You know what's being described...but !!!

Found this article for sale on a Forum in the Bretagne region of France.

Whilst it's obvious what is being described, I have to admit to finding the tongue in cheek double-entendre used to be quite entertaining...

Huge cock free to a good home

Gordon (for that is his name) is a large, young naked necked cock now looking for a new home.

My cock is 24 weeks old and just starting to make noises much like a set of bagpipes.

Due to an agreement with the neighbours made some time ago my cock will need to find a new home before he finds his voice and as such, (and in the best of AI traditions) If you dont give him a home I will be forced to cut his head off.

As Gordon looks (and sounds) so much better with his head in it's current location please call now and rescue him.

My cock can be found 20mins east of Lannion (22)

The telephone number is ############

I dont have a photograph of him but if you don't know what a chicken looks like they you should not be adopting one now should you!

Don't ask me what the price is folks.... it's in the giveaway section and the clue is in the title

Call now and bag a huge cock for your chicks.

ps, Eat him if you like. I dont care

Tractor update

Just a brief posting to say that I have now managed to obtain the necessary toplink bracket for the Kubota along with a 3-point linkage kit.

These were sourced from the UK, I just couldn't find them in France, even visiting the local Kubota dealers brought me no success. Anyway the pricing including the delivery to France made an importation simply better economics.

Spent yesterday afternoon and evening (after dinner and a couple of glasses of wine) installing these simple looking but reasonably heavy lumps of metal. Did you know that to get the bottom bar into position you HAVE to take the bloody back wheel off.

Good job I brought the tractor round to the front of the house so I could back it into the grange providing a good surface and enough light to work at night.

Well, getting the wheel off one would think difficult, but it actually proved to be easier than the one on my Citroën van ! Getting it back on was of course a bit more fiddly and involved lowering the jack whilst guiding the wheel onto the stud (I was getting knackered by then and lifting it on wasn't on the cards).

Anyway, suffice it to say I now have my 3-point linkage fitted and am going out next week to pick up the plough - then it's going to be time to play...yay!!!

To pluck or to skin

Yes I realise this is a rather unusual question, whether to pluck or to skin the freshly killed chicken.

Well, having just culled four of our smaller females we wondered if it was worth trying to pluck them, especially as females have a lot more feather than the males.

Decision made, as these were older birds and not suitable for roasting, rather they would go in the pot - we decided to try skinning. Well this is not something that I have done before, so a quick look on the internet gave a couple of methods.

Having read these albeit brief tutorials, I set about the task working from the suspended legs to the neck - it's surprisingly a very rapid method - we did four in the space of time it would take to do a single one by plucking.

Result, four fairly clean skinned chickens for the OH to draw and bag ready for the freezer.

This method though I don't think would be suitable for younger birds that are more suited to roasting, the skin in my opinion helps immensely with the roasting process - not to mention I think it the tastiest part of the dinner.

The "Jungle"

Isn't it amazing, listening to Sky News about the French authorities clearing the "Jungle" at Calais and the only protester voices shouting are ENGLISH. Does this mean that these protesters would be happy to have an unrestricted flow of illegals into the UK, well if that's the case then those protesters ought to be the ones to pay for their upkeep.

It's also quite unsurprising how there aren't (that I know of) other "Jungle" camps bordering other countries they all want to get into the UK, well if you ask me they should pull up the drawbridge and lock the doors. This would then remove the need for these 'camps' as there would be no 'soft touch' country just over the Channel and then France would not have this problem.

France is not responsible for taking these people in, it is for the country of first EU entry to do so, but they just let them through knowing that the UK is their real intended destination.

I can drive a tractor - now!

Well I've been after one at a sensible price for quite a while and now I've finally managed to get myself a tractor... meet 'Cubby' or at least that's its current name.

This is going to allow me to dramatically increase the amount of vegetable growing in the coming seasons, a lot of which I think will be devoted to animal fodder, especially for the rabbits.

In the immediate future my plans are for me to obtain the necessary parts to get it into ploughing mode. It was a really good priced tractor so unfortunately is short of the three-point linkage that will allow me to hook up all sorts of implements. These are being sourced as I write...

First I have to get hold of the Toplink Bracket, basically a hunk of metal to bolt onto the back, this attaches to the third part of the three-point linkage system (the other two lifting arms are already there).

This then allows me to fit the complete category 1 three-point linkage, which with then connect to a plough, a topper or a rotavator (remember THIS posting).

Once these tasks are done, then I have one acre or thereabouts that's going to be ploughed up and made into a super-duper vegetable plot, there'd be no way I could do that by hand.

So watch this space for developments...