Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bubbles on November 06, 2015, 06:59:07 PM
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Many, many things to do; but the first would be to fulfill my childhood dream of opening an animal sanctuary.
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I'd purchase as much woodland, ancient flower meadow and wetland as I could. And I'd get some childcare and help around the house so that I could take a degree in psychology.
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I need a new laptop. And some new shoes.
That aside, Rhi's idea of buying woodland, wetland and what there is left of meadowland appeals very strongly. With that much money I'd also be able to set about not just protecting but expanding such areas.
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I need a new laptop. And some new shoes.
That aside, Rhi's idea of buying woodland, wetland and what there is left of meadowland appeals very strongly. With that much money I'd also be able to set about not just protecting but expanding such areas.
Yes, that would be wonderful.
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I'd purchase as much woodland, ancient flower meadow and wetland as I could. And I'd get some childcare and help around the house so that I could take a degree in psychology.
Hmmm, I can relate to some of that, we own a small 3 acre field which is home to butterflies, badgers, deer, foxes.
I would love to own some woodland. My badgers ( not that they are really mine ) live undisturbed. I think it is an outlier sett which they use when it's wet weather.
When our orchard grows a bit more, I expect they will enjoy the produce.
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I don't like controlling the plants around the edges because it supplies homes and breeding ground for all sorts of butterflies and dragonflies.
We do pull up ragwort though.
But I would love to own a wood, ancient flower meadow or wetland.
It's nice to feel you are preserving a bit of natural countyside, which is a refuge for wildlife.
My badgers are extremely shy, I can only capture them on camera 🌹
Currently we have a large garden that has a mixed native hedge clad in ivy, bramble and woodbine, and a handful of mature trees - ash, hazel, field maple, bird cherry. I will miss them all so much when we move, far far more than the house. I only hope we can get a new home that allows us to have something of the same.
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I'd purchase as much woodland, ancient flower meadow and wetland as I could. And I'd get some childcare and help around the house so that I could take a degree in psychology.
Hmmm, I can relate to some of that, we own a small 3 acre field which is home to butterflies, badgers, deer, foxes.
I would love to own some woodland. My badgers ( not that they are really mine ) live undisturbed. I think it is an outlier sett which they use when it's wet weather.
When our orchard grows a bit more, I expect they will enjoy the produce.
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I don't like controlling the plants around the edges because it supplies homes and breeding ground for all sorts of butterflies and dragonflies.
We do pull up ragwort though.
But I would love to own a wood, ancient flower meadow or wetland.
It's nice to feel you are preserving a bit of natural countyside, which is a refuge for wildlife.
My badgers are extremely shy, I can only capture them on camera 🌹
Currently we have a large garden that has a mixed native hedge clad in ivy, bramble and woodbine, and a handful of mature trees - ash, hazel, field maple, bird cherry. I will miss them all so much when we move, far far more than the house. I only hope we can get a new home that allows us to have something of the same.
Our garden is quite small but is in an area where there is a lot of varied bird life.
I have seen a great spotted woodpecker on the tree in next doors garden. We also have all different sorts of tits and finches.
It's in stark comparison to our last house, where you never saw a woodland bird, not even a Robin.
We are near a lot of nature friendly walks and even otters are supposed to be in the rivers ( not seen one yet).
I hope you find what you want in your next home.
Sometimes if you move to an area that encourages them, you can have quite a small garden that has some interesting wildlife.
If you are near a park or lake it can help.
Sometimes you are just lucky, it depends what comes on the market at the time :)
We live near farmland so the range of bird life isn't huge, but still pretty good. The best though was when we lived backing onto ancient woodland - huge range of wildlife. Although we do get green woodpeckers on the lawn right outside the living room window - such a privilege to see them up close.
But I'm derailing your thread.
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I need a new laptop. And some new shoes.
That aside, Rhi's idea of buying woodland, wetland and what there is left of meadowland appeals very strongly. With that much money I'd also be able to set about not just protecting but expanding such areas.
Yes, nothing more depressing that these places being turned into housing estates.
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Oh, I'm all too familiar with that, believe you me - I have it almost literally on the doorstep :(
But given that there are too many people, and supposedly we need more and more houses to cram them into, we're just going to lose more and more countryside :'(
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Well I'm contributing to that - three kids and one household becoming two. No getting away from it, even lthough I can't buy new build.
It must have been heartbreaking to see a place you love disappear.
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Yeah :'( The field next to me was big enough to be my own private nature reserve, so to speak, given the variety of flora and fauna that it used to hold - foxes, kestrels, a wide array of birds and several species of butterfly. In the summer especially I used to spend much of the day there.
