I'm having trouble selling mine at half that price.
I was curious about the difference in cost of living. It doesn't help to talk about exchange rates, when real rates are so different. For instance, our houses are a tenth of the price of yours, but our interest rates are around 15%, and salaries way lower.
Catherine
Frog legs are something I've actually tried. Tasted like chicken! English people don't eat frog legs, then?
And did you spin the hair into yarn? How often did you have to clip him?
Will definitely have to mention this to DH.
No clue...I don't keep up with the "gossipy" stuff. I barely keep up with the political stuff!
Joan
I just heard yesterday that they were still "vetting" the different breeds. I get the feeling they aren't thrilled with having a dog, but they promised the kids and will stick to their promise.
Lucille
Opps (I thought I had copied and pasted it) - sorry, the link is
I let my chickens choose. My silkies were here before the other hens, and after one of the dogs got in they wouldn't sleep in the chicken run. When I brought the other hens down here, I built them another run, but when the turkey attacked the rooster rather badly I left the run open so he had some place to run. (ha! pun)
As it's the silkies that hatch the eggs I found it quite curious that when the chicks are bigger and the hen gets a new brood the older chicks leave their open sleeping area and start sleeping with the others in the chicken run.
We do have predators, but not badly enough to change the system. I have lost a few chickens and chicks, but mostly to domestic animals that have got in, both during the day, and at night.
I have about 10 chickens and three turkeys and some chicks on 2/3 (two-thirds) acre.
Catherine
They used to have a very narrow, stodgy diet.
No, I didn't. A friend with a husky has done that but she reports that if her sweater is damp, she smells dog lol I think we clipped him about every six months. The Lion clip is necessary for showing, but too much trouble for a pet, that needs endless grooming, though they do like nice.
While I totally agree with you Joan, here I sits with this Himalayan Persian cat lol They were designer made and I would never have paid for one, this one is an accident lol
The Ugly Sister has a Moodle (Maltese/Poodle), a Chinpoo (Chin/Poodle) and a Shihtpoo (ShihTzu/Poodle). They're all gormless, disobedient and highly vocal. A waste of space if you ask me. Ugly reckons they're 'so cu-uuuuu-ute!' (Hnf! Nothin' cute about an animated bedroom slipper that yaps incessantly and eats all your footwear, is there?)
My DNephew's Shar Pei is shaping up to be a great dog! She's polite, obedient and clever - *and* she has the spark of personality that's utterly missing in the designer trio.
I've got nothing against mutts, but I do think the purposeful combination of breeds of over-bred and highly-strung small dogs just to obtain a 'look' is silly. I've known standard poodles which were a pleasure to be with, but IME, the toy and miniature ones can be quite neurotic and often snappish. There are other hypoallergenic dogs (Basenji? Puli? Can't remember...) and I'd choose those any time over a small poodle.
It's all the result of irresponsible breeding of fad dogs - puppy-millism gone mad!
We're seeing it here in Oz with our 'Tenterfield Terrier' (a type emerging from the Jack Russell/mini Fox Terrier cross). Once upon a time, both breeds were great companion and working animals. Now, when you see a Jack Russell, mini Foxy or Tenterrier, you go the other way! The current crop is usually irascible, snappish and dangerous.
OK. Off of me soapbox now... ;->
Sorry, but I beg to differ. My little Puff, an 8-1/2 lb. Maltese, is far and away the sweetest dog I've ever been owned by. He could have been, if not trained, a yapper, but now if he's out on my porch and MUST (he knows when that is) bark, he comes in and stands behind the glass door. He knows I'm going to tell him to shut up because the neighbors will get upset and he figured out that he could continue for a few more seconds if he was inside.
The absolute meanest little critter I ever had was Frisky, my Toy Fox Terror (not a misspelled word.) He too was under 9 lbs. of lean, mean irascible, snappish behaviour. He adored me and my kid and never was that way to either one of us, but g-d help anyone else who got in his way. lol
He happened to be the second Toy Fox Terrier I was owned by and the first was a sweetheart so for me there are no set rules. The only thing I'm sure of is a puppy mill puppy might have a personality different from the breed standard. I guess poor breeding practices show up in their genetics.
Lucille
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Well, we did have roosters - those were the first to go. We realized a week after the first "feed" that the hens had been less stressed by the bear than they had been by all of the extra roosters! The egg prduction went UP that week. We eventually ended up with four hens and one rooster until the last serious attack when the little black hen (now named "Hickety") was the only one to make it back into the corner in the space under the hen house. When we get the new batch of chicks, we'll probably end up with about 50/50 again. If anything, it always seems as if we get more males than females. We could get sex- link chicks but we don't want whatever kind of chicken it is that comes that way. :-))
Liz from Humbug
To have happy hens you need one rooster to 15 hens. You'll have your eggs fertilised and no (or little) fighting between roosters.
