Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, and a soft shell egg and a nother laid egg by lates from the slavation army, This morniong twommore eggs from them and three from our lot and one was laying while i was out there. Hopefully our lazy girls have seen the future if they fail to perform, and shariong the eggs is the lesser of two evils!

awww....makes me glad inside to read this tale. I really hate the whole battery cage process that hens are subjected to. If the lamps aren't warm enough, drop me a line and I'll run up some of those little ponchos that were in the link PN posted once the current collection is finalised. I have some jersey knocking about.

How long before their feathers grow back?

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's so bizarre. I've had exactly the same conversation with mine.

I would love veneers too but my dentists said the same thing.....don't destroy good working teeth. Would seem there are some non profit motivated dentists around as they could hard sell them if they chose to. Not a cheap process either.

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've got Wartime London with Harry Harris on TV at the moment (Discovery History). It is about Nazi London this week.

It showed the German embassy prior to war broke out (now the Royal Society building). Even though it overlooked the palace, there are photos that exist of the terrace with people doing nazi salutes. They then investigated the books of the secret club of Nazi sympathisers which was busted in 1940, which included something like 12 MPs.

Even though my Mum had to be dug out of the wreck of her house as a child following a doodlebug attack and my grandfather fought fires in Woolwich and nan worked at the arsenal, I never realised that there was still such a large stain of Nazism infecting the country at the time. It is quite a chilling programme, not enjoyable but worth catching if people are interested. Thank goodness "we" won the war.

Our studio was a building use as offices for the Arsenal.....the main arsenal is further down river but where we are was all 'Arsenal' work also.
There is still a large part of the site left derelict. I have been eying up an amazing industrial unit freehold with floor to ceiling arched windows, 40' height to a long glass roof and 5800sq ft. Sadly, we don't have ooodles of cash or I would buy it tomo and renovate it for our own use. It would probably need about 150k spent on it though but I will dream on.

Just found out our tax bill and it;s very painful. If only we could keep that cash in the business (like P Green get's to do), would make a massive difference next year. We could then take a few risks.

Hope all the NP's are well, I have been trying to keep up with the thread. Willl be a bit AWOL until new range launches next W/E...always a stressy/busy time and working every w/e is getting on my nerves a bit now but needs as must and all that.:)

Snow is thawing a bit now but our main roads were gritted and are clear.....usually, the area grinds to a halt when it snows.

lostinrates

Fc, thats how i feel about dhs tax this year....if we didn't pay it it wouldn't me making us rich, it would all be spend on goods and services!


The chickens should have feathers in about two months i think. I'm going by what happens here when a girl is a bit of a favourite of the boy, because then he wears her feathers on the back out....they take a couple of months to fully recover. Edit: these aren't direct ex batt chooks, that practise now being banned. These ex batts went, if i understand correctly, to a free range farm where the farmer found their ex batt habits hard to deal with .....e.g. Unlike normal chickens ex batts lay where they happen to be, because they never learned in a cage the preference for the privacy of a nesting box, not the freedom of choice. That makes collecting eggs somewhat labour intensive. In any case, these are a good weight, and only one has a beak that looks altered, and though their combs need to colour up and they are bald, And some have quite bad cataracts....i only took a couple with cataracts and only if one eye looked good, our situation wouldn't be at all safe for ones with very bad vision. So despite the ex batt start these are actually via one of the highest welfare situations offered commercially if the background i have is right. Wish tbh, is more depressing. I do not know how long ago the transfer was.....and how much worse they might have looked then.

Next time we will take more. They are adapting really well, and are very surprisingly non aggro. Normally with my chooks i would expect more aggro introducing more hens, Let alone with ones who have needed to work harder for space etc. my hens are being rather kind to them.....i don't know whether thats because mine have given up, with the geese and peacocks having moved in they might think these odd looking birds are some other non chickens, i doubt its because my chickens have taken pity on them, that sort of nobility doesn't tend to be very often demonstrated amoung hens. The boys sometimes are amazingly generous to their own girls though. One of the loveliest things ever is when i watched our cockeral jump up and bend over raspberry canes so the hens could gorge on the fruit.

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

OK ... lost. Now I have absolutely NO idea what's going on. And it's 1 minute into the film.

Are you my wife?

Mrs Wheezy likes a movie with a straightforward storyline, well defined characters, etc...
Nothing with flashbacks, dreams or anything like that. We wachted 'Inception' a while ago and 3 days later I was still explaining.

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have teletext on a lot of the time, to cope with changes in accents/speech volume.

We often have subtitles on. As you probably know, our native tongue is not English. When they use the Queens' English we're fine.
But as soon as a Scot, Yorkshireman or some U.S. Midwest farmer comes on, we're lost

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

Are you my wife?

Mrs Wheezy likes a movie with a straightforward storyline, well defined characters, etc...
Nothing with flashbacks, dreams or anything like that. We wachted 'Inception' a while ago and 3 days later I was still explaining.

I watched Donnie Darko 3x to try to understand it. Watched it first, googled it to get the storyline, then watched it again thinking that I understood it. Then watched it a 3rd time and realised I was wrong the 2nd time.... and I didn't understand it.

I know it's about time travel .... but I don't understand/know when it happens, what the result of that is ... and how it all fits together, or why.

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

We often have subtitles on. As you probably know, our native tongue is not English. When they use the Queens' English we're fine.
But as soon as a Scot, Yorkshireman or some U.S. Midwest farmer comes on, we're lost

I didn't know that.

I am 100% British born and bred.... but struggle with a lot of the accents. Scots are a complete mystery - Geordie's worse. Most Yorkshire I'm OK with. Lots of Americans can be tricky.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

I tried to do that personality type quiz again tonight and just got really cross with it....or rather myself and my approach and struggle with it.

Instead i am going to go to bed and hope tomorrow i wake up able to spell again, with new back and lega and in a better mkood.

i think this means you are INTJ

chewmylegoff

Wheezy wrote: »

Are you my wife?

Mrs Wheezy likes a movie with a straightforward storyline, well defined characters, etc...
Nothing with flashbacks, dreams or anything like that. We wachted 'Inception' a while ago and 3 days later I was still explaining.

the dreaded "what's going on" whispered 2 minutes in!!

tinker tailor solider spy went a bit like this:

1 minute before the start:
her: "what's this film about"
me: "cold war spy stuff"
her: "what's the cold war"
me: "oh my giddy aunt"

2 minutes in:
her: "what's going on"
me: "are you serious??"

5 minutes in:
her: "zzzzz"
me: "praise the lord"

chewmylegoff

Doozergirl wrote: »

I thought the Time Traveller's Wife was a lovely film.

i thought it was particularly creepy and weird. he should have been prosecuted for grooming and locked up (in an inter-dimensional space/time prison).

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

This hotel programmes full of amusing squabbles, poor staff, poor management, poor conditions ... and is complete chaos. Love it.... reminds me of some of the places I've worked.

makes you wonder why they agree to be on tv! it never ceases to amaze me the extent to which people will expose themselves in those tv documentaries. they must realise they're presiding over a complete shower!