merckx Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Tonight at 7.30. I think I'll have something to eat before it starts. This week Bear is on the west coast of Ireland (I know, he's usually somewhere more exotic, with jungles and snakes and stuff, but Bear can make a spectacle of himself anywhere), clambering up steep cliffs and through boggy moors. It's an excellent episode, with a menu that is scary even by Bear's standards: maggots scooped from the eye sockets of a decomposing seal are used to flavour a soup of crushed mussels and seaweed, all of which is filtered through a sock. I know, your mouth's watering already. Then Bear spots a dead sheep in a peat bog. "The eyeballs are still in!" he observes - a good sign, apparently. There follows a wonderful scene in which he wades into the bog to fetch the carcass, gets into trouble and becomes perhaps the first presenter to be savaged by a dead sheep on television. When he emerges victorious, he celebrates by skinning the sheep and taking a bite out of its still warm heart. The fleece becomes a sleeping bag (or "sheeping bag") and a flotation device to be used for swimming across a loch. As he strips to his boxers (any excuse), Bear is concerned about the swim: "Man," he tells us, "this is going to be chilly perkins." And it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 yeh i caught that episode a while back. thought it would be pants, as like you said its not too exotic, but it turned out to be pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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