Krypsis wrote:
> On 24/03/2010 7:22 PM, Jeßus wrote:
>> PLucas wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> Should I or shouldn't I take the bait?
>>
>> Okay - just this once:
>> http://i39.tinypic.com/ras3zm.jpg
>> http://i39.tinypic.com/jqonyg.jpg
>
> Those truffles look a bit ordinary to me.

You could well be right for all I know - not having any previous
experience with them.
BTW, that's all that is left of them... down to about half of one
truffle left now.

I do like them, they certainly take scrambled eggs to a different level.
But I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay for them - maybe occasionally
perhaps. I think the local truffles are in season around August, I'll
be sure to buy at least one of those and see what I think then whether
they're worth buying or not.

>> Perhaps you could get some handwriting analysis done on the pics Pete?
>> Might help to track me down?
>>
>>> But I really can't see Marika and Nic of The Village Store and More
>>> giving
>>> away $60 worth of truffles to *anyone*....... quite apart from the
>>> fact that
>>> they don't stock anything to do with truffles.
>>
>> LOL, where do I start on this one?
>
> At the beginning...
>>
>> 1: Firstly, you don't know where I live. You don't know where I shop.
>> How in the hell could you know, LOL.
>> I moved from St Helens nearly *two years ago* when I found and bought
>> this rural property.
>
> St Helens is a bit too remote for me. Born and raised a city boy here in
> Melbourne, I found it far too quiet when we stayed in the area for a week.

LOL. If you found St Helens a little too remote, then you certainly
wouldn't like where I am now
There isn't even a town here at all... I am surrounded by state forest.

> Did you move to a property along the Tamar? It's really nice along
> there. We would have liked to retire there somewhere but that would have
> meant leaving all the family behind.

No, I'm still well to the east of Launy, but the Tamar Valley is also
very nice - albeit a bit too populated for me.
I really wanted to be isolated from any degree of rat race, and I
certainly got what I wanted.


>> 2: Secondly, you only occasionally visit Tasmania, and know a hell of a
>> lot less about the place than you think you do.
>
> We're taking the opportunity to take a couple of the great grandkids
> over to Tassie for the Easter break. Going on the ferry, a new
> experience for the kids.

Be sure to book ASAP if you haven't already. In fact it may well be too
late now...
The boats have frequently been booked out lately.

Last November I bought a car in Melbourne - had to wait 11 days for a
booking, so I headed up to Sydney and visited some relatives for the
interim. There was some sort of Harley/biker event thing happening in
Launy - there were seemingly thousands of them - they were the main
reason the boat was so heavily booked at that time.

>> 3: Third, you're relying on Google (yet again) to come up with names and
>> places in a bid to engender the impression of knowledge. You're never
>> going to grow out of doing that, are you?
>>
>> 4: I don't shop at St Helens. I shop in Launceston.
>> Now, there's really only three decent delicatessens in Launy, perhaps
>
> Ah, Lonny, know the place well. Had a nice big country town feel to the
> place. Spent some time at the Immigration Offices there back in about
> 1980. I daresay it hasn't changed a lot since. Used to love my walks
> through the Cataract Gorge. Say, do they still have that chairlift there?

Chairlift is still there. The Gorge is a nice place to visit, the g/f
and I occasionally take some lunch there on the days I come in to get
supplies, since it's virtually in the city. A nice little oasis.

> I used to frequent a deli in or near the Quadrant. Probably not there
> any more. After all, it was a long time back.

That's Wursthaus. A very good deli it is too. They have a couple of
other stores around Tassie, along with a place in Deloraine (I think
it's in Deloraine?) where they make a lot of pates, sausages,
liverwurst... that sort of thing.

Hope you booked for that boat!


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