Thread 9 - TalkLair: “Russell's teapot goes on being round”

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous threads (thread 8).

The new lair of JTT escapees is all cosy and homey; we have truly settled here. Outside, the garden is blooming with summer flowers - should bloody well be, what with all that rain. Inside, the hearth is glowing, pictures are up on the walls, rugs are down on the floors (and assorted pets curled up on them).

We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

@Kucinghitam LTB.

@MavisMcMinty your poor tree! How sad.

If I had a garden I’d have a greengage tree. They’re my favourite fruit but so hard to find here. Sainsburys have some at the moment but they’re rock hard. Waitrose have some by posh brand ‘natoora’ that look lovely and ripe but they’re £4.25 for six!! It’s hardly a luxury fruit.

I’ve been doing a bit of shopping. Have been searching for a pair of new winter boots for ages since my current pair are a few years old now. I thought I’d take a trip to M&S to see what they had, especially as they do wide fitting shoes and my feet are stupidly wide. Didn’t have high hopes but found pretty much what I’d been looking for - Fuck Off boots a la Saga Norén Lanskrim Malmö. Also found a nice Edwardian-shaped black dress sans frills in the sale for £15, and a lovely jumper. V surprised at M&S, what’s going on?

I have scored both Waitrose and M&S own brand greengages this year and they’ve been delicious; really flavoursome and juicy. They are the best type of plum and one of my favourite fruits.

The pear tree in next door’s garden isn’t looking great this year. Here it’s the squirrels that eat the pears leaving half eaten fruit on the lawn.

There seem to be fewer parakeets here this year. I miss the flashes of green and their exuberant chattiness.

Starlings and blackbirds eat chunks out of about half our apples while they're still on the tree, despite there being plenty of windfalls available. We still have more than we need though. Pears are quite new trees and only just starting to produce now - 5 pears on 1 tree, 1 on the second and none on the 3rd yet.

We prune our apple trees so we get no fruit, because the fruits they produce in vast quantities are almost completely tasteless. We used to live in a similar-aged (1920s) house about a mile away and that had the same variety of apple. The land for the old house had previously been an orchard. I've often wondered why they grew such dismal apples but maybe it's because the trees are so prolific.

My quince tree:
A. Is dropping apparently ripe fruits about 2 months earlier than normal, and
B. Seems to have a fungal disease so it's also dropping its leaves. I must take a photo to send to RHS.

On the plus side I've just made a batch of quince jam - the earliest ever.

MavisMcMinty· Today 16:11

I wonder if it'll stay alive - lots of trees do, after falling like that.

We have neighbours with a "dual" apple tree in the front, which my dad reckons has reverted to root stock at the top. The bottom half has bright red, large misshapen ones and the top has smaller, nicely shaped green ones.

They never pick them!

Our dog is an apple fiend, I have a video of her picking ornamental ones. And rose hips and blackberries. She also hoovers rowan berries.

Our last dog Molly used to steal apples from the horses’ dinner buckets - very brave to do it to the mean-minded mare, but my beloved mare used to move aside to let Molly have her pick. The cats liked the horses’ dinners too, because I added cod liver oil to the mix. Don’t know if any of them liked the garlic I added, but it couldn’t be avoided.

There seem to be fewer parakeets here this year. I miss the flashes of green and their exuberant chattiness.

Here too: even the ones who used to hang out in the eaves of the local pre-school, terrorising the toddlers, seem to have found new territory. There are still a few about, but not the usual gangs. I love them in the early mornings and evenings, when they hurtle overhead in great gangs with a leader skrarking "Follow me! This way!"

The parakeets used to strip the rowan tree next door. The tree has gone now which is probably a factor in the relative absence of parakeets this year.

Foxes seem very plentiful this year. There were four fighting loudly in the street at about 11.30 last night (usually they wait til later, maybe they were emulating humans with a fight after the pubs close).

I love them in the early mornings and evenings, when they hurtle overhead in great gangs with a leader skrarking "Follow me! This way!"

Yes, the chatty evening fly-abouts are quite something!

We had an apple tree in our old garden, but the apples weren't a good flavour. I used to use them for pectin in jams though, and in chutneys.

Our tree is Sunset. Quite good flavour but don't keep well. Three weeks at most.

I love me some quince.

Earlier this evening, after a lot of faffing with having to redo my channel, and redo it again and finding it really hard to get the elastic through the channel, I finally finished my trousers and while they are so very far from perfect on the inside, on the outside they look really bloody good. I am so proud of myself. Tomorrow I take up my pink corduroy cargo pants which are gorgeous but way too long for me. I bloody love sewing. With my machine. Hand sewing, not so much.

Well done @MouseMinge - you have every reason to be very proud of yourself! I’m always impressed by people who can sew and your success and is definitely making me want to have a go.

MouseMinge · Yesterday 22:08

I love me some quince.

I want a quince bush, I tried to get one two years ago, when I planted my pear tree, but the garden centres were no help, when I explained that I want proper fruit, not an ornamental one! A few years ago, a lady in an adjacent street told me I could have as many of hers as I wished.

What a disappointment they were, almost hollow and entirely tasteless. I never said, of course!

Just been posting a little in the other place. I am sure there's a fine research degree to be had by studing the changing positions of a certain poster over the years. I believe his main task, aprt from obscuring the facts, has been to obscure the harm of the originating schools of thought. So we now see that JB never said sex was a construct, nobody said that; sex isn't on a spectrum, of course not, silly, nobody said that; minors never have surgeries, nobody supported that; QT really doesn't exist except in minor, inconsequential fields; an more and more.

If I could be bothered I'd read from the start. Probably easier to consciously avoid.

I believe his main task is to engage in non-consensual group mental-masturbation of his self-identified massive intellect and exquisitely righteous compass. The actual subject matter is barely relevant.

JB being Judith Butler?

<eyes glaze over>

I'll pass.

I don’t know who you’re referring to, but suspect I have him on Ignore. There are acres of greyed out posts, same on the Letby thread. Doubt I’m missing anything good.

I suspect that might be the poster formerly known as Xartra. Life's too short to waste being on a thread with that person.

I unignored him on the Brexit threads, where he behaved like a normal person, but the wimmins threads made me ignore him again.

Wot @Britinme said.

I think I've broken my scroll wheel between one person trying to say there is a spectrum between 'true trans' and the 'blue hairs' and if only we could see that, we wouldn't be judging his child, and the other clown dancer who I think enjoys these linguistic and logical games based on shifting sands of fact as it makes them feel superior.

I honestly don't know what to make of the prolix poster.

I really don't want to think that xart is posting in thought-through bad faith. I come close sometimes, nevertheless, and I check myself, see if I'm missing something.

I'm perfectly happy to think of him as a dishonest spieler, and as I'm sure he has an equally low opinion of me, that's just fine.

I'm not assuming thought-through bad faith, but rather an extension of the phenomenon of self-congratulatory pseudo-religious glow of knowing that one has struck a brave&stunning blow for TRSOH; just imagine that plus knowing that one's efforts are also displaying the pinnacle of intellectual excellence? What a rush!