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Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:43 pm**

I have always had a hankering to live in a 4 bedroomed bungalow with a very attractive garden and over-looking the sea. It would have gorgeous views all around but not at risk from cliff erosion, and in a favourable climate - not too hot and not too cold ! (Don't want much do I ? :wah:)....... Why? Because I love the sea and my family has been associated in one way or another with the sea for many many generations. Why a bungalow ? So I can get about easier, as it's all on one level - I don't have stairs to struggle with !

So what is your dream, if you had the money ?

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:48 pm**

Frankel's first foal.... born 5 days ago... price... 2 million quid

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Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:56 pm**

G#Gill;1445369 wrote: If you had enough money, what one thing would you do or buy and why ?

I'd splash out on a guinea pig.

It's years since I last barbecued a guinea pig. With olives and a cream pepper sauce.

I'll start saving.

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:04 pm**

I'd just want to be able to live where I want, go where I want, do anything I want when I want it. Everything was so cheap in the 1970's I was able to accomplish that on $10,000. a year. Now, I guess that might be 1/2 a million or a million a year. I was quite charitable, too, to causes as well as friends & family. I don't need luxurious things, just regular things---eating out regularly, seeing whatever play, etc., transportation fees............just do what I want when I want. I love to travel the most.

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:14 pm**

Ah Ha a fantasy money thread.

I would be off to visit my daughter in the US..........then...........when I came back I would fit out my garage with all the tool I ever wanted.......then.....No thats enough for now.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2014 6:46 am**

I'd buy a farm with enough land so I could set up my own animal shelter

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:57 am**

I want enough money so that whenever I see someone obviously struggling with a lack of money for something they need I could hand them enough money to meet that need.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:36 am**

Týr;1445372 wrote: I'd splash out on a guinea pig.

It's years since I last barbecued a guinea pig. With olives and a cream pepper sauce.

I'll start saving.

I hope you have enough for a capybara, then you can invite us to join the barbeque. Its years since I ate capybara

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:40 pm**

Chloe_88;1445449 wrote: I'd buy a farm with enough land so I could set up my own animal shelter

That's why I do the lottery Chloe... I'd be happy with a very small house but enough land to take the abused and neglected.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:22 pm**

I'm a simple guy and am easily satisfied. I guess I would travel the world, ever so slowly, taking the time to learn and absorb.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2014 6:35 pm**

Wandrin;1445519 wrote: I'm a simple guy and am easily satisfied. I guess I would travel the world, ever so slowly, taking the time to learn and absorb.

That would be cool.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:41 pm**

First let me ask......do people actually eat guinea pigs? :-3 Also I agree with Lars, enough money to help someone if they needed it. There's a family around here, they were business owners in the area. They fell on some hard times, had some medical problems ect. The bank foreclosed on everything they had, houses, businesses, everything. Sometimes if you rode by their houses on the weekends, they were out in the front yard, trying to sell stuff out of their house at a yard sale. It was one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:12 am**

Hope6;1445552 wrote: First let me ask......do people actually eat guinea pigs? :-3
It's not just a domestic thing, it's a meat export... Peru Pushes Guinea Pigs As Food - CBS News

The capybara, by contrast, has yet to make its mark.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:30 am**

Hope6;1445552 wrote: First let me ask......do people actually eat guinea pigs?

Cuy chactado is one way that it is cooked. I'd recommend against googling for images of this dish unless you really want to see it.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:57 am**

Wandrin;1445565 wrote: Cuy chactado

Does that translate roughly as "onna stick"?

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:44 am**

Týr;1445566 wrote: Does that translate roughly as "onna stick"?

Close. It is deep fried whole.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:11 am**

oscar;1445502 wrote: That's why I do the lottery Chloe... I'd be happy with a very small house but enough land to take the abused and neglected.

I did win, in the lottery last saterday btw.. I just don't think 1 euro will stretch that far though! :wah:

But yeah... that would be my dream. Some say my vision is mad not wanting the "relax and spend spend spend" life. But dogs and cats give so much joy. Especially the rescues.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:06 am**

Chloe_88;1445588 wrote: I did win, in the lottery last saterday btw.. I just don't think 1 euro will stretch that far though! :wah:

But yeah... that would be my dream. Some say my vision is mad not wanting the "relax and spend spend spend" life. But dogs and cats give so much joy. Especially the rescues.

I did actually win a decent amount on the lottery a few years ago Chloe... I'd watched a documentary about how lottery numbers came up In clusters rather than singular. The night I won a few thousand, my lucky number being 3, my winning numbers were 3, 6, 9,12.... It paid for some home Improvements but I keep trying for that rescue shelter.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:27 am**

oscar;1445604 wrote: I did actually win a decent amount on the lottery a few years ago Chloe... I'd watched a documentary about how lottery numbers came up In clusters rather than singular. The night I won a few thousand, my lucky number being 3, my winning numbers were 3, 6, 9,12.... It paid for some home Improvements but I keep trying for that rescue shelter.

As Del Boy said: "this time next year we'll be millionaires"

Del's finally a millionaire! - Only Fools and Horses: Christmas Special 1996 - BBC - YouTube

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:16 pm**

Thanks for replying you guys but I am very freaked out right now at the idea of eating a guinea pig!

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:10 am**

Hope6;1445746 wrote: Thanks for replying you guys but I am very freaked out right now at the idea of eating a guinea pig!

Think chicken.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:34 am**

It's more like a fat squirrel.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:03 am**

LarsMac;1445756 wrote: It's more like a fat squirrel.
I was talking of the taste ?

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:14 pm**

Bruv;1445774 wrote:

[QUOTE=LarsMac;1445756]It's more like a fat squirrel.

I was talking of the taste ?

So was I

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:33 pm**

So it tastes like chicken? I've never eaten a squirrel either.....to much like a rat! Still a guinea pig is supposed to be a pet!

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:48 pm**

Do they eat squirrel in the US?

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:44 pm**

Yes some people do eat squirrel, although not as much as they used to.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:41 am**

Hope6;1446060 wrote: Yes some people do eat squirrel, although not as much as they used to.

Are there many fat ones ?

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:19 am**

Bruv;1446061 wrote: Are there many fat ones ?

There are around here.

Especially when the Black Walnut tree in our yard has a good year.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:33 pm**

How about taking your food posts to a food thread ! This thread is about what you would do or buy if you had enough money. How the heck it got around to talking about squirrels as food or guinea pigs, I really don't know !! You daft lot :rolleyes:

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:38 pm**

Well, now that I think about it, I reckon that had I the money, I'd start up a guinea pig ranch and hold weekly barbecues for the Dudes.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:39 pm**

Týr;1445372 wrote: I'd splash out on a guinea pig.

It's years since I last barbecued a guinea pig. With olives and a cream pepper sauce.

I'll start saving.

G#Gill;1446174 wrote: How the heck it got around to talking about squirrels as food or guinea pigs, I really don't know !! You daft lot :rolleyes:

Not that I am one to point a finger missus.....but wink wink

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2014 4:05 pm**

Bruv;1446176 wrote: Not that I am one to point a finger missus.....but wink wink

Nuf said Bruv.............. might know :rolleyes: :yh_rotfl