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Bushy Park.
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A very pleasant “local” safari. Grazie mille.
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De rien! 🙂
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Love all the wildlife photos, especially the one of the flock of birds on the horizon. I very rarely eat meat, but I have the opposite reaction to yours when I see wildlife… it further confirms for me why I don’t eat them. I just hate the thought of us humans thinking that animals are ours for killing and devouring. However, my hubby Ben, being French, often makes reference to rabbit pie or crispy duck on seeing the live versions, that make him not so very popular with me. haha
Peta
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I think it’s a European thing! If it’s furry and it hops or runs we’ll marinate it and stew it… thanks for reading Peta, I promise not to eat any of those animals!
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Glad you weren’t on a survival mode when you saw those animals! This seems like a really nice small excursion from the city, away from people and closer to Mother Nature. That last photo reminds me of how the garden near my apartment looked like for months, when large-scale restrictions were in place in Jakarta. Today, the gardeners have returned to work and the garden is nowhere as “wild” as how it was until around a month ago.
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Ha! But we only had, up to that point, a coffee and some fruit… so it could’ve happened! Parks and even some streets are still in “I am legend” mode over here…
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“. . . a huge cauldron of stew with polenta on the side” made me giggle. That is how my husband tend to look at life. We have a good balanced diet together – he eats all the meat, and I eat all the vegetables. 🙂 That said, I think he is starting to become a quasi-vegetarian too.
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Well, meat should be for “big occasions”: promotions, births, wedding, uncle Bob running over a boar… my grandma famously said that she ate rabbit only when a cat died. 😀
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Hahaha!
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Some of the photos look like old pastoral paintings – very soft and calming. The sight of the bucks lolling in the ferns was such a surprise; I expected neither the bulky antlers nor the albinos! Deer are so sweet and heart-tugging that I can’t even imagine wanting them in a stew, even in my pre-vegetarian days, but your comment still gave me a good laugh!
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Apparently these guys can be quite nasty according to the Royal Parks signs scattered almost everywhere! We kept at a very respectful distance, and they were pretty chilled, but when they’re really big they can be quite threatening. That is if you can stop seeing them like gigantic cauldrons of stew… 😀 thanks for reading Lexi
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What a magical place! In the middle of London. It must have been so wonderful to explore there with no other people around. Love the deer! Didn’t want to eat them, just watch them. My mum used to make unbelievable stuffed roast rabbit, and then pie with any left over meat. Did you really walk 30km? Impressive!
Alison
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Hey Alison, thanks for reading. Well, Bushy Park is not exactly in the middle of London, more like tucked away in the west corner of the city… but, still, it’s cool to have it there.
Yes, 30km give or take! 🙂
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Good thing you haven’t been in my back yard this summer. I can see it now: skunk stew, raccoon ragu…
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Mmmh not too sure abou the skunk stew but raccoon ragu? Sign me in!
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