Hi guys and gals! I have been inspired by all our discussions of fruit to do an article about all the tropical fruits that no one is familiar with. I will probably direct readers to our discussions, and may quote a few of you. Is this okay? If anyone has any - repeat ANY - reservations about this, please let me know...no problema.
Need your Okay....
I haven't said anything to be quoted....so just go ahead.
Seriously, your articles are so interesting and informative. If it were me, I would be honored.....see above.
LouC
You'd be suprised! And you just may be! Thanks for the vote of confidence.
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no fruit.
You eat!!!
Oh do I ever. Thought you were interested in people that grow unusual fruit such as Carol and Chrissy. Think Chrissy must be fortunate to grow the entire produce department. Hard work. May not hear from here for a couple of days after having 200 people for the weekend.
What you describe will only be a part of the article...another part will be eating!~ Tell me how you liked the Kiwis I reccommened. etc...etc...etc...
I have been no fountain of knowledge either...so its okay with me! Look forward to your article!
GOFERIT!!!! I can always deny it!!!
If you need any help...I have some good books.....
You grow!!!
Carol
Great Idea Shari.......I would really love to encourage everyone to grow fruit....or any edibles for that matter .....tropical fruit sounds so good and unless they are something that requires extreme heat most of us can create the required conditions to have some exciting results......you go for it girl :).......crawling into bed right now.....great time over this long weekend but it has been very hot
and big hot winds have started the first bushfires of the season ...3 homes lost ..........lots of damage........back in the morning .....:)
I quoted a website on the papaya toxins....so it wasn't really mine....Sounds like a good article tho.
I missed your last one, is there a way to go back and see it, or get a copy?
You can sign up for a weekly DG newsletter and all the articles that were out during that week are on there. Just click on them and it will take you there. To get the newsletter just go to Manage Your Preferences and click on the part for the newsletter.
Great, thanks Pepper! Appreciate it!
If you get the article on your home page, I think, if you click on it to read it - then over to the right should be a selection called "Articles". If you click on that you get the whole shebang!
Great thanks! I'll try it.
Sounds good. I was always going to try and write one about Papayas, but here it is a year later and not a word, so hopefully they'll be in there too.
Shari, that was very interesting! It really takes alot of time for the process! What patience! The cloth was beautiful! Thanks for sharing that info with us!
Jeanne
Uh oh....somethin's going on here...after all this time 77** ! Jeanne has always been one of my favorite names! Glad you liked the article. There are so many good writers in our little writers group, that I'm so afraid that I am just boring people since I don't write "how-to"gardening stories. But the other writers have assured me that essay type articles are just as important - just depends on what people want to read. So I guess I will continue to blather on about whatever comes to mind....seems to work. ☺
Shari, I love your writings! I think we need a little variety!
Yep, had that name since I was born....I kinda like it too! Thanks!
I like the "blather"! Keep it coming!
Is that blather with an a like in cat, or blather as O as in cot......?
Inquiring minds want to know! LOL
Like the cat in my mother tongue, of course I say tomato, and you say....
ta-may-to. We also say head with two syllables, and Y'all.
Having been born in Indiana.....talk fast.....then moved to Florida....first southern accent.....then to Hawaii....with a puka here, kapu there, then back to North Carolina....my poor Yankee Grandmother said....."Nobody is ever going to understand these girls! They talk fast with a southern accent, and half of it isn't even in English!" She's passed on now.....but low and behold we up and moved to TEXAS and now have added some Spanish to our vocabulary and menus!
OLA!
Good thing the Good Lord took her when HE DID! LOL We'd all driven her Crazy with all of our jargon! But she would have just shaken her hay-ed and grinned!!
Tgal, have you visited the Texas Pride thread yet?
Here I have company till late and look what happens....you just run off and leave me dead in the water. Humpf!
No not yet....I'll come for a visit! Thanks!
Dead in the water - nonsense! Just lots to entertain you, and let you respond to! Talking about accents, another funny story:
When we were in Spain there was a little cafe/wine bar right down at the corner of our street, and we spent many a leisurely hour there sipping sangria and sharing conversation with some fascinating and friendly people. The owner, Carmelo was a kick! He was Italian, had served in the French Army, went AWOL in England and married a British lass with whom he had two beautiful daughters. He is now living in Spain. When he got going on a subject near and dear to him, you couldn't understand anything but the occasional ... everything else was a European mishmash with a british accent! Still a good friend, 12 years later, and still need to slow him down to understand what he's on about!
How funny!
Identifying accents is a hobby of my DH's. Jeanne, I'm sure your's would give him trouble. The only time he was stumped completely was also in Spain. There was a German restaurant we had gone to, and our waitress was struggling with both Spanish and English, but her English was better. But JB just couldn't place her accent. He finally broke down and asked her. She was Dutch, but had learned English from an Aussie! I just love accents!!!!
