London and Goats!

An update on Malawi team exploits:

I can now confirm that the craziness in Pembrokeshire was definitly not down to the soup as a similar phenomenon occured whilst in London where there was no soup in sight.

There was some more craziness:



A lot of hanging about:





More random nap taking:



Even the imposter was not immune:



So to conclude the Malawi team seem to suffer from an unknown syndrome that means that when they are put together they go a bit strange, and even infect others, but its all good!

And now on to the saga of the goat!

I can sense your excitement.

It started a few weeks ago when we planned the Malawi night and decided to cook a Malawian meal which of course wouldn't be complete without some goat meat. So now we faced the problem: where in Cardiff can you buy goat? Sam, Pete and I tried numerous butchers on City Road to no avail. But then Sam was given the information that Global Foods on Penarth Road sell goat - hurah!

You may think the saga will end here but you are deceived! We now have the problem: where on Penarth Road is Global Foods? Pete and I drove (well I drove he sat in the car) up and down Penarth Road, which is quite long, 3 times to no avail but then found another random butchers that sold goat! - hurah!
Or not as they didn't understand us as we askd for enough goat to feed 50 people their reply - "you want chicken?" hmmm no! We eventually managed to communicate our order but then found that it would cost £45 so decided not to buy it but to try one last time to find Global Foods. We headed back onto Panarth Road and were about to give up hope of ever finding the right shop when we looked up and found that we were behind a van from...you've guessed it Global Foods - hurah!
So we followed it all the way to the shop. Which was actually a bit off Penarth Road and only had a sign saying 'al foods' as the Glob had fallen off. We then had a similar difficulty in communication but eventually managed to buy 7kg of diced goat complete with bones, kidneys and meat for just £22! - Hurah!

The next chapter of the goat saga involves cooking the goat. New problem: how do you cook 7kg of goat in a way that will definitely not lead to any food poisoning. Answer phone my mum! Her suggestion slow cook it in a juice of some sort for hours. So the solution was: get 7 pots, 11 tins of chopped tomatoes, 10 onions, 7kg of goat, and 6 pints of gravy put them all together and cook for 6 hours. However, that was not the last problem as a cooker sitter was needed to prevent any boiling over and gas going out disasters befalling 3 Cosmeston Street so Hannah came to the rescue! - hurah!

One further problem was encountered: how to transport 7 hot pots of goat stew to Gabalfa Baptist Church. The solution cover back seat of the car with a duvet, bin bags and towels, place pots on top and drive at 15mph! And there the saga ended as at the Malawi night it was devoured by CU members and others using their fingers to eat...and even if I do say so myself it was rather good! - Hurah!

The End!