Wednesday, 13 November 2013

OPERATION JOB KEEP - SECURED!



Lets keep focussed People!

Operation job keep week 2!

Literally just got out of my second meeting with Beth The Manager. She bought me a packet of Polo’s. Yeah that’s right – that’s a proper signifier to show that she is royally out of her depth.

Doesn’t matter though.

She’s a great girl. Our first meeting was very productive. I wanked all over the benefits of distance learning, especially in the practical and fast paced nature of agriculture.

I won her over straight away and she was man enough to decide that she needed extra guidance as Lord Augustus was away until Christmas on a hunting expedition the Rocky Mountains.

He’s paid one million dollars to go out with a hunting party to try and apprehend big foot.

Yeah that what we are now dealing with Jock Strappers, a new farm manager that has learnt the ropes online and a titled land owner that believes in big foot, what’s more; has shelled out a seven figure sum to be part of the chasing pack.

                                                       Big Foot - Has a smaller penis than me

Normally I would freak out with such cuntish behaviour. But I think there is room for manipulation here, a lot of room.

The only thing I gave away in this initial consultation was that I was prepared to give my undivided support during my last month on the farm. Literally call on me for anything. We left on good terms.

Little did she know of my plan!

Straight away after I headed to Handsome James’ new Sheppard’s hut in the woods. Or death shed as the local girls like to call it. Now I can understand him wanting to get back to nature and woo young girls back to a log fire in the woods (usually after giving them a good dose of something that would be best suited to a Taratino film), but really, he seems to like it there.

Handsome feels my pain. He worked his socks off through the union to negotiate me choice of duty. To start with I thought about being and instructor, you know for younger bulls, teach them a bit of discipline and help them grow, help them to be the elite.

But I want to stay, this is area is where my closest friends are and that is all I care about.

Luckily we anticipated this situation and made a provisional plan of action some weeks ago when everything was in its consultancy phase.

Handsome sorted out some stooge advisors offering free and impartial advice and guidance form DEFRA. Their job was big up the jerky idea and it worked a fucking treat. Not as soon as I turned up at the death shed, Handsome shone a light in the sky and literally hours later these two stooges tuned up.

God knows where he found them, but the seemed to look the part.

                                                   Defra - should really issue ID badges

One was called David, a somewhat portly fellow with a nice beer gut hanging over some tight chord trousers that were a size too small. Tweed shirt, check, brogues check, baldness, checks. Result

Second up was portly chap number two, Steve. He was a little shorter but was dressed smarter. He was clearly primed to be the lead, with comb over David the wingman, backing up the ideas with facts and stats.

Steve was wearing a suite but offset it with a Barbour jacket. He wasn’t as balled as David but was receding never the less. They must have spent ages in make up. All I could think was Handsome’s union ties must have reached as far as Equity as these actors really did look the part of some right beurocratic dicks.

Handsome took them down to the farm, gave Beth a bag of barley sugars, a discount card voucher for boots and the meeting was a go!

                                          Boots voucher - much better than pillow talk

It took them no time at all to implement the master plan that me and TGK envisaged!

We paid them with 500 kilos of fertiliser and a Volvo estate. Handsome said he found it in the woods, but to me it looked remarkably like the vicar’s wife’s one, but hey.

Beef jerky is a go! Beth the manager is intending to invest in a large scale dehydrating machine and we are going to convert some out buildings at the main farm asap.

Meanwhile we have hired a dehydrator to make our first sample batch and shoved it in one of empty barnes. I know its not exactly food hygiene at its best but what people don’t know in this first instance won’t hurt them.

What could possibly go wrong?

At least until the main process unit is constructed. This should be done before lord cunt gets back from big foot detail at Christmas.

So as long as this is done, beef production here on the farm remains steady. Some will still go to the super markets but handsome James will help Beth the manager with all slaughterhouse logistics, regarding getting some beef back here. Seems fitting.

Any way Jock Strapper’s you should know me by now – I’m not one to over react or not take a measured approach so I’m not counting my chickens until full scale production is happening and we drying out the backsides of bullocks so they are as moisture free as Ermantrude’s wizard sleeve after a good old artificial insemination session from Mad Harry the vet.

Therefore, Frank the Peacock remains on high alert, in his woodland shack, tooled up and ready drop da bomb! We all have to have a trick card up our sleeves. Well except Ermantrude – that wouldn’t touch the sides, literally I know.

