Jane Smith Please read this if you know her (or are her).

[biffvernon]

Help! Can someone who knows Jane's phone number or email tell her I need to get in touch or send details to me via pm or e-mail. I've lost her contact details and need to tell her I'm bringing her some more windows!

(Hard-disk failure - lost address book, yeah, yeah, I know....)

 

[Jane Smith]

Biff, that name rings a bell...!

Thanks: I've just received your private message, and have replied. I'll look forward to seeing the latest batch, thank you very much indeed!

 

[biffvernon]

Blimey, that was fast

 

[skier-hughes]

You're doing her windows great.
I'd love to see some pictures as that house is truly amazing.

Jane my third lot of chickens are now doing fine, all housed in a giant run as Jo can't be doing with losing them to foxes again.

Graham

 

[caliwag]

Good ole t'internet...
her's the answer, aren't they beautiful? 8)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5201734.ece

 

[Flyfisher]

Beautiful indeed, but have you seen the price of them? We recently considered getting some Alpacas to help reduce the amount of grass mowing. For the cost of three Alpacas (they're herd animals and need company) I could buy a brand new ride-on mower and pay someone to drive it for me!

Graham, did you lose your chickens to the fox during the day or did it get into the hen house? We've recently acquired eight hens and they just roam free during the day. No sign of Charlie yet.

 

[caliwag]

Ah! Yes...between 5k-10k for preganant female...oh well

 

[Schoolmarm]

Neutered boys go for 300 to 500 quidlys. bargain.

 

[worms]

here's the answer, aren't they beautiful?

Hmmm....wonder if they also keep cats at bay?

 

[Penners]

Flippin' 'eck! That thread title worked extremely effectively for Biff.

Hmmmm....

Angelina Jolie Please read this if you know her (or are her)

Well, it's worth a try...

 

[skier-hughes]

Graham, did you lose your chickens to the fox during the day or did it get into the hen house? We've recently acquired eight hens and they just roam free during the day. No sign of Charlie yet.

One lot was approaching dusk and the chickens hadn't gone back to roost, the other was late afternoon, still quite light.

Hen house has door, so when they are in they are shut in tight and safe.

Good job we have an economic downturn, builders security fencing is dirt cheap adn makes a quick good big cage!!!

 

[biffvernon]

Angelina Jolie Please read this if you know her (or are her)

Yes David...?

Oh look here, we can't have that sort of thing on a nice website like this.

 

[Penners]

Aw shucks - I've gone all shy now.


PS: Biff - fine-looking chap though you are, you didn't fool me, I'm afraid.

 

[Jane Smith]

Graham, if your chickens are troubled by foxes still, you could try weeing all round your boundaries: foxes really don't like the smell of human wee and it does help to deter them. And it sorts the neighbours out quite quickly too--you just know that you'll never get invited round after that.

And Penners, it's good to see that you never change.

 

[Jane Smith]

You're doing her windows great.
I'd love to see some pictures as that house is truly amazing.

So amazing that Biff couldn't get here today because of the snow. It's incredibly cold here at the moment, with icicles hanging sideways from the trees because of the wind. This isn't today's snow, which was only an inch or two--the photo is from a couple of years ago--but it gives you an idea of what it gets like here: that rock in the foreground is the top of a two-foot high wall.

We've got three Biff Windows already, to go in the bedroom on the bay window, and another three on the way for the same bit of the house. Only another 46 to go after that...!

 

[skier-hughes]

Graham, if your chickens are troubled by foxes still, you could try weeing all round your boundaries: foxes really don't like the smell of human wee and it does help to deter them. And it sorts the neighbours out quite quickly too--you just know that you'll never get invited round after that.

And Penners, it's good to see that you never change.

I've tried that.
The foxes come when the dogs are out. The dogs chase them off, but it doesn't deter them.
I trap and shoot them, but we must have hundreds.

 

[Penners]

icicles hanging sideways from the trees because of the wind.

And doth Greasy Jane keel the pot?

 

[biffvernon]

No, that was her sister Joan.

When icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson’s saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marion’s nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs his in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

 

[Penners]

Good old Bill. I love that poem, although I've never really known what keeling the pot is.

Anyone....?

 

[Flyfisher]

A children's game from Northumberland ?
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/traditional-games-1/traditional-games-1%20-%200397.htm