General Chat

I read everything and now have just about forgotten it all.

I think I would've liked to have shown the child how to push daffodil's down his father's throat but then that would be encouraging even worse behaviour. I do think it is lovely of you to plant the bluebells Tec that is such a nice gesture.

I have been watching our local TV where one chap has planted vegetables and herbs on his (wait for it) berm which is council owned. We are allowed to plant flowers on our berms if we so wish so this chap has a thriving little allotment. He and a friend were also showing us how to go around different areas and obtain various fruit and veg and herbs for nothing. He discovered a Macadamia nut tree in his travels - very enterprising. My neighbour up the road trundles off to a local park and gets several bags of pears each year and bottles them at no cost to her.
When I first came to the area there were lettuces growing just down the road in the park by the shopping centre. It is all a case of knowing where to look.

CC - when I saw your mention of the language of a child it reminded me of a friend of ours. Each morning when she went to work a little girl on her way to school would pass her coming the other way. One morning the little girl said to our friend hello what is your name. Our friend said Kate what is your name and the child said my name is Glenys but my mum calls be bumface.

Parents should really be careful - what they say - One day my daughter's kindergarten teacher rang me and asked could I come and help as the other teacher was away sick. I learnt all sorts of things about other parents that I knew that day but my lips remained sealed and all I could wonder was what on earth do the teachers think of some of us.

Persey (who pays for her eye-tests and there are no freebies after 60 either that I know of)

Hi Persey

A couple of years ago, when i was in Fremantle, I was out for a walk in the early morning: heaps of italians picking olives from the trees the Council had planted as kerbside trees.

The petrol probably made them taste better

Allan

Hello Allan and Perse,
I don't think that I would like to eat some of that roadside veg Allan, all the concentration of heavy metals can't be good for you.

In order to preserve green spaces, there is always a push to build on brown field sites. land in towns where buildings have been demolished in case you haven't come across the term. I remember a while back that i read about some houses which had been built on reclaimed industrial land and the residents had been warned that they must not consume any produce grown in their own gardens because of the soil contamination. That isn't supposed to happen, my brother is a land buyer for a large housing firm and I know he has said that they have had to turn down some sites because the cost of removing all the soil would have made it uneconomical to build on

Hello Persey, Allan and all:-)

Perse we have pig-face growing on our kerb/berm, as we live on a hill, its quite difficult to do anything with this part of our property so we just let the natives have their way!

Tec, I cant believe that man with the daffodils, what a jerk!! He needs a clip round the lughole!!! silly man!!!

Allan, I was having a browse in a new shop that opened in our shopping mall - I came across some stickers for wheelie bins, made me think of you. People around me must of thought why on earth is that crazy woman laughing, I just couldn't help myself, I had to leave the shop:-)))))

Still freezing down here, no sun at all for a couple of days. I'm stating to lose my suntan!!!!

Carole xx

Edit: Hello Linda, you snuck in while I was typing and doing the dishes in between:-))

I am sure that your sun tan will be better than mine Carole. Having fair hair I have very pale skin. I did manage a tan of sorts when we were in Mexico, but that has long faded and I am back to my usual colour. Still i gather that the English Rose look used to be sort after in our ancestors time. If you were pale skinned, it showed that you weren't a peasant working out in the fields

A lot of our market gardensare beside the roads - just south of Auckland where they grow heaps of potatoes and onions.
My father's vegetable garden was around the back of the house but I am amazed at the amount of people here that have veges growing in their front gardens. A lot of gardens have been "sprouting" up of late with so many out of work and the downturn in the economy.
I still think our fruit and veg are quite reasonable in the shops - the other day I bought a bag full of kiwi fruit for 50cents - they cost that much each in OZ.
Our fruit shops (not the supermarkets) have been also selling windfalls cheaply - earlier on we got a lot of beautiful nectarines (it's been a good year for them this summer just gone) that were windfalls and more recently golden queen peaches. At $1.20 a kilo they were really good value. It's a bad year for feijoas by the look of things - they are expensive and people that would normally be giving them away have had a very poor yield. Suits me I can't stand the smell of them.

i will have to look up pigface Carole.

Persey

Time for me to go and entertain the tourists, maybe I should sing to them this afternoon. On the other hand,we want them to stay in the town to spend their money,so that may not be a good idea after all.

My sister is coming to stay with me this evening so she can help me empty mum's house. It is getting close to exchange of contracts, but one of the people in the chain is holding things up,so there is still plenty of opportunity for the chain to collapse yet. I won't be around much for a couple of days while she is here,so I hope you all have a good couple of days.

