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Post by Weyland on Nov 19, 2010 11:22:08 GMT
Why are you there Weyland? I was sent here by Trubs on a secret mission to save the Irish economy by shoring up the housing market in Nordrhein-Westfalen. I'm planning to buy a house in Germany, on the border, and move there. My daughter lives in Arnhem. Houses are much cheaper in that part of Germany (100m over the field to my left*) than in this part of the Netherlands. Meanwhile I keep my caravan here so that I can come over when I feel like it and look for the ideal house. There's no hurry, because I won't be selling the house in Wales until the Spring, when I've tarted it up and got rid of a lot of the junk I've collected. _______________ * When I first came to this site, I was talking to the owner and said "Is that the border, past those trees?". "Yes," he said, "don't worry, we'll see them coming."
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Post by jean on Nov 19, 2010 12:00:52 GMT
From Holland, you mean, Jean? Paling? 1. The smokeries are in the west, and I'm on the German border. (But I have agents in the west.) Yes I do - I just remembered it. Don't they sell it all over Holland? The smoking preserves it, so that shouldn't be a problem, especially if you buy it in a vacuum pack. Something less than one, I think. Though I used to buy whole ones with the skin on for a pittance in Turcyn Market in Szczecin. But there's a man from Anglesea who comes to our Farmers' Market who sometimes has them, so I don't need a whole year's supply.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 19, 2010 21:06:49 GMT
Yes I do - I just remembered it. Don't they sell it all over Holland? The smoking preserves it, so that shouldn't be a problem, especially if you buy it in a vacuum pack. Something less than one, I think. Though I used to buy whole ones with the skin on for a pittance in Turcyn Market in Szczecin. But there's a man from Anglesea who comes to our Farmers' Market who sometimes has them, so I don't need a whole year's supply. You shall get your paling. I've never seen it in a supermarket, which doesn't mean they don't sell it. But I will try to get some direct from a smokery if I can. Anglesey?
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Post by jean on Nov 19, 2010 21:28:07 GMT
Oops - I meant Ynys Mon.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 19, 2010 21:35:54 GMT
Funny how memories get triggered by spurious linkages . . . Have you read A Wizard of Earthsea?
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Post by jean on Nov 19, 2010 21:57:25 GMT
I know I'm supposed to have, but I haven't.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 19, 2010 22:15:45 GMT
I know I'm supposed to have, but I haven't. Interesting, but why? I enjoyed it, and the sequel, but I think her best book by far is The Left Hand of Darkness. The Dispossessed is pretty good too. (One of my (banned) BBC ids was Gethen Winter. Happy daze.)
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Post by jean on Nov 19, 2010 23:00:54 GMT
Why haven't I, or why should I have?
(What did you get banned from the BBC for?)
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Post by aubrey on Nov 19, 2010 23:12:19 GMT
It's a novel about a wizard school, Jean. But it is really good.
Left Hand is good, too. and Dispossessed.
I can't imagine you getting banned, Weyland. And with that name, as well.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 20, 2010 1:34:24 GMT
Why haven't I, or why should I have? The second. Good question. It happened many times. Usually they didn't say why. The last time it was because of whom I was married to. The time before that because of something another poster -- Nicky Wilson -- said about me. Usually no reason given. No communication answered. No feedback acknowledged. Ironically enough, I was one of the BBC's keenest and most voluble supporters on the R4 Today boards. And there were some virulently anti-BBC voices there. They never got banned. (At one time I was in email contact with some of the BBC boards technical people, discussing their crude software, but that was squashed too. I'd been using better board software at IBM ten years earlier, but they weren't allowed to continue the conversation.) Beats me, but I didn't give up for a long, long time, about the time they stopped allowing users to choose topics. That was the kiss of death to what could have been the best boards in the world. Not that I'm bitter.
