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Is it wrong to want to murder the Heron? - Dawn Hoskins (16th Feb 2011 - 14:11:45) For the 3rd time on a row the local Heron has emptied my pond of fish! AAARRRGGGHHH

Re: Is it wrong to want to murder the Heron? - Graham (16th Feb 2011 - 14:59:41) Dawn If the editor would like to pass on my contact details I am sure I can help you re-stock. Only simple goldfish I am afraid but you are more than welcome to some. The hard part will be catching them! We use a PIR motion detector which connects up to the hose, one simple automatic spray of water is enough to scare the Heron away. Graham details passed on for you

Re: Is it wrong to want to murder the Heron? - claire (17th Feb 2011 - 18:23:17) apparently in the 15tyh century they were a delicacy .... so if you kill it ... you have to eat it !! lol ORIGINAL RECipe: Take a heron; lete him blode as a crane, And serue him in al poyntes as a crane, in scalding, drawing, and kuttyng the bone of the nekke a-wey, And lete the skyn be on, & c.; roste him and sause him as şe Crane; breke awey the bone fro the kne to the fote, And lete the skyn be on. Crane Rosted . . . his sauce is to be mynced with pouder of gynger, vynegre, & Mustard. - Austin, Thomas. Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books. Harleian MS. 279 & Harl. MS. 4016, with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1429, Laud MS. 553, & Douce MS 55. London: for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1888.

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