2010 photos wanted - so please post! As we say well done and thanks to all who made 2010 special. Why not follow the male warriors that live and hunt in and around Rocklands. Oh and of course the decorative females.......... (who spend time hunting raddish).... whilst the men folk hunt critters or collect "fresh - (ish)" roadkill for the kids. The venue for 2011 is at the Goods - bring on the roadkill and follow the build up to the "Good Life" Hunter Gatherer Party in 2011!
Saturday, 25 September 2010
McArthurian foods
Rabbit and red wine casserole
Small parcels filled with fish and nameless crustaceans
30 rolls, maybe more if I have time
Some shrubbery (depending on salad still left)
Beurre-though not homemade
Cream (the same, I have no cow)
I should have time to make an apple chutney
Walnut and plum tart
And booze
I have to offer walnuts:-though they are still lightly ripe, apples, some chard. Anyone have onions? J, can a borrow some eggs, as my six ladies are on strike?
Friday, 24 September 2010
Impromptu swift half
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Location:Pub
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Gorgeous Gatherette Agglomeration
Sorry ran out of gs.
It is about time the Gatherettes gathered to very soberly equate food and guest numbers. I am a little miffed at being a hunter's widow touts les temps. I suggest a Wednesday or Friday evening. If we desire the most lovely Kong to be present, we need to act soon-this week even. Any votes? Welcome to be mine, as long as you ignore the cobwebs.
Sunday, 12 September 2010
VENI VIDI...we collected roadkill
Bungay wabbits
Friday, 10 September 2010
The Date and theme...
Theme "Rock Stars"
Does the theme include pop stars? It's just I have a pair of gold shorts and a blonde wig... my Oz accent isn't that bad at all....
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Flying Rabbits
- Posted using the BlogPress App from my iPhone coz I'm sad like that
Thursday Night Results
Pigeons 0 - 4 Hunter Gatherers
Civilians 0 - 0 Hunter Gatherers
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
New Fake Celeb Needed - apply carefully....
The great radish hunt

Or should that be rabbit?
Maybe the beautiful decorative gatherettes should meet and swop tales from the action-packed vegetable frontline. I do have something I could create with pototoes, and much salad, also once I have scaled the tree for nuts, I can make a nut and plum tart. Trees hold no worries for me, I bounce, although suffer a little the next day.
Monday, 6 September 2010

