am i wrong in my opinion that on a  young childrens tv channel that is based within the UK and is english spoken should be promoting good verbal skills? by this i mean that if it is english spoken, then it should be teaching good english grammar that is clearly understood?

i detest all this street slang and poor language skills that seem to be populer with todays teens.

i just overheard a story session on the childrens channel, that i dont think should have been aired. it was a story full of street slang and bad grammar. i do not want my child to listen to this and think its normal!

am i being unreasonable in my opinion that the english language is being butchered? i admit i have never been a "posh" speaker but i dont like the ugly slang and unintelligable scum/chav language that seems to be growing like cancer, where ever you go or listen these days.

due to the nature of these cultures i have gained extra kombucha and too much ginger beer plant.

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for sale
kombucha tea scobys £1 plus £1 postage within the uk (overseas shipping will cost £4

ginger beer plant £1 plus  £1 postage with in the uk  (overseas shipping will cost £4)

each sale will have the instructions for making the ginger beer or the kombucha tea. 

For the purpose of raising a few funds for myself. i want to offer handmade items for sale

i am offering

christmas/seasonal cards
handmade/bound/altered blank books
decorated/altered tins
random other things just ask

i can take small customised orders or i can make very original items.

just ask me about these offers and we can discuss orders.

i have always loved to cook, i love creating something tasty that is enjoyed. i dont see the point of making something really fancy looking. you know the type of things i mean, dinner party foods. i just dont see the point of it,. i dont do dinner parties and never have done. if i was to have friends come round for dinner i would sooner cook a tasty filling dinner that doesnt take all day to fix up and only 3 minutes to eat. its just so pointless. i have a varied food intake, i like old fashioned traditonal english recipes and  modern international cuisine.
i watched a tv programme the other day and it was a competition to see who would become the best dinner party host. i really have no problems with dinner parties of groups of friends, occasionally! but these people seemed to center their lives around hosting dinner parties. its just a waste of living an interesting life. one of the contestants held weekly dinner parties with almost the same set of friends each time, and he admitted he always made the same starter first course, wtf? 
what is the point of all this? i prefer to spend my time cooking to make the food taste nice, i do like to place it on the plates so its attractive, but to spend a day or more on the meal making it look like a work of art. im sorry but that just turns me cold, i mean you cook food to eat and stay alive, it is not supposed to be something to go in an art gallery. it gets eaten ffs.
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i grew up in a household that created alot of home made pickles, jams, preserves etc. i have always prefered home made jam to shop bought stuff. i remember when i was little we used to all go for walks into the forest with bags and cartons and pick the wild grown blackberries and other berries. we used to get loads and then my nan would get the big old jam cooking pots out and spend the next few days making tons of jams and chutneys. it was fantastic. when we got older the wild supplies diminished because of the accursed buildings of new houses and such like. i really miss seeing wild edible berries and fruits growing in local wild spots. these wild spots have been destroyed by building houses there. 
we used to have a big shelf in out garage crammed full of all the jars of jams that were waiting to get eaten (and eated they did get, in a house of 8 people we were eager locusts)  there was always a good supply. but then my nan got to old to cope with the jam making and the shelf got fairly empty. my mum and dad used to sometimes go to the pick your own fruits and veg farms and get alot but, again you dont see many of those anymore either and i think its a damn shame.
my sister when she got her own family claimed the jam cooking pans. so i was so pleased when a few days ago i spotted a large jam pan in a charity shop for a good price so i grabbed it up.
i have now got my first batch of chutney sitting on my "new" jam supply shelf. it feels like old times again lol. i know its only 5 and a half jars there right now, but its great.
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i have a new "pet" i got hold of a a ginger beer plant. the real one not the yeast one, this has grains similar to kefir or kombucha. its one of those living cultures, so eventually i will have to divide it and share. i havent had proper ginger beer for years. i hate the stuff you buy in the shops that they claim is ginger beer. its like lemonade. the lemonade you buy in the shops is crap and nasty and tastes nothing like lemons, i love home made lemonade. 

