buffalo meat

 water buffalo is the main sauce of meat in Egypt for those who can afford it. donkey and goat is also used but a heavy fine or jail is imposed on the butcher if caught .

Horse meat

EGYPT, and we in the uk complain when we have to eat horse flesh.not only do they have balloon mishaps that are only reported when there is a loss of life animal flesh is only dumped in the canals or river if the flesh has become inedible often some butcher is eaten to court for selling donkey meat last time there was a court case the butcher asked why not if there is a call for cheap meat. this butcher was caught with a trailer of donkey heads on his way to the skip.When I lived in luxor (an apartment opposite the famous Luxor Temple )at day break  because the market street was was walk only the meat was carried in  and one could tell what kind of meat was being delivered "I,E,. the hooves and head ,midday my neiebour wold get his share of  veil the people who bought this knew what the were buying.
in this one area half a dozen butchers operated from, all the locals came here for from whether it bee camel or veal, but all the meat i had was real nice and fresh tuesday was market day dairy and other farm produce.when ahmed and the local butchers had a fresh carcas in if one did not get there by 6.00 it was all gone liver kidneys etc was cooked up and locals came in for a serving to go with the chips etc (beats M Donalds)

Birds in the garden feeder

Real wintry start to the week then its been cold all week  but that did not stop the birds enjoying the restaurant.

The Dunnock they where here in numbers up to 6 at a time-

we have four robins 2 male and 2 female. 

 maybe 6 pairs of Chaffinch the same amount of green finch.

 The collared dove is here its own

 The birds do not mind feeding together,

 The wren has also shown itself this week,

The male chaffinch.

female greenfinch,

 

horny.

 Not only cattle have horns these are farm stock on show at the Royal Welsh show 2012.( Beef ) lamb and wool Sheep)

The Australians were also competing in the shearing competition 2004

photos from Egypt .

,A list of my blogs are as follows   the blogs are what they say  I E, nile life of which there are  5 nilelife,  nilelife1 etc

The photos for my posts  where all taken in Egypt between 2006 where I took up photography as a hobby 

`photographd and saw over 200  species of birds.

http://birdinginegypt.blogspot.com/ myegypt bird blog

http://newtownpowys.wordpress.com/ whats happening in my hometown in Wales

http://wildaboutwales.wordpress.com/  wild life  around Walesthe nilelife blogs are /1/2/3/ 4 and 5

http://www.nilelife5.blogspot.com/  Click on the photos to enlarge

http://egyptplants.blogspot.com/

http://egyptwildlife.blogspot.com/ birds of Egypt

http://egyptswildlife2.blogspot.com/ 

http://egyptswildlife2.blogspot.com/ birds of Egypt

http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/ photos from around Luxor Egypt
http://www.nilelife2.blogspot.com/ photos from around Luxor Egypt

http://egyptdragonflies.blogspot.com/ Dragons and damsels

http://insectsonwings.blogspot.com/ butterflies and bugs

http://myegypttours.blogspot.com Tombs and temples of Egypt

http://skywatchegypt.blogspot.com/ sky's in Egypt

A bridge too far

Pontcysyllte aquaduct, chirk bridges

On my way to england I visited the aquaducts of Chirk and the more famous Pontcysyllte

The road bridge under the Aquaduct

the road bridge from the Aquaduct.

The Llangollen branch of the Shropshire Union Canal must be one of the most spectacular and scenic canals in Britain. The canal is fed from the River Dee at the Horseshoe Falls just out of Llangollen. You can walk through Darkie Tunnel but beware it is some 1200 feet in length, so a flashlight is recommended, it is one of two tunnels at Chirk, the other is the shorter Whitehurst Tunnel. A quote in "the Life of Thomas Telford" publication says "...Aqueduct is situated in a finely wooded valley, having Chirk Castle as an eminence immediately above it, with the Welsh Mountains and Glen Ceiriog as a background and the village of Chirk with Lord Dungannon's Ceiriog Bridge occupying the intermediate space. These combined objects compose a landscape seldom surpassed." The 70 feet high aqueduct built between 1796 and 1801 by Thomas Telford and William Jessop was built, like the Pontcysyllte, to carry the Ellesmere Canal. The ten circular masonry arches of the structure, each spanning 40 feet, have piers carried between them as pilaster strips. There is no cast iron trough carrying the water of the canal, as at Pontcysyllte. Instead, the bed is of iron plates, bolted together, with the side walls built of stone quarried locally at Pont Faen. The relationship of the sets of arches running parallel with one another conjures up images of "Roman grandeur" as the architect, Edward Hubbard says in "Buildings of Wales, Clwyd" and one perhaps thinks particularly of the aqueduct at Tarragona, Spain. The view as one walks towards them is certainly romantic, particularly in strong sunlight and has caught the imagination of artists and writers in the past. There are drawings of the aqueduct by G.Pickering and Henry Gastineau of the early 19th century.  The vast amount of material excavated in the late 18th century to form the cutting for the canal was taken to make up the massive embankments for the aqueduct constructed by Telford over the River Dee at Pontcysyllte.  from the Aquaduct one can see the Chirk rail and canal bridges.  THERE was a time when the Bridge Inn used to boast on one side of its sign that it was the "last pub in England",  and on the other it was the last in Wales,  pre 1994 I can remember when half the pub was closed on sundays . this shot was taken from the field next to the public house Other bridges I saw on my 3 day tour of England's lake district and York. .These disused bridges where on a b road that  is now taken over by the m6 motorway Little Arrow. One of the old copper line bridges  used to haul copper  from the coniston district copper mines closed in the late thirties.  Ravenglass, way out of the way, I went there after all the hype on what a good steam railway they had  all the locos were diesel and its in miniature they had two full size carriages and a made up mining wagon it was not even worth the effort of taking a photo of,. and to say the truth our local steam miniature rail buffs have a better set up in Dolerw park.  Three bridges two over the  Ouse as seen from the  big wheel near the railway station  The bridge is still in use from the days when these buildings where used for building steam trains. today its a listed building used as a gymnasium and sports hall. these buildings once housed the steam museum pre 1972.  The platform bridge inside of the triple domed  magnificent York rail station,  The road and pedestrian bridge /tunnel leading to the  York steam railway museum, notice the station platform building Extension atop the tunnel.  Looking at the big wheel from the museum  The platform bridge inside the museum