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Post by jean on Nov 20, 2010 10:19:07 GMT
I used to look after a school library at one point, so I read the reviews and knew what all the best children's books were supposed to be. So I felt under some sort of obligation. The last time it was because of whom I was married to. How is that possible? What, the well-known rabid homophobe? Didn't they get banned themselves? Most of the people I've known get banned richly deserved it - and I never believed their complaints that they got banned because of a conspiracy of other posters against them, because I was usually down as part of the conspiracy or even its ringleader, and I knew I wasn't. And yet here you are saying it really might work like that. It's even worse now, after the recent makeover. I though they were a bearpit. I hardly ever ventured there, thus giving the lie to the popular myth that I'll do anything for a spat.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 20, 2010 11:33:06 GMT
I used to look after a school library at one point, so I read the reviews and knew what all the best children's books were supposed to be. So I felt under some sort of obligation. The last time it was because of whom I was married to. How is that possible? What, the well-known rabid homophobe? Didn't they get banned themselves? Most of the people I've known get banned richly deserved it - and I never believed their complaints that they got banned because of a conspiracy of other posters against them, because I was usually down as part of the conspiracy or even its ringleader, and I knew I wasn't. And yet here you are saying it really might work like that. It's even worse now, after the recent makeover. I though they were a bearpit. I hardly ever ventured there, thus giving the lie to the popular myth that I'll do anything for a spat. If you'd known Jilona, you wouldn't need to ask. She was a bit ..er.. volatile. They banned her, and me, because we had the same IP address. Anyone else on the same LAN would have been banned too. Crackpot "moderation" of the worst kind. I didn't know Wilson was a homophobe. I used to slice him and dice him relentlessly because of his insane politics and hilarious ignorance of history. Many other Today board regulars insisted that he was a woman, but I reckoned he was just too stupid to be a woman. I must admit that I managed to impersonate Wilson seamlessly one wonderful day, but he still told lies to get me banned because he couldn't prove anything. My mindless witterings were indistinguishable from his. Jilona and me and a few others, such as Old Holborn, almost died laughing that day. Banned the next. I guess I must like a bearpit. I only use messageboards for the entertainment value.
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Post by riotgrrl on Nov 20, 2010 21:39:48 GMT
Jilona was not really volatile Weyland. She was more just a top-of-the-range wind-up merchant.
(In my view of her.)
And you, by the way, do not use Stub Crouch for the entertainment value. You're here because you know you're among friends, like the rest of the regulars. We're a weird cliquey lot around here.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 20, 2010 21:50:33 GMT
Jilona was not really volatile Weyland. She was more just a top-of-the-range wind-up merchant. That, and a lot, lot more. Including explosive volatility. I know. I loved her. Love her still. True. Well put. And that is nothing if not entertainment of the best possible kind. Dublin and Lambeth provided concrete proof, as if proof were needed.
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Post by riotgrrl on Nov 20, 2010 22:02:27 GMT
Jilona was not really volatile Weyland. She was more just a top-of-the-range wind-up merchant. That, and a lot, lot more. Including explosive volatility. I know. I loved her. Love her still. True. Well put. And that is nothing if not entertainment of the best possible kind. Dublin and Lambeth provided concrete proof, as if proof were needed. On the first point . . . On the second, That's how we roll on the Stub.
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Post by sesley on Nov 21, 2010 21:05:14 GMT
bangers amnd mash followed by sticky toffee pudding i made. Its been a hit not made it before,so will definatley do that for Christmas instead of the pudding which no one eats after christmas day . I made my christmas cake today as well. Its now hopefully happily enjoying its brandy,all wrapped up in a cool room to be topped up every week now until christmas. Great!!
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Post by Patrick on Nov 21, 2010 22:17:36 GMT
My sensational Bolognese.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 23, 2010 20:48:45 GMT
Had a "Lustiger Bosnjas" steak at a German-Balkan restaurant today, with fried potatoes and Croatian vegetable rice. It was pretty good, but I wasn't expecting the steak to be stuffed with cheese, which I removed.
Don't like cheese with meat, except possibly a cheeseburger once in a blue moon. And Parmesan.
Like a lot of German restaurants, there was a salad buffet thrown in, and it was a delight, including assorted pickles and something I'd never seen before -- pickled green tomatoes. Delicious! And the usual lovely German salad dressings. Yummy yummy yumyum.
€23, including two fine beers. Not cheap, but good value.
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Post by everso on Nov 29, 2010 17:56:30 GMT
Beef casserole tonight. Aberdeen angus braising steak, onions, turnips, carrots, celery and, of course, my famous dumplings. Apple and blackberry pie for afters. So, all in all, a low calorie meal.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 30, 2010 13:02:46 GMT
Words of expectation by - well, need you ask? "To please is the curse, and worse..."
Oh, eating? Nothing. Which reminds me.
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