Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Nov 25, 2009, 5:26 am
It's a bit damn late in the day for me to post this but if it gets a couple more signatures on the petition before it closes on Thursday (tomorrow!) then it won't have been in vain. Mr. Trump...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Nov 16, 2009, 7:06 am

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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Oct 21, 2009, 7:57 am
I've decided that I'm going to write all further posts on this blog in verse. So there will now be a small pause (of some years, probably) in which I learn how to write poetry. (Also it's...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Oct 16, 2009, 6:05 am
You read it here first! (Well, unless of course you didn't, obviously.)"We are shooting rabbits in Stockholm center, they are a very big problem," said Tuvunger. The rabbits are eating their way t...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Oct 15, 2009, 12:19 am
... mark - that you could use the iron sights as well as the scope, and this might well give you a little bit more flexibility about the shots you can take and the speed with which you can take them...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Oct 14, 2009, 1:35 pm
Today, nostrils crammed with snuff and my head spinning pleasantly, I lay on the grass of a cool Autumn field and gazed up into the branches of an oak tree; leaves - one or two at a time - fluttered d...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Oct 13, 2009, 4:06 pm
I crawled through a hedge yesterday, like you do, and found myself under a tree. I took my rifle out of its bag, popped in a pellet and lay back against the tree. A flutter - and a wood pigeon landed ...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Oct 12, 2009, 5:12 pm
Scouring the 'reduced' shelves for food as I do, I'm often struck by the way that price tags and labels have come to dominate the appearance of the items on sale. Here are two fine specime...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Oct 8, 2009, 2:24 pm
A bracing, heart-expanding Autumn evening; I stride briskly to the fields at dusk and sit motionless behind a stile for half an hour. In the distance, I can see scampering brown blobs but, near at han...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 30, 2009, 9:19 am
I've had a bizarre idea now for about a year (one of a number, it has to be said) concerning the adaptation of a bicycle into a kind of mobile home. Obviously, this makes no sense at all: why not ...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 30, 2009, 5:55 am
I was in a charity shop yesterday and I overheard the staff talking about catching and eating sea-food on a holiday one of them had taken recently: '...so he was out the front of the cottage, gut...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 27, 2009, 4:41 am
I managed to crack a window in my flat a couple of days ago. I had a panel of double-glazing in one room which had filled up with condensation because the seals had broken. I decided that drilling a l...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 20, 2009, 4:24 am
I was reading a thread on an air gun forum last night about shooting with pre-charged pneumatics (here) and so I went to sleep thinking - well, among other things, sure - about accuracy in the field. ...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 19, 2009, 7:42 am
... near-full darkness by then, a rabbit hopped out from a burrow about five feet away from me and sat there with its back to me. With the scope on the rifle I had no chance of getting a shot at a t...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 16, 2009, 8:02 am
I went along to the mid-week market at the nearby village of Penkridge today. There was an auction of local produce going on; hens, ducks and geese were to be sold and the cages with the animals insid...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 13, 2009, 2:42 pm
I sat at the base of a tree today and looked up into the branches of another one close by. There was a rise of ground in front of me and, just on the brow of the little slope ahead of me was a red-br...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 12, 2009, 2:17 pm
I've been staying in Bristol and London for the last week. Today, I went and sat in a field. On my way home, I took a photograph of the nettles and the grass in the late afternoon sun.
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Sep 3, 2009, 1:29 pm
Just came across these involved but rather fine looking French recipies for rabbit on the site L'Atelier Vert: Farm rabbit cooked like game Daube of rabbit with rosé, lavender honey and thyme ...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Aug 29, 2009, 1:49 pm

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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Aug 29, 2009, 6:29 am
I hereby confess that I manipulated the Jaunty Jackalope image above in order to fashion myself a favicon. In confessing this I acknowledge also that I am spending too much time indoors messing around...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Aug 28, 2009, 3:40 pm
Today I went to a public library and downloaded seven-hundred-odd meg of a Linux operating system to a memory stick while a lot of kids mucked about around me on the computers and when I got the memor...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Aug 24, 2009, 4:10 am
I took what felt to me to be a 'good shot' a few days ago. It was late afternoon and I'd just spent a while leaning up against a fence post and watching as the wood-pigeons came home to ro...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Aug 19, 2009, 4:57 am
Speaking recently the famous French philosopher, Alain Badiou, said: My father was an alumnus of the École Normale Superieure and agrégé of mathematics: my mother an alumna of the École Normale S...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Aug 18, 2009, 3:49 pm
I'm no gourmet; I don't haunt delicatessens in search of edible exotica or loiter in puddles of my own drool beside the doorways of fancy restaurants. I don't really do posh nosh. I do, h...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Aug 16, 2009, 10:17 am
Two days ago, after missing a couple of rabbits and feeling thoroughly fed up with my skills using open sights, I found a puffball mushroom in the fields and carried it home. It's very odd and ent...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Jul 9, 2009, 4:21 pm
I've not been out to the fields since I hurt myself a week ago falling off my bike. I've spent the time since then slapping antiseptic and sticky dressings on my knee, palms and elbow and tryi...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Jul 5, 2009, 6:59 am
Oh, I don't know - call me crazy - but looking again at the "Your daddy kills animals" leaflet, I have to say that something of what might be called a 'sub-text' suggests itself to me. Ma...
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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Jul 3, 2009, 5:25 am

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Peter O. posted an article on Rabbit Stew - Jul 2, 2009, 5:59 pm
I've just signed this petition. Here's the text from the 10 Downing Street site where the petition has been lodged. I'd like to urge all UK resident Rabbit Stew readers to sign, too. The ...
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