Living on $12,000 a year

ceridwen

Morning all.

Rosieben - heard a snatch of the news - 2 Buudhist monasteries invaded in Burma (to violate such places......!:eek: ). Too tired at moment to have got my head together for day - sleepless night with "own personal stuff" coming to a bit of a head - so havent really had time to catch up on more important stuff.

Have you been able to get through yet by email? (light your own little candle in the darkness - so to say)

ceridwen

Follow-up thought - alternative news sources if mainstream media is not reporting an item fully that you might be able to get more detail from:

www.indymedia.org
www.tomdispatch.com
www.news.google.com
www.alternet.org
www.guerillanews.com
www.cq.com
http://english.dvb.no/contact.php (the Democratic Voice of Burma)
I am not familiar with any of them except indymedia - I have followed a few stories more closely through them. I have yet to try the other websites - so dont know what they're like.

ceridwen

Best I have been able to locate email address-wise is to send emails to British Embassy, Rangoon, Burma - expressing appropriate sentiments and asking if they can kindly forward in appropriate direction to Burmese Govt.

email address for them is:

[EMAIL="Consular.Rangoon@fco.gov.uk"]Consular.Rangoon@fco.gov.uk[/EMAIL]

Hardup_Hester

Thanks for the info Ceridwen

ceridwen

Having seen the bits re clothes - revamping, etc - on O.S. another link of interest to people:

http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/09/knitting-for-apocalypse.html

its a page extract from one of my favourited blogs that is specifically on knitting - including details of various knitting books.

(I only wish I had time to do anything more creative than just make own bread - time/time/time - always short. Busy with personal stuff right now - but must remember to buy a condolence card - which I personally have renamed a "compassion card" to send to Burmese embassy in London - as in condolence for 200 murdered people. Talk about an intermix of the personal and the "bigger picture" !)

ADDITION; Found my perfect card - traditional condolence card, really simple - lotus blossom on front and words "Thinking of you" inside - as in lotus blossom being Buddhist symbol. Perfect - added my own condolences, sent, job done.

moanymoany

I have an update on the chickens. After a week of spending most of the time in their house rather than in their small pen, they now have the run of the garden. We let them out early Saturday afternoon and in 24 hours they have become very tame, and are spending all of the time doing chicken stuff outside.

Owing to an obvious desire to come and live in the house with us Dh decided to make a netting fence to go across the garden about halfway up. He has spend about two hours doing it. We have a garden seat in this part of the garden and DH commented that if they could get near it it wouldn't be long before they realised they could climb on it and cover it with offerings!

When the fence was finished we were sitting having a cup of tea, watching the - clearly annoyed - chickens standing at the fence, watching us. I suddenly noticed that one of them - Myrtle - had somehow got round the fence and was in our half of the garden. 'Bloody hell - how did she get round that!' exclaimed DH. As we looked and speculated, Emily flew over the fence and made an ungainly landing next to Myrtle. As we stared, open mouthed, Beryl followed. 'It's just like the sodding 633 Squadren,' exclaimed Dh bitterly as the three chickens crowded round the patio door, pecking on it, demanding to come in. 'I spent two hours on the ***** thing.'

Two minutes later I responded to a call 'look look' - I looked. Emily had got onto the garden seat and was perched on the back. In the manner of a tightrope walker, she slowly walked from one end to the other, turned round and walked back. The back is not very wide and to keep her balance she had to move her wings, just in the manner of arms. When a claw slipped, she had to struggle to regain her balance. It was so funny. 'I told you they would soon get up there', DH said. 'More chicken poo to clean up!' At the same time we hear a crooning noise from the kitchen, sure enough, Myrtle was in the kitchen.


Interestingly, he seems to have realised instinctively that cleaning up chicken poo is a man's job. Everyone said chickens were funny - they're not wrong so far! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Yategirl

moanymoany wrote: »

I have an update on the chickens. After a week of spending most of the time in their house rather than in their small pen, they now have the run of the garden. We let them out early Saturday afternoon and in 24 hours they have become very tame, and are spending all of the time doing chicken stuff outside.

Owing to an obvious desire to come and live in the house with us Dh decided to make a netting fence to go across the garden about halfway up. He has spend about two hours doing it. We have a garden seat in this part of the garden and DH commented that if they could get near it it wouldn't be long before they realised they could climb on it and cover it with offerings!

When the fence was finished we were sitting having a cup of tea, watching the - clearly annoyed - chickens standing at the fence, watching us. I suddenly noticed that one of them - Myrtle - had somehow got round the fence and was in our half of the garden. 'Bloody hell - how did she get round that!' exclaimed DH. As we looked and speculated, Emily flew over the fence and made an ungainly landing next to Myrtle. As we stared, open mouthed, Beryl followed. 'It's just like the sodding 633 Squadren,' exclaimed Dh bitterly as the three chickens crowded round the patio door, pecking on it, demanding to come in. 'I spent two hours on the ***** thing.'

Two minutes later I responded to a call 'look look' - I looked. Emily had got onto the garden seat and was perched on the back. In the manner of a tightrope walker, she slowly walked from one end to the other, turned round and walked back. The back is not very wide and to keep her balance she had to move her wings, just in the manner of arms. When a claw slipped, she had to struggle to regain her balance. It was so funny. 'I told you they would soon get up there', DH said. 'More chicken poo to clean up!' At the same time we hear a crooning noise from the kitchen, sure enough, Myrtle was in the kitchen.


Interestingly, he seems to have realised instinctively that cleaning up chicken poo is a man's job. Everyone said chickens were funny - they're not wrong so far! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

MM - that is brilliant!! :rotfl: :rotfl: though not for your dh having done all that work!!

:rotfl: Is there any chance of some pics of the house and run you made for your chickens...... pppllllleeeaaassseee! I have persuaded dh to let me and ds's have chickens at long last and am now trying to work out what accomodation we need for them - and we have to make it.. no way we can afford eglu's or other "posh" readymade stuff :rolleyes: Would love to see your idea in the flesh so to speak!

ceridwen

hI Moany

I've been hoping for a chicken update - :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

That Myrtle is obviously lining up as contender for the Chickens Troublemaker of the Year Award. I feel duly honoured at you having adopted my name for her!

Gave me a laugh for the evening.

Now why do I get the feeling the next chicken piccie we get is all 3 of them sitting there at the dining table waiting for lunch.....:rotfl: ...sounds like it wont be long before Myrtle finds out the way to it. I know dogs and cats beg for scraps at the table - but your chickens could make it a first for chickens to do so!

I've just remembered an article I read a while ago about a man whose pet parrot had some health problem or other and the vet recommended he take it in the shower cubicle with him for a good "blast" of steam and water when he had his shower. The treatment did the trick - but now the parrot virtually sits there "tapping its feet" if he isnt quick enough off the mark to take his daily showers, as the parrot is still insisting on sharing them every day. Thinks Moany - note to self - "Dont let the chickens discover the bathroom!"

ceridwen

Hi

Quick thought for the day - one more link to blogs (more news-type character - must remember Hesters injunction to specify nature of blogs - after forgetting to mention that hers is X-rated!)

www.globalvoicesonline.org

This is blogs from a wide variety of countries internationally.

(Did notice at quick glance - that 4 October is International Bloggers Day for Burma - good on you guys and gals - proud of you)

ceridwen

Note to Moany/Rosieben/yategirl

Look what I found for you:

www.thecitychicken.com
www.backyardchickens.com
www.madcitychickens.com

Enjoy it.