Catherine
Hmmn - wonder if that will make the men around here envious ?? RDH
Personally, I think the rather negatively inferred nickname for the French as used by the British has been around for at least something close to 100 years. Certainly for most of the 20th century. A bit more negative or slurring in intonation than referring to Americans as "Yanks" . My semi-preface - is remember, I truly loved living and working in England, and would happily go live in many of the places I visited. Similarly, I truly loved the area of France where I lived/worked and really, really would go back in a heartbeat. For sometime I thought I'd be able to work out doing a longer work stint in London, or some other locales and would happily do so.
While frog legs are a pretty standard menu item in a lot of French eateries, I think they only show up in "French" restaurants in the UK - maybe some others.
The name calling no doubt goes back to the long and storied history of monarchs swapping territories, marriages, conquerors, the conquered, etc - in these 2 oh so "classless" societies.
My first longish stay of a couple of months in England, during grad school - I was palling around with a good friend (asst headmaster at a relatively top tier Public school). He is from a normal, middle-class family in Ely (famous for being seat of Cromwellian things and near to Newmarket. Anyhow, it was my first experience with the plethora of nicknames for all people non-native Anglo-Saxon British. We'd been friends since beginning university -worked together summers in the states. It was a bit of an eye opener, as in the places I grew up, the common use of slurring terms for others wasn't common. Kind of interesting to hear these not exactly rude in the four letter word sense, but definitely in tone meant to insult, or look down, terms being used - from otherwise seemingly fine people. We were driving in the countryside, listening to a cricket match, and had just come from some lovely little pub - when another comment about the Paki's or somesuch came out, and he finally started laughing about the "great classless British society" - the mythology that the class system had disappeared. Here, it's just different, so I don't think in polite company we hear other races, religions, nationalities commonly referred to by slang nick-names. Not that it doesn't happen, just the from what mouths, etc.
My exDH's boss had a standard poodle - well, I think they had 2, and kept on a string of them. Anyhow, she did have the clippings spun into yarn by a neighbor who spun, and knitted a sweater out of it. The one I remember was brown, and she made a heathery looking brown sweater/jacket out of it. It was quite nice to the touch. This was about 20 years ago.
Have another friend with a labradoodle - lovely dog.
LOL - we don't keep up with it either. Right now everyone around here is contemplating the mess that DC will be for the innauaration weekend. Big issues with transportation into and out of the downtown area. Yesterday they announced that they are not going to search all purses, bags, etc. It will be a zoo. We're waiting to see where all the big screens will be put up on the mall, surroundings, etc, and they're still working the street closures. Given it can take about 2 hours to clear the mall after 4th of July - and they're anticipating a triple that size crowd - this really is an issue. Plus, not allowing strollers, etc. Anyone trying to bring kids down is out of their minds - much smarter to watch on tv.
Ellice
Envious, no. Nervous, yes.
I think more than that, could go back to Agincourt.
Certainly for most of the 20th century. A bit more negative or
Well Froggy automatically was named Froggy because he was a French Poodle. That's like Soupie Campbell, Dusty Miller - in keeping with the rhyming slang idea. It was not intended as a slur, insult or derogatory.
lol I don't think humans have the capacity for keeping 15 females happy that roosters have.
I believe, perhaps Bruce can confirm, it was BBC saying it would not televise Crufts that brought matters to a head.
Interesting too it concerned Pekinese, I had one as a child and then took on another several years ago as an abused dog. Both were red and comparing pics of the original and the new, the much more flattened muzzle was striking. The second one was fine though she did have some spine problems, the vet thought that was more to do with the abuse than the length of the spine. I had to stay with her when she had to be put out for dental work though because when she came to if I wasn't there she freaked out. So the vet asked me in to avoid that as partially anaesthetized she was at great risk with such a short trachea.
I do believe that frog legs are still on the menu at Nathan's in New York.
Donna in Virginia
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Ah, Sheena, I was sure you didn't mean anything by it in your naming of the dog! Just elaborating on the derivation of the term for the French. I'd agree with Agincourt - wondering if it predates that, as well. But, I'm thinking that English has certainly evolved in the intervening centuries.
Speaking of Agincourt, always makes me want to go watch the Kenneth Branagh film of Henry V - one of my favorites. Along with Much Ado About Nothing.
Ellice
You can get them at the former Rio Grande Café here in the DC area - now Uncle Julio's. DH is quite fond of them. I, OTOH, tend to not eat food that looks functional - and the preparation of frogs' legs falls into that category. Not an absolute for me, but close.
Ellice
They are indeed functional legs. When we returned to HK immediately after the war a man who opened a French restaurant asked my father to bring him some frogs back. Frogs delivered to my father and he brought them home in HK until such time as they could be collected. I just couldn't resist opening the boxes for a look (parents out) and the house was instantly full of them. They sure could leap and move.
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