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I don't know what level it is.

Mine FINALLY just arrived, lol. I didn't get much, as expected. Didn't get the wearables.

Agreed, it's not got that eventide look, definitely more of a plushie vibe.

some people have, theres a thread somewhere. Some of us are still waiting.

On 5/22/2018 at 2:21 PM, jellysundae said:

 

 

 

this is a random quote that the forum wanted me to make ^^^^ weird.  And now it's deleting my writing...whats happening!!!!!   Sometimes you can buy golden syrup in worldmarket, definitely in squeezy bottles at least. It's better in tins though, its thicker but very sticky and messy.

Still no mail for me either.

When I get random neomail I've usually won something from the wishing well,  no guilty conscience because it's usually a good thing 

I'm still waiting. Not expecting much though, to be honest. Couldn't get far into the plot which I'm quite sad about, because I've got a strong battle pet.  Unfortunately I haven't got the hand eye co-ordination to get all of the challengers.  They must be doing these neomails alphabetically.

2 minutes ago, jellysundae said:

OUCH!

Though looking at that with adult eyes, I'm hoping your dad was mortified and wracked with guilt, so covered it up with brusqueness. Did you ever make friends with the cat?

 

I would very much doubt that, if I'm perfectly honest. He wasn't a nice man.

The cat was re-strayed toot sweet, according to my mother. With her boot.

I don't have much more than a vague memory of the cat, it was a long long time ago in a galaxy far away and I was very young.

4 minutes ago, rntracy1 said:

my husband came home, he was like, "where's the bird!!?"  I said, "he's out somewhere.  He's fine. He comes when you call him, watch.  Tweet tweet!" And tweet tweet flew right to me and landed on my shoulder.  My husband couldn't believe it! 

 

i have a story like that.  When I was very small a neighbour let me choose one of his baby budgies, I think it was for a birthday maybe. He was green and I called him Twinkle. I taught him to do tricks and to talk. My mother tells me that one day she noticed Twinkle was missing and came out to the garden where I was playing on my swing, to ask where he was and I told her he was on the roof. She says she was stage whispering for me to bring the bird in before he flew away, it had never occurred to me that he might.  My sister got a budgie not long after i got Twinkle, because she wanted what I had. Hers was called Jimmy and he just looked in a mirror all day. I don't think she ever tried to do anything with him though to be fair to Jimmy.

My father found a stray cat and brought it home. It ate Twinkle.  My father said 'he can't have been that ******** clever or he'd have shouted for help.'   

I had a dream once where neopets changed my draik into a baby royal plushie. He was hideous. I checked him as soon as I woke up. (of course, then I started labbing him and he mostly looks hideous these days).

Got to admit I thought the serf lens was special anyway.

I have 1071 lunch trays. Oh the joys of repetitively clicking till your arm falls off to spend those last points 

I watched a programme about them years and years ago and I never had the same fondness for them after that, they're really quite nasty to each other.

a good day, although my account is much younger than yours so not nearly as good a day as you

Strictly speaking,  I think a lot of the original users would have already been young adults back then, as it was supposedly aimed at uni students before it turned into a younger kids aimed thing... I don't even know how old they must be now. I distantly remember the Adam and Donna days but I had a loooooonng hiatus.  Unfortunately, when I came back, my main account has vanished and my side account won't let me in. They weren't particularly good accounts but it would have been nice to use them again instead of starting from scratch. The food club bets would be very nice indeed by now. sigh.

I'd pretty much forgotten how it all worked when I came back, but I know it's much much easier to make nps now.  I was clueless first time round too I must admit, didn't really know what I was doing with plots and events. I'm only marginally less clueless now

that is the cutest story.

do you have a photo of the bird mansion? That sounds epic.

I don't know much about songbirds but there are lots of pretty little colourful ones in the lanes around here, probably lots of tits of various kinds but I've never taken the trouble to find out. Definitely Kingfishers down at the river because they are really obvious, I don't need to be a genius to figure that one out, lol. Sometimes I see heron there too.

