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

lostinrates

Dave has an excellent quarantine set up. He's been more persistant n the past than Iight have been with birds.


I can't get in the cheese room yet, but fromthe outside it looks as if the ceiling is down, with few reusable laths.

sss555s

Coke for me.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, Dave, is it worse?

No, it's better, but I can't work out whether it's been because a certain person had a weekend away, or whether we have put the fear of God into him!:o

All quiet on the Eastern Front, pretty much since I drew a line in the sand in late November.......It can't last, can it?

lostinrates wrote: »

Dave has an excellent quarantine set up. He's been more persistant n the past than I ight have been with birds.

I won't cull these two, as I've removed them to a reasonably remote location, but I can see me up all hours, pumping antibiotic down them.

Funnily enough, the one that's worst is the one which 'forgot' how to eat & drink when small, so we were squirting liquidised feed down her throat then. She hated it, but still jumped up on our laps ready for 'treatment' every few hours.

She lays torpedo-shaped eggs, so I don't want to lose her!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

If a very, very, very special opportunity arose elsewhere sometime in the distant future we'd be open to it.

I'm not too sure that this sort of place would be relevant to me in a 'distant future' type of scenario! :rotfl:

It's always been in the back of my mind that we might downsize a bit, if & when there's a physical impediment to the current lifestyle.

Devon also isn't the cheapest place, so we could do better elsewhere £ for £, especially if we were thinking of buying two places instead of one. Playing at being farmers is fine, and fun, but at some point we might like to see more of a return. :cool:

I don't talk about this on Greenfingered. Politically incorrect.

neverdespairgirl

sss555s wrote: »

Coke for me.

Not heroin?

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

Another nice people survey: coke or Pepsi? Diet coke or Pepsi max?

Neither. We have tea, water, coffee, fruit juice and squash. No fizzy drinks at all.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Neither. We have tea, water, coffee, fruit juice and squash. No fizzy drinks at all.

I like a bit of fizzy water for a treat.

neverdespairgirl

My parents have a room in their house called the dairy - it's now used as a scullery, for food storage, washing machine and dryer, extra fridge and freezer, and for dumping wet and muddy clothes (it has a door to the outside). there's a large ancient sink for washing very muddy veggies, too. Apart from that, they have a kitchen, living room, sitting room, and dining room.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My parents have a room in their house called the dairy - it's now used as a scullery, for food storage, washing machine and dryer, extra fridge and freezer, and for dumping wet and muddy clothes (it has a door to the outside). there's a large ancient sink for washing very muddy veggies, too. Apart from that, they have a kitchen, living room, sitting room, and dining room.

We have a dairy too, but not attached to the house. The ''cheese'' room is essentially a dairy, or a room for storing made cheeses in prior to sale....my guess is a room full of cheese could be whiffy and risk tainting other dairy products? At somepoint there was yet another dairy room, now gone sadly. But then.....it woul get ridiculous having roos named after various dairy produce:D

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

We have a dairy too, but not attached to the house. The ''cheese'' room is essentially a dairy, or a room for storing made cheeses in prior to sale....my guess is a room full of cheese could be whiffy and risk tainting other dairy products? At somepoint there was yet another dairy room, now gone sadly. But then.....it woul get ridiculous having roos named after various dairy produce:D

I think cheeses were supposed to be kept separate from fresh milk. But I wouldn't swear to it.