It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

redlady_1

My Lord....Seagulls!?!?!!! I need a bucket. The very thought fills me with dread but then I do have a minor bird phobia

SDG - poor excuse and I am not buying it!

HJ - I am not wearing your neon tights...no, no, no

Red_Doe

My Lord....Seagulls!?!?!!! I need a bucket. The very thought fills me with dread but then I do have a minor bird phobia

Honestly, whip the feathers off them and you'd be hard pushed to tell it from chicken

HariboJunkie

redlady_1 wrote: »

HJ - I am not wearing your neon tights...no, no, no

They're not MINE!!! :eek::eek::eek:

Given your phobia, you won't be joining in with the Guga Hunt this year then. _pale_:p

ceridwen

Red_Doe wrote: »

Honestly, whip the feathers off them and you'd be hard pushed to tell it from chicken

Re that seagull post - considering what a nuisance seagulls are - wonders whether I would be prepared to make an exception to my vegetarianism just for them (provided they were humanely killed) - and someone else dealt with it all:rotfl:

SDG31000

:whistle:
I don't wear strange stuff like that normally redlady_1.
*makes no mention of the Little Miss Bossy t-shirts, corsets, feather boa and "Dead Chicken" hat*

*The monsters named it that. It's a small mesh top hat with a spray of feathers coming out of it

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Seakay

rachbc wrote: »

ha ha If you read my other posts you notice the use of quotation marks was ironic - though I guess thats impossible to convey in a single post!

I am actually rather offended as my views are very very far removed from those I'm being compared with :eek:

Oh dear, so sorry, really did not intend offence, may I excuse myself by saying that I am feeling particularly shattered and dopey today? Of course now I see what you mean but it was just that I read your post and thought that it was from Ceridwen and then looked again and realised that it wasn't and just posted a response without really thinking because I'd amused myself by my error and then thought that it was funny, and THEN remembered that ages ago someone had posted to say that some people had more than one identity on theis thread and used them to voice opposing views and I wondered if I had spotted one such. Obviously not!

ceridwen

kITTIE

Re your comment earlier about "food value for money" in effect - as in things earning their space they use to grow in. That being a concept I have no choice but to agree with - with my matchbox size garden...

You mentioned cabbage as a good "grow for space taken" - have you tried that cabbage on a tall stalk (the name of that type eludes me at the moment:o). As I recall someone else on a blog somewheres figuring that was particularly good "value for space" - ie better than conventional cabbage. Well - that made sense to me - as it wouldnt take up so much "floor space" so to say and it would be possible to chuck something else quickgrowing beneath it (some of those dried peas to get peashoots for instance?).

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On a - very slightly different tack - I think its worth peeps having a public record of some description up re their experiments with foodgrowing and preserving. I'm so restricted for growing space that I'm very limited in what I can do personally - else I would be "taking that to the max" - but my space situation dictates that I get what tiny bits I can out of the teeny tiny space available...

So - as you seem to be trying to work for maximum space utilisation and maximum preservation of surplus - as you have been as aware as some of the rest of us have for a while now that that is clearly necessary the way things are going - then had you thought of maybe keeping that "public record" (eg in the form of a blog)?

EDIT: Just recalled the name of that type of cabbage. Its "tree cabbage" <duh...slap head smilie>

ceridwen

Seakay wrote: »

Oh dear, so sorry, really did not intend offence, may I excuse myself by saying that I am feeling particularly shattered and dopey today? Of course now I see what you mean but it was just that I read your post and thought that it was from Ceridwen and then looked again and realised that it wasn't and just posted a response without really thinking because I'd amused myself by my error and then thought that it was funny, and THEN remembered that ages ago someone had posted to say that some people had more than one identity on theis thread and used them to voice opposing views and I wondered if I had spotted one such. Obviously not!

No offence taken to your post:rotfl::rotfl:

Seakay

HariboJunkie wrote: »

They're not MINE!!! :eek::eek::eek:

Given your phobia, you won't be joining in with the Guga Hunt this year then. _pale_:p

I read a book by Clarissa Dickson Wright the other day. She seems to eat pretty much anything but she said that this
"was exruciatingly horrible, one of the most disgusting things I've ever eaten, even more horrible then the Icelandic shark in the permafrost.."