I swear there used to be a particular owl who must have perched in the gutter above my bedroom window to deliberately keep me awake at night with it's noise.  I wasn't feeling warm and fuzzy birdwatching thoughts towards that blighter, I can tell you

I always like it when the swallows and swifts arrive back. I always feel like summer has arrived. They build in the stables and its nice to see them flitting about catching insects.

I'd forgotten about the apple bobbing, got tired of either getting the same old junk or getting robbed.

Got a yellow apple.

I've never been obsessed with avatars and honestly don't remember much of what I had first time around, but I did get a bit nostalgic for bilge dice when I tried to replace my trophy and avatar and realised it was broken, I used to like that game.

thank you kindly, I just squeezed in there

You have awoken the great Turmaculus...
and he has given you a Guide to Knighthood!!!

You take your jam spoon and whack a dollop of jam on top of the cream. Job done. 

I used to read those books, and Enid Blytons stuff too. They drink a lot of Ginger Beer too. Gallons of it. Have you ever had it? Nasty stuff, lol. Well, I think so anyway.

2 hours ago, jellysundae said:

I DID think of something actually informative to add to this thread, but I've forgotten what it was now.

 

Me too, when I was making a cup of tea...!  Afternoon Tea, High Tea, and Cream Teas.  There's a difference. Afternoon Tea is the one people think of, with the ribbon sandwiches and delectable fancies.  That's the posh one that started off with the upper classes.

High Tea was originally the working class version because us hoi-poloi wanted in on the action. This was originally more substantial and less fancy. More an evening meal for the working man than something dainty for ladies who lunch. Many people abroad get the two mixed up and call Afternoon Tea 'High Tea' instead, but when you look at the menu it isn't High Tea, it's an Afternoon Tea.  The 'modern' high tea has the elements of an Afternoon Tea but it will have some additional savoury elements like Welsh Rarebit (other Rarebits are available, lol. And it's delicious by the way).  When I say 'modern' it's because the upper classes saw the working mans rougher version, thought 'What a jolly good idea' and fancied it up quite a lot. To make things more confusing, sometimes in tourist places you will find places offering afternoon tea but deliberately mis-calling it high tea to get the tourist traffic, because we know people get the two mixed up and don't care that much as long as you come in and spend your money hahaha  

Oh, and to make it more confusing again, the working mans version is still called 'tea' (especially in the North), and is just an evening meal. Typically there are no ribbon sandwiches or delectable fancies and tea may or may not be drunk. It depends where you live and the time of day, you may have dinner or supper or tea. 

Now, the Cream Tea is your basic entry level affair   Typically you've got tea, naturally, and scones (like North American biscuits in appearance, but our biscuits are cookies), various jams (jellies), lemon curd, and clotted cream.

If you haven't had real clotted cream you haven't lived. If you have had real clotted cream you've probably not got long to live, lol!

There are fierce and heated debates in Cornwall and Devon about whether you put jam or clotted cream on your scone first. Seriously serious stuff. I don't think anyone else cares. I don't care as long as I've got a scone with jam and clotted cream on it, I'm happy whichever way up it is.  

I will try to remember to check here next time round to see what people are needing avatars for!

Pot pie and steamed puddings are different beasts.  Its a type of suet pastry that you steam for hours.

Treacle is a byproduct from sugar refining. It can be a light coloured syrup when it is called Golden syrup, or dark, which is pretty much like molasses.  Good for treacle toffee and parkin which is a traditional Northern type of gingerbread.

1 minute ago, kayahtik said:

I love the FEA and I try my best to do all five jobs every day! I can easily make 20k profit (without a job coupon), and it takes a grand total of about 10 minutes. 

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I could only do three then it stopped me!

4 minutes ago, jellysundae said:

Jellied. eels.

Maybe you really have to be from the East End of London to look at those and not want to flee.

 

Begone, thou foul beast!!!! hahahhaha!

I figured it out by saving the pics then dragging them. Is all good.