So I’m guessing your wandering what mine and Beth’s second meeting was about?

Well Beth’s worried about balance. All this angst of ownership, people and animals coming and going causes the land to feel out of kilter. We don’t have Knuckles on hand to balance things out spiritually as he’s on honey moon for a month!

Beth said populations of certain animals we getting out of control, what’s more other animals are just turning up, word on the street is that we are easy picking for a pitch up.

Funny how no gypsy cunts have turned up though, hash-tag burning children … yeah that’s it, cast your minds back ;-)

Any way I know what she means. I met a half cast pheasant this morning that had come here all the way form Essex! Referred to himself as Frosty Fabio, the fortunate pheasant from Finton-on-sea and reckond he was seeking refuge as he sold a dodgy second hand tractor to a crazy game keeper with a large collection of shotguns. Only in fucking Essex. Any way he was tired and hungry so I pointed him in the direction of nearest local grain bank.  – Its owned by a family two farms over, their tenant farmers, standard.

So Beth was saying that the bird of prey population was sky rocketing on the farm form her observations, and in particular, the buzzard count was going up and up

I told you Jock Strappers – countryside management is all about balance

Buzzards are Dorset’s most common bird of prey. However these magnificent beasts were hardly seen down here in the past due to the use of certain crop sprays, persecution by gamekeepers and the introduction of a disease used to curb the population of rabbits called myxomotosis way back in the 1950’s. Buzzards would get infected through eating the diseased rabbits, as they mainly scavenge their prey. The dead and diseased carcasses were widespread and it almost did for them down here. Buzzards don’t just scavenge though, they will target baby pheasants and smaller items of prey – hence why game keepers are not to fond of them either.

However populations have rallied here in Dorset to extremely high levels. They are still protected though and there is a large degree of controversy about weather or not we ought to be destroying nest sites in order to keep numbers under control. This is because numbers have been known to increase between 1995 and 2009 by 146%, although some are saying now the increase has levelled a tad. Never the less there are shit loads here on the farm

And a new mating pair have turned up. Beth the Manager is especially concerned over these too as she met them at the village garage trying to offload their caravan to the owner.

They are called Alan and Sharon and they said they had been unjustifiably kicked out of the caravan club of Great Britain.

Apparently Alan was going on about loads of errors in their paperwork and Sharon was chirping out about ineffective leadership.

Beth said they were quite extreme. The poor old garage owner didn’t quite know how to take them and they sort of bullied him into buying their caravan. At one point Alan literally filled up another customer’s car with petrol for them as the process of was too slow and he thought the owner was getting too distracted.

It’s a self service garage for fuck sake.

Beth went on to say that they had an answer for everything and an opinion on how everything aught to be done. She reckons they are gonna pitch up in the woods too, but not in a tree, oh no that would be far to normal.

They said the money from the caravan was going to go towards a yurt. Yeah that’s it Jock Strappers, in the woods we know have handsome James in a Sheppard’s hut, Frank the peacock in a hidden shack, ready to all 4 minute warning on anyone and now this Alan and Sharon couple in a yurt…. With a porch for fuck sake!

Their buzzards!

C’mon now.

                                                  Alan and Sharon - Nuff said

Any way Beth the manager got all decisive and said they had to go. I pointed out the fact that we had no security anymore to undertake these tasks to which she just gave me the following link about my extra curricular activities and smiled:


So it looks like this gigs mine.

Well she’s thorough I’ll give her that


Let 'Operation By-by Buzzards' commence!

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

OPERATION JOB KEEP WEEK ONE!

So here we go Jock Strappers: operation Job Keep week one!

                                          DICKS - Go here 

My notice ends at the end of the month. Handsome James (the farms trade union rep with a shit haircut), has negotiated me a handsome package. I get my own call of duty, anything, anywhere. But it's not about that.

When I moved here I was a mess, I was questioning my identity and was seriously worried about the size of my abs.

But Frank The Peacock and Top Gun Kes picked me up off the floor and built me into an analytical, self-assured powerhouse of a bull!

Dave the Piercer made me look pretty with a platinum plated bull ring and Mad Harry the vet advised the right combination of diet and exercise to get buff. Royally buff. Fucking award winningly buff.

