Wildlife 2007

[David Nicholson]

You are showing your age and television preferences now Anthony!

[Maggi Young]

Do they know the Clampets?

Doesn't everyone?

showing your age and television preferences

Not really, you can catch the Beverley Hillbillies on satellite TV nowadays, and who couldn't love Ellie Mae?

[Lesley Cox]

And what are grits anyway? I should probably be asking this of the GC on Trillium-L! As for Ellie Mae, I couldn't, though I had a sneaking affection for Granny. Closer in personality to my own.

[Maggi Young]

Several points, here: 1) do other forums enjoy/permit this kind of chitchat?
2)L., you didn't like Ellie Mae because she kept raccoons for pets and you just wanted to shoot them!
3) If that is so, why did I like Ellie Mae, since my attraction to fur is well documented?
4) Are grits, whatever they are, the same grits in possum and grits and something I seem to have heard of, hominy grits ?
5) everybody loves granny, too
6) what does GC mean as in GC of TrilliumL?

[Lesley Cox]

Maggi, I think back when I watched Granny and Ellie Mae I'd never even heard of possums. I'm quite a young thing you know so I must have been infantile then. (No comments about that please.) As for other Forums, I find both Alpine-L and Trillium-L a dead bore nowadays. The moderators of T-L in particular get quite severe if one strays into the "let's have a laugh" arena and I doubt if anyone on A-L had a laugh about anything ever. Not online anyway. The GC on T-L are the "Georgia Contingent" who do have a sort of collective swipe at other, out-of-area growers and quite a lot of private fun among themselves, and are the ones to speak with on all things southern such as local customs, food, culture etc.

I can't imagine why you liked Ellie MAe except, perhaps that she was a dumb and dizzy blonde. No similarities there? And I think grits are probably hominy grits but then, what's hominy? Not a corruption of hogmanay anyway.

[Maggi Young]

what's hominy?

I think it may be something you do to maize, but then again, it may be boiled raccoon!
I've been thinking about this Ellie Mae fixation, it must be the ditsy blonde with curls thing: then I was a nonditsy redhead with the straightest hair this side of anywhere, so she was a complete opposite, but I did tend to collect animals, too. Live ones in those days! Did I tell you Ian won't let me get a dog?

No offence meant to any other Forum which frowns on off-topic comment, by the way. We just do things a little differently here. The only things we take seriously are our plants.

[Anthony Darby]

Ah thinks grits is sumpt'n' to do with some kind of grain? I don't think it would have been bushy tailed possums though. I wonder if Dame Edna cooked them for her nephew Barry?

[Lesley Cox]

Anything Dame Edna does is OK by me.

That's so unfair Ian. What harm could a little dog (or even a big one) possibly DO in a little suburban garden like yours and Maggi's? It's not as if there are plants to dig up, except that we know you cultivate dandelions. So what's the problem? 

[fermi de Sousa]

From my little sojourn in Southern USA (1996/97) I learned that "Grits" (also known as Hominy grits) is a mash-sort-of-mess made from maize/corn/hominy which is canned and sold to the socio-economically deprived such as college students who vow never to eat them again once they start earning real money. None of my friends would let me buy them so I never got to try them.
Don't even get me started on squirrels(!) which were apparently also valued as a food source!
cheers
fermi

[mark smyth]

Having stayed with the Youngs recently a dog in the Young garden would have to learn ver fast to never set foot off the paths

[David Lyttle]

Hominy grits is a sort of a porridge made out of maize. It is defined as hulled, dried maize ground up and possibly treated with lime - I tried some once and I  have no desire to ever eat it again. So Fermi you did not miss anything.

There is a tradition in the southern part of the USA to eat anything that ran/walked/crawled/ slithered through the yard that morning. It is called Cajun cuisine.

[David Nicholson]

I can remember having "certain feelings" about Ellie Mae when the programme was first on. These days I might stand more chance with Granny!

[Maggi Young]

There was a time when there were three cocker spaniels running about this place. I admit there was some grass in those days. The dogs kept to that and the outer perimeter of the garden, unless in hot pursuit of a cat. Nowadays we only have visiting dogs, who come to spend their (owners') holidays with us! It's not hard to train 'em to keep off the beds, even if they are not used to such restrictions.
Ian thinks a dog of our own would be too much of a tie now, and with his  capacity to beetle off around the countryside, that's fair enough, but I like to stay at home and I like dogs! never mind, Molly, the Westie, is coming for a few days quite soon, so that will be nice... Molly is wonderful and Ian and she are soul mates, so Ian isn't best pleased, since he will be away and so miss her cuddles! Serves him right!

David N : Too much information!

[mark smyth]

I agree that dogs can be a burden. I too travel too much and though I miss Fowler the working black Lab and want another it's too much to ask others to walk a big dog 3 times a day

[David Nicholson]

Threaten him Maggi, no dog, no cake!