Son of Sausage Sunday

So, what happens when you mix a bunch of engineers, some pork, beef, apples, sun-dried tomatoes and Chorizo-mix with a 1800watt  meat grinder?  Yummy tastiness !

Sausage Sunday

...and that's what happened to Babe The Sheep-Pig. 

A few shots of the meat-grinders, sausage-stuffers and link-twisters in action.

Hello Eggplant - Goodbye Taxi

Bye Bye Taxi

having taken the mackerel crew to Anglesey and back (just), the taxi has now been sold. On attempting to get an MOT, the testing station abandonned ship half way through saying it was so rusty it was unsafe to continue. Hence, by the power of ebay, a new owner has been found and all my vehicular worries passed on to someone who doesn't mind spending the evenings welding 1.8 tonnes of ancient motoring history.

It should be noted that the mackerel crew only just made it back - the supposed 'reliable' taxi suffered total bearing failure at Stoke, to which the response of Graham Hele was 'drive on!'. hmmm. As can be seen from the picture - where there should have been bearing, there was....mush!

Auber-madness!! - Fletcehr's aubergines are barreling onwards...

From Fletcher's Farm

A modest crop of tomatoes for the Fletchers
Some green toms yet to ripen
Can it be......yes!!! an aubergine!!!!!
What?? surely not - another one??!! (Sadly, note size when compared to finger...)
Daughter Chloe with one of our pumpkins from the allotment.

Fletcher's pics...the Chickens!

Alpha Chuck
Clever Chuck - clearly being clever
My Dad & little Chloe giving the chucks some treats
Tomatoes...
Brave aubergine plants
I'm sad to say that "Scarwney Chuck" passed away this week having had a stressful entanglement with a clematis (climbing plant / triffid). Chris Bygate plus helpers boldly cut her free from the plant but she died later on - chances are it was organ failure as is the case with ex-battery hens.

Either way, the four brave hens remain: Clever Chuck, Alpha Chuck (the two oldest at nearly 2 years old), Big Chuck and Cheeky Chuck (around 20 months old). This weather has turned their run into something of a bomb site / mud bath - hopefully tomorrow will be dry enough for a spruce-up.

Well done Mackerel Men!!!

Amazing!!!!!

What a giant leap for the Rataouille Club - well done Mackerel Folk - looking forward to catching up on how the Anglesey trip went - I understand that the Taxi didn't break down which was a great relief!

Well done Jools too - looks like we're going to have some fab pate. Hopefully the Dairy Division will have just as much fun making the butter. Went to Chatsworth last week and the rumours that you can milk a cow are NOT true! they have an MDF mock-up with plastic udders - not half as much fun as the real thing I'm sure.

In the meantime, one of my aubergines appears to have the beginnings of a flower - time will tell.

Some Photos from Jules F

OK, this is actually Big-Iain posting, but the photos are from Jules F. (He's new to the Blogging world  ;o)   )

Looks like we might have some Aubergines this year. 

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Externals Cafe ?      Few weeks of sun, and he'll have a fine crop.