I think I’m getting the hang of this site now and starting to feel at home.
I blog here and on my page, click between the two, a bit like MyT without the Disordered Personalities.
I go to see what the Freefarmer has written and drool over the photos.
I go to the dashboard and each time find something new to play with (though how can I change the names of blogs on my blogroll? I want John Mackie’s to say John Mackie and not Embraforever).
I can waste every bit of much time here as I did on MyT. And I do.
Yep. I like it. I think I’ll stay.
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Out of curiosity, I backtracked your Freefarmer blog.
There are a lot of them here on the coast in Bellingham,mainly escapees from N California, they may be out of this world but when it comes to paying their taxes they become positively pedestrian and vote with their feet! Washington has a MUCH lower tax base than Cal.
I’m afraid I derive a great deal of sardonic entertainment from the antics of the local version. The vast majority couldn’t feed themselves for a month let alone a year from their ‘gardens’. There is a big thing here of opening your gardens as tours in the Summer. We all wander round 3-4 gardens in an evening and go to other groups to see what they are doing. Nobody tries the ecobuildings here, they melt in the rain. They work in Welsh rain because they are coated with lime mortar, very easy to do but I don’t think they would want the knowledge from a right winger!
I think they are all practising for a post Armageddon world, in which they wouldn’t last five minutes.
I go to some of their meetings when they are showing weird films, generally on the ‘We’re doomed’ theme but leave before they descend to thanking God for a wizened diseased beetroot or two and become merely irritating!
Splendid entertainment, I shouldn’t I really shouldn’t!
Equally we went to a Cattleman’s Association for an endorsement of a political candidate that made Sarah Palin look like a communist. Again great free entertainment.
We always go out to dinner with a good sustaining bottle of wine after these forays into the wilder extremes of society and laugh ourselves sick, far more amusing than television, we never take others I don’t think most of the Yanks have a very good sense of humour!
The trouble always starts when people start taking themselves far too seriously and believing their own bullshit!
Hi Isobel: you can edit your Blogroll by clicking on “links” “edit” on your Dashboard.
Yes, it is time-consuming or time wasting, but enjoyable, nevertheless. I have a busy week, so I shouldn’t be here at all, but I’m having a break.
I&C,
Agreed. It’s not worn in like a fave pair of slippers just yet, but I can see the site getting there.
I shall be staying too, put the kettle on then. 🙂
Christina, I don’t think the one I’m following has dropped out. She is also linked to someone called Iso something – a man, and I was intrigued because that is what my name gets shortened to – who supplies fancy restaurants. I think the food looks brilliant. I love foraging, but only usually get as far as blackberries. Enjoy the doom-laden films.
Araminta, thanks. I shouldn’t be here either, but popped by.
Ferret, make mine a Lemsip.I have a rotten cold.
Hmm, it’s rather refreshing here, without the fear of someone snapping your head off.
Isobel, they haven’t dropped out as in the old hippy days, I don’t actually think I said they had. They keep one foot firmly in the 21st Century especially with the internet. The ones who are making a living at it all have websites to which they try to attract advertising!
I’ll try to find the most famous of them who make films (and sell them).
Will try to find a link for you.
Gosh isn’t it. Whenever I look in at MyT it feels like a piranha party. I miss some of my virtual friends from there though. i’d like Brendano to join us and contribute his music quizzes.
Thanks Christina, but I’ll pass on the films if they are gloom and doom. I want my entertainment to be on the light side these days.I’m more interested in the salads! With your knowledge of plants, wouldn’t you be rather good at this? I used to like eating my nasturtiums. i don’t have any now. Probably why…
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This is the guy that started it all, making out like a bandit now, look at the advertising.
Not gloom and doom. The local wannabees lap it up, its quite interesting. What gives me such a laugh is the PC pious mouthings that go with it.
These are the ones that makes film and sell them. An extremely clever marketing campaign. What is so funny is that all these people seem to think that bees, spinning, knitting are new worthy pursuits, I’ve done them all my life to produce original things, I don’t care to purchase crap that everyone else has, also free!
Call a mate up and have a few free fleeces, take them from there.
Nasturtiums are annuals you have to sew new ones every year!
Yes of course I know what is edible and what is poisonous, I used to grow and sell floral salads in my restaurants.
I’m afraid I have no intention of ever bothering to tell anyone how to do anything, I refuse to indulge in the correct oleaginous, drooling, touchy feely, droopy skirted, sandal wearing earth mothering shit that seems to be mandatory these days!
Many years ago I did an entertaining blog on how to poison your husband from the fields and garden, very easy! (I have been tempted on occasion!) Vast quantities of ornamentals are deadly poisonous! Regrettably lost by MyT, I never bother to save anything.
do look at that site it is rather up your street.
