@Busy-Lizzie Well, if you used @Dovefromabove 's method, at least the cockerel will be steeped - from the inside!! Half the job done!! Cuts down on cooking time. Hopefully the surgeon will give your OH a date and maybe he will be able to spend Christmas in France with you. Fingers crossed.
A native of Gibraltar told me that they used to occasionally get apes breaking into their flat, and creating havoc in the kitchen. Standard procedure in those days was to put out bowls of beer. When the apes had fallen into a drunken stupor, the residents would ring the authorities and a couple of soldiers would collect the animals and take them back up to their lair near the top of the Rock to sleep it off.
Wish me luck, I switched energy supplier just before the price hike. I have just noticed they only seem to be billing me for the standing charges not the gas & electricity used. As we pay a fixed monthly amount it to me a while to work out what was going on. I am about to ring them.
Fingers very crossed for OH @Busy-Lizzie 🤞🤞🤞 As for that pesky cockeral .... what about trying the old poacher's trick of soaking wheat or maize in brandy or whisky and leaving a good heap out for him to find ... apparently you can pick drunken pheasants up off the ground as they fall out of the trees when they sleep it off ... I would think it ought to work for cockerals too. At least it ought to slow him down a bit ...
Made me laugh. Trouble is there would be a load of other drunken birds too, often have pheasants in the garden and pigeons and there are a lot of smaller birds. What about hedgehogs? Do they like grain in Brandy? And next door's cat?
I was allowed to see the surgeon in the small private hospital with OH. The surgeon said the hip needs replacing as soon as possible, hip Xray is worse, but the anaesthetic wants to wait for heart and lung results. Heart results are OK, waiting for date for a lung scan. Surgeon says OH must ring the NHS hospital and persuade them that it's urgent. The surgeon was nice and younger than I'd expected.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Lucky you @floralies. My bit of France, NW Dordogne is cold at the moment and had a light sprinkle of snow yesterday. Apart from Thursday this week, cold max 6C, but sunny, the forecast is for rain for the next 2 weeks, only 0 - 1C in the mornings.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I was allowed to see the surgeon in the small private hospital with OH. The surgeon said the hip needs replacing as soon as possible, hip Xray is worse, but the anaesthetic wants to wait for heart and lung results. Heart results are OK, waiting for date for a lung scan. Surgeon says OH must ring the NHS hospital and persuade them that it's urgent. The surgeon was nice and younger than I'd expected.
That finally sound like a bit of urgency is being put in to your OH’s distressing situation. I hope the lung scan can now happen quickly amd his procedure can be completed. Can’t believe how long this has taken and the discomfort he has had to suffer in the meantime. Keeping everything crossed 🤞🏻🤞🏻
And yes ….. I know its December and I should be posting on a new thread, but this comment would lose its relevance and look very out of place somewhere new. Time for some “rule breaking”.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was allowed to see the surgeon in the small private hospital with OH. The surgeon said the hip needs replacing as soon as possible, hip Xray is worse, but the anaesthetic wants to wait for heart and lung results. Heart results are OK, waiting for date for a lung scan. Surgeon says OH must ring the NHS hospital and persuade them that it's urgent. The surgeon was nice and younger than I'd expected.
And when we’re ready… December’s thread is waiting for us here https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1060999/hello-forkers-dec-21#latest
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.