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A large slow cooker will do. About a tenner from a charity shop or thirty quid new. Just have to leave it cooking for a few hours.
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Let's try and make this easy: For a curry that will serve four (you can freeze any you don't use immediately): Two onions, one and a half in the blender, the other half chopped roughly and put in a separate bowl. One whole red pepper. 3/4 in the blender the rest chopped into bite size pieces and put in the bowl with the onions and add a chopped up potato or a similar amount of chopped butternut squash. In the blender: add about 1" of ginger tuber grated, two heaped tea spoons of tomato puree paste, level tea spoon of salt, half a tea spoon of curry powder, one heaped teasp
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Edit; Sorry - just seen above post that wasn't there when I started typing. On a friend's recommendation we started using Shaheen curry paste. They cost about a quid a sachet and are very simple to use. Just heat a little oil in a frying pan, add the curry paste and fry for three minutes before adding whatever you like in the way of meat and vegetables. I used to add a little coconut milk and potatoes or squash to add volume and tone the spices down a bit. The results are far better than when using those curry sauces in jars. Then the product became unavailable for export so I
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Some of the more adventurous curry cooks might use fancy stuff garlic, tomatoes, chilli peppers, bell peppers, lentils, spinach, cardamom seeds. That sort of thing.
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Yes, that one is a ruffe and the other is a pumpkinseed fish or perch solei, an American invasive species that is turning up all over the place. I caught some in a customer's lake that is all fenced off and miles from any river. The river is in France, very near to where I now live.
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There is a small river near here that I call 'Lilliput' after Arthur Ransome's story 'Fishing in Lilliput' that was obviously inspired by Gulliver's Travels.Within a one mile stretch there are some very varies swims and lots of species. I can usually count on six or seven different species in a session. It's no pressure angling ?
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There are several ways of putting on handcuffs. For low risk prisoners they may be handcuffed at the front, but where there is any risk they should be placed to the rear either with hands back to back or the hands stacked one on top of the other. Putting them on an unwilling person properly isn't as easy as it might seem and they can cause a great deal of pain and even broken bones if too much force is applied by either party. Also, if the prisoner isn't compliant it might not be possible to adjust the bracelets to make sure they aren't too tight around the wrists.
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There was a lot more travelling around than people think. The Vikings didn't just sail everywhere, they had land routes right through to India and China. Also, there were a lot of people walking or riding from countries like England, France and Germany to the Holy Land on pilgrimages. There was a land deal signed in the 11th century near to where I used to live in Yorkshire that stipulated 1lb of cumin to be paid annually. At York Minster a local of Danish descent gave the Minster most of his land and possessions before setting off on a pilgrimage that he never returned from. One thing he
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Remember the old slogan: "Come home to a real fire"? And somebody always added; "Buy a cottage in Wales" ?
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Yes, they had a massive impact on Irish culture. They captured every Irish person they could lay their hands on and sold them as slaves. Before the Danes got there the Scots were trading Irish slaves so I suppose it must have been an improvement to be sold into slavery by a Dane instead of a Scot. ?
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It was basically a battle between two brothers Harold and Tostig over who controlled England. They were both Vikings, sort of. As were the Normans - North Men who conquered the north west of France about three or four generations before William the Conqueror was born. He was related to Harold. In the 8th century the Vikings were all over the place looting and pillaging. South of France, Spain, even into Sardinia. They sailed up the river Loire right into the centre of France. The bigger question is would the Normans have beaten Harold's army if they hadn't had to play the first leg i
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I didn't know that you Irish were so keen on releasing things. Every time they create a sanctuary to release a few refugees some fecker burns it down ?
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That is a noble sentiment, but we have a duty to manage it seeing as we have caused most of the disruption to other creatures. We are all to blame. Houses, roads, farm foods, etc. all impact on the countryside and other species. Sometimes these schemes are genuine in their intentions and other times it is a bit of ego massaging or personal interests. The problem is that it is often harder to undo a failed scheme than set it up in the first place.
