…Seven sleeper! No idea what this criiter is called in English but it has been running around the attic making noise totally out of proportion to its size.
They begin to hibernate late september but until then it’s go crazy time.
They enjoy protected status, so you cant kill them and honestly I would never have the heart.
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Dormouse
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And it’s called a loir in French.
Did you catch it yourself or did you call professionals in? Did it live up there all alone or did you guys break up a family? And where is this one gonna move to now?
As you read German, get those ethereal oils out 
“Keep your surroundings clean and free of food sources that might attract dormice.” This creature might miss your sausage production. I bet the haggis-variant was attractive.
Is that an avocado there? What are you doing, teasing the poor thing?
Here in Apfeldorf, you dont go to nature, nature comes to you.
Landlady put traps down and then released it a few km’s away in the woods.
Yeah, ain’t this great. Same here although no dormice (or is it not part of the mice family? dormouses?) here.
We got frogs, hedgehogs, and foxes that stop on their way back to the forest if you come out the house very early, looking at you as if they were saying good morning.
The most impressive ever was sitting in my little garden and a buzzard (huge thing) landed a meter in front of me and just stared at me. I was totally puzzled and my first reaction - gazing at it full of wonder - was calling out “gosh are you beautiful”.
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That must be an amazing experience.
As the Lech is only a few meters away I get the frog concert and I think they have attracted the storks, 10 of them were stilting in the field the other day. Plenty of birds, a whole flotilla of swans on the lake, a few Milan, swallows and Wallsailors, in fact all kind of water fowl. Then bats, foxes, deer, the whole lot.
But what I realy love to watch are the fireflies that cone out in their hundreds when it gets dark.
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Not sure, I only know that the Romans ate them as a delicacy
Oh no! Has the landlord brought it away already? I would not wanna read it ended up as a sausage!
that avocado was a dead give away.
Avocado filled Dormouse…. You give me an idea.
If the noise gets too much then Dormouse recipes.
Ha, it’s dourmice after all. The answers to questions always come from somewhere.
Apart from that this is just an other British fake of an Italian recipe! They will fume! 
oh and what are the nasty bits on a chicken thigh??
"Rinse the chicken and cut off all the nasty bits. Leave the skin on if you want the ‘mice’ to be nice and crispy! "
edit: But I like the recipe and it seems done fast.
Did not know that Dormice’s legs look like chicken.
Haaaaving said that, I may try that Roman treat but with chicken legs instead of Dormouse.
I will definitely do too. I wonder if I can make them with black sesame seeds?
Poppyseed (Mohn) is not everywhere available here. They make a fuss about them, I think. In Germany I used to buy a cake that was packed with them - no chance here. They seem to think we get high on them or something.
Yet it’s okay they grow all over the country. TIS?
Readily available in the Migro, and I’m sure any other decent supermarket. Just look in the baking section.
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Yes I know, thanks, but around Winterthur only Rosenberg and Neuwiesen have them on stock. (Winterthur Migros is crazy, even with more common stuff) , both not convenient for me.
Black sesame seeds I have in the cupboard, so I thought they might be tasty too in the recipe marton posted. (I just can’t sell it as original Roman dish then 
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naaa, ruins my curls.
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