The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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creative said:
I hope you realise I was talking about the UK situation
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If you actually look at the links, you don't even need to follow them, just look at them, you will see they are UK links. I am after all a British citizen and it is the UK I know best, not Australia where I only have a temporary visa for for 4 years. Somehow the British governments website, that UK FSA hyperlink or even the independent newspaper seems to have been missed by you.
Never mind. It really is not that important.
 
Life is hard
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Yorky said:
My wife is in Bangkok today showing respect for Rama IX (King Bhumibol Adulyadej) who died last year.

It is so strange sat here on the stoep without her fussing around sweeping the floor, applying anti mosquito spray, telling me to turn the music down, asking whether I've had enough to eat, and generally being a nuisance.

Oh well, back to normal tomorrow.
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Tomorrow's the queens birthday which is celebrated in Australia. So I get the opposite problem. Instead of him being back at work, I have another day of my husband bring at home fussing over me. I can't walk again at the moment... And he's not taking it well.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
If you actually look at the links, you don't even need to follow them, just look at them, you will see they are UK links. I am after all a British citizen and it is the UK I know best, not Australia where I only have a temporary visa for for 4 years. Somehow the British governments website, that UK FSA hyperlink or even the independent newspaper seems to have been missed by you.
Never mind. It really is not that important.
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You missed the point since you didn't address the content of the conversation I was having i.e. why organic veg are seen to be carcinogenic (by classic33)! I feel it is WAS important to address this misinformation which is why I asked him to back it up then got peeved with the evasion tactics.

In short, it wasn't meant to be a debate about appraising the merits or otherwise of organic produce as a whole.
 
creative said:
You missed the point since you didn't address the content of the conversation I was having i.e. why organic veg are seen to be carcinogenic (by classic33)! I feel it is WAS important to address this misinformation which is why I asked him to back it up then got peeved with the evasion tactics.

In short, it wasn't meant to be a debate about appraising the merits or otherwise of organic produce as a whole.
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I hesitate to enter this debate, but (and I'm sitting on the fence) isn't the question now arising from your posts and @SatNavSaysStraightOn's posts whether the pesticides used in organic farming are carcinogenic? I can find no evidence either way on that one.

BTW, I have certainly learned something from the debate so far - so its not a waste of time. :happy:
 
morning glory said:
I hesitate to enter this debate, but (and I'm sitting on the fence) isn't the question now arising from your posts and @SatNavSaysStraightOn's posts whether the pesticides used in organic farming are carcinogenic? I can find no evidence either way on that one.

BTW, I have certainly learned something from the debate so far - so its not a waste of time. :happy:
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It comes down to what is actually used, traditional, mass/factory or organic farming. Not all is open fields that you see as you pass by. There's an industry backing each, which if you're not involved in any of the methods, you'll not be aware of.

For the sake of the future of the site, I say we leave it here.
 
Morning all - UK
Thinking about this, I suspect it is either a very late night, early hours of the morning type job or morning all for those in the US as well...

So I'll settle for morning all...

I'm currently sitting outside in the last of the late afternoon light being entertained by 9 chicks who are out in the chook enclosure for only the 2nd time. Its only the 2nd time most of them have been outside (and at 13C they won't be out for much longer either). They are loving it and being scared stiff by the slightest noise at the same time.

I failed to realise that one of my chooks was laying an egg when I let the chickens out of the outer enclosure so that I could let the chicks out (busy writing help files!). She came out at a point when I could not round up the chicks, yet of all the chooks I could have chosen to be with the chicks, and she was not one of them, she has been absolutely fine with them even coming up to them and just giving a gently warning "chook" when they didn't back away from something she wanted to look at (food)... they took the hint and retreated. She's coming back over again now, but somehow I don't think she is going to be a problem, which is odd because her breed is not exactly known to be good mothers and whilst she has reared chicks before (she's from a breeder and now retired) her chicks were always exceptionally wild and anti-social and yet she is being the perfect example of how I want things to be! But it will be many more weeks before the are integrated into the flock and we are still on very early days here!
 
Oh, but the grass is always greener.

I would so like to be in the waning hours of daylight, raising chicks. Despite the hard work, what a fulfilling adventure.

I am forelorn, stuck watching rats run across the city street where I park in the dead of night.

Nevertheless, dawn comes, and hope springs eternal.
(shouldn't that be -ly, eternally)
 
SatNav, taking care of those little chooks must be fun and tiring at the same time! I've seen our daughter's chickens only twice, once when they were around 2 months and again when fully grown. I do know, however, that I really enjoy the eggs her girls give her.
 
The last time I was on a bicycle was when I was pregnant with my fifth child. I was living in Aransas Pass, Texas and rode everywhere on that bike. Right up until the end of my seventh month. By then my stomach was too big to lift my leg for pedaling. It would bang against my stomach. Today, I now have a three wheeled scooter. It goes about seven miles per hour. I plug it in every night. I don't want to have to go slow. I often pass folks sitting on their front stoop getting some fresh air. They are often elderly. I usually stop (if I am just running an errand for myself) and talk to them. I leave them with a big smile. If I can't stop, I still pass them and leave a big smile for them. I am now known as that old lady with the scooter and cigarette. My scooter can go for up to 12 miles on one power up. I take full advantage of that fact.
 
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