Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles - Thread 2

[Kucingsparkles]

Continuation of previous thread.

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.

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Ah, thanks. Unfortunately, I don't have Apple podcast.

Sorry to hear you're lurged, Gin, that's not nice. Nor are squirrels throwing soil of plant pots. It's blackbirds who are the main culprits here, the scoundrels.

I am still disgusted with the place. Some comments today by posters about posters "slithering off into cess pits" really shouldn't be made on a supposedly civilised board.

Glad to see Carlos with his usual intelligence posting there, though he's far too tolerant of revisionist arseholes who stirred the pot for their own self-esteem, mistakenly awarded IMO, for fucking years, and who now want to present themselves as disinterested, omniscient and supportive of all.

I'm afraid that JtT is holed below the water line and that it's probably down to one male poster (not carlos, obvs). Whether that was his intent or a consequence of an ego inflated past the limits of the fucking solar system, I shall never know.

Although the plaintive cry of "please close this thread!" is quite funny.

Like angelico, I'm also disgusted with the old place. They've shown us what they are, traitors to women, and I do not wish to see or speak with any of them.

Sympathies Gin, I’ve been in a bad mood for two days after treading in dog shit in the dark I’ve lost count of the number of shits I’ve stepped in this year. The one before occurred when just stepping out of the car.

@angelico53 ha! Rats in a sack springs to mind.

As a dog owner, I apologise for the little disease-infested shit-machines.

I reckon I pick up about 0.5kg a day (vast majority on our lawn and easily dealt with). That's, say, 180kg a year and my dogs will easily hit 15 years old. That means I'll be picking uo over two and a half tons of shite in my life. Unless angelica gets her wish for another one, of course.

Still, wouldn't have it any other way. It's a small price to pay for even this morning - watching Daph on her first snowy ground, so bewildered she just ran at full throttle round the garden for five minutes, sometimes puttting her nose down and engagiing the afterburner for added momentum jumping pots and planters.

CyanCyan · Yesterday 19:11

Xmas Shock Is the bark of the yew not toxic? Is it only the berries?

My grandad ate the berries as a kid, being careful not to bite the seeds. My dad did the same, as did I and know my daughter does. None of us seems to have died from it!

Thank you for picking it up @angelico53. I’m not sure if I’m just unlucky or if the problem’s getting worse around here. I don’t have a garden so cleaning it off is really awkward, and all my old toothbrushes have now been used up on previous shit-treading incidences. I never thought I’d have to buy a pack just for this purpose.

@SinnerBoy that’s good to know, should I ever find myself starving in the vicinity of a churchyard. I used to eat a lot of things I shouldn’t have when I was a child, including the seeds of a laburnum which I thought were peas and made me extremely ill.

Can I recommend fuchsia flowers? You can pinch off the end and drink the nectar.

Fuchsia berries are also edible.

When I was about four I was found in the garden with laburnum seeds in my mouth, but I hadn't swallowed them and was just enjoying rolling them around in my mouth. As I remember, there was a pleasing smoothness to the seeds. It seemed a shame to have to spit them out, but it's probably a good thing I did. I also remember that I was sitting in a large cardboard box at the time.

When I was about four I was found in the garden with laburnum seeds in my mouth, but I hadn't swallowed them and was just enjoying rolling them around in my mouth.

Good job you didn't swallow them!

Last weekend we were browsing in the secondhand bookshop and DD came up to me asking to buy this book: "It's really interesting Mummy, when the apocalypse comes we can use it to feed ourselves!"

Apparently, mahonia berries are edible, who knew?

I knew!

Haven't eaten any, but when I'm work I often nibble on edible weeds. Hairy bitter cress is tasty, a lot like rocket. Ground elder is good too.

Kuc, I like your daughter. Did you buy the book?

We did! And then we did a walk around the neighbourhood with our new book, identifying the edible plants (many we already knew but quite a few unfamiliar ones) - so now we know that No. 23 has a nice-looking mahonia hedge, etc. The book now lives on our "food books" shelf in the kitchen, ready for the End Times.

My dad used to walk me around the neighbourhood on plant-identification expeditions. I remember a man in his garden giving me an enormous pretty flower off one of his bushes (a rhododendron possibly?), I was so pleased.

And ate it afterwards, obviously.

Woke up to snow this morning! Haven’t had snow here since Badger was a puppy.

Kucingsparkles · Today 12:33

Fuchsia berries are also edible.

I didn't know that, I told my daughter off for eating some, a couple of years ago. She asked if they were poisonous and I said that I didn't know, but not to risk it. Mind you, she threw up a while ago, after eating half a rhododendron leaf.

That book looks great, my neighbour is a forager and she has a little business, teaching people how to do it, year round. She's Polish and kept asking me the English name for things, from Latin. I was all, "Dunno, Jew's Ear Fungus, Shaggy Ink Cap, dunno, elderberries...."

Kuc, glad to hear you bought the book and had some fun identifying things too, that sounds most satisfactory.

My dad got a copy of Richard Mabey's Food for Free when it was first published in 1972 and I read every page. We only had one thing out of it and that was when my dad picked some rather gone-over shaggy ink caps and made a disgusting stew with them.

Lovely dog picture, Mavis!

I always hoped our dog would be excited by snow but he'd just pretend it wasn't there, until it started packing between his toes, and then he'd simply refuse to go any further and one of us had to carry him, the wuss. Good thing he was small.

You don't need Apple podcast. I searched for it on my podcast app and downloaded it from there.