It's all tarmac, concrete and bricks by now.
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Yeah :'( The field next to me was big enough to be my own private nature reserve, so to speak, given the variety of flora and fauna that it used to hold - foxes, kestrels, a wide array of birds and several species of butterfly. In the summer especially I used to spend much of the day there.
It's all tarmac, concrete and bricks by now.
I don't know how you managed to cope with that tbh. Heartbreaking.
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Well ... since there's nothing I could do about it (my local petition and letter-writing scheme, successful the first time, failed eventually), what else is there to do but suck it up?
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I know, but still... :'(
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I'd buy George Osborne and serve him in a pie.
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People say money doesn't make you happy, but I'm prepared to see if it's true.
Money doesn't make you happy, but, at least you can be miserable in comfort.
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I'd buy George Osborne and serve him in a pie.
Who on earth too?
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I have always wanted a house made of solid gold.
The 72 million would be nice as a start, but it will not be enough!
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If you won it, what would you do?
Me, to start with , I'd probably keep it quiet, best I could, while trying to help out immediate family, buy another house etc.
Arrange a relaxing holiday, give up work ( retire early) and pursue my hobbies instead, go back to college ......... :)
People say money doesn't make you happy, but I'm prepared to see if it's true.
I wouldn't be bored.
I'd keep a low profile.
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I would give most of it away after I had ensured all my family were comfortable for life. But as I never do any lotteries I won't win it.
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I'd buy George Osborne and serve him in a pie.
Who on earth too?
David Cameron, whether I tell him about the contents is a moot point. I might get him to relive his piggy fun with the embalmed head afterwards
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I'd buy George Osborne and serve him in a pie.
Who on earth too?
David Cameron, whether I tell him about the contents is a moot point. I might get him to relive his piggy fun with the embalmed head afterwards
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That's very disturbing.
I reckon you could get a film deal though.
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Having discussed the Human centipede, crucifixion and whether it is the worst torture and having watched Titus Andronicus a couple of weeks back, seems fairly mainstream
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In which case it needs to have Simon Pegg in it.
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Dear World,
Sometimes I think, Gonnagle you are slipping into madness :P :P then I read a few posts on here and think, no I am the only sane person in the whole world 8) 8)
Gonnagle.
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I have always wanted a house made of solid gold.
The 72 million would be nice as a start, but it will not be enough!
That would give a new meaning to house breaking. You would have to paint the gold another colour to stop people stealing your bricks.
For myself I would buy an upgrade for my computer, getting an intel i7 processor. Have you seen the price of those bitches?
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Seems to be 80 odd million now.
So no one else would go off and buy an island in the sun then? Or start a business? Or a research project?
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If I was able to get my degree I'd like to train as a psychotherapist and open my own residential clinic.
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Sounds good, a good use of money.
Another idea I have is to run a retreat somewhere remote and mountainous.
Money can buy time to study, which is difficult to squeeze in otherwise. Else, it's a long haul till the kids start managing their own lives :) I've a degree in physics from over 40 years ago, from when all I can recall is being in a permanent purple haze day-dream - so I've recently started on an OU maths degree - so far so good, brain definitely needed something to crunch.
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It would be nice to do what Muhammad Ali used to do: ride around the poor districts handing out money.
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But did that do any good ... in the long run?
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But did that do any good ... in the long run?
Who can ever know. It certainly would have done good in the short run.
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However well-intentioned - and it always is - one-off, short-term charity with no long-term, thought-out plan behind it can create as many, or more, problems as it aims to solve.
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However well-intentioned - and it always is - one-off, short-term charity with no long-term, thought-out plan behind it can create as many, or more, problems as it aims to solve.
Ali was not trying to solve anything: he was just helping those in need of a few bucks. It was just one way of caring., and I would do that on a regular basis if I had those millions.
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Sounds good, a good use of money.
Another idea I have is to run a retreat somewhere remote and mountainous.
Money can buy time to study, which is difficult to squeeze in otherwise. Else, it's a long haul till the kids start managing their own lives :) I've a degree in physics from over 40 years ago, from when all I can recall is being in a permanent purple haze day-dream - so I've recently started on an OU maths degree - so far so good, brain definitely needed something to crunch.
Yes, a retreat centre would be lovely. That's kind of what I'd like - somewhere very lovely offering healing through being able to engage with the natural world, as well as the therapy side of things.
Yes, no point in trying to study just yet, got way too much on, I'll see where I am in a couple of years or so.
Good luck with the degree. :)