buelligan

Quillan enquired; [quote] I wonder what you would have us watch in our spare time?[/quote] I wouldn't have you watch anything.  I'd have you listen, think, do, live! and then asked;[quote]As for deciding whats best to do with your time, what are you doing bothering with forums, posting on what you concider to be silly subjects?[/quote] As  I wrote several pages ago; [quote](I) choose to use my time on earth interacting with real people...[/quote]  In other words, I consider it reasonably worthwhile to listen to what people think and to let them know what I think. [:D]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAr_UeroCk[/url]

How depressing.  Perhaps I should have included "discernment" on my list.  Discernment for those choosing to be guided by someone as obviously flawed as Simon Cowell.  For those who seem unable create a society where people care about things that really matter more than the vapid outpourings of television fluffers.  For those deciding how to spend the limited and valuable time they have on this planet.[:(]

Well that's where we differ, I think the key words are "compassion", "responsibility", "intelligence"...[:D]

Celine wrote;[quote]buelligan, you can't argue with the fact that a tv programme which has over 16 million viewers is a brilliant medium to encourage people to donate to a worthwhile cause.[/quote] I can actually, it's one of the things that makes being an individual so great!  I have no wish to be an acolyte of the Church of St Jade the Charmless.  I do not aspire to the Argos Book of Dreams.  I see programmes like this as opiate for the masses.  I think, if I may paraphrase cooperlola, that any decent society should have its priorities sorted.  If we can't look after our own suffering children (because we care, not because it's dressed up in lip gloss and fake tans,) we aren't worth owt.[:D]

[:D]  That's it!  I am absolutely sure we need an icon for applause![:D]

I know nothing either, I'm just glad I stopped watching all telly years ago, don't give a flying one about "moving with the times" (whatever that means), choose to use my time on earth interacting with real people, making and growing things, listening, thinking and generally being an individual.

...and only the evil-doers will drown..?[8-)]

just john wrote; [quote]C'mon Girls, Bet you like Hamster[/quote] The thinking woman's chihuahua?  Again, he's preferable to the Big C because he likes bikes. [:D]

The problem with governments saying that they won't pay ransoms is that they do!  They just find a way of doing it (someone wants a favour - a passport say - and "arranges" for the hostages to be released).  Most serious pirates and gangsters know this and that is one of the reasons kidnapping continues as an industry.  The rub is; what would you want or do if it were your loved ones being held?

I found this [url]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090918-urine-ash-fertilizer.html[/url] this morning.  Very useful for those of us who grow tomatoes and don't wish to use commercial or non-organic fertilisers.  Also this [url]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0818_050818_urinebattery.html[/url] - what would  we (to pun, or not to pun) all do without good old pee eh?![:D]

You could start a tomato farm...I'm not taking the p...! [url]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090918-urine-ash-fertilizer.html[/url]

You sound a bit wistful tonight Sweet.  And that's how Winter makes me feel.  I do cook stews - same methodology as you might use for a beef stew, for example but just lots of carrots, leeks, onions maybe some beans or even Quorn (if I can get hold of some).  Obviously it doesn't have to cook for the same length of time.  With the addition of wine, pepper, herbs, veg stock etc and thickened with some buerre manie, potatoes or lentils it's really cosy and delicious served with some spinach or broccoli. [:D]  I mark the coming of Winter with the rush to light the poele in the morning (not yet), the loss of my last zinnias, roses, dahlias and marigolds (not yet), stopping trotting round the village in flip-flops (not yet) and the leaves leaving the vines (not yet!). [:D]

He's alright, at least he likes bikes.  BUT, to continue the school analogy, if Clarkson is the loud-mouthed bully, James May is the reticent, more intelligent lad who would really prefer to get on with something sensible but is intimidated/embarrassed into half-heartedly laughing along with the yobs.  He should find a job on a programme for people interested in cars and motorcycles - he could probably do quite well.

Sweet said; [quote]Clarkson AND Mandelson...........can't think of a more off-putting combination[/quote] I quite agree!  They're like two horrible perennial schoolboys.  One bitchy, smarmy and back-stabbing, the other, fatuous, bragging, oafish.  Both of whom one avoided at all costs whilst at school, in our youth and now they're still managing to invade our conciousness with their dreary, self-satisfied maunderings.  Oh for a shotgun and a clear line of sight...! (did I write that...? or just think it...?)[;-)][:D]

What would be your preferred option then Mr J?

   Clair wrote:  cooperlola wrote:  Weedon wrote:   Each time I see him on the box..... I want to smack him one with a frying pan. Funny, that's just how I feel about Clarkson. Hear hear! Oh! Me too!!!  What an odious, self-congratulatory boor!

...and gunpowder.

...I think it should have been Rue de Remarques...fetching...coat...now...!

Chancer enthused; [quote]The real prize is the amount of water saved by this method, sadly I dont have a garden in France but my laundry basket does a good impression[/quote] Hmmm....no matter how much water you manage to save this way Chancer, I really cannot recommend peeing in the laundry basket...[:D]

I'm sure most here already know about the beneficial use of urine to activate the composting process.  I saw this article this morning and it brought to my attention the water conservation aspect as well.  As a woman (with a non-attached village centre garden), I'm not convinced that this is a route that I will take but some may wish to consider it.[:)] [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8357134.stm[/url]

[:D] Have some Irish friends arriving tomorrow, we'll be watching the match with quite a few friends from the village in our village hall.  Look forward to showing them this...teeeheeeeeheeee![:D]

Is it too late to reply Doris (as plod hasn't)?  I grow onions here (Corbieres), it's very hot and dry in the summer and my land bakes.  I do water onions but not much or as regularly as other crops and they do very well indeed.  Always make long strings of lovely, firm, good sized onions to hang in the barn and they last me through the year.  The garlic wasn't so good this year but then I planted it out of season with some old sprouting heads from my kitchen...[:)]

Richard said; [quote]It still amazes me how the first world war started. It really was like they were all waiting for an excuse to fight.[/quote] Plus ça change...[:(]

Thank you so much for that Clair.[:D]