Tinker's photos

Liège

15 Apr 2018 54
A cake baked like a lamb, left from Easter. Unlike the one in the supermarket, this one actually had lots of detail and did actually look like a lamb, At "Une Gaufrette Saperlipopette" on Rue des Mineurs.

Liège

15 Apr 2018 38
At "Une Gaufrette Saperlipopette" on Rue des Mineurs. Eugénie bought a range of things for me try

Liège

15 Apr 2018 42
Some of the offerings in the window display of "Une Gaufrette Saperlipopette" on Rue des Mineurs

Liège

15 Apr 2018 59
The little bakery "Une Gaufrette Saperlipopette" on Rue des Mineurs is so good, and so popular that there is always a queue, no matter what time.

Liège

15 Apr 2018 47
Wandering about with François & Eugénie

Liège

15 Apr 2018 57
Palais des Princes-Evêques (Palace of the Prince-Bishops) which now houses the provincial services of Liège and the Palais de Justice

Liège

15 Apr 2018 38
Palais des Princes-Evêques (Palace of the Prince-Bishops) which now houses the provincial services of Liège and the Palais de Justice

Liège

15 Apr 2018 60
From François & Eugénie's balcony. This is my first stay in a city since being back in Europe. It feels immediately familiar - a bit like my Berlin days.

Lesve

14 Apr 2018 74
This farm has both dairy and beef cattle, and the calves are raised together. It's easy to see which are which - skinny hips on the dairy calves, and big bums of the beef calves

Lesve

14 Apr 2018 39
This farm has both dairy and beef cattle, and the calves are raised together. It's easy to see which are which. There's a little Jersey calf on the right

Lesve

14 Apr 2018 57
Clearly a little Belgian Blue calf - check out the size of that arse!

Lesve

14 Apr 2018 69
After watching Eugénie's father perform the caesarian on the cow, we visited the calves. This farm has both dairy and beef cattle, and the calves are raised together. It's easy to see which are which.

Lesve - cow caesarian

14 Apr 2018 56
The procedure is complete, and took about 30 minutes in total.

Lesve - cow caesarian

14 Apr 2018 56
Guy stitches up each of the three muscle layers, then the skin

Lesve - cow caesarian

14 Apr 2018 42
Guy stitches up the uterus

Lesve - cow caesarian

14 Apr 2018 37
The mother cow is cleaned out, the placenta removed. I was surprised how calm she stayed throughout all of it. It was her first calf, at three years of age

Lesve - cow caesarian

14 Apr 2018 46
The newly born calf is hung up so the fluids can drain out of her lungs and mouth, and within a few minutes she was mooing, and was then lowered into a wheelbarrow and taken to the other newborn calves for colostrum

Lesve - cow caesarian

14 Apr 2018 54
The calf is pulled out and hoisted up. The neighbours' dog has come over to get the treat of the placenta

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