Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

Sorry, posted last post as you were writing this.
The stream sounds fine.

If you're going to get really neurotic ........ did you know we can drown in something like 2"-3" of water? True, apparently.

One of the funniest yet stupidest things i have ever heard was some english tourists in venice complaineing about the unfenced off canals...

It shouldn't be allowed , they said. They went on to remark they hadn't seen many children (school day term time) and maybe they weren't allowed to live in venice:rotfl:

At five i was swimming alone, long days in the sea, too far out and too far along the coast from home. I would not let a kid do that, or have unrestricted access to any body of water, but i sure would be having water where ever i live.

alfie_1

rozeepozee wrote: »

There are quite e few Sebastopols on there - I've already looked I almost sent alf a link, but I knew, next thing, she'd be in the car driving over there :rotfl:

yes please.....:D:D:D

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

Don't get me started but I am neurotic. OH says I have a death anxiety, but about water, it's pretty realistic when you have small children. DS has managed to fall into the water trough in the allotment and the pond at the nursery (I know... :eek:) so I am very wary. These incidents made all the more ironic as he was under my care and yet my friends jokingly call me Mrs Health and Safety as I do a risk assessment of each and every new environment for the kids (people's houses, cafes, anywhere, basically!) I once heard a heartbreaking interview of Muriel Gray, the journalist, on Radio 4. Her daughter fell into a few inches of water and was permanently brain damaged, totally unable to function and needing round the clock care. It is my nightmare (along with quite a few others that I reserve for my children )

A very close relative of mine was almost killed in a fire as a child, lost fingers, is mainly skin grafts. I believe its to my familes immense credit we all still love open fires/candles etc

You must do as you feel safest rozee, i am not critising, But for me the risk would be in not learning to cope with danger safely in a secure environment.

Oh, i also started free diving as a young child!:eek: not something i would encourage in my kids!

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

One of the funniest yet stupidest things i have ever heard was some english tourists in venice complaineing about the unfenced off canals...

It shouldn't be allowed , they said. They went on to remark they hadn't seen many children (school day term time) and maybe they weren't allowed to live in venice:rotfl:

At five i was swimming alone, long days in the sea, too far out and too far along the coast from home. I would not let a kid do that, or have unrestricted access to any body of water, but i sure would be having water where ever i live.

:rotfl: l'inglese, huh? *shrug with palms up & eyes rolled*

I've found it's usually not the obvious things that are the real danger in the countryside. It tends to be things like not keeping tetanus jabs up to date or checking for ticks that can cause real problems.

alfie_1

its ok rozee...ive looked at the preloved site and at £250 a trio :eek:
and mention of a "smooth sebastopol" ?????

i know i will find em

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

its ok rozee...ive looked at the preloved site and at £250 a trio :eek:
and mention of a "smooth sebastopol" ?????

i know i will find em

:rotfl: Somebody has probably spent a great deal of time & effort getting that bird's feathers to lay flat

annie123

Re kids and water, my mother was so scared of me drowning (and anything else she could think of)I wasn't even allowed to school swimming lessons in case I drowned!

That had 2 effects on me. 1st, as an adult, I still don't like water deeper than my knees (but I can now swim 1 width of a pool with my head out of the water:D) and 2nd, I wasn't going to let my son grow up with the same fears instilled in me, he was in a pool at 6 months old and at 2 I taught him to crawl up commando style on his belly to the pond to stop the frogs from vanishing. Must have looked very odd to the neighbours! but it worked he loved ponds and still does. His own wildlife pond takes up around 1/4 of his garden.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Why do I get the feeling that you, like me, grew up in the "Throw 'em in & they'll soon learn to swim" generation, Dave? :rotfl:

Almost true. I was never scared of water, but I respected it. As someone who fished a lot, I knew how fickle the North Devon rivers can be. One of my earlier memories was seeing the aftermath of the Lynmouth flood disaster when here on holiday at the age of 4.

In my school years, the pool at Barney Rubble was open air & unheated.:eek: The school went there in what seemed like March, but it was probably May, and they attempted to teach us to swim.

All I remember was being disgustingly cold; standing there , half in and half out, with my teeth chattering. Learn? Co-ordinate? I just wanted to escape! :rotfl:

Anyway, the following year, we moved on to either learning to swim or diving. Realising that the divers spent more time out than in, I knew which one was for me! To dive one needed to be a real swimmer, as it was all deep end stuff.....but staff didn't know who was, so that was a technicality. Anyway, I learned to dive, and I was quite good too. Nobody noticed that the few 'strokes' I did to reach the side were total rubbish!

All well & good, but when I was about 15 they built a pool in my home town of South Mouldy. There, inexplicably, the coolest teenagers had somehow all learned to swim....properly.:cool:

I was therefore forced to spend some very undignified sessions with younger kids, learning the basics I'd skipped. :o

But I'm still not much good.:(

Edit: I can't remember the exact circumstances now, but I once jumped out of a dinghy to swim the 40m or so to shore in the Taw estuary. Apart from the sewage issue, this was a perfectly safe activity to demonstrate why we don't swim when the flags say "no." I don't need to tell you, I never got there.

rozeepozee

alfie_1 wrote: »

i have looked at quite a few "frogs" but no "princes" yet ...:rotfl:
trouble is having had what i deemed good specimens,now if you get the "almost" ones ,they dont breed true and the 1st batch can turn out smooth feathered . im a bit selective when im spending that amount of dosh...:D i would want to see a good return for it...:rotfl: i sold my birds for £70 a pair 10 years ago !! and it is SO difficult to sex them so it was pot luck on buyers. proven pair was a £100. so **** knows what they are now!!

I think I may have found my niche market! Alfie, will you be my Sebastopol breeding consultant please?:rotfl:

rozeepozee

alfie_1 wrote: »

its ok rozee...ive looked at the preloved site and at £250 a trio :eek:
and mention of a "smooth sebastopol" ?????

i know i will find em

Well, when you do, maybe we can negotiate a discount together for a bulk purchase

Should I be thinking about getting registered as a smallholding? Can you buy fowl without one?