Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

yum yum yum, we had the first 3 baby courgettes (not pollinated) in stir fry for supper. can't wait for us to have courgettes out of our ears. we can eat a courgette a day for many many many weeks. Then i freeze them to use throughout the winter.



surprisingly, the french beans in the allotment have flowers! I hate runner beans but I may have to grow some this year as my bean harvest may be pathetic.

and I've planted spagetti squash which is the king of all squash. I can never seem to buy them but had them once and fell in love so now I have to grow them if I want to eat them. the lengths I go to for food. :rotfl:

See, less keen on spaghetti squash. Its nice, but i thnk the title of king should go to kabocha with no doubt. I also like round courgettes, for stuffing, patty pan, which admittedly tast better than they look, but oh they look SO good, and butternut, which is just so versitile.

Oh but kabocha, KABOCHA. Thats the king, surely!?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

A properly made kebab is just spiced meatloaf with salad and bread. we made ours with lamb mince, onions, garlic, fresh herbs and stuffed it in a fresh home made roll with salad and mayo.

nom nom.

Yum, that sounds lovely. We make shish style kebabs, marinated chicken or lamb, salad and pitta. Lots of yoghurt and mint and cumber, maybe ras al hanout, big lemon wedge, lots of shredded lettuce.....but i will definitely try your spiced meatloaf suggestion, sounds heavenly.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

See, less keen on spaghetti squash. Its nice, but i thnk the title of king should go to kabocha with no doubt. I also like round courgettes, for stuffing, patty pan, which admittedly tast better than they look, but oh they look SO good, and butternut, which is just so versitile.

Oh but kabocha, KABOCHA. Thats the king, surely!?

Now I have space for growing them, I will try some next year for comparison purposes

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

We were talking of scotch eggs some time back .... there's a speciality shop a mile away http://www.handmadescotcheggs.co.uk/ ... I could find myself strangely drawn in their direction in the next 2-3 weeks.... need to at least try the banana diet for a few days before I give up ... make it look like I tried

On another matter, does nobody spellcheck websites? Is this a job/career for the future? Lovely website but looks like nobody glanced at it before it went online.:p

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

On another matter, does nobody spellcheck websites? Is this a job/career for the future? Lovely website but looks like nobody glanced at it before it went online.:p

Perhaps i had?

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

On another matter, does nobody spellcheck websites? Is this a job/career for the future? Lovely website but looks like nobody glanced at it before it went online.:p

The answer is "no". It's the classic case of "... anybody could have.... everybody thought somebody was.... nobody...."

The site owner assumes the web-dev will do it. Web-dev think it's the customer's job. Nobody specs for it, it's just assumed by both sides that the others are doing it.

It's the customer's responsibility.... unless specifically part of the contract, which it rarely is.

There's no job/career from it. Nobody wants to pay for it. Freelancers do it usually, if asked to. On the whole.... nobody bothers.

After all ... nobody can read these days anyway

GDB2222

I would be no good as a spell-checker, because I had a look at the site and saw no spelling errors at all. Admittedly, it was a quick look, but could somebody enlighten me about where just a few of the errors are, please?

Edit: Just spotted this one "and of course deivery is free on orders over £50". Stupidly, that would show up on any spell-checker, so it doesn't need anybody looking over the site painstakingly to find it.

GDB2222

Oh, and here's a website that checks your website for you.

http://www.further.co.uk/free-website-spellcheck/

It found this list, of which only a few are actually non-deliberate mistakes:

Eggshed
WeeBeasties
Mediteranean
Egg'cetera
ClassicMac
WeeOne
Yoats
deivery
Frome
alltogether
tuckboxes
WeeOnes
herefordshire
Aficianado
Cheltenham
Facebook
LinkedIn
www
cotswoldwebservices

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

I would be no good as a spell-checker, because I had a look at the site and saw no spelling errors at all. Admittedly, it was a quick look, but could somebody enlighten me about where just a few of the errors are, please?

Edit: Just spotted this one "and of course deivery is free on orders over £50". Stupidly, that would show up on any spell-checker, so it doesn't need anybody looking over the site painstakingly to find it.

I think somebody could make good money going over sites like that. The mistakes aren't too obvious (or else they'd have jumbed up and bit everybody's backsides straight away). but you get blind to things you've written yourself.

Sorry, but I'm not going back to find the errors on a site promoting a "food" I loathe. Life's a short trip, after all.:cool:

GDB2222 wrote: »

Oh, and here's a website that checks your website for you.

http://www.further.co.uk/free-website-spellcheck/

It found this list, of which only a few are actually non-deliberate mistakes:

Eggshed
WeeBeasties
Mediteranean
Egg'cetera
ClassicMac
WeeOne
Yoats
deivery
Frome
alltogether
tuckboxes
WeeOnes
herefordshire
Aficianado
Cheltenham
Facebook
LinkedIn
www
cotswoldwebservices

Most of those aren't errors but just pieces of whimsy or brandnames. But at least two of them are real, and I may have seen more -can't recall.

Can I use this website to spellcheck my posts which usually have rubbish spelling.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I think somebody could make good money going over sites like that. The mistakes aren't too obvious (or else they'd have jumbed up and bit everybody's backsides straight away). but you get blind to things you've written yourself.

Sorry, but I'm not going back to find the errors on a site promoting a "food" I loathe. Life's a short trip, after all.:cool:

It's just a proof-reading job ... which proof-readers will do ... IF ... somebody's paying for it - and there's the thing. Everybody thinks somebody else is doing the checking, nobody wants to pay for it themselves.... it's rarely in the contract.

There have been various attempts in the past to change this model, there was a website where site owners could register and random people online could proof-read their site, being paid for each error found. That died a death too.