Monday, 8 April 2024

Who Doesn't Love A Goat?

Christmas has gone and so has my husband's birthday which is a shame because one thing he has always wanted is a goat and there is an Italian island who are literally giving them away.
To be honest, whether he did want a goat or not i'm not sure but if one was under the Christmas tree he would have no choice but my motto is you should never look a gift Goat in the mouth and the Italian island of Alicudi has too many and is giving them away free to anyone who can arrange to pick one up.
Goats outnumber the Island population by 6 to 1 and the Mayor has come up with the idea of giving the goats away to anyone willing to take one as he explained: 'We absolutely do not want to even consider culling the animals, so we are encouraging the idea of giving them away'.
Nice man but goats can be a good source of milk and cheese and apparently their leavings are particularly good for fertiliser but the main benefit is they eat anything so you can feed them your food scraps, stuff you find at the back of the cupboard, your husbands gawdy Hawaiian Shirt or that assignment which is late but has been carelessly left on the table, bad goat (good goat).
As we don't have a garden it is a moot point anyway and i'm the only one who used to empty the cats litter tray so i'll be damned if i would cleaning up after a goat so it might be a nice thought but for me it's back to 'accidentally' losing my husbands colourful shirts behind the wardrobe and pretending to look in my bag and swearing i picked up that report this morning.  

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