Nice people thread

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Seems a good option to go native. Could look natve for egg production too...er...gulls eggs? Cassowary eggs? Emu eggs?

The norm is to keep a 'non-native' corner of the garden for chooks and veggies and then have the 'fun' part of the garden kept for natives.

TBH, my experience is that beyond fruit, most of the native flora isn't worth eating let alone setting aside garden space for. Even then, I don't know how much of the tropical fruit is actually native (eg sugar cane and bananas are widely grown in the tropical parts of Aus but aren't native AIUI).

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

The norm is to keep a 'non-native' corner of the garden for chooks and veggies and then have the 'fun' part of the garden kept for natives.

TBH, my experience is that beyond fruit, most of the native flora isn't worth eating let alone setting aside garden space for. Even then, I don't know how much of the tropical fruit is actually native (eg sugar cane and bananas are widely grown in the tropical parts of Aus but aren't native AIUI).

Again not so different from here...the Roman English rose, and apple...grass. Native is a funny term..as arbitary agriculturally as with people.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Again not so different from here...the Roman English rose, and apple...grass. Native is a funny term..as arbitary agriculturally as with people.

It's even funnier here.

Native people: arrived perhaps 20-40,000 years ago. Didn't do the stuff 'civilised' people do (eg invent New York, domesticate animals, have war, divide land) and so are treated as a sort of sub species of human (even today).

Native plants and animals: arrived millions to tens of thousands of years ago, don't do the things other plants and animals do (eg can't cope with phosphorous, egg laying mammal, stupidly poisonous) and so are treated as a group of uber species.

Don't get me started on the various levels of foreign people they/we have here: Aussie - Kiwi - Pom - Wog - Leb (sic) sums it up.

carolt

lemonjelly wrote: »

Morning All!

I'M A BIT DEAF THIS MORNING. I HAVE A SPOT OF TINNITUS AFTER GOING TO SEE ALICE COOPER LAST NIGHT. APOLOGIES FOR SHOUTING!

Thought a seasonal k=joke may be worthwhile?

It's Christmas eve, & 3 men have died. They're met at the pearly gates by St Peter, who says "as it is christmas, you must have something that symbolizes Christmas to be let into heaven".

The first chap rummages through his pockets, & pulls out a lighter.

"It's a candle" he says. St Peter steps aside & he enters heaven.

The second man rummages through his pockets & pulls out a set of keys. "These represent bells" he says, jingling them. St Peter steps aside & the man enters heaven.

The third man rummages through his pockets, & eventually pulls out a pair of womens lace panties. He hands them to St Peter.

"What are these?" Says St Peter.

The man winks, smiles, & replied:

"They're Carols."

Do you know I got this joke on here last Xmas, too?

Is it going to become a traditional mse seasonal thing?

IveSeenTheLight

carolt wrote: »

Do you know I got this joke on here last Xmas, too?

Is it going to become a traditional mse seasonal thing?

Depends on what you get up to at the annual christmas party doesn't it

carolt

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Depends on what you get up to at the annual christmas party doesn't it

Trust you to lower the tone.

Remember this is the nice people thread.

lostinrates

The brown egg laying chicken went crazy today.....two eggs.....I'm guessing one is the day before what I thought was the first one and I missed it, and another has come into lay again too....very odd, but very welcome! Maybe they are celebrating a break in the rain? In anycase, the rooster is enjoying baby chickens adult hood. He's very, very randy.

Pobby

As a kid, at the bottom of the garden was a fair bit of land. Mt Dad rented it for I think 7 shillings and 6 pence per annum. Before i was born he kept rabbits, chickens and ducks in a pond that he had made. During the war he grew tobacco but was pretty nasty and an old boy took the lot. He died 3 months later but I`m sure it wasn`t the baccy.

My Dad kept chickens long after I was born. Lots of eggs, more than we could eat so the surplus was sold on. About this time of the year it was curtains for the !!!! birds. Hum yes, I remember well their demise.

In the autumn we picked the apples and pears from the trees in the garden and each was wrapped in newspaper for storage through the winter months.

As a kid I loved it when Dad would get the day old chicks. A penny each they were and they were kept in an old heated aquarium. Hopefully survived.

A lot of very nice tastes and smells.

IveSeenTheLight

carolt wrote: »

Trust you to lower the tone.

Remember this is the nice people thread.

I can still be nice and crack a joke.
Didn't know the level of tone was a rule as well.
Are you Louis Walsh?

I sent this joke to a female colleague of mine called carol.
She found it funny, although I replaced the joke about losing her pants at the Christmas party with saying I thought she would have been wearing granny pants (seeing as she is a granny)
Guess it depends on your sense of humour.

carolt

I think the joke was funnier the first time I heard it. Last year.