(After villagers and the postman, in Wootton, Staffordshire, were being terrorised by a pheasant, called George, a pheasant expert, Mike Gadsby recommended a seemingly tried and tested way of pacifying George - by feeding him raisins that have been soaked in rum. If you look up the number of recipes for cooking pheasant with raisins soaked in alcohol, it seems a bit stupid of the birds.)