Thread 1 - Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles

[Kucinghitam]

Gather here all ye refugees from the foundering ship of JTT, if ye be in need of "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

Or just to chat randomly.

They are incredibly cute. I saw a little shoal of baby cuttlefish once. They were similarly transparent and also surprisingly cute.

The baby stingrays are beautiful and also very, very strange. Aliens stuck
in ravioli is an excellent description.

My first thought was ‘aliens stuck in a protractor’, haha

Those baby stingrays are utterly amazing!

The baby sea-creatures talk reminds me of, as a child, witnessing a horseshoe crab mass-spawning on the beach near my uncle's house. A couple of weeks later, whilst making sandcastles, I dug up a clutch of eggs. They utterly fascinated me: they were clear spheres and inside each one was a tiny full-formed baby crab, the little creatures revolved round and round within their glassy prisons.

It seemed so strange that for many years I wondered if I'd dreamt them. But here they are on YouTube, tiny freaky exoskeletoned Aliens spinning in transparent balls!

Mesmerising! I could watch them all day. I’m surprised how long they take to mature.

I found one of the energy saving hour threads in Chat, but it's quite small. However, it pointed me to this one: www.mumsnet.com/talk/cost_of_living/4667841-octopus-saving-sessions

So, my tabby female has a quite a lot of ginger in her coat. Loving the cats and am familiar with the British Blue but can't recall who you were. I definitely recall the dog and cats though. Great to hear about them again.

Apropos of nothing, I learnt that a Wood's lamp will detect urine. Worth remembering.
Also, Fenderstrat, read your post yesterday somewhere, hope it goes well for you.
I skimread the lifeboat thread, lots of verbose pontificating and lots of mainly men posting was the overall impression, before my eyes glazed over.
Ah, I need to upload my cat from my phone. Currently, on pc.

Here she is. A fair amount of ginger in her coat.

She’s gorgeous, like fur coat.

I was pomegranateplanet on the cat thread btw, not my main username but didn’t want to advertise to a certain lurker that I have something so precious. No longer an issue since we’ve emigrated, hooray.

Ah, thanks for clarifying. I remember you now, and your utterly gorgeous cat.

Crikey, there are some beautiful cats.

I've passed the Aliens Stuck in Ravioli to my What's App groups!

The horseshoe crablings are pretty amazing. They remind me of the cellar spiderlings I once watched hatching.

When I had decent eyesight.

If you see a ball of baby orb spiders and blow on it, they shoot out on lines in all directions, rather like a firework going off. It was a real surprise the first time I saw that.

www.flickr.com/photos/48541674@N00/27669532801/in/dateposted/

Here's my dog, Daisy. From about 4 years ago.

Blimey, sinner. Daisy looks like a no shit dog.

She's a bit grey round the gills these days.

So here's something I've made into a quandry for myself (it shouldn't be one). Christmas dinner, bring your own wine resturant. What wine do you bring to look the following:

a. somewhat sophistimacated;
b. like you know these things;
c. not like you bought the most expensive wine for under a hundred because you wanted to appear (a) and (b) while being absolutely neither?

C. is obviously where I end up under my own efforts because normally, I'll drink what I'm given, and I have no idea. If I liked it, I can't remember what it was anyway - I forgot to get a photo of the label. Guided by my own tastes, it would be a solid g&t, every time.

Have you lot any ideas?

Gah.

Had to give up dairy recently, after my allergy to it got worse. One of our local chip shops has an excellent range of veggie and vegan options - with a dedicated 'no meat or fish' pan. But I think they fry the halloumi in with the veggie chips, and even that is enough to trigger a reaction. So no more chip shop chips.

Aldi Barolo - £15 ;-)

Sounds great, thanks Mach!

Barolo is a solid call.

What sort of food?

I heard of a barolo by watching peep show and given the context, I expect it's what people who know stuff drink!

It's a very midprice menu, broad. A steak dish, a salmon dish, a couple of pasta dishes. 3 course set menu, £45.

So no more chip shop chips.

Noooooo! That's a tragedy!

Our local chip shop died last month - the whole chain has gone into administration, so they had to close all the shops including the ones that were still making money. We are suffering terribly :(

Valpolicella ripasso is another good red. Should go with steak I think, and tomato-based pasta dishes.

If you're likely to be having the fish or a creamy pasta then white or rose would be better - will have a think* about specifics.

• Look in the wine rack.