Somerset. Dysphoric male. Knows more about chickens than you might think necessary. Married to the actual Susan, the platonic ideal of Susans everywhere.
Somerset, England.
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Molly Mookins of Mookington Hall
19th July 2014 - 27th December 2021
The very best of dogs. Farewell my lovely girl. I hope that wherever you are, you are still dancing x.
Thank you all for your kind comments and good wishes, I am truly touched, though do spare a thought for those who feel the world would be much improved by fewer and better John McDonnells; as is customary, they may now wish to gnash teeth and wave fists.
Hi all - it has been a while. Some of you will know that I have been very active with @FAAntisemitism; few of you know that John has been very unwell. He is now on the mend after a heart op - he had a coronary blockage, colloquially called 'the widowmaker'. Anyway, I am back!
Unlike moderns who can dither for years over basic questions on matters of sex, our forebears were much more Decided; the golden beetroot was shunned simply because beetroots are red, dammit.
That's understandable in that 'beet' derives from the Brythonic term for 'red', and who is going to argue with a Druid? (We stole 'root' from the Vikings as part of our vigorous cultural exchange). Personally, I am ambi-beetual; both are delicious.
Continuing last week's cheese theme, Susan uses both Cheddar and Stilton in the sauce. As we live within spitting distance of the gorge itself, our Cheddar comes from Cheddar, but any old Tom, Dirk or Abdul can call their cheese 'Cheddar'.
Conversely Stilton is a PDO, but in one of those modern ironies, cheese made in Stilton can't be called Stilton.
Remarkably hazy day. Looking out over Monkton Heathfield (landowning in this area, as in much of Merrie England was split between Crown, Clergy and Nobility - in Taunton's case, the Bishop of Winchester, Taunton Priory, and (at first) the Counts of Mortain then the Earls of Salisbury (the Montagues are still kicking around, but their claim is somewhat iffy).
A clear frontrunner for this year's 'Hitler really liked dogs' award.
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We've discovered that Rosie has a small but nasty cut on her rear right; she shall be swinging in her hammock for the next few days.
There are troubling gaps in human knowledge - we are still unable to marry general relativity with quantum mechanics, and while we can date bread to at least 14kya, the earliest cheese rocks up 7k years later.
It's impossible to credit that bread wasn't invented just so early Man could enjoy a cheese and pickle sandwich, so clearly something is wrong here.
In terms of etymology, as you might expect from one of our foundational foods, it's a direct line to proto-Indo European via all the usual suspects (Old Saxon, Latin).
Interestingly the Frog version 'fromage' has nothing to do with cheese; it derives from the Latin 'forma', referring to any molded food. In this brave post-modern world, we could make a case that pรขtรฉ is fromage.
