Elegsabiff Blog Comments (9,358)

RE: My favorite Nicholas Cage movie

I'll look out for Moonstruck. I like Cher, I think she's pretty good at picking films that work for her.

RE: lol

Sheesh, burn them too, they're evidence!

RE: This opinion ALWAYS gets me into trouble!

Most people handling fireworks are sober and most accidents relating to fireworks are misfires.

Saying all, or even many, of the people who pick up a firework are drunken morons was never going to make you friends on social media.

Check with Mr Google. I did. Most of the problems in Denmark are caused by illegal fireworks. Ban fireworks, or make them difficult to get = more illegal ones and more problems.

RE: HAREM GOSSIP.

Toots be nice when he used to post about his harem he called it a hareem. Just shows, CS is eventually educational.

RE: What Is Reality?- Part 1 (The Question)

I'm guessing this is a rhetorical question and Part 2 will be (The Answer)

RE: 06 January -Singles Day

AND - we have a match.

Who wants to be a bridesmaid?

Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee wish me luck

RE: 06 January -Singles Day

Molly I just did a quick check. I have been viewed, across the eleventeen sites, 245 times. Even as we speak I'm guessing 245 lovely gents are trying to remember how to spell "how r u"

RE: 06 January -Singles Day

You had better be right, I've joined every free dating site, or offering a free trial period, I could find. Neutral ground is the best place to wait for the rush, eh?

RE: " YOUR HEART IS FREE AGAIN...HAVE THE COURAGE TO FOLLOW IT! "

So sorry, I can't read it all, seems you are shouting (and Spock, btw, rarely shouted)



I do seem to have started a bit of a trend for generations though

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pK that rooster asked for it one goose we had picked on the (much bigger) dog constantly but made the mistake of trapping her in a corner. He was having a fine old time tormenting her until she decided gentle was a mug's game and turned on him.

He tasted pretty good too

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Track it sounds ambrosial, I'm surprised you're not out there breaking a hole in the ice for some winter fishing. Must spoil you for the taste of stale fish completely -

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pK first one to agree to the goose I went with sheer bribery and corruption, always carried a handful of mixed grain in my pocket so although they rushed me they were excited not hostile

one comment said earlier we try to protect our kids from the less fun things of life. Huh. Don't remember anyone ever telling me I didn't need to go to the dentist, or have my jabs

RE: lol

YES!

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Luke - that was vivid. I suddenly actually tasted it again and that's a memory that goes back to when Noah was a lad. Also reminded me my mother went through a stage of thinking every growing child needed cod's liver oil, just because her mother had insisted on her having it.

That doesn't taste nice either.

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Track, wow, impressive CV! I wouldn't know where to start gutting a fish, I've heard wives don't like doing it so guess it can be a messy business? but fresh-caught fish has to taste pretty good. So come the apocalypse, got you down as being in charge of fish and chips.

Hi, Big Brother, didja see what I just did ...

TSB?? I have accounts at TSB?? What happened to TSB?? I wasn't able to log in at month end when I was reconciling my accounts, thought nothing of it and frankly since all I have is an emptied ISA with about £100 and a savings account I wasn't that worried

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Molly, yeah, Ek would become our guru

There are a few on here who are largely self-sufficient - Ken is another - and a few more who could adapt in a heartbeat because they are almost there already, just a few new skills to add to their repertoire. Lots of orchids, though

You're one who grows stuff and cooks from scratch, Eks would probably welcome you

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Annlee, yeah - not that I have any hankering at all to live a hundred or more years ago when times were tougher, but - whole new world!

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Bear - not an easy life! Ranch life sounds straight out of an American movie, so much more glamorous than a farm or smallholding, but guessing bottom line they are both hard work,

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Bear, then my guess is you never did fetch eggs reaching under a broody hen is one of the experiences my hand can't forget, no matter how hard I try

Did your kids also spend time on the farm?

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And I suspect there are quite a lot of them



Why, just one - there are at least 20 species of insects in your garden which have never been identified by science - in some areas that can go as high as 400 species. Okay they aren't important with a capital I - but they are still waiting to be identified and maybe one will be ... nothing exists for no reason. Evolution isn't wasteful, although it is occasionally very eccentric

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Molly, have a heart, most of them are so young I have a toy monkey on my shoulder when I'm teaching

We don't know what we don't know - nonsense, most of us know everything and have nothing left to learn ever from anyone

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Imp, the smells are what its all about. Even mucking out, although you do wonder what some of those horses have been drinking, pure ammonia? Your daughter's a character! Mine's bossy, so I meekly let her cook and wash up when she visits, because as she says she does it better. (I cherish my ignorance)

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TR I have never sheared a sheep I watched some of a pig being slaughtered (and although I ran as far as I could, heard the rest) and hens and pigeons having their necks wrung and found it all alarmingly over-real for a city kid. Yet on my mum's side there have been generations of farmers, I shouldn't have even blinked.

I do agree at least one summer at a working farm sharing the long hours and the sheer toil should be compulsory. Closest to hard work I ever did was being a working pupil at a commercial stables and even that changes you. JMO.

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Secluded Star, you're still wet behind the ears, get orf my blog

I wasn't actually blaming. Unlike the rest of us confined to our wheelchairs and walkers you can still get to a farm and learn all that young kid stuff. Go forth, young Skywalker. Have kids. Teach them too. You are our arrow into the future.

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Molly, well, tbh more a question of squirming your hand underneath a broody hen and it is incredibly revolting and warm and spiky-feathery - and those beaks look surprisingly big when you're that close. especially if you ever saw a hen kill a mouse or mole cricket.

This particular kid was 7 years old and lives in Shanghai, which I am led to believe is quite built-up. Could be fake news.

Yes your cogent point could dampen the blog except I'm not as much interested in what we know or don't know as in the fact that kids don't know even the little that we do. Why do I always end up having to explain my blogs? BAD failing in a teacher! But no wonder I am booked weeks in advance, I am so easily taken off topic



Thank you for commenting even suppressively

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Imp, your daughter sounds indomitable and yup, kids should grow up on farms or at least spend summers at them, just to round out their education! Mine grew up on a smallholding and then went to an outreach school - and is now a pure urbanite, but because life worked out that way, not because she hates the country.

Do you visit often, and do you lend a hand with the chores when you do?

RE: Religion explained in one minute.....

Hans - missing my point.

They could be cloning miniature donald trumps for all I care. The point was that most clones of anything fail, at least half test tube babies fail (which is why so many of the ones that 'took' are implanted, and even some of those will fail) and

nobody
knows
why

and that is fact. Not speculation. It is a flat fact that brilliant minds and top scientists still don't know why a lot of inexplicable things happen and neither, if you put a moment's thought into it, do you. Some can claim divine intervention and some can claim random chance (again and again and again) but nobody knows.

Yet.

Nice that there are still some mysteries around, even though most people prefer to think they know it is their god or their comedian or simply ignore inconvenient details altogether - we are all getting remarkably good at that. Whatever rocks your boat.

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Imp, your last paragraph was terrifying! and more and more people are saying it (mind you,usually, thank God for iPads, I give mine to my kid when he wants to play at 6 in the morning)

Generation gap! but the horse thing sounds idyllic ...

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Ermmmmmmmmm no I'm about to eat

Noticing one thing, even those who know how to do this stuff, no-one's mentioned their kids doing it too. Bloody, I'm guessing your kids know their way around but most kids are far more at home in a mall than in the countryside