im getting into these living cultures in a big way, i have milk kefir and water kefir, gbp, and am trying to get some kombucha also, but havent had any luck yet.
my water kefir is a little bit ill though. im giving it plenty of tlc and i hope it will start to ferment the water mixture soon.
i intend to have a go at making kefir cheese soon.
i cant do it at the moment because my parents are staying.
i dont know why this happens. i am not into being a cleaning freak, as long as the house is clean i dont believe in having the place look  like it is a showroom, a house is for living in. my kitchen is the same way, i make sure it is clean and fairly tidy. but whenever my parents come here the kitchen looks like a bomb has hit it. my dad is a stubborn old bastard who will not buy or eat precut bread, even if the bread is the fresh real stuff and not that crappy common stuff. this means the there are lumps of bread sitting around and half a dozen other loaves of bread waiting for eating, and crumbs everywhere, and tons of other food stuffs he buys just dumped un top of everything on the work top. then i get grief from my mum about the mess in my kitchen. accusing me of having a filthy messy kitchen. she never listens to me and my reasonings. i just get criticised about having filthy conditions. then my taurean aggression comes roaring out and i start swearing about this or that trying to defend myself and make her see its not my mess, and then i end up being the bad guy for being dirty in my house and being nasty.

i cant fucking win, it gets to the point where i say something so nasty that my own husband gets annoyed at me.
i dont know why i bother. i get treated like an idiot if i defend myself i get treated like an idiot if i stay silent.

i give up, let them stamp on me and i just end up depressed try to defend myself and i end up depressed.

I don't know if its a sign that I am getting older and more cantankerous, or if the world is truely getting dumber and dumber. In fact things have gotten so idiotic and rediculous that I need to rant about it here.

When I first heard the term "compensation culture" it was a few years ago and was very scarce over here. I am in no way anti american, but this originated from the USA (sadly). I don't know what numbnut decided to allow it first of all, but it has spiraled out of control.

I was shocked to find its even happening up here in caithness

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=895942007

I am so glad that the judge threw this stupid case out of court. I don't know why people these days cant take control of their own lives without putting the blame for an injury onto somebody else. Whatever happened to peoples fucking common sense?

If you get so drunk that you fall off a cliff edge, if you injure yourself in the street because you don't look where you are walking, blablablabla compensation compensation I'm blaming you guys give me compensation.

I think its fucking rediculous. Can you see where this is going? In the future every open space is going to be barracaded off. what will happen to our freedom then? ...........

.........It has started already, I can see. All this compensation crap has resulted in a society that by law has to have warning signs for the most rediculous of things.

Safety in the working enviroment is a good thing but things have got extremely over the top.

I heard of a bloke who ran his hotel single handed, but was forbidden to get a step ladder to reach the top shelf in the kitchen because you need to have a ladder certificate to pass the risk assessment check!!

The latest is this...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1957593.ece

For those that don't know. Its about a british advert that was created 50 years ago. It was promoting eggs, and how nutricious they are. The punchline was "GO TO WORK ON AN EGG"

There was going to be a new re-run on the advert, but it has now been banned because apparently if you eat too many eggs then they are bad for you.

Excuse me? Did I hear that right? We should vary our diets? So this advert is banned because a small percentage of the nation don't know how to eat sensibly?

Again this astounds me.Why cant these people take responsibility for their actions? Is common sense dying out?

Its getting to the point where we are discovering warning signs on everything we purchase and most of them should be left to good old common sense.

Here are some of the warnings that sound like we are a nation of total idiots.

http://www.rinkworks.com/said/warnings.shtml

And some of favourites (or should I say most stupid) from the list

"Do not drive with sunshield in place." -- On a cardboard sunshield that keeps the sun off the dashboard.

"Eating rocks may lead to broken teeth." -- On a novelty rock garden set called "Popcorn Rock."

"Remember, objects in the mirror are actually behind you." -- On a motorcycle helmet-mounted rear-view mirror.

"Warning: knives are sharp!" -- On the packaging of a sharpening stone.

"Caution: Remove infant before folding for storage." -- On a portable stroller.

"Warning: May contain nuts." -- On a package of peanuts.

I could list loads of these but all it is doing is raising my blood pressure. I want to be able to employ my common sense. But it seems as if people have become so lazy, that they don't use the old brain cells anymore. Is evolution going to stop and start to go backwards? Is the future of mankind incorrect with the theory that evolution will give us larger craniums to accomodate our larger brains, are we instead going to turn back into slow lumbering imbeciels?

Im going to have to bring this to a close because I could go on and on and on, and Rikk has noticed I have an intense look on my face that he says looks like I am in pain.