Plenty more Fish in the Sea...
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Men lets get organised
Hello Fellow Hunters!
Firstly congrats to James following the birth of Rosie Mae Henderson!
Tonight I had a most strange visit to the pub! As walked past the pub with the dog (whilst listening to music) the landlord actually ran out and I had a blur on the edge on my vision.... the landlord (Binzy) was trying to call me into the pub.... honestly!
(James I understand having just moved into the village you may be worried ;-) but its just preparing local produce from the local area for a good feast)
Anyways, who’s about for a severe plucking?
ALSO and importantly I was wondering if anyone can confirm date of fishing trip or trips? Is it booked and who is confirmed if booked?
http://rocklands-hunter-gatherer.blogspot.com/ for details and photos of our last two years
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Ok Septemeber is nearly here and the summer is almost over
I only mention this as it may be prudent to make some initial enquires and then report said findings at suitable venue. Namely the PUB.
So who's up for a pint?
What dates and seasons need to be thought about for fishing?
Suggested locations for fishing?
Monday, 12 October 2009
More photies coming v soon we hope...
ty Vix for your slideshow - very pleasing to see such memories of a fun occasion. I am uploading another slideshow from the S&D with more fun and hearty frolics. If anyone has photies they want to share, but don't get on with blogger then please email me the image/s or let me know so I can solve it.
Great photies S&D ty.....
We still have a few knives and plates etc that dont seem to have found their home - please let me know if you are missing any items...
Monday, 28 September 2009
Menu
I just thought we should include an overview of what was made, lest we forget...
Fish paella
Potato gratin
Homemade sloe gin
Grog (beer/cider)
Bacon & rolls for breakfast
Apples for apple juice
Grapes for grape juice
Grog
Pear dessert
Fish pie
Fishy goujons
Fishy battered surprise
Blackberry cassis
Grog
Roasted tomato salad dressing
Potatoes for roasting
Sparkling wine grog
Green Salad
Onion tart
Grumpy Grey’s Cider
Smoked deer
Haunch of roe
Fizzy grog
Home-smoked fish pie
Quiches
Rabbit curry
Onion dish
Salad
New pots
Homemade pickled Chinese cabbage dish
Kim Chi (Korean prawn/crayfish fried rice dish)
Coleslaw with June’s cabbage
Apple and custard cake
Grog (sparkling)
Homemade bread and rolls
Homemade chutney
Tomato dressing
Grog
Plum and Walnut tart
Relish
Exotic potato dish
Sparking grog
Wine press
marinated rabbit parts
Fish cakes
Walnut pesto dish
Rabbits and partridges
More grog
Lady Chatterley’s lover
Many beer, cider, hedgerow vins
Groggy
Roast veg with home-grown lemons
All manner of blackberry and apple joys and crumbled-themed desserts
Epic lump of pork
Groggier
Many delightful cup-cakes pillaged from local hedges (did anyone but the kids taste these?)
and last, but not the least (given the hours of preparation involved) chicken feet....
Pint of thai lemsip please
Thanks to all for - all the wonderful food, wonderful drumming, wonderful dancing, wonderful preparing, wonderful clearing, wonderful costuming, chanting & wonderful etc wonderfullness etc....
Can any photos that are fun or capture any sane elements of the day/night get uploaded - please?
Grand indeed!
Friday, 25 September 2009
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Decorations, Country and Western and Oh la!
I can assure you that any borrowed items will be nailed carefully to the walls and ceiling of the barn and returned promptly...
On a further note of musical importance, does anyone have country and western albums? or Hawaii beach music stylii albums?
The men folk bang their drums
We are obviously very proud and so wish to bang the drum on our success!
Photos which we know will excite all who look at them are soon to follow. These show the various stages of metalwork construction.
Anyone wishing to know more about the variants and metal fatigue stresses or indeed the sheer stress on cubic close packed lattice iron below 800 degrees centigrade feel free to email me. We had great discussions over the probable variants that may happen to the drum during cooking. Obviously we know its a steel drum, but the iron ferrous changes only affect the iron within the steel drum (and not the steel).
Having heartily debated this and other equally important design considerations we cut the end out and stuck it back with a hinge and then adjourned for a well earned double pint with a 4th fellow hunter offering much praise and considered drum banging.
The oven will also appearing on its own rather risque calendar. Pre order copies are available from Feb 2010?!
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Ladies...
Those with ovens, do remember to take things out to save burning them...
I hope that we the mighty hunter men will create ovens from sods of earth and oil drums that you may prefer to use as incinerators of what i am sure will be decadent menu items that may or may not include...
"Flaked snails served on a wet bed of wilted par-nibbled rossa leaves"
"Deep fried crispy salt and chilli rabbit fur in marrow jelly"
"Lumpy monk jack served in a rubberesque gravel pastry"
"Chickens foot, served with cheesy chilli and a selection of nail clippings"
"Pan squarked pigeon entrails with drizzled ling juice dressing"
"Seasonally adjusted mixi rabbit goujons stuffed with barley seed sausages"
"Home blighted tomato curry, with natural colourings and cat territory essence"
"Tyre print pheasant burgers with home made brown sauce"
"Wasped apple and fish head stew with chocolate gravy"
Ce soir
Tonights Hunters?
Who can make it?
What? on earth shall we do this eve?
Why? Beer
Where? The Pub
When? ASAP
What? Bitter or Cider
How? Glass
With? Fellow Hunters
Oh and Houston "we have a rabbit" (TY Alex)
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Steel drums and percussion
I was going to attempt making an oven to slow roast fodder from one and then use the other as a two piece combination set brazier/steel drum. Does anyone have anything to cut steel? I also need to add a hinge so may be after some techynickle advice as blutack may (though I might be wrong) not hold under the high temperatures required for cooking...
I was hoping to create a buried oven of sorts.

