1, 2 Buckle my Shoe, 3, 4 Murder and Bestiality - of Human and Animal (WARNING: not for the faint)

[QuintessentiallyAnEmptyGrave]

1. One Goat Leg

I came to see my parents this morning. A dried cured leg of kid. A delicacy I am told. My fathers friend was busy carving it up, carefully cleaning the bone, avoiding sinews. All very jolly.

1. Two Gutted Piglets

I ran and errand for my mother to the butchers. Resting peacefully among the pork chops and ribsteaks, were two little dead piglets. Their eyes closed, their mouths closed, and were it not for the fact they were gutted clean, you'd think they were asleep. They were quite slender, and I could see the outline of ribs through the skin.

Much like I can see the outline of my 3 year olds ribs through the skin when he stretches his arms out to be tickled.

I bought a lambshank, a pork loin and some sausages. It was on my shopping list, and I went back to my mothers house with a heavy heart.

3 (and 4) 3 Slain Corpses, 1 dead baby in womb

I sit down to eat lunch. Open sandwich with smoked salmon and egg. My eyes rest on the newspaper.

Three Coffins, flowers, the picture of the young mum to be, her husband and her mother who were carved up by their downstairs neighbour last week, leaving behind two little boys from his previous marriage.

It is all gone horribly wrong isnt it.

Animal - Human. Death is awful. We are all horrible. Our society is just plain wrong.

Wow that's cheered me up no end!
Sorry Q - is there something not nice on your mind right now (apart from the OP) that's making you look on the dark side?
Good things:

It's a lovely sunny day,
The birds are singing (cats are following me home but that's another story)
Flowers are blooming
Leaves are coming on the trees
Your family love you
Mumsnet

Sorry, not really bright and breezy that...

Maybe you are right, the sun is shining, and it is warming up outside, it is Easter break soon.

Maybe that is it. Easter is all about death, and well, flying up to the sky to sit next to your father. Or that sort of thing.

< desperately shakes off sad and horrible thoughts >

Ah no, you see the non-Christian (pagan if you like) festival of Oestre is a festival of birth, renewal & joy and the celebration of Spring

Where's the bestiality?

Surely the non-christian festival of easter is all about getting extremely sick sneakily eating hte kids easter eggs and hoping you can replace them with half price ones from the post easter sales before they notice???

I don't think death is always awful - of course some people die in terrible ways and some people die very early - but in the main its part of life.

sorry to disappoint you MorningTownRide, English is not my first language, and the closest translation to bestiality in my language is just brutality. I guess I meant Brutality.

I am feeling very guilty about being carnivore right now.

Oh and for small smiles there's always the slightly naive person in the office who NEVER gets it when I say

"Pregnancy runs in my family"

tmj - not sure that I am feeling so ok, tbh.

Ah, just googled bestiality. That is NOT what I meant at all.

It's like a short story though and rather poetic, especially the lines -
I ran and errand for my mother to the butchers. Resting peacefully among the pork chops and ribsteaks, were two little dead piglets. Their eyes closed, their mouths closed, and were it not for the fact they were gutted clean, you'd think they were asleep. They were quite slender, and I could see the outline of ribs through the skin.

but sorry if you are feeling sad Quintessentially

I havent been home for Easter for a good many years. Easter was very special to me, for many reasons. I was brought up Lutheran, but in an area with many influences on religious life. But Easter always seemed to me to have real life disasters, where one of the main hymns were sung on Easter morning "Easter Morning, drowning the sorrow, drowning the sorrow for human kind" on the good news of Jesus leaving the cave (hence my seasonal name) would have REAL significance.

One year an oil rig burnt and most of the crew were killed.

But of course other things too, and it all relates to death, one way or the other.

I am sorry.

Not sure I am totally in agreement with vegetarianism either, on a big scale? Yes it is wrong to kill animals for food. But can living on vegetable matter alone feed all the people of this planet? A friend of mine is all for manufactured food in a pill.... He says it is the future. Food will lose its meaning.

We try to have 2 or 3 vegetarian days a week. Good for health and the spirit.

Sounds like you are having a bit of a morbid time at the moment...Everything can relate to death if you think of it. I try to focus on life and the present moment as much as possible.

hope you feel better soon.

You might want to try typing world hunger and vegetarian into google if you want to see the human benefits of not eating meat.

Thank you MillyR.
I just did. There is enough food to feed us all if we go vegetarian.

That is food for though.

I really should get better at cooking vegetarian food and cut down on meat.

I spent a good hour today chatting to an aquaintance who is a priest. I was the editor of my church newsletter in my former parish, and there might be an editorial role for me here.

I just saw you now Justa, cool that you like my name.