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Any struggling seems to be that you cannot see or comprehend the position of re-introducing a predator into an environment whereby its only natural prey are so scarce as to be endangered species requiring protection. That is not sustainable or logical. You said: " I would say that because they (the bears) have been there for millenia is a fairly valid reason (for their re-introduction)." I can show evidence of wolves having inhabited the UK for the same millennia. The Pyrenan environment cannot sustain bears in the same way that the UK cannot sustain wolves. Times change and we have to a
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Not as much as you would think: http://naturerising.ie/economics-of-nature-rising/
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Another "Come and see the bears" organisation. They don't have to pick up the pieces. They come, look and walk away.
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You stated your opinion along with a "I don't want to discuss it further" rider. And you have continually stated that you don't know the facts about this situation but you think that you are right anyway. That smacks of arrogance to me. And that is before we get to your position of; "Bears belong in this environment because of their historical right" but for some reason that very same argument doesn't apply to UK and the wolves. At least I have provided facts and links to support my views. And you?
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Written by an organisation that promotes "See the Bears" tours. Note the point about generous compensation is given to farmers IF they can prove the loss was caused by a bear. So they get nothing for those lost without trace as a result of bear attacks.
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Who pays for the livestock protection - the farmers? The government suggest farmers use dogs. Why should they pay for dogs to protect sheep that didn't need protecting until the Government started playing God? And the dogs are only needed in the warmer months so that doubles their effective running costs as they have to be fed during the cold season. Not a lot of boars in the mountains. They are a lowland species and as has been shown in other areas, bears and wolves take the easiest option. Boar or sheep? I know which I would prefer to pick a fight with.
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It is covered here: https://placeinfrance.wordpress.com/2019/10/07/why-france-has-any-brown-bears-at-all/ The sheep and cows of the Pyrenees spend the colder months in lower pastures and in sheds. In summer there is a massive drive, called transhumance, whereby the sheep and cows are taken to higher pastures where they traditionally grazed freely under minimum supervision. The Pyrenees run east-west and the valleys run north-south. This means that on the south facing Spanish side there is much more sunshine and that leads to a greater amount of pasture per km2 on average. The Frenc
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I honestly don't think that you know what you are saying. But in all the hypocritical opinions that you have posted you have at least acknowledged that the Pyrenean program of releasing bears might not actually have been properly thought out. Eventually you might come to realise that if the decision to release bears into the Pyrenees was flawed then somebody ought to being doing something about removing those that have been released along with their offspring.
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The mouflon is as you say a relatively late introduction having originated in Asia. I came across a small group of wild mouflon in Cyprus a few years ago. They are now very rare on the island. Mouflon in France almost became hunted out if existence and it is only very recently that numbers have risen again. They favour the lowland pastures and are prone to being predated upon by wolves. In some instances mouflon herds are wiped out by wolf predation whereas other herbivore species in the same environment do not suffer the same losses. This indicates that mouflon are more likely to be at risk f
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By God he's got it - finally! Before introducing the bears they should have considered the food chain. Bears need animal protein in order to rise cubs and put on weight for hibernation. Where does this come from? There are only four natural sources; ibex, mouflon and salmon, if salmon do in fact reach the high pastures. All three are themselves classed as vulnerable. So that leaves one other source of animal protein that by coincidence is also easier for the bears to source - domestic sheep. There isn't and wasn't a joined up plan to justify re-introducing the bears. The riot following t
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No you haven't. You said that you think it is a good idea because bears were there for millennia but do not want to apply exactly the same reasons to the wolves in the UK situation. And all along you have been trying to avoid explanation. Exactly the same as the Pyrenees situation. Somebody thought that it was a good idea at the time but couldn't justify it so don't want to debate it. And now nobody has the balls to admit they were wrong and implement what would be a controversial scheme to cull the bears. It would only be controversial because loads of animal rights people who ha
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That is because I am not a hypocrite and you are. You think the bears project can work but you cannot give any valid reasons for it other than the one that also fits the wolves in the UK argument. Nobody including those who instigated the release of bears into the Pyrenees has justified the decision.
