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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.
 
 

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!

I'm a lady! I do lady things!  (little Britain quote, lol)
 
No, it was deliberate. I had about three to start, then was wondering if dots counted...
...thought they probably didn't and had to actually formulate a sentence rather than just grunting a terse response back  
 

Our beans have a lot less sugar than US beans. I didn't understand why North Americans would urgh at beans on toast until I realised their versions of beans are very much sweeter.  I wouldn't want to eat sugary beans on toast either.
 
We are an Island, so we have a lot of traditional seafood dishes obviously.  Same as anywhere else really, we have a lot of regional variations on similar dishes. Sausages have been mentioned, there are many varieties and styles up and down the country and all are 'the best ones'. we call them 'sausages'...despite me being emphatically assured once by a North American that no, I was wrong...we call them 'bangers'  . Jamie Oliver and London tourist pubs might call them bangers, but rarely anyone else.  Cheeses, we have hundreds of variations on regional and artisan cheeses. There are so many more cheeses than the boring (imo :D) cheddar. (and fun fact, the cheese rolling game on neopets is a real traditional event from back when there was no tv or internet hahaha). So yes, preserved meats, hams and the like. Same as most places in Europe but with different names.  Pies are traditionally popular, you can put anything in a pie. Pork, rabbit, venison, beef, fruit, cheese, mixture of the above, lol. I don't know how to do pictures or I would.  Honestly, I don't really know where to start with traditional foods, theres so much.
 


Steamed puddings are also traditional.  Yes, they are fattening stodge, and yes they are delicious.  When you are in the middle of a cold grey rainy winter a little bit of stodge with custard does you the power of good  Treacle or syrup pudding are types, you've probably heard of Spotted D.ick because iit has a comedy name, but actually contains dried fruit like currants, it's good.  Sussex Pond pudding has a whole lemon in the centre, crazy but crazy good.  Or you can have savoury steamed puddings like steak.

I'm a lady! I do lady things!  (little Britain quote, lol)
 
No, it was deliberate. I had about three to start, then was wondering if dots counted...
...thought they probably didn't and had to actually formulate a sentence rather than just grunting a terse response back  
 

I'm a lady! I do lady things!  (little Britain quote, lol)
 
No, it was deliberate. I had about three to start, then was wondering if dots counted...
...thought they probably didn't and had to actually formulate a sentence rather than just grunting a terse response back  
 

Yeah, I agree. It's more like supporting a sports team than choosing a temporary and everchanging obelisk skirmish side. You support your team because reasons.

Yeah, I agree. It's more like supporting a sports team than choosing a temporary and everchanging obelisk skirmish side. You support your team because reasons.

It's true. There are whole groups of people that pick which side is going to win and cheat to do it. I know it's weird, but it's a thing. That's why, quite honestly I'm okay with my team not winning rather than being chosen by an ACG (or ASG) and coming first because of it.  Plus it puts you at risk of getting flagged or frozen just for being a normal 'good' player.

Yeah, I agree. It's more like supporting a sports team than choosing a temporary and everchanging obelisk skirmish side. You support your team because reasons.

Lincolnshire is soooo flat
That station is very similar in style to the closest train station to here, and the next one a couple of miles down the track is a one-story greystone with the postcard worthy window boxes and flower planters, a different style but the same 'feel' about it. I agree the Victorians did make pretty buildings.

I don't mind the rain, we have lots of agriculture and it's kinda handy when things will grow   It's being relentlessly sunny recently though which the animals are enjoying but me not so much.
Yeah there're stereotypes about all of us I suppose, and they wouldn't be stereotypes if they were particularly flattering. They don't even need to be true, but people think they are because...stereotype lol! (for the record, I don't speak like the Queen OR D.ick Van Dyke being a cheeky cockney chimney sweep, my teeth are fine thank you very much, and I don't like cricket. The tea thing is completely true though hahaha).

It's true. There are whole groups of people that pick which side is going to win and cheat to do it. I know it's weird, but it's a thing. That's why, quite honestly I'm okay with my team not winning rather than being chosen by an ACG (or ASG) and coming first because of it.  Plus it puts you at risk of getting flagged or frozen just for being a normal 'good' player.

I donated thousands of things...right before charity corner started. I didn't even know that was a thing back then. lol, winning at life ?
 