I also imagine that shipwrecked damsels and hunters would perhaps while away the time waiting to light the beacon fire, with some form of music. I'd be interested to see if we can create simple instruments for our gatherer tribe fireside. Sould be a chortle (which i think makes a superb name for an instrument)...
Elderflower Surprise
Can I make a plea that we take lots of photos of the gathering (did anyone take any last year?) so we can sell them to coffee-table magazines and fund our self-sufficiency dream/nightmare (delete as appropriate).
Friday, 18 September 2009
Order! Silence one is speaking...
Mary's / Inga's email anyone?
Heather said she can get rabbits.
Children's table and chairs from playgroup shed - Sassy would you be so kind as to collect with trailer? Anymore easily transported garden tables?
Jane - no sorry, no best pitch for you!
You'll probably stay 'til Christmas, given your track record!
Andrew - upload to The Blog, please
And anyone contacted Chris - Foodie Carnivore - Evans yet?
Mrs D Gatherette xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Decorative rambles
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
The hunters return from Whitby and look forward to productive evenings out
You should see the one of Clive having battled for hours and single handedly landing what can only be described as a Terrific Turbot!
Much fun was had over a stunning breakfast listening to the fellow fishermen (not us) debate old sailors favourite questions of contemplation on board a boat such as "if a man says something witty & insightful, but there is no woman around to hear it, is he still wrong?" or "why are wrong numbers never engaged" - which tenuously links to congratulating Stewart and Sam on their engagement! Congrats !!! (great link there)
The catch was a superb haul! Well done all and thanks from us all to DG and SG for their organisation of said trip. Photos will follow v soon.
OK so are any happy hunter gatherers around perhaps Friday early eve... and some time on Saturday. There is much to do, so please if you are available over this weekend get in contact.
There was also some mention of collecting and processing KKs grapes?
Look forward to replies and to photos...
Monday, 7 September 2009
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Steve and Ivor
Hearties ahoy!
Saturday, 5 September 2009
26th September - get your glad rags and tents ready!
Saturday, 30 May 2009
Những người đàn ông đã quyết định cho cá. Một lần nữa ...
- We all agreed we were there (after some time)
- We also agreed that some hunters were not - and that was our own fault (being hunters not superb on organisation)
- Those not present were probably hunting anyway and filling their freezers with bounty
- We (from now on including those not physically present) decided to stop
- using bullet
- points
- just for
- the sake of
- it
- We also decided to fish at sea again but try for bigger fish farther off shore (gulp)
We also spent some time debating The Times articles about Crayfish, which coincidentally this weekend (The Times that is) has a superb photo set including a golden bottom from the Bond films! (Noted for you M.McA)
Golden bottoms aside, we progressed to serious matters...
We (the Male folk of Rocklands) need to choose. between..
- obligatory bullet points for no reason
- fishing from Whitby (North Yorkshire - where according to Radio 5 there are Nuclear tests)
- fishing from the South coast (DG has family living locally there to provide a bed before an early start)
- fishing in France (again somewhere to sleep free of charge)
- fishing on our local coast
A few dates were mentioned, any offer of a reminder of any dates mentioned would help me report back... as I can only remember a hazey end of summer time date time thingy.
That's that.... but this is the Whitby boat.. http://www.thechieftain.co.uk/ note: (I can admit to visiting Whitby A&E having fallen off a cliff and onto the beach in 1994 - thus would recommend Whitby and it's hospitals - thus should we encounter problems 120 miles off shore - I can verify superb hospital on return)
This might be last years ride http://www.norfolkseafishing.co.uk/
But this http://www.norfolkfishingtrips.co.uk/ was mentioned as a local alternative...
Though there is some info here on Fishing in Normandy http://normandy.angloinfo.com/af/222/normandy-fishing-and-angling-fresh-and-sea-water.html
Over and out for now...
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Okey dokely - time to start talking about 09
I await grand responses
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Houston ... we have a date
The date is now set for the 28th of March. So lets get a menu shall we.... or perhaps we might just share a pot noodle instead.
All suggestions welcome...
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
A blog from the past is worth two in the outback
- Corned beef hash - served with eggy bread florets -
- Noodle of the Pot on a bed of noodles (potted)
- Fricassee of porridge
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Thursday, 25 September 2008
A feast for your eyes
Friday, 19 September 2008
Rod Licences
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Roadblock move over - Mrs D Gatherette is here!
Tonight, the men folk are (alledgedly) (Roadblock did take his Filofax planner with him - last opened in 2006) at the crux of deciding how to create a fabulous table of fine fayre with all their labours of love, putting to use the various cooking pots / methods they have at their disposal. Bonne Chance!
So it's just for me to say - yippeeeeeeee! I know we are all looking forward to Sunday 3pm - it's going to be an inaurguration to be remembered!
Practical note - all bring your own plates and cutlery.
And to the decorative contingency, after flipping through a few recipe books this eve, I'm hoping to make something along the tomato flan line. Any other vege thoughts?
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Vegetation
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Sadness for pigeon fans in a flap as 20 arrive today for casserole

The farmer was quoted as saying "I wont get my feathers ruffled over this one, I'm glad they serve some use"
Pictured is "Derek" sporting his number 648 in China... "Simon" and "Dave" 458 and 326 were also reported as shot, as was number 7 "Lucky" at the back of this shot.
What's a foot - simply some new items on the menu

Monday, 15 September 2008
Tips for Sunday
http://www.myoutdoortv.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=129&Itemid=316&gclid=CJuxjvfC3pUCFQrolAodyHw8YA
Below is a series of 5 videos for new start fisherfolk on fly fishing! Its great!
http://www.expertvillage.com/video-series/906_fly-fishing.htm
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Thursday, 11 September 2008
you've got to have faith
So roll on the 21st (this year) of September, let the men folk flaunt their doughtiness, mettle, valiance and virility. I fully expect exhibitions of touching.....or at least touching emotionality.
So rally round women, let us prove our decorative worth.
Hints and tips from the fishing company that supplied our Crab traps
Flyingfisherman sunglasses
Fishing
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Meet Bambi or should it be Meat Bambi?
Who is coming to the bash then?
Permission granted for farmland frolics on friday.
Newsflash - Flopsy arrives
Ladies! Your village needs you...
Following sober decision making last night, the men folk are requesting some help from the Ladies. Votes were taken and it was agreed that the Lady folk should add much to the event with their inclusion. Any ideas on activities are warmly welcomed or rudely laughed out. One idea was a mass blackberry picking session, as was the creation of some crumble pies. It was also suggested (not by me) that on the day the Ladies could arrange for an apple press to become available and make cider supplies for the Men folk.Pub update
Following a rather impromptu evening of consolidated support of the local economy a few decisions were made. The only problem is remembering them, perhaps?















