They were well ahead of their time in the very early sixties. I recall walking along in Portsmouth, UK with my kids, Neil would have been maybe 2/3 and all of a sudden this child is climbing up me terrified, like a scalded cat. I heard a rumbling noise and turned and saw what he had seen, a Dalek coming towards us. It was the uni students performing for Rag Week.
It was the consensus at my school that most of the Psych majors were there trying to figure out what was wrong with themselves. (And the few who weren't, were trying to figure out a crazy relative.)
Ooooold joke: Folks go into psychiatry to figure out what's wrong with themselves.
Sara, married to psychiatrist who's not particularly nuts
Sorry, no personal offence intended !
None taken! Didn't mean to imply that I was the least offended.
Sara
Grrrrroooooooaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!
You should be ashamed of yourself, Trish! LOLOLOLOL
Joan
I live a couple of blocks away from a very large "natural" park --- lots of birds, deer, raccoon, ducks, etc. Thus, I don't feed birds in my yard. They don't need it, and I don't like it when the dog grazes and snacks on all the leavings, comes into the house, and throws up! I do, however, feed the hummingbirds, with 4 feeders in the back yard and 2 on the front porch. At the moment they are off eating bugs and having babies, but there are still a few who visit, so I keep the feeders full of fresh nectar. We have lots of cardinals, robins, finches, doves, and other birds all the time, though, since I have 4 birdbaths in the back yard and always have them full of fresh water. I did feel like a bit of a fool a couple of weeks ago guarding worms from the birds! The front lawn didn't have enough worms to be healthy, so I went to the bait shop, purchased a large carton of earthworms, brought them home, sprinkled the front yard with the hose to moisten it for the worms, and then let the worms out. It takes a lot longer for worms to dig themselves into the ground that I had expected, and the birds were gathering, so I got a glass of iced tea, the cordless phone, and the latest junk book, and sat on the front steps for almost 3 hours! I'm grateful the back yard has lots and lots of healthy worms so I won't have to camp out to "lifeguard" worms again!
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LOL - Go away from reading the electronic world for a week, and look what breaks out! So glad you remembered the Daleks thing. Though, in my occasionally contradictory way - I think that you're both right. There was definitely the big "Daleks controversy" thread that went for several days. But, also IIRC someone did also right the "terminated" job note.
Oh, no - I'm agreeing again! I so totally remember that posting series. And it just made me think of where I lived/worked in France, and the ex=pat Brits there... One of the families had bought a lovely cottage, in the midst of some woods miles off the main road near St. Julien - and their son was the chef in a small restaurant. My very American crew would at times say "hey, can we go get dinner at the English restaurant - at least we can all order" . It was, however, very homey and pleasant. The locals, of course, would always see them as "those English people" in the nicest possible way.
You're very right. There are plenty of specific, strictly on-topic, or only slightly veering, groups out there. Which has undoubtedly contributed to RCTN losing some population. But, this is really like a "real-life" stitch'n'bitch group - except for the long distance, and I doubt that many of us stitch while typing ;^) So, for better or for worse - we do share our joys, losses and quirks - and I prefer to believe that most of us aren't seriuosly misrepresenting, and are sincere in our support to each other. Even if it seems a bit weird to others. I know that I've actually made "real-life" connections, friendships with people met throgh RCTN. So, while we do get a bit snipey at time, well, if you don't want to read the snipage, then you can ignore it. And if it offends you - then address it - specifically - the topic. If there's nothing redeeming here - then it would seem easy enough to just not participate. Honeatly, I find being able to sigh, shrug, wonder or walk away easier with some things here than with some specific real-life stitching groups - when I can't actually "make a face" or disagree - for fear of offending a customer. Yuck. Oh, well.
Yum for you - hope it was good. I'm going to go prep something for dinner - I think I'm having a "top chef" moment. Going to do something with scallops, and baby bok choy. Had planned to do duck breast with a berry and peach sort of coulis for tomorrow - only to find out the DH is actually reffing summer hockey. Darn.
Ellice
LOL - I think there's a common thought that psychiatrists are the craziest as they're the people who want to figure out their own issues (of course, having heard this theory espoused by my surgeon DA could be that doctor rivalry thing). My grandparents/parents had a very good friend that was a psychiatrist - he being older, his wife closer to my folks age, and the kids probably about 5 years older than I and DB. Anyhow - we all thought he (the psych) was totally off kilter - seriously crazy guy. Lovely wife. But crazy guy.
Ellice
I find those baby Bok wonderful for one person cooking. Do the duck breast and eat both I would say ! I have a nice scallop recipe given to me recently. I have done it with peaches, and last time with apricots which I love. I did it in winter with canned peaches and it was okay, but fresh is nicer. Quick, easy and delicious.
Darryl's Scallop Recipe ~ he serves with Basmati rice which is perfect
Scallops with Peaches
Ingredients:
25 ml butter454 g of scallops
15 ml lemon juice1 ml freshly ground pepper
4 strips of partially cooked bacon5 fresh peaches (peeled and quartered) or 796 ml of canned peaches well drained
125 ml grated Swiss CheeseButter 2l pan or casserole. Add scallops and sprinkle with lemon juice and pepper.
Top with peaches, then bacon and finally cheese. Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 15-20 minutes until cheese is melted and scallops are opaque in colour and just cooked through.
Yield: Serves 4
Happens over here, too. DH and I came across the pond as newlyweds and I have lived my entire adult life over here, but my funny foreign accent never left me. I have been a U.S. citizen for 30 years, vote in every election, but we are still known as "that English couple".
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
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True. The puzzled look DBF gave me when I introduced you as "from New Orleans" as if I can't tell a Southern accent from a British one...
We came here in 1967 and a few years ago when having a knee op the anesthetist asked me where I came from. Now I resent that question on behalf of all my ex pat Chinese friends (one of whom has been a Haligonian for four generations now) so I said Shad Bay. Impatient he said "Well I come from Calgary but I now live in Halifax, where do you come from" Shad Bay says I and thought to myself -idiot (me) as he plunged the plunger down in the needle and I faded out lololol I could feel the nurse on the other side of me shaking with laughter, people never like those anesthetists.
Many folks who live this side of the pond have come from some other part of the earth. Like Olwyn Mary (whom I have met), their "accent" is often noticable regardless of how long they have been away from the country where they were born & raised. This being the case, I try to remember to be polite and ask where a person was born or where they lived before coming to this side of the pond instead of the more general "where did you come from". CiaoMeow >^;;^<
PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at
Lucille
Resistance was futile -- I've been assimilated ;-) I consider myself an honorary steel magnolia although I haven't mastered the knack of couching something uncomplimentary in syrupy words and tone.
Not long after moving from Connecticut to Tennessee, my daughter failed a spelling test because she couldn't understand what the teacher was saying. Now she and my son are chameleons -- if they're with natives, they talk Southern, although their grammar is still good .
On 7/13/08 6:45 PM, in article C49FFDD1.CB7A% snipped-for-privacy@verizon.net, "ellice" wrote: Big Snip
While I'm considering leaving the gardening newsgroups because of the strife, I wouldn't dream of not being on this group and checking in daily. This is family. This is a much more comfortable place for me than any of the large stitching groups I've belonged to or read for any length of time.
I'll come over for the duck Ellice. I love duck and lamb and a whole host of other meats that I can't persuade the kids or DH to try.
But don't knock the reffing $$$.
Cheryl
Drool
For their children, they don't come from anywhere else, they were born here and the question is even harder.
It's case sensitive for people of colour and best avoided.
My accent I am told after all these years is mid-Atlantic.
Yea, I REALLY wonder how that happens !
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