The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Those pigeons have a lot of balls.
ReplyDeleteLooks like granular vomit. I bet the orange sprinkles are bits of spontaneously generated carrot.
ReplyDelete...also - what odd looking unicorns!
ReplyDeleteWithout pigeons, life itself would be unpossible!
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ITTDGY: True. What else would Tom do on a Sunday?
ReplyDeleteI have read that pigeons are actually fairy intelligent; it doesn't surprise me terribly, I think most birds are, despite not having a mammalian brain structure. They are basically highly advanced little dinosaurs. (African Greys are quite personable and funny, even.)
ReplyDeleteBut then I also like rats.
Anyhow, brains or not, they certainly do seem to be a successful species, like rats and humans. I actually miss hearing the sound of them in the morning - time to go back to Krakow, or pretty much anywhere in Central/Eastern Europe.
Without pigeons, life itself would be unpossible!
Are they like one of those non-obvious sexes necessary for human reproduction, like in Slaughterhouse Five?