Good luck with your shop.  As for any jobs Ive taken, no I haven't used a job coupon. I just sell them. so ive only done low values and there was never any problem getting those  jobs.

thats a really good tip for getting random events (and where I get most of my map pieces, lol). I play solitaire, both sorts, dicearoo, anything like that where you refresh the page a lot to play can be a goldmine for RE's.

thats a really good tip for getting random events (and where I get most of my map pieces, lol). I play solitaire, both sorts, dicearoo, anything like that where you refresh the page a lot to play can be a goldmine for RE's.

I don't mind the rain, we have lots of agriculture and it's kinda handy when things will grow   It's being relentlessly sunny recently though which the animals are enjoying but me not so much.
Yeah there're stereotypes about all of us I suppose, and they wouldn't be stereotypes if they were particularly flattering. They don't even need to be true, but people think they are because...stereotype lol! (for the record, I don't speak like the Queen OR D.ick Van Dyke being a cheeky cockney chimney sweep, my teeth are fine thank you very much, and I don't like cricket. The tea thing is completely true though hahaha).

and we have shoulder spikes, what's not to like?

and we have shoulder spikes, what's not to like?

A milkmaid is literally a young woman who works in a milking parlour, what they used to be called anyway. I don't know if there's a new term for them or what.  I live in Great Britain, specifically I live in England.  Don't give a monkeys about the royal wedding and don't 100% get why its a big deal.  We still have some windmills over here and some of them even still work, although many are now converted into really inconveniently laid-out houses lol.  And we have clogs too, in the North anyway, I remember watching them being hand made in a place that used to be a few miles up the road from where I used to live. I don't know if anyone actually wears them though.  They're supposed to be comfy I hear.
It's okay where I live, the scenery anyway.  There is lots of green i.e arable land, pasture, woodland, moorland, and we are quite near the coast.  So that's nice. Lot's of castles and stuff. From ruined to lived in. Lot's of wildlife around my area like foxes, badgers, different types of deer, rabbits, squirrels, hedgehogs, weasels, the usual suspects. I saw an otter once but thats rare. Lots of wild birds I don't know the name of, but I've seen owls, woodpeckers, herons and kingfishers, theyre really pretty. (theres also plenty of pheasants and game birds around but they aren't really wild I suppose).  And bats, I like watching the bats. There's plenty of wildlife and we aren't all that far from a city.  I don't know anything about how many people are here or their genetic makeup tbh, as there are several universities in the county which means frequent massive fluctuations in pop. numbers and makeup.
We have a chunk of pasture and woodland and have some horses, breed a few, sell a few.  I used to be mad keen into horse showing, but my favourite filly died and my ambition died with her really.  I had my sights on the Horse of the Year show with her, but my hearts not really in it anymore although we've still got some really nice horses.  I don't know what else to write, I wrote more and somehow lost a chunk.
 
Yeah, same.  i think many countries have problems with people who pretend to be fans but for whom its really about the fighting not the football. They are an embarrassment to their countries and clubs and  give real football fans a bad name.
 
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Someone on the boards yesterday made a comment saying all the JS staff are focusing on other sites, and Jade is the janitor's daughter and she's the only one left running Neo.
Thing is, even though that was a joke, I can almost believe it sometimes.  ?
I actually feel sorry for Jade, she's in a hopeless position, she's an apprentice who was taken on to make Scrappy's coffee, basically. She probably didn't know Neopets existed before she started working for JS, and now she's being expected to answer questions about stuff she knows NOTHING about, and in all likelihood neither does anyone else in the building! The fact that she doesn't have an ounce of professionalism rankles though, this is a newspaper editorial she's posting responses on, not a schoolgirl's Twitter. ?

Yay!! I love it when they're all new and shiny and fast and you haven't yet dropped crumbs all through the keys  have fun!

My brain's pottering about by itself, as they do, and suddenly reminded me about Roobarb and Custard, which was a fab cartoon that I adored as a kid in the 70s.
So now I'm sharing an episode with you!
So enjoy! Especially the epic theme music! It's also fabulously British which hopefully makes it all the more fun.
 
Did you like it?
Share something that makes you happy. =3

@hrtbrk @Mouseykins Thanks for the info, ladies!
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