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yeah, but you're from Zim, FAQ.

poor ostrich!

Ostrich is farmed. Like sheep and cows and other things that cannot run away from their captors ...

I predict they will bring you some crocodile steaks ...

well funnily enough just like my beef steaks and pork chops don't look like pigs and cows when I buy them - neither does ostrich steak look like an ostrich

little Afrikaans child is even enrolled at DD1's nursery for some of his visit.

he'll fit right in, none of those Jockos have names most English people can say, either .

ostrich is a pitiful bird that can't fly away from its captors!

how can you eat it?

it's so . . . ugly.

i hope these people don't bring something to eat which is really gross but that we have to sample out of politeness and go, 'mmm, oh, thank you for bringing this nasty ass excuse for food you sad mother fuckers is this all you have to eat I'll never complain about the credit crunch again where is that fucking amurla?

I was very when the butchers in town which had a regular stock of meat such as Ostrich closed down.

Another butcher does Boerwoers - but they're hit and miss, depends on which of the butchers makes them.........

it will come back to haunt her one day and she will be re-incarnated as a sorry dog in Korea or a counterfeit Louis Vuitton in Singapore or fake Diesel jeans in Turkey so as to increase Al-Queda's coffers.

i have warned her of this.

Honestly expat, ostrich is lovely. You would like.

oh YUK at ostrich!

my mother has eaten dog and dried minnows with still the eyes and horse and all manner of boak.

i asked DH, 'i wonder why [landlord's daughter's name] fell for some Afrikaans fella of all folk?'

she's a comely lass and a pure Highlander and when she met him she was staying in Embra hating life - she was a student, but he was working in a kitchen on a working holiday marker permit and such.

he must have a big tadger or that.

Ostrich is yummy - had that for Christmas lunch here in the UK a few years ago. Was lovely and tender.

oh Kewcumber - you've obviously only tried the dry stuff, that is like chewing on old boots (not that I've ever done that ) medium or "wet" (as it's called - yuck) much nicer.

oh, barf, FAQ!

ostrich?!

boak it's probably all tough and rank and that.

that afrikaans sounds like someone making up a language.

i know that is so rude and we wouldn't dare say otherwise and i know they are so polite and honestly we're happy to host them, as they need a place to stay and we have lots to show them and landlord's daughter and weirdy Afrikaans husband are pleased.

but i hope they're just fast and lose with the booze and not that billtong or too much other weirdy foods like ostrich.

Biltong is lovely! I had it years ago, my friend was south african and she ate it all the time. Well, not all the time, just sometimes .

thing is custy,

and i totally see what you are saying,

ok...

story no 1, eg,

i say or do something that deeply upsets another friend of mine,

she tells me she is pissed off,

i have 2 choices,

either...

so what?

you are taking it to heart,

it is not personal, what is the big deal?

why are you stressing about this?

i never said anything 'directly' about you,

ok, story no 2,

i get an e mail asking me to be part of something 'on the quiet' and in getting the mentioned mail i feel super special,

i would, i am easy lead...

so here i am,

posting to the 140+ people who matter most to me,

this is amazing, i have a place of peace,

inner santum, some have phrased...

because 140 (give or take) like me so, the other people dont matter too much,

people who think they have done no wrong and are right in their thoughts are now sitting back and watching the fall out

this has gone arse over tits big time...

very sad

billtong- old worn shoe soles which the south africans pretend is food to have a laugh and see if the tourists will eat it. Don;t be conned.

they don't use dodgy parts!!! I wouldn't touch the stuff if they did.

Don't knock biltong till you've tried it. Not that I have. Although I have managed crocodile and dog before now (when in Rome etc)

oh GROSS at billtong.

it's probably like dried rhino tongue or penis or that, knowing what they eat.

and then i'll have to be all polite and try it and go, 'oh, um, it's so interesting, thank you so much.' and then put it in a napkin before i go turn on the shower and throw up so they won't hear.

ah yes I forgot the landlord connection...

Ostrich is the best - you can get all different types - some of it is vile but you can get some really nice stuff too

Bit like Avocat!! Well I can't stand Avocat -but love Amarulla

i can't do that, kew, they seem very good-natured and after all, they are landlord's daughter's relations by marriage and all.

his daughter she got married in S. Africa to this chap.

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v439zTOJVho

biltong is dried meat..boak

they said this armurulla stuff tastes a bit like avocat.

yuk, that stuff is the dry boak.

i'll bet that billtong is boak, too. probably like dried rhino or that.