This is the bantam hen that lives in Yorkshire Steve's garden, two doors away. She has given us a dozen eggs so far. Gorgeous!It's a right wee green co-op aroon here.
Between them our neighbours Steve, Sarah, Boagsy and Will&Jackie have so far given us 6 cod, 1 mackerel, 2 crabs, 12 eggs, mixed lettuce leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, a handful of physalis and a bag Ness Kidney potatoes (indiginous to Shetland.) And all locally grown and caught by their own hand. (Well, except the eggs, that was by the chickens arse.) And if you throw in the rhubarb from our own garden, our home made bread and all the local produce we buy like butter, milk, lamb, beef, smoked garlic, ice cream and lemon curd, well, Hugh Fernley-Whitshisface would be gushing all over the place.
AND we have a brewery in the village! The Valhalla Brewery. Six different beers and all great!
AND Harlodswick up the road has a chocolate factory! Yes. Foords Chocolates.
If this island ever did wine, coffee and bananas we widny have to EVER leave.
No cheese produced in Shetland though. Weird. Well, it looks like I know what business I'm going into when the showbiz career goes belly up. CHEESE! CHEESE I TELLS YA!
3 comments:
Hey if you wanted crabs I could have given you crabs! (uugh sorry I spoiled the atmos there)
It sounds amazing, so if we find out you've really been hiding out somewhere in Maryhill we'll be having you for dinner!
Well hon, just to add to that. the egg fairy been again (Steve left another half a dozen eggs on the window sill today) The eggs are not all from the Bantam, the peerie eggs are the Bantam ones.....another three of them in this batch. I also bought some pink fir apple salad potatoes from the Unst Regeneration growers Enterprise Ltd and saucemeat (better than any lorne square sausage) at the local shop.
The chicken is called Steve??
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