The much anticipated Pheasant

Tonight I roasted the pheasant I was given by some good clients. Typically they are roasted, and wrapped with bacon.

The finished product, a little tough and dry, but very flavoursome

Liv refused to let me make gravy out of the inside bits.

Osborne House

Next we were off to Osborne House, the summer residence of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It was designed by Prince Albert and based on italian villas. Queen Victoria died there in 1901, surrounded by her 73 collies, she was a bit of a weird one that Victoria.

Quarr Abbey

On the weekend, we managed to drag ourselves outside, in between storms to see some of the the local sites on the Isle of Wight. First stop was Quarr Abbey, a former Cistertian monastery. The monks still live and work here and all the grounds are open the public.

Pigs getting fat for Christmas...Mmmm

The new abbey

The only sunshine we've seen for a month