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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 16 Jan

I’m not an indoor person. There’s only so much time I can spend shut inside before I get ‘cabin fever’ – and in my case most of one day is about the limit. By then I’ll be looking for any excuse to go outside; to take something...

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Fleur Great idea! Do you remember the big 'Millennium Bug' non-event?

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (343885) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Jan

I sort of promised to write about this but I hope it doesn’t upset too many. Remember, I’m just stating facts. The fact is that, in Peru, guinea pigs are considered a delicacy. They are known there as ‘cuy’ and have been a part...

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Fleur @JudyEv Certainly insect flour has been talked about quite a lot. And as for 'creepy-crawlies' in general, we eat shrimps, so why not woodlice I guess - also crustaceans.

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 23h

I started selling odds and ends on Ebay about 20 years ago, and it was a useful way of finding new homes for a few bits and pieces. Then when my parents died it was great to be able to pass on some things that I knew would be...

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Fleur I know a lot of people use FB local groups to sell things, but (apart from the fact I have never joined FB) for some things you know only a few people in the country could possibly want it so I need a larger pool of buyers!

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 15 Jan

As I’ve mentioned a few times, I’m helping with the crew making props and scenery for the local pantomime, coming up in a couple of weeks. Preparations have been going on for months already. But now things keep going awry and the...

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Fleur According to his own plan all this was supposed to have been finished at least a month ago!

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 15 Jan

As I’ve mentioned a few times, I’m helping with the crew making props and scenery for the local pantomime, coming up in a couple of weeks. Preparations have been going on for months already. But now things keep going awry and the...

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Fleur Only a few more days to go now so it will have to work one way or another!

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 15 Jan

As I’ve mentioned a few times, I’m helping with the crew making props and scenery for the local pantomime, coming up in a couple of weeks. Preparations have been going on for months already. But now things keep going awry and the...

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Fleur Thank you! It's the changes of plan that are so frustrating!

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 15 Jan

As I’ve mentioned a few times, I’m helping with the crew making props and scenery for the local pantomime, coming up in a couple of weeks. Preparations have been going on for months already. But now things keep going awry and the...

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Fleur No-one who watches the show will ever realise how much work has gone into those few minutes!

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 23h

I started selling odds and ends on Ebay about 20 years ago, and it was a useful way of finding new homes for a few bits and pieces. Then when my parents died it was great to be able to pass on some things that I knew would be...

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Fleur I have been selling things on Ebay for 20 years and not had a bad experience so far, in fact had some lovely comments from buyers. But maybe that's because I'm selling obscure things and not trying to flog the latest tech.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (343885) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Jan

I sort of promised to write about this but I hope it doesn’t upset too many. Remember, I’m just stating facts. The fact is that, in Peru, guinea pigs are considered a delicacy. They are known there as ‘cuy’ and have been a part...

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Fleur @JudyEv not long ago I was reading about cockchafers - big beetles that lay eggs in the soil and the grubs eat the roots of plants. Before the recent development of pesticides they were a serious pest of arable crops - so much so that in some areas of Europe...

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (343885) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Jan

I sort of promised to write about this but I hope it doesn’t upset too many. Remember, I’m just stating facts. The fact is that, in Peru, guinea pigs are considered a delicacy. They are known there as ‘cuy’ and have been a part...

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Fleur @AmbiePam I'm not sure you can house-train a horse either, but a big horse would provide a lot of meat, does that mean you would be more inclined to eat a horse? Pigs can be house-trained though, and they are very intelligent, yet people in 'western' countries...

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (343885) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Jan

I sort of promised to write about this but I hope it doesn’t upset too many. Remember, I’m just stating facts. The fact is that, in Peru, guinea pigs are considered a delicacy. They are known there as ‘cuy’ and have been a part...

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Fleur @AmbiePam Please don't take this the wrong way but I don't really understand why people get upset at the thought of eating some animals and not others. Is it because they have those particular animals as pets, but have never had a close relationship with, for...

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (343885) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Jan

I sort of promised to write about this but I hope it doesn’t upset too many. Remember, I’m just stating facts. The fact is that, in Peru, guinea pigs are considered a delicacy. They are known there as ‘cuy’ and have been a part...

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Fleur I suspect that in the main, the rules in the Bible and other holy books are to do with hygiene and disease prevention. But if you tell people what to do 'because it's good for them' they won't do it. Tell them what to do 'because they will go to Hell if they...

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (343885) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Jan

I sort of promised to write about this but I hope it doesn’t upset too many. Remember, I’m just stating facts. The fact is that, in Peru, guinea pigs are considered a delicacy. They are known there as ‘cuy’ and have been a part...

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Fleur I don't have a problem with eating particular animals as long as there is no risk of disease. What does bother me is the way the animals are treated before they are killed.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13298) • Ireland 18 Jan

Now that I’m a retired gentleman of 67 summers I have noticed that everyone I deal with in life is younger than me. Anyone whose services I have need of is still working and therefore younger than I am. Doctor (who I’ve never met)...

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Fleur @xFiacre If at around age 10 I had been told I could 'be' a boy just like that I probably would have jumped at the chance. But it just wasn't an option then. I was picked on for not being a very 'girly' girl but in the end it has worked out ok and knowing now...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13298) • Ireland 17 Jan

I’m not really of a morbid disposition (no, really I’m not) but I do like to check the death announcements every day on line for Belfast, and there’s rarely a day I don’t come across the name of someone I know. Tonight was no...

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Fleur @xFiacre It is surprising that the editor of the obits, who is surely used to the correct things to write, should make such an obvious mistake!

18 Jan

Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 17 Jan

For some reason the picture I tried to add to this post just wouldn't appear! It has finally allowed me to add it now. Every now and then you stumble across something really fascinating online, and this morning was one of those...

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Fleur @pumpkinjam I want to get some stilts. I was looking for the type I want, that was how I came across this subject!

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 17 Jan

For some reason the picture I tried to add to this post just wouldn't appear! It has finally allowed me to add it now. Every now and then you stumble across something really fascinating online, and this morning was one of those...

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Fleur @JudyEv I almost met that fate in some deep mud a few days ago! Luckily I kept my balance (just!) and managed to ease out both boot and foot!

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 17 Jan

For some reason the picture I tried to add to this post just wouldn't appear! It has finally allowed me to add it now. Every now and then you stumble across something really fascinating online, and this morning was one of those...

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Fleur Thank you for finding out! I have added to the post now. I'm curious as to how they go up onto such tall stilts!

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Fleur @Fleura (30724) • United Kingdom 17 Jan

For some reason the picture I tried to add to this post just wouldn't appear! It has finally allowed me to add it now. Every now and then you stumble across something really fascinating online, and this morning was one of those...

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Fleur I want to get some stilts and practice on them! to the tree-hair

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (343885) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jan

We have offered to house-sit at our niece’s place in April and June. There are two cats which are very shy and aren’t often seen, and six guinea pigs. The story I love about the guinea pigs is that the family originally bought...

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Fleur @JudyEv Maybe he could just eat some.

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