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[Christian]

On Monday, I had to call out a local guy to come over and get rid of a wasp's nest in our roof.

 

I offered him a cuppa and he asked what I was cooking. "christmas puddings" I said. "Oooh I love them"! He said. "How about we do a deal? One pudding enough for 8 people and I won't charge you for the nest"??

 

Deal done.

 

I love country life.

[Looney]

Excellent exchange! Bet you're pleased you were cooking, although perhaps some eggs would have got you a discount?!

[Egluntyne]

Brilliant.

 

Talking of wasps I went to Brough Mill in the Hope Valley today to get some chickeny stuff and there was a wasp like thingy flying about.

 

It was as big as a Lancaster Bomber.

 

Folk ( me included) were scattering right and left as it zoomed about. It was quite scary.

[Cooks]

I like that exchange!, what a good barter!.

 

Egluntine I had one of those in my sons bedroom when he had a sleep over a month or so back, the boys went crazy!

[Christian]

Oh err, was it a hornet?

 

[Egluntyne]

I think it must have been.

[Cooks]

the one in my sons room flew into the lightshade (paper globe type) and flew straight threw the paper and ripped it!! I wouldn't mind but these were hard to find as they have hoops of different colours all over them, so son still has a ripped lightshade at moment

 

but they have some weight to them those things, they are horrible!

[buffie]

I love that, wonder if 70 eggs ( yes really) would buy the woodburner

 

Buffie x

[Egluntyne]

It might if some of them were turned into lemon curd.

[buffie]

You volunteering

 

Buffie x

[lisa33]

I had a hornet nest above my bedroom once. All night you could hear them scratching away. It was really creepy.

[clootie]

We live in a very old house and every summer (except this one strangely enough) we have wasps nests. A couple of years ago when we were having building works done, we had a very large nest behind the wall in the attic where the builders were working. The noise was incredibly loud so we reckoned it must have been a pretty big next, anyway, to cut a long story short, we could hear them behind a light switch. Bearing in mind one of the builders was terrified of wasps, I decided to unscrew the light switch to have a better look. As the light switch was coming away from the wall, the wasps antennae were wriggling out at the sides and my builder shouts in horror "Look, look, it's testicles are coming through!"

 

He was deadly serious too!!

[bokbokbok]

"Look, look, it's testicles are coming through!"

 

[Looney]

[Egg Lou]

On Monday, I had to call out a local guy to come over and get rid of a wasp's nest in our roof.

 

I offered him a cuppa and he asked what I was cooking. "christmas puddings" I said. "Oooh I love them"! He said. "How about we do a deal? One pudding enough for 8 people and I won't charge you for the nest"??

 

Deal done.

 

I love country life.

 

 

Miss this life! I used to live near Thruxton in Fyfield and also Amport, it was always this kind of thinking in the villages!

[AnnieP]

We do it here too. My neighbour (a solicitor) wrote my will for a year's supply of eggs! It would have cost me £250 had she charged me!

[hillfamily]

It's a lovely way to shop and pay for things

 

I occasionally swap eggs for blackberries or jam and jellies in different flavours to the ones I make :D

 

 

 

.........now I wonder how many eggs for a loft conversion

[buffie]

Better not tell Mikey, he'll try swapping me for something. Wonder what he'd get

 

Buffie x

[Cooks]

.........now I wonder how many eggs for a loft conversion

 

this made me laugh...

[Mrs Frugal]

I used to do a reverse swap with eggs when my girls weren't laying over the winter. The egg man on the market used to swap half a dozen of his eggs for half a dozen of my home-made biscuits .

[bronze]

Theres a pub near us where you can take things in and get a meal or drinks depeneding on the value of your produce. I'm tempted to take DH and a load of excess quails eggs for a drink as we can't afford to go out otherwise

 

this is the place http://www.thepigs.org.uk/index.php5?page=1

theres a bit about it int he times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4535398.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7560246.stm

[Christian]

Miss this life! I used to live near Thruxton in Fyfield and also Amport, it was always this kind of thinking in the villages!

 

I am very close to Kimpton

[Sheilaz]

Love the idea of bartering, that was a great result Christian.

 

Some towns have a bartering system called "Lets". St.Albans is on the river Ver (hence Verulamium) and the local scheme is called Verlets. I haven't researched further, but I understand that there are others nationwide.

 

I didn't join ours when I read about it some years ago, but I think I'll see if it still exists.