No, but this is the a2k thread.
Do you have a busy week ahead?
YES!!!!
and the first day has half killed me!!!
What do you usually do to relax?
Have a BBQ with friend with a few drinks. I love cooking and do all sorts of exotic dishes on my barbie, very traditional here. eg. On Saturday I did King Prawns marinated in garlic and chilli sauce with white wines.
What sort of heavy work do you do that it nearly kills you?
Well anything that demands manual labour is right up my street, the harder the better, I feel it keeps the body in 'good fettle'
On Saturday for instance, I carried a ton of small decorative garden stones up hill in two buckets, it took me about four and a half hours, every muscle in my body was hurting by the time I finished, but I felt good.
Do you think I'm daft?
Absolutely not, did an hour of digging myself today now that the rains have transferred the earth from concrete to something manageable.
Are you still enhancing that already beautiful garden of yours?
I am Dutchy, people in cars and on foot stop on a regular basis to pass comment on the same. Some think I am the 'gardener' and ask me to do work for them, that makes me smile! I'll send you some photographs at the end of the month, it should look really splendid by the end of June.
Do you enjoy creativity either in gardening, construction, painting or music?
I have ideas but unfortunately two left hands.
Designed my own house but subcontracted it to have it built. I do make my own CD's though with the types of music I like. My garden looks neat and tidy but that is about it. Very creative in catching fish though, and that's not a fishy story.
Besides the flowers and plants in the garden, do you have a green house or grown things indoors?
Small greenhouse, usually grow tomato's and start off plants there before planting out. Last year put a grapevine in, it is obviously going to bear a great deal of fruit this year, I can hardly believe the rate of growth. Also this year put two outdoor vines at top of garden to see how they do, they reckon they will produce and be ok outside over winter?
Do you know anything about vine maintenance and enhancing production?
I live opposite a vine yard. All I know is that in the middle of our hot summer I walk across the road and help myself to bunches of fresh grapes. Then after they are harvested a large Italian family moves in and manually prune every plant, takes them weeks. The plants are automatically watered by a drip system. Must state 99% are wine grapes and the rest around the home-stead are table grapes.
I remember in Holland the table grapes were grown in enormous glass houses for local consumption, do you do that in the UK as well?
You don't actually see many being grown en masse in this part of the UK, I wasn't too sure about how they should be pruned at the back end, a hard cut back or gentle. I will find out from the web no doubt.
A lot of people are using canatronics over here at present, this apparently originated in Holland for mass production of marijuana but apparently it enhances all growth in plants and veg. However, I would be reluctant to eat anything grown via chemicals are forced by long term lighting.
How would you view canatronics to grow foods for consumption?
Canatronics is a word not used here. I would think it is a lightning system which they use here to grow marijuana illegally. Have seen lots of different flowers grown hydroponically which is very popular here. As far as food is concerned have not heard of that, however don't forget farmers nowadays use all sorts of chemicals!
Do they grow chickens for consumption in special cages in the UK and feed them certain ingredients (chemicals) to mature them rapidly like they do here?
Battery hens I think you're referring to Dutchy or similar, yes it happens.
I always get mine from a local farmer friend, grain reared and no additives, neck em myself, pluck, clean and cook 'em.
Are you aware they are trying to grow chickens as large as pigs in China?
No, I didn't, but nothing surprises me any more.
Is the price of petrol as high in the UK as here? This morning it is $1.40 per litre, was $1.45 earlier in the week but dropping slightly each day at the moment.
Presently 94.9per litre which equates to £4..32 per gallon.
In Bangkok or Thailand in general it was about 23p per litre.
Are you aware how much they are stealing off us in taxes in the UK.
No idea, tell me.
Are you aware until a few years ago pensioners paid no tax here, now they are being taxed until they die.
What do they bloody well expect the lazy, idle whingers.
Are you a virtuous seed-corn eater?
Don't be daft Spendi, I'm built like a brick ****-house with muscles women would die for.
Do you do a hundred and fifty press ups every morning?
To be honest I wouldn't last the distance, but I do power walk for 45 minutes each day.
Do you think 'spendi' has lost touch with reality by giving such an imbecilic reply to a simple question?
I have noticed for a couple of years or so that he is much more fun to wind up when he has been to the pub. He's a very pious little soul when sober, probably loved by all the women in his area and pub, you know, "Oh poor old Spendi," and they buy him a gill or bake him an apple pie, I bet he's a right little crafty sod with them!
Would you, like me, think the best way to leave this planet, is to be in your ninety fourth year, in bed with a thirty year old beauty and get plugged by her jealous husband?
I'd rather be charged with rape at that age than plugged.
Can you tell me why we are coming back to a2k, day in day out, do you think we have become addicted?
