The Good News Thread

[clarion]

Wow.  What an amazing piece of work.  Who would have thought that potatoes could be made so interesting (withough chopping them up & frying them) ?

[Cudzoziemiec]

[Mrs Pingu]

[jogler]

  +1

[Pingu]

Online publication of the Potato Genome today. All eyes on the potato genome : Nature News

Tuber smarties 

[interzen]

  + 2
But I'm going to have a guess that it's to do with one or more of the following:

• Order being returned to a garden which previously resembled something out of 'Day Of The Triffids'
• A nice, new coat of exterior grade white paint.
• The fact that the scooter was left out overnight and nobody half-inched it.
• The flat roof no longer leaks

Do I win a prize?

[jogler]

or the evidence that several very expensive bikes have been half-inched

[Cudzoziemiec]

+ 2
But I'm going to have a guess that it's to do with one or more of the following:

• Order being returned to a garden which previously resembled something out of 'Day Of The Triffids'
• A nice, new coat of exterior grade white paint.
• The fact that the scooter was left out overnight and nobody half-inched it.
• The flat roof no longer leaks

Do I win a prize?

All of those are nice ideas, but in fact it's *somewhere to live* at last 

[Cudzoziemiec]

or the evidence that several very expensive bikes have been half-inched

In what way would that be good news?

[jogler]

+ 2
But I'm going to have a guess that it's to do with one or more of the following:

• Order being returned to a garden which previously resembled something out of 'Day Of The Triffids'
• A nice, new coat of exterior grade white paint.
• The fact that the scooter was left out overnight and nobody half-inched it.
• The flat roof no longer leaks

Do I win a prize?

All of those are nice ideas, but in fact it's *somewhere to live* at last 

excellent

[jogler]

or the evidence that several very expensive bikes have been half-inched

In what way would that be good news?

I don't know,I give up.What's the answer.

[Pingu]

or the evidence that several very expensive bikes have been half-inched

In what way would that be good news?

I don't know,I give up.What's the answer.

Insurance job?

[jogler]

ah,brass in pocket then.That's good news

[Cudzoziemiec]

And this is the view from my kitchen window.


I love rowan trees. The tree-trunk bird box is a bit twee and uninhabited, but I like silver birch too, so it's good as well.

[gordon taylor]

And this is the view from my kitchen window.


I love rowan trees. The tree-trunk bird box is a bit twee and uninhabited, but I like silver birch too, so it's good as well.

Rowan trees are important because they keep the witches away. Fact.

[little miss mac]

Hmm, I think we're due for an anniversary at some point.  Not that we can ever decide on when it is...

27th August 2001 was when we got together.  

Ten years this year - that's a biggie!
Tin is the traditional gift. Perhaps a can of beans?*


*This would mean, for example, that you would need to take a camping trip somewhere very nice, of course, to enjoy the beans in the manner they were intended to be consumed.

[Wowbagger]

Hmm, I think we're due for an anniversary at some point.  Not that we can ever decide on when it is...

27th August 2001 was when we got together.  

Ten years this year - that's a biggie!
Tin is the traditional gift. Perhaps a can of beans?*


*This would mean, for example, that you would need to take a camping trip somewhere very nice, of course, to enjoy the beans in the manner they were intended to be consumed.

The most appropriate tin I can think of is a can full of juicy hub gears.

[Kim]

The most appropriate tin I can think of is a can full of juicy hub gears.

Onna Trice?   

[Arch]

Hmm, I think we're due for an anniversary at some point.  Not that we can ever decide on when it is...

27th August 2001 was when we got together.  

Ten years this year - that's a biggie!
Tin is the traditional gift. Perhaps a can of beans?*


*This would mean, for example, that you would need to take a camping trip somewhere very nice, of course, to enjoy the beans in the manner they were intended to be consumed.

'cept, of course, beans tins are made of steel....

Is it possible to get a tin spork?

[Jaded]

And this is the view from my kitchen window.


I love rowan trees. The tree-trunk bird box is a bit twee and uninhabited, but I like silver birch too, so it's good as well.

Rowan trees are important because they keep the witches away. Fact.

If you cut one back you get a witch from Edinburgh shouting at you and sticking pins in an effigy of you. Fact.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Last summer we were collecting the berries from some rowans a thousand or more miles away to make into jam. Strange but appealing bitter-sweet taste. That was a flat and empty village, now I'm in a hilly big city, but rowan trees both places. Have yet to encounter the witches.

[PaulF]

Last summer we were collecting the berries from some rowans a thousand or more miles away to make into jam. Strange but appealing bitter-sweet taste. That was a flat and empty village, now I'm in a hilly big city, but rowan trees both places. Have yet to encounter the witches.

Well you won't will you? Becausevthe Rowan trees are keeping them away cut down the tree and they'll come

[rower40]

No witch is getting their hands on my berries.   More's the pity. 

[How this has ended up in "Good News" is, perhaps, a testament to the free-thinking and iterative nature of the yacf corner of the internet.]

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Rowan trees are important because they keep the witches away. Fact.

Or, as we like to call them, independent intelligent free-spirited women protesting against the patriarchy in the only way they could.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I'd never heard about this rowan tree vs witch/independent intelligent free-spirited women protesting against the patriarchy in the only way they could conflict before. The things you learn on YACF that you never dreamt you did not know and never realised were connected with what you posted!

I like the contrast of the clusters of orange berries against the silvery-green leaves.