                                                     JTB - Buff

This place was the making of me, the place where I met my amazing friends and I'm not about to see it all go up in smoke, like so many of my family did in the foot and mouth crisis at the turn of the century, over some cunt lord owner bloke.

I’ve convened a meeting with Beth The Manager to Persuade her to get on some additional farming guidance.

I will push to her ego and big up her Ag. distance learning course that got her the gig but at the same time cite some room for improvement off of the margins and that. Then I’m gonna scare her rigid about the repercussions from Lord Augustus if she doesn't come up with the goods!

Il make out like I've got her back in my last month and I want to help her succeed. And in doing so I've hired some professional and impartial agricultural advisors from DEFRA. But they won't be DEFRA advisors Jock Strappers, however they will be doing a lot of "advising".

So this is how it brakes down:

I tell the advisors, that the jerky is good to go and that the branding is Kosha or Halal or however the fuck it's supposed to be killed, that its gonna make a shed load of cash over the long term with minimal start up capital. They show her their badges, not badgers (controversial), she's all like - yeah I'm new to this - seems legit! Beth The manager green lights it, gives me another chance. The end.

So it's down to the "advisors" to work the magic and I'm leaving it to the best advisor in the business to work his magic and source me some scoundrels to do my bidding!

Handsome James will find them. Of that I have no doubt. It's your turn to deliver dear boy, on a higher level than the package you negotiated for my redundancy, but to be fair Handsome, you and your packages really do have room for improvement. And no we are not talking farming.

Any way, This plan better work, as I'm routed to this area and don't want to move! Frank The Peacock is still standing-by in a desolate woodland shack, eagerly awaiting my order to go all "agent orange" on the farms ass.

Frank doesn't just make people disappear; he can make swathes of woodland go too! Yeah that's right, we're talking more than just fruit juice! We're talking the wrath of a bat shit crazy ex military peacock tooled up with some of the dirtiest chemicals known to anyone.

So maybe you want to know how the wedding between Knuckles and Sparkles went 

Well it was Beautiful Jock Strapper's!

Christian to Pagen...... Ashes to ashes

Two magpies juxtaposed spiritually but connected by cause. Magpies are at their most happiest in pairs, and blessed are theeee that want to see these two right! This is chalk and cheese in full effect! It can work and will work!

Jerry The Adder (too hard for hibernation), was on photographic duties and took some epic    snaps..... proper ‘artsy’ just like his Movemeber tash, Bomber Command would be proud Jerry!

                                          Movember in Dorset - Everyone takes part - Even Adders 


All his pictures were great....

He got Cut ‘n’ paste Wayne literally spinning around in circles chasing his own grey pony tail - he added some quite respectable lenz flair - but to be fair I had slipped old Cut ‘n’ Paste a few dabs of premium MDMA. 

Poor bloke didn't know what planet he was on. Serves him right, for wearing a waste coat that would be more at home with a mid nineties Irish folk band. Hashtag ‘Levelling the Land’ as well as having long grey hair like a cunt.

Never mind, He was last seen in Phoenix Arizona, frying eggs on some tarmac and trying to explain the rules of rugby league to a ginger sorority bird. Big up the lack of sex pest lists in the US Cut ‘n’ Paste! You crack on, you had a busy harvest dear boy.

TGK was photographed multi tasking..., #photoshoppedFOSHO! ;-)

I ate my first vol au vent, salty mushrooms – yuk!

It was ok.

No, no it was pointless.

                                          Pointless

Dave The Piercer was photo’d naked in a feeding trough all greyscale and in a silk white shirt reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Talk about art house. Talk about run for the hills.

Knuckles and Sparkles then did one… off on their honeymoon to Stonehenge. (I Know, don’t).

Its weird though, just before he left Knuckles said to me that the caravan club needs to be shut down for good, through me his legendary arson instigating Zippo lighter and then told me to use it when needs must.

Any way - Beth my dear..... Let Handsome James and his army of advisors work his magic!


Please.

Friday, 1 November 2013

AUTUMN COCKTAILS!

Hiiiii!

Big big thank you to Jock for allowing me space on his blog.

I am Jerry the Adder, and I've been told to tell you that I'm “Too hard for hibernation”…



 I've been waiting to introduce myself for a while and today what I want to do show you chaps and chappets some yummy recipes for some cocktails for you to enjoy this autumn!