PS If you want Brendano I suggest you visit MyT!
I love it without him, bastard would argue with his shadow and probably does!
Tedium personified.
Hi Isobel
Your wish is my command. Hope you get over your cold quickly.
I like it here and I’m staying, albeit with an occasional lope to visit “friends” on t’other side. (Pulls up armchair) Anyone got a beer?
OZ
A typical CO comment, straight from the hip. Love it.
Lol.
tocino. I do so love beating about the bush!
Yo, come on over, Brandano: could be just what we need !
or even Brendano.
isobel
Glad you are feeling comfy, this site is bedding in nicely, just need a few more gardeners to tend it and this could be become a good vine. We can then enjoy the fruits while enjoying the fruits of another vine preferably a Penfolds Grange Hermitage or a nice California red from and aged vine, a good ‘sipping’ site is what this could become, Cheers!
Coo Christina watch it or you’ll be back in hospital with high blood pressure problems. Go easy, girl! I don’t want to back to MyT I want Brendano to come here. You don’t have to read his blogs. Can’t recall Bearsy’s exact words, but it’s basically if you don’t like the blog don’t comment. Or maybe that’s just how I’ve understood it.
OMG ‘a good sipping site’ sounds very nice. Not too much tho’ I used to feel that MyT got over-excited and over-excitable, then pugnacious then downright nasty as the bottles were emptied!
I think that DNMT fils the gap nicely between a site where the trolls, multiple IDs and cyber-ùber egos are busy crayonning away and the general blogosphere where the vast majority of well-writtem, heartfelt outpourings has “0 comments” as an epitaph.
OZ
Hi again, Isobel.
Having read your post again, I’m thinking that I may have slightly over Walter Raleighed here and thrown my coat down in a non-existent puddle.
If you click on my entry in your blogroll, you will see that I now rejoice in the name of ‘John Mackie’ and that ‘Embraforever’ is no more. I also now realise that you just wanted to change said entry in your blogroll and were not suggesting that I should change my blog name.
If so, and for your purposes, just do what Ara sort of says. Click on ‘My Account’ then ‘Edit Profile’ and then ‘Links’. Edit the link to me any which way you wish and that’s what will appear on your blogroll.
Happy to switch to my own name on my blog, by the way, and thanks for the mention.
Just so long as you don’t have a problem with Embra, of course, in which case we can never be friends. Smiley thing.
OZ I love ‘0 comment as as an epitaph’. It has a rock ballad feel about it. There are an awful lt of 0 comments aren’t there. I think maybe people us their pages as a storage area. They probably, unlike me, live in minimal homes.
John What a gentleman you are. I shall do the stuff the next time I am exploring the various clicks and options on the dashboard.
Thanks Christina, yes it is quite up my street, but I agree the presentation is rather on the twee side.
Bee-keeping, knitting, making your own clothes etc have rather fallen out of fashion – witness the demise of wool shops and the decimation of John Lewis’ once glorious fabric and haberdashery departments, so I guess it’s a question of rebranding. I seem to remember crochet being refound some thirty ears ago. So all in all I’m in favour of this as it wakes people up and keeps skills alive. No doubt there’ll be a tapering off in a while and then a few years down the line a renewed interest and discovery. Circles of life.
Isobel, true, its the nauseating twee self satisfaction that tends to do me in!
People used to knit for relaxation and design and cheapness, now its a statement!
And not a cheap one at that.
The fibres are ghastly and anything handspun here cost roughly £10 per ounce. In my estimation at least £250 for a big cardigan or sweater. Everyone wants to spin pure alpaca as a statement rather than blend it with lambswool for wearability and more lightness of texture. I can’t be bothered with them I no longer go to club I’m not into competitive crafts!
I agree Isobel. It’s very pleasant. I just have to keep remembering it’s a public site and not some little private backwater.
Also I like the thought of John Mackie over-Raleighing and flinging his coat down dramatically for nothing in particular. Attention-seeking, I call it.
Hi Christina
Fortunately some are more down to earth than holier than thou, some are too down to earth and make a virtue out of ugliness because it’s hand made or something. I like the freefarmer blog because she presents her pix well and seems to have humour. We have a beekeeper nearby. Son of a preacherman (honest!). I took a pot of his honey to give a friend in Ireland last summer. She didn’t seem v impressed at the time, but when she heard i was going over in the autumn asked if I could get more.
Ooh sorry, clicked too early. Meant to reply to Janh too. Yes, I tend to forget it’s a public site. You’re right.
But not a word against Mr Mackie. We don’t agree on all things but he’s by way of becoming a hero of mine.
Anyway, must get on with my private warble. Chpir this evening.