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« Reply #120 on: 20 February 2010, 19:16:23 »
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1st nice day today, maximum of 6°C with a bit of sun... smallclap
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« Reply #121 on: 20 February 2010, 19:23:46 »
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Henk, the bike in the first pic is your working gear?

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Quote from: stoffel on 20 February 2010, 16:30:34
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Well promised long ago so here are the pics of my home Smiley



Winter view at the garden in the back.

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Winterview in front of the house in the street.

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Henks HQ/ops room

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« Reply #122 on: 20 February 2010, 21:57:09 »
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Lol, yes it is Matt.
The other is Wandas bike a Zuzuki bandit Knipoog
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« Reply #123 on: 21 February 2010, 15:41:44 »
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Nice pics Stoffel,  It's still very much winter there isn't it?
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« Reply #124 on: 21 February 2010, 23:22:09 »
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Fortunenately all snow is gone now Smiley
Temperature already is above zero too  Brede lach
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« Reply #125 on: 27 February 2010, 21:02:19 »
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Well it's up above zero here today too, but only just.  Yesterday, however,  we had quite the ice-storm.  Here's a few pics:






And today,  snowman   built by my little boy:  Smiley
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« Reply #126 on: 27 February 2010, 21:12:13 »
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Mr Snowman is lovely  hihi
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« Reply #127 on: 28 February 2010, 22:56:32 »
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 Grijns

Funny thing is.  After he made it,  he kicked it in!  Well,  I guess it was going to melt anyway.
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« Reply #128 on: 1 March 2010, 14:36:04 »
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As I live (as many ohters here) live in the EU, here the latest news, absurd as it can get (maybe bizarre?):

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According to a number of Polish media reports, the European Commission has officially categorized snails as "inland fish" in order to allow French snail farmers to receive subsidies.

From the beginning of February, snails will no longer be snails according to European law. France, the world's biggest consumer of the mollusk, has apparently successfully persuaded the European Commission to subsidize snail breeding in the same way fisheries are funded.

The snail ruling joins the growing list of EU peculiarities. According to other famous EC directives, a carrot is a fruit.

The EU also regulates the gap between the rungs of ladders to prevent people from the "risky practice" of resting their knees on the next rung up.


And I had been laughing my arse off about strange US laws...

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« Reply #129 on: 1 March 2010, 20:06:17 »
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I read a while ago that France was the reservoir for snails in Europe but since they were exporting way too much to Azia the snail population in Europe was in danger....and some weeks later I read your post....strange, not?
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« Reply #130 on: 1 March 2010, 22:35:36 »
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Quote from: Koen on  1 March 2010, 20:06:17
I read a while ago that France was the reservoir for snails in Europe but since they were exporting way too much to Azia the snail population in Europe was in danger....and some weeks later I read your post....strange, not?



I can tell you that in Europe snails are not in danger of extinction:

I have to get about 50 off my fruit trees *every* night, I breed them for food (got some 2000+ = 15 kg right now in 6 cages), and I think the french way of eating them is simply over rated (we here in Spain know a lot more about them).

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1. Typical French snail dish (6, 9 or 12 in a more or less interesting sauce, but it is the sauce that makes the dish worthy), having been taken out of their houses, prepped with spice and put in for optical pleasure, they think that less is more:



2. Typical Mallorquin (= Spanisch) take on things, 1, 2 or 3 kg+ in a good broth for 8 invites, coming as they were caught, after 3 weeks in fennel for cleaning and taste, we think more is just about enough:

Hot (as in spicey):


With vegetables, Mallorquin Style:


With wine and pigeons, as a rice plate (like Paella for fish):


How to prepare them:


Incomparable!

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« Reply #131 on: 1 March 2010, 23:30:20 »
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I'm sorry, but I just don't like the idea of eating snails,  they remind me of worms and slugs too much.  Have you heard of snail butter?   Ik zeg niets
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« Reply #132 on: 2 March 2010, 19:41:55 »
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damn.....again my poor English got a hold of me....

eel is not the same as snail  congrats

sry, my mistake
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« Reply #133 on: 10 March 2010, 16:49:49 »
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I will never eat snails :p Unless there was absolutle nothing else and i had to survive Knipoog
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« Reply #134 on: 15 March 2010, 00:29:00 »
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Rattler, that looks DELICIOUS!!!!
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« Reply #135 on: 17 March 2010, 22:42:30 »
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Rattler, that looks DELICIOUS!!!!

 

waa  you actually like eating those things 13th? :p
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« Reply #136 on: 17 March 2010, 23:14:44 »
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I have photos coming of 'where I live',  but right now my camera is broken,  so just waiting to get a new one.

Watch this space!

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« Reply #137 on: 18 March 2010, 07:51:41 »
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what camera will you get?

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« Reply #138 on: 18 March 2010, 19:39:29 »
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Quote from: Rattler on 18 March 2010, 07:51:41
what camera will you get?

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if you're for a small one check this one out: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10020302nikons8000.asp



I'm gonna buy this one, next to my D80, for easy use when biking
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« Reply #139 on: 7 April 2010, 18:47:48 »
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stress...stress.... (positive stress to clarify  Knipoog )

some inside info....when Karine and I got together I was 31 and Ka 42, we decided then, both financial and mental unstable, not to buy an expensive house with a massive 20-25 years loan.... wise decision.... we had time to grow from 2 to 2-in-1 and enjoy life...

flipside of the coin is that we live SMALL....30m² with bad thermal isolation etc... altough we have 800m² garden/forest to enjoy...

but after the last long, cold and dark winter....we're afraid to enter the next one...too cold inside....too dark etc etc....

so at this moment we're investigating the possibilities...or putting a new wooden house where we live now or buy a house somewhere else...

we heard of a house for sale not so far from here...CHEAP....and affordable....half-open...not too big (for when we become old) but big enough to enjoy my collection of music, books etc...
the house belonged to an old woman who died, she has 2 sons, one of them lives most of the time in Azia, the other one lives locally...none of them needs the money...
it should be around 100.000-110.000€ which is cheap, mostly houses in Belgium go around 200.000€

my wifes daughter knows the family so we need here to start the first comms...she comes home this evening from holiday...

so you can imagine we're very focused on our new future.... Brede lach
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