I love Aussie accents too! Now if we could just hear Chrissy instead of reading her words we'd all be in awe.....even more so than she keeps us with the reading! LOL
I like the English....UK accents as well. My ancestors were Scots and English, so I guess it's just in my DNA. Another place I would LOVE to visit...the UK!
I have some friends who are getting married soon, and they have specified on their invitations and to all their friends and relatives that they would like air miles in lieu of gifts, cuz they love to travel and have so many places they want to go. I think that is so cool! I told JB that we need to break up and get re-married so we could do the same!
I love accents!! I love them even more when I have someone with me to translate. I can barely understand English sometimes! LOL
LOL Shari!! A very unique idea that JB probably nixed!!
Do you find it difficult to understand Australian strine (that's Paul Hogan speak)?
What I don't get is that we all understand American accents (most likely due to early telly education ....my grandchildren mimic Homar Simpson....and many US characters exactly).....while I sometimes struggle to keep up with some of my favourite English programs...(they frequently have a lot of welsh/scot and irish folk in their various roles)here in oz our Northerners we know by their pronounced drawl ....they speak much more slowly than the rest of us......I think it may be the same in the US....it seems the hotter the places the slower the speech......is it something to do with the heat or just a coincindence.
Try an hour at my family do.....the third generation ozzy mixed with Jamaican /Italian/Spanish/Maltese/Indian/South American/French
all talking at once....and all mixed up....it is quite a feat just to understand everyone ......a fascinating subject indeed I would love to hear you too......we once had a lovely Canadian guy working for us and people were puzzled by his accent....to me he sounded almost Australian. When my hubby rings his suppliers in the US they ask him to talk some more because it is cute!????
It is cute! We LOVE to hear y'all speak. That truly amazes me that y'all would find it hard to understand the people from the UK! How neat!
I was just amazed by you Chrissie, how on earth you knew the words to all of those songs that I would consider "American"......??????? Very interesting. I certainly can't say that I know any Australian songs......
Yes, most of our Southerners have the slow drawl. It starts tho, in Tennessee, North Carolina, Ga. Florida, MS.....my sister lives there, and we were on vacation once at my nephew's ball game.....and just sat in awe of their drawl....We didn't sound like we had an accent at all, compared to them. Heat...who knows!
LA being Cajun country has an accent and a language all of their own. Every once in awhile I would have to go to Baton Rouge on business for my company....and of course some of the old timers would really have to let it loose, to impress that Texan...and I am Texanized, since I got here as fast as I could. Nobody asked me where I wanted to be born! It certainly wouldn't have been anywhere cold!
So accents to me are very interesting. Alot of our Drs. here are not from here and it very hard to understand some of them. Theirs is a very different accent.
All from the Tower of Babel......and there are Indians here in Texas, I believe, that do sincerely believe they fell from the sky....and that was before the Christians ever got here!
No matter what you sound like, we love you anyway!
Hmmm well I guess we have a big mix here not only of Nationalities but pop music......once again a large American Influence....
I would love to sing some ozzy songs to you but you would not know them ....perhaps.....
The Easybeats?
Billy Thorpe (most people I know think that I'm crazy)
INXS (suicide blonde and many more)
Bee Gee's
Crowded House (NZ but adopted)
Icehouse (Great Southern Land)
The Seekers (Hey there Georgie Girl)
Olivia Newton John (Grease)
Jimmy Barnes( Walk This Way)
Air Supply
John Paul Young (Love is in the Air)
Men at Work (Land Downunder)
I can't really think of them all.....but I edit my singing to suit US folk since that is mainly what we listen to ....we have our own Idol of course......but you wouldn't know ours while we know yours quite well ...I watched Fantasias story a few nights ago and Kelly Clarkeson was on our Idol last Sunday.
When you say Cajun is that like a Jamaican sort of accent?
Love it ....it sort of just lilts.
Just remember ther are only 21 million ozzies and that is the whole shebang....just a small population compared almost everywhere..in order to be "big " you really have to go overseas and not all of our singers are prepared to do that.They want to stay here.....
the ones that do go are dreadfully homesick.....like Peter Allen
"I still call Australia Home"
I 've been to cities that never shut down ....from New York to Rio and old London town ....but no matter how wide and far I roam ....I still call Australia home
sadly we have lost Peter....but his song has become the travelling ozzy's anthem .........still call Australia home....still call Australia home.....
Oh my.....I use to love Billy Thorpe..Children of the suuu...uu eeuuu uuuuunnnn (sun)
Eh, - love the Aussie drawl!!! Hard to understand sometimes when the local expressions are used... Your TV and Magazine ads are terrific too!!!!
Chrissy, Cajun, if I am correct if from a form of French. It has a sound all of it's own! It's very different, and to me very hard to understand, but I'm sure that's just because I haven't been around it that much, so not familiar with it!