I typed up a replay and lost it and GR - so got disgusted - and the next thing the page came back but my message has disappeared.

Anyway I looked up pig face Carole:

This is a useful plant. Not only is it useful and decorative in the garden, it is one of the bush tucker plants used by the local Aboriginal group. The leaves and fruits were used as a kind of relish to be eaten with meat. The juice from the leaves is also said to be an insect repellant.

Have you eaten any Allan? They have lovely flowers but not sure whether I would want to eat them.

Night all - now past my bed time - and I went out driving today - actually that is a lot easier on my foot than I thought it would be.

Persey

Persey

Pig face: Carpobrotus acinaciformis, also referred to in the United States as the Icicle Plant, Strand Ivy, Cape Fig Hottentots Fig, and Sour Fig, is often used for ground cover due to its fast growth, ground hugging characteristics, and resistance to fire. Carpobrotus are also drought resistant.
There are some really pretty ones that grow here naturally, they have very bright colored flowers, reds pinks, yellows and purple. They are very hardy and easy to grow.

Linda, nothing wrong with being pale. I'm not, my daughter is though and so is my hubby. I'm more like my mother's family from Gib:-))

Carole xx

I think that in the 19th century the peaches and cream or English rose complexion was equally sought after by the womenfolk of what passed for landed gentry here, too.
By the 1950's a manly tan was considered the thing, even if you were a woman. Advice to young mothers included a suggestion that baby should have 30 minutes in the sun each day. No wonder my skin is so sun damaged.
Now of course the anti-melanoma advertising tells us that the damage is done even before you start to get a tan. To my jaundiced eye, this campaign has had little impact so far.
In this city it seems that what we do with heavily contaminated sites is "remediate" them and build expensive multi level apartment blocks on them. Usually a developer whose name starts with M.
The Rhodes peninsula is one such. Previously home to ICI, British Paints and Union Carbide. Need I say more?
End of rant. I will go and check on Allan's whereabouts. He is likehe scarlet? pimpernel. They seek him here, they seek him there.

Is there anyone left in Midsomer to murder? There can't be, but if there are, where have they been hiding 'till now?

I wonder if Linda did sing to the tourists, and if so, what did she sing?
answers on a postcard please.

Allan, it is halfway through Mothers holiday. Have you noticed how none of the Sisterhood have commented on how restrained we have been in our behaviour?

Tec.

Good evening/morning all

~~~~~~~~~~~ to Berona, CC, Carlole, Colin, Diane and Persey

Good evening Tec. Actually I've not been restrained :0))

I've started some Threads, revisited others! Persey has found me, but seems to be keeping very silent about it.

Carole, I wish that I could have been in that shop with you, just to see the reactions of the other customers. It would have been wheelie funny!

Allan

GoodMorning Allan,

Hope you are well today.
I will have to go looking for you elsewhere, though I'm sure you wouldn't have been too outrageous - Berona will have been onto you like an Exocet Missile............

No flights in or out of UK today or tomorrow due to dust in the atmosphere from an Icelandic volcano.....so don't go hopping on any planes.

Tec.

Good morning/evening all.
Tec - as far as I know, you have behaved yourself so far. Allan hasn't got as much out of hand as usual, but I still have to watch him on the other threads. He insists on telling the Home & Away fans what is coming next, trying to confuse them because he doesn't watch it - but I think they are awake to his nonsense.
Haven't checked the other threads to-day as yet, so I might have more to report later.

Berona, to give you a fighting chance, would you like me to nudge them up for you, or are you happy to dig and delve? :0))

Allan

Good Morning Berona,

Hope you are well this morning.
Any news of the car yet?

Tec.

Well as I'm really very tired, I'm off to bed now,
Enjoy your day Berona and Allan,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~to Diane.

Goodnight,
Tec.

Ok Tec.

Good night

Allan

Now - everyone has gone and left me! I slipped over to Friends because I knew I had a message. It required an answer, which I typed and promptly lost and had to type again and each time I did anything, the response was frustratingly slow (it always is on that site) and now I come back and find everybody gone to bed! Not a good start to my day.
Yes Tec - I'm mobile once again. Don't feel like a prisoner any more. Don't have to rely on one of the family to take me anywhere either, so I'm going out this morning. I will check on you later, Allan! Hope you are behaving yourself!

Small hope, Berona :0))

Enjoy your drive

Allan