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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
Very little fixes sheep, but sheep netting is a decent first step along a long road
I've always liked the look of those Hebridean sheep that eat seaweed and live on beaches, they look kind of robust. But I suspect they're probably halfway to being goats.
They are, I've talked to people who've farmed them and they cannot be herded like sheep, they have to be led like goats.Also the meat is more 'gamey' and not much like mutton
Apparently there is what some people call a 'metallic' hint which you can also get in hill sheep.Never eaten them myself. The metallic hint might actually be iodine
However it tastes, it won't be as bad as guga.
Doesn't tempt me to try it to be obvious, but I'll keep it in mind for future reference :-)
Yep, you're right. Worse :)
It did suddenly occur to me, it's a story I've never told before, I was reminded of it by Patti and her yak nostrils ;-)
Not sure Patti's gonna be too pleased with that aspersion cast upon her nostrils.
Hasn't May come out yet? Surely everyone knows by now...
Kath wrote: "It just means cloth - or clothes."Yes, although it has just occurred to me that it may be one of those words that developed new meanings as it made its way across the Atlantic
In the same way that all sorts of Australians who you'd have thought knew better wear thongs
Hehe! I wonder if Patti's thinking of it in the sense of 'breech-clout' which is a sort of primitive kecks.
Kicks are underpants, yes?
Pants of any sort, where I come from. Cacky-kecks was a major intellectual insult at my school.
I'll have to use that one.
Kath wrote: "Pants of any sort, where I come from. Cacky-kecks was a major intellectual insult at my school."ah the innocence of youth....
Lasted way beyond school in my village
I'm afraid that having a farming background my language degenerated pretty quickly. At the age of five I told some other kid to 'stop f****** about and stop getting in everybody's sodding way'This was what my grandfather had said to the dog the day before, and so in the fine tradition of 'monkey see-monkey do' I said it to some girl who was faffing about in the corridor.
There was utter silence and only my look of wide-eyed innocence saved me from the deluge which followed :-)
Will, why are you shocked?
Will wrote: "James! I'm shocked."That phrase was used at the time.
Comment by a friend of mine on Facebook when I was twisting his arm to read the book"The last book I read Jim had very large print and nice pictures of teddy bears in it!!"
Now I really have to find a use for that phrase :-)
Everything is better with some yak!
All together now:Yak, yak, yak yak, yak, yak, yak, yak
(Bloody vikings)
:-)I'm afraid you don't get Benor and Yak in the same book
What? No Yak? Thats very disappointing :(
And must be an impediment to a satisfactory diet
You're probably going to tell me there's no gastropod either!
Will wrote: "Snail shaped jelly babies?"Now theres an idea!
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Oh, well that makes everything all right! http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2538940/thu..."
Sorry if I'm thick but what makes them UKIP?
How about Yak jelly babies. Infused with interesting lichens...
Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Oh, well that makes everything all right! http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2538940/thu..."
Sorry if I'm thick but what makes them U..."
They still stand up after the head is removed?
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And sheep, probably, but I haven't tried.