I like the refined things in life and I also get serious pleasure from sharing my spoils too, so today I've gone out to a secret location in Hundred Acre woods so that Frank the Peacock can sample the goods! This old chap’s dug in so deep he’s sprouted routes. So I want to give him a break from this intense duty at this torrid time of year and warm his cockles a tad. Frank is a loyal ally and his loyalty shall be rewarded!

Lets get things started with something to warm and spicy? Indulge yourself as this ‘Bourbon Chai’ gently bites the back of your throat on a cold autumn night.

Ingredients: For 8 cups

8 bags black tea, 
8 green cardamom pods, crushed
8 whole allspice berries, crushed
8 whole black peppercorns, crushed
8 whole cloves
3 star anise
2 whole cinnamon sticks
½ a whole nutmeg, chopped
2" piece of fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
1 vanilla bean, split and scraped, seeds and pod reserved
6 cups hot water
6 cups unsweetened almond milk
⅓ cup honey or agave
1 mug of Jack Daniels


Method:

1. Make the chai: In a large saucepan, combine tea, spices, ginger, and vanilla bean seeds and pod with 6 cups hot water. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat and add almond milk and honey or agave, whisking to combine. Return to a simmer, remove from heat, and allow to steep 10-15 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve or cheesecloth-lined strainer, pressing down on solids to extract flavours.

2. Transfer the chai to a heat-proof serving vessel - like an earthenware pitcher  – (But as you could guess I’m all about the Le-Creuset) and stir in the JD.



Frank says: 10001110011 111000111 011 011100 110110 

Dedicated to the end as ever Frank, are you talking in code old bean? Now Chaps, and some of you darling chappets too, try not to get any remnants of this stuck in your tashes this Movember!!! I shall be avoiding this sort of occurrence by adding some extra Brill Cream to mine and stiffening the old gal up a tad! Bomber Command would be truly proud!

Got any pumpkin innards left ladies and gents?

Lets make 15 portions of Pumpkin Nog …..

Ingredients:

·       12 Eggs
·       half a lb Sugar, divided
·       750 ml Rum  
·       5 cups Whole milk
·       1 tsp Vanilla extract
·       half a tsp Ground cinnamon
·       half a cup of Pumpkin puree

Method:

Separate the eggs and refrigerate the whites. In a mixing bowl, beat the yolks until creamy. Gradually add in .25 lb sugar, beating at high speed until thick. Stir in the rum, milk, vanilla, cinnamon and pumpkin, and chill for at least two hours. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Add the remaining .25 lb sugar, beating to stiff peaks. Fold the chilled rum mixture into the egg whites. Serve in Martini glasses garnished with freshly grated nutmeg and a dollop of whipped cream.



Frank says: oxox ooo xx ooox xoxx oxxoo ooxxo xoxoxx

Jock deals with this sort of behaviour much better than I can, but I applaud you sir for your professionalism. You do know I could crack that code in under eight minutes, yes dear boy I have friends in high places too.

Now this next one bites!

This is my favourite ladies and gents, so pay attention. Its ‘Fennel and Fig infused Vodka’

Common as muck vodka meets the fine fruit that is the fig, with some fearless fennel added for good measure!

Ingredients for 4 drinks:

·      18 ounces of vodka
·      Half a pound of dried black mission figs, quartered
·      1 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced
·      3 or 4 black mission figs, halved

- Why not add a cheeky shot or four of tequila to really liven things up?!

Method:

In an airtight container, combine the vodka, dried figs and fennel; cover and refrigerate for a week. Shake the container each day. Strain the infused vodka through a very fine strainer into a pitcher. To serve, divide the vodka among 6 to 8 ice-filled rocks glasses. Garnish each drink with half a fresh fig.



Frank says: !

Well I hope you have a go at these little pitchers whilst you are having a seasonal autumn celebration. Remember if you’re at a fireworks bash and you’re absolutely bungalowed, you will fall in the bonfire if your try to jump over it, won’t they Frank? And some people cant fly out, can they Frank? No. 

Calm yourself my intrepid friend, some tell me you haven’t flown since, I'm not judging you Frank, really I'm not. 

I will be back soon with my ‘Bites’ segment, when I will be giving you a curry recipe from each of the key regions of India!


And remember…. THE ADDER BITES! 



When you're....TOO HARD FOR HIBERNATION