Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Lesley Cox]

Better bring your own Paul. Now at Otto's I shall be having.......... or maybe Tim will take me out for breakfast.

[Paul T]

I don't know, if I'm being threatened with vegemite I might just have to find a motel somewhere instead.

I tend to travel with a fair bit of my own food anyway, due to some food allergies.  Might have to start listing vegemite on there just to play it safe!! 

[fermi de Sousa]

Nevermind, Paul,
there's always toast with jam and cheese!
My sister has brought us some Perada(guava cheese - a bit like quince cheese/paste but tastier) from Goa. there maybe some left by the time you get here!
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

You can't think much of it then, if there's still going to be any left in a month's time!!    I know I'm dreadful when I find something I really like... never lives for long after that.  A bit like Maggi and Chocolate I'd hazard? 

[Joakim B]

fermi are You saying they have the jam and the cheese pre mixed?
Else it sounds very interesting
else for people with a sweet tooth I can recommend the Brasilian way of having a jam on the pizza with sweeter cheese on as desert pizza. Great. They also use something like quince but I think it is called something like guarana and are a bit sweeter but I have a bad memory for name. We have used quince and even apple quince mixed on pizza. It is a bit like warm  jam and cheese sandwich or a saltier danish, Great
Interesting how moans is more about food than anything else
Kind regards
Joakim

[Roma]

I was a bit shocked on Tuesday on a visit to the local garden centre to buy some grit.  The shelves where the fertilisers and pesticides usually sit were full of Christmas decorations.  When I got back to the till with my purchases no-one was around.  I found three members of staff hanging up tinsel and other long traily bits for sale.  They sent the member of staff who usually worked upstairs in the non gardening stuff back to the till with me.  She didn't know where to find the price and had to shout for help. At least I did get the grit I had gone for.

[mark smyth]

A local outlet centre has had Christmas stuff for sale for about a months now. My local garden centre is hard at it for their big open night next month. They will make more on their open night than the whole Christmas period.

[ChrisB]

Can I make a plea here that there be a compulsory field that new members have to fill in to say where in the world they are before they can start posting?  It is so hard sometimes to figure out what people are on about when we don't know where they are, its much more important than knowing names and suchlike and would put things in context when reading posts.  What do others think?

[Maggi Young]

Good idea, Christine... I will ask Fred if this can be done.

It's a pity that repeated pleas for folks to do this have failed in many cases.... perhaps Fred may be able to make a compulsory field for new members...... what about the existing ones, though

[art600]

Christine

I am with you on this one. 

[Brian Ellis]

Absolutely Christine, full marks for innovation

[David Nicholson]

Possibly one problem is that some people feel the need to protect their anonymity on the Internet but I do agree it is much easier when you know who you are talking to and where they do their gardening. As far as anonymity is concerned I really don't think using my proper name and details on the Forum has had any adverse effect whatsoever (well apart from the world and his lad knowing how verbose I am   )

[Maggi Young]

well apart from the world and his lad knowing how verbose I am

You and me both, eh, David? 

I know that some prefer a pseudonym for security reasons.... fair enough, but it can't be a terrific threat to security  to give a region and say, if one were to style oneself Nefertiti from Benghazi, surely   ?........ there have to be easier ways for folks to steal one's identity

[ChrisB]

  glad I'm not alone in this then.... hope our dear friend Fred can do something.  Its one thing to have a pseudonym and not know the proper name etc, but quite another to have to guess where the person is coming from when asking questions on our forum, or indeed commenting.  But it is also fascinating to me sometimes to find that in completely different places, conditions can be quite similar to mine, and vice versa.

[Maggi Young]

Friends, Fred tells me that it is not feasible to make a location field compulsory in the profile section.

We must content ourselves with continued efforts to ask Forumists making posts without such info if they will be so good as to add their location to their signature bars.