Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

That's roughly what I was expecting. So, onto next question: why not provide some remote control for this? It would save going out in pjs in the cold.

they exist. Solar powered doors etc. Personally, I'd be happy enough to use them in the morning but not the evening, also, nothing remote control can take the place of a quick almost subconcious monitoring of who is perching where, who looks a bit under par, etc etc. you need to see 'em really.

edit: besides which, despite the cold and weather, part of this is lifestyle choice. I enjoy seeing them, spending time with them. Most of mine disappear off for the day, so the morning and the evening are the key times I see them.

sss555s

michaels wrote: »

Probably deserves a longer answer as I share your 'fetish' but at this point I'd just like to thank you (not) for posting that link and wasting a lot of my life.

:rotfl::rotfl:

michaels wrote: »

Edit: So far I am 100% on Europe but can't remember which order Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania come in...

I remember Latvia as in the middle and think of Estonia as more eastern sounding and Lithuania as more German.

I was struggling with Bosnia and Serbia left on my first couple of goes.

Some of the Islands in Asia take a bit or remembering and I'd not get them all if I left it a week or two.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

they exist. Solar powered doors etc. Personally, I'd be happy enough to use them in the morning but not the evening, also, nothing remote control can take the place of a quick almost subconcious monitoring of who is perching where, who looks a bit under par, etc etc. you need to see 'em really.

edit: besides which, despite the cold and weather, part of this is lifestyle choice. I enjoy seeing them, spending time with them. Most of mine disappear off for the day, so the morning and the evening are the key times I see them.

The closest I ever came to that life-style is visiting some folk who kept chickens in their back garden. They also had an extremely large and aggressive male turkey, which chased me up the garden. I could have faced up to it, and I would obviously have come off better, but I just did not feel the need to assert my manhood by beating up a turkey. Where are the bragging rights in that?

It was pretty big, as turkeys go, roughly waist height.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

The closest I ever came to that life-style is visiting some folk who kept chickens in their back garden. They also had an extremely large and aggressive male turkey, which chased me up the garden. I could have faced up to it, and I would obviously have come off better, but I just did not feel the need to assert my manhood by beating up a turkey. Where are the bragging rights in that?

It was pretty big, as turkeys go, roughly waist height.

I've not kept turkeys, but people say they are great fun...quite doggy. There is a young man from whom I sometimes buy stock and he says he thinks I'd enjoy turkeys.....its just....welll, they aren't attractive fowl are they? And I've never had a turkey egg, I wonder what they are like. Its a fairly determined thing too...christmas must always loom pretty large for turkey rearers.


I find it quite funny that our rooster ...who tries it on with everyone, has never bothered trying with dh. I wonder what dh would do if he did? the rooster's spurs are significant

lemonjelly

lemonjelly wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-15364194

Good story. Indeed, anything putting the boot into the sun/murdoch is a good thing.:)

It gathers pace!:T
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15381926

lemonjelly

I have just finished reading a mini book on maps of whitechapel in 1888.

I get fascinated by maps too. When thinking of where to go travelling, I'll open a map book, & then I'm gone from the world for hours starting at place names and the like.

I used to have a map that was made up of photo's from satellites taken at night, so you could see the flourescent light focussed in big cities.

Never been to scotland. Nor either irelands.

Wheezy, cornwall had some of the prettiest places I ever went to when I was young. A friend lives in newquay now & says it has changed. But he lives there, so must like it...

Wheezy_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

The closest I ever came to that life-style is visiting some folk who kept chickens in their back garden. They also had an extremely large and aggressive male turkey, which chased me up the garden. I could have faced up to it, and I would obviously have come off better, but I just did not feel the need to assert my manhood by beating up a turkey. Where are the bragging rights in that?

It was pretty big, as turkeys go, roughly waist height.

I wouldn't be too sure about that.

Aberdeenangarse

lostinrates wrote: »

welll, they aren't attractive fowl are they?

Have you got any attractive sheep

morag1202

Wheezy wrote: »

the West Highlands, Ullapool, Gairloch, down to Ft. William, Glencoe and back via Glasgow. Loved it.
Still haven't been to Devon and Cornwall, but it's on our places to visit list.

A great drive especially if you hung a right at Achnasheen and went via Loch Duich and the Seven Sisters.

Bet you didn't find this beach at Mellon Udrigle though, just 3 miles off your route and IMO the best beach in the world


I went to Cornwall many years ago but although nice it was too crowded for me and I hated having to pay to park in order to go on a beach.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

And I've never had a turkey egg, I wonder what they are like. Its a fairly determined thing too...christmas must always loom pretty large for turkey rearers.

I've heard that turkey eggs sometimes self-fertilise so they have embryos in them when you crack them open. They're -rarely- parthenogenic like aphids. A few reptiles are like that too I think.

I'd find that off-putting if I was into cooking eggs, so I'd assumed that's why they never caught on.