tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post928585601608436219..comments2024-03-23T10:20:15.689+00:00Comments on Léargas: Birds of a FeatherMáirtín Ó Muilleoirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088662505129211196noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-17630556267707504992009-09-25T14:39:53.610+01:002009-09-25T14:39:53.610+01:00Very seldom read your blog Gerry but found the chi...Very seldom read your blog Gerry but found the chicken story (discussion) very enjoyable. Keep it lit.<br />SpartaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-91306525243341532872009-09-24T15:09:15.507+01:002009-09-24T15:09:15.507+01:00A very good question. My grandfather raised chick...A very good question. My grandfather raised chickens in the backyard, and he was the one who wrung their necks and plucked them, but my mother never did. All she did was collect eggs.<br /><br />And then there's me and my generation. I've seen live chickens before, but I'd be afraid to come up to one and try to get an egg from it. I can't imagine catching on, much less killing it with my bare hands, plucking it and cooking it.<br /><br />Our generation and the ones coming up could go all day without thinking about where our food comes from.Linda Colemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-44703592622908750312009-09-22T21:26:29.790+01:002009-09-22T21:26:29.790+01:00I feel sometimes like a view from a far Gerry,Seom...I feel sometimes like a view from a far Gerry,Seomtimes you have to do the hands on Job , the old ways are sometimes the best. Just read about the petrol bomb attack on Sinn Féin’s Connolly House,thankfully nobody was injured. You have a job to do and you have to keep on with it and doing it well.Even with change comes the understanding of what you have learned from the past.History is not to be forgotten or becomes irretrievable. nice post GerryTimothy Doughertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-83002505720087595492009-09-21T17:48:21.615+01:002009-09-21T17:48:21.615+01:00posted by Kathy Collins
Gerry-
Interesting timin...posted by Kathy Collins<br /><br />Gerry-<br /><br />Interesting timing. Last week a poor chicken catcher who was watched by millions of tv viewers won 'America's got talent' and now your chicken story. <br /><br />the answer is...put the dead chicken into boiling water for a few minutes then pull off the feathers. My brother did a Boy Scout project raising chickens. One of our family's prized photo's is my sister as a child bending down looking at the headless chicken right before plucking. She was less squirmish then me...she had no trouble eating them. Kathleen CollinsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-81185987536545442782009-09-21T13:34:55.016+01:002009-09-21T13:34:55.016+01:00Well, Grandma never let me in the yard, while she ...Well, Grandma never let me in the yard, while she was plucking chickens. But, I know it's done after the head is cut off and blood drained.<br /><br />And, it must smell badly to cut the head off.moonlitetwinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16651852107642752404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-88151558460930661442009-09-21T13:11:44.128+01:002009-09-21T13:11:44.128+01:00Gerry
I noticed on your No to Lisbon lealfet you ...Gerry<br /><br />I noticed on your No to Lisbon lealfet you are mentioned as Gerry Adams MP. You are also an MLA, Set an example and give one of these jobs to someone elsePaul Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-68253328354048072382009-09-20T22:29:26.940+01:002009-09-20T22:29:26.940+01:00Very Zen Gerry,
I think there is an important poi...Very Zen Gerry,<br /><br />I think there is an important point in this post though. We are deluding ourselves if we expect foreign investors to bring us economic prosperity , North or South. <br />While I would not like to see a return to the days of DeValera's economic isolation, it would do no harm if we started growing our own vegetables, ash trees and processing what we eat.<br /><br />RoryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-15740964901875115482009-09-20T22:19:30.032+01:002009-09-20T22:19:30.032+01:00Good one Gerry, quality is always appreciated.
It...Good one Gerry, quality is always appreciated.<br /><br />It's such a daunting world with all it's changes and technological constructions. The mind who makes it all is reflected in it, and I can't relate to any of it. it's not my world any more.<br /><br />Initially it was what credit card you had but now you have to be able to shop online with it as well. And control it all with a mobile while listening to an i pod.<br /><br />I share your man's romantic melancholy for that halcyon bygone age, even if it was only a figment of a television's imagination, another reflection of a creative mind that was not mine.<br /><br />Forty years of desire and a mid life crisis, you have to see the funny side of it really.Michealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02310793974335095318noreply@blogger.com