No I'm not a gangster. There's not much call for it down here in Dorset. My knives are more Delia Smith than Hatchet Harry. Though I do joint a nice rabbit.
There's a lot of meat on a rabbit. You just need to know where to find it and have the skill to extract it. :smileys:
only ever cooked one once. i ran it over :Hilarious::smileys: and got a mate to skin and butcher it. made a stew out of it. v.strong flavor.
You need to take care to empty the bladder before paunching and remove the scent glands before cooking or it'll taste more rabbity than a very rabbity thing.
As it happens I am expecting to have a dose of radioactive material injected into my body on Monday. Not sure what isotope Bart's Hospital uses, but I'm hoping it won't be Polonium-210.
well. you probably know a state secret or two. so bearing that in mind. if anyone asks, you don't know me.
If your consultant is a Dr Lugovoy I should make another appointment. Best of luck by the way. Hope it all goes well for you.
Turns out Barts use Technetium-99m (an isomer of Tc-99), which is conventional for this purpose. It is produced on the spot from Molybdenum-99. The Tc-99m attached to a phosphate compound soon concentrates itself in any osteoblast nodes there might be in my bones, such as at any metastasised cancer sites. There the Tc-99m emits gamma rays which can be detected by a Philips rotating scanner. I had to lie motionless for half an hour, which is more tiring than it sounds. The Tc-99m soon decays (half-life: 6 hours) to Tc-99 which emits no gamma rays and very little beta (half-life: 211,000 years). This means I shall be slightly radioactive hereafter, but barely above background level actually. Sorry but no glowing. In February I shall also have a full biopsy under general anaesthetic. After that it will become clear whether this little adenoma of mine has metastasised or not, and treatment can be decided upon accordingly.
I was just reading about this process and about isomers in general, a couple weeks ago. You won't get super-powers, Pete but I do hope for an otherwise excellent result for you. Best of luck.
