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Not too much for two then if she can pull that off.

What gets me is, all these so called experts seem to-be clueless on the decline of any wildlife and come out with things like….’we are not sure why xyz are in decline but loss of habitat and global warming maybe a factor’ ….ask someone who sees what's happening might help.

There's only two of us, we buy a 1.5 kilo chicken (Lidl) that does us for 3 days, first day full roast dinner, veg, stuffing balls and proper gravy, not to thick, not to thin, day 2, chicken chips stuffing balls and peas (with gravy) day 3, make sandwiches with what's left and served with a few chip, couple of stuffing balls each and pickled Spanish onion, never any waste.

Yes, I do realise that, hence the rubbing of the chin.

That's it then, introduce loads of Pine Marten, grey squirrel problem solved.

Not sure what you mean? He’s finding it hard going? Surely if NPPC have farms you just carry on as before and someone else runs it, alternatively if you have been shooting the farms why not knock the farmers door and see what they say about you carrying on as you were.

John passed away but is the NPPC still going?

Yep, we had a Moffat oven with built in rotisserie, some of the best tasting chicken ever, unfortunately they don't make many ovens with a rotisserie now but you can get an air fryer with built in rotisserie, we have been looking at them...https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09437HXR8?tag=bbc00-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1&ref=bbcgoodfood-305167&ascsubtag=bbcgoodfood-305167

For the best roast chicken its got to-be a rotisserie oven, they do a rotisserie air fryer but there's not much room for anything else when cooking a whole chicken on the rotisserie.

Fake, charlatan, that's not proper gravy out of a packet.

There's no pigeons about.

Best is, he’s been our resident Robin for the last 4 years and become very friendly landing on the planter next to the kitchen door waiting for food and sometimes comes into the kitchen, they have nested in the same box at the bottom of the garden for the last 3 years and the chicks only hatched this weekend, sparrow hawks are as bad as bloody magpies, they hit our garden feeders almost every other day, gets even worse when the young birds come to the garden, the sparrow hawk takes at least a couple of young birds every day that we know of, the young birds have not got a clue about the danger.

Yep, if we are doing veg I always use the potato water.

You could be right…. try licking it.

Yes, also a bit thick for my liking but I don't now what Lloyd used to make his gravy, I always use gravy granules, chicken or beef, usually add some rice vinegar, mixed herbs, onion powder, garlic powder and a vegetable stock cube plus any juices from the pan.