{"id":1262,"date":"2019-08-01T18:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2019-08-01T18:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:01:49","slug":"figures-of-8-pool-making-considerations-for-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/figures-of-8-pool-making-considerations-for-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures of 8 – Pool-making considerations for humans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The drinking pool\u2019s conception was easy enough, it’s being a parent of a thirsty and difficult pool progeny that’s the hard work!<\/p>\n

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Heard it through the grapevine<\/p><\/div>\n

Until we proposed the drinking-pool<\/strong> as a reality brother-in-law Jordi would come to the \u201cPou\u201d with the tractor and plough the weeds a couple of times a year, and someone in the family would casually pick some of the bunches of grapes<\/strong> produced by decades-old grapevines. Occasionally, villagers may have visited and poked around the stone walls and fennel plants, looking for snails after a bit of rain \u2013 yes, we eat snails<\/strong>, and they are the same as the ones that many people poison in their gardens in the UK. What a waste! They are just delicious griddled and dipped in garlic butter<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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Cargols a la llauna, Lleida<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a recipe<\/strong> for that very “Lleidat\u00e0” (from Lleida) dish, with garlic butter, salt, pepper … mmm, delicious!<\/p>\n

Snails on the griddle<\/a><\/p>\n

But back to the drinking pool<\/strong> and some of the initial considerations in its imperfect design.<\/p>\n