounds maintenance contracts and the implementation of them

 

 

brue

I agree, the tomatoes are tasteless but I buy the organic ones in the winter, hoping they'll taste a bit better!  You can't beat home grown ones though, we grow a lot in the summer and freeze a lot too. 🍅

Wherenext

Yorkshire Rhubarb especially when mixed with Bramleys from the UK. Yum with either Greek Yoghurt or Custard when made into a sponge.

Takethedogalong

Anyone visiting Clumber Park, the Walled garden there has a big collection of Rhubarb varieties, worth seeing when in full growth. You can buy it cut as well👍 We have two huge crowns in our garden, we love it, particularly with ginger (see another thread😂😂)

Wherenext

By the sound of it you'll be having Rhubarb with your Ginger rather than the other way.

ps I always put ginger in with my Rhubarb as well. 

Wherenext

At this time of year it's time to champion those seasonal foods. Yep, the Christmas Pudding and Mince Pies. 

Pies are a British speciality, whether it's pies made with meat, vegetables or savouries. There is a place in the south of France called Pezenas where Clive (of India fame) settled and he abhorred the local food so a local baker made him a special pastry encrusted pie, now sold locally in that area and known as Clive Pies. A curried raisin type of pie. We've had them and they were indeed delicious.