Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

michaels

Can't stand pumpkin - bit of a shame as we have two large ones from the kids visit to the local petting farm in Halloween week that we never got round to carving - free to a good home!

misskool wrote: »

if anyone is doing thanksgiving can i please please please have a slice of pumpkin pie?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

if anyone is doing thanksgiving can i please please please have a slice of pumpkin pie?

I should get DH to bring some eggs up for you.

Pumpkin pie is YUM, and not hard to make, but I think we'll have pecan. Normally we'd do three or four pies when we ''do'' Thanksgiving, but it will just be us, and so you have to choose one really....I adore pumpkin pie though.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

You couldn't do that here because it would be too cold.

Lots of people do, if there's one close by, or, take the car out and do a whole town round robin

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Can't stand pumpkin - bit of a shame as we have two large ones from the kids visit to the local petting farm in Halloween week that we never got round to carving - free to a good home!

I use butternut or kabocha (spelling?) for pie....and most things really..the big carving pumpkins can be very watery...but can make decent aditions to stews/casseroles if they are.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I wish I had known you were looking PN, my parents are away a lot over the winter and might have been interested in someone to stay in their holiday let and keep an eye on things - it is fairly remote tho and I'm not sure if you drive?

I have never wet the bed anywhere but my DW (at the hot GF) and I did manage to break the toilet seat in a chalet once...

I'd do house sitting. I'm perfectly house trained

Yes, I drive. I've always lived in the countryside/remote areas - so needed to drive. I even bought this car on the basis it has the capacity to carry 100% of all my belongings in one trip, so I can easily go wherever I decide I need to be.

All I "need" in life is the Internet, whether that's hard-wired/provided, or so long as I can get a dongle signal... that's what I use here all the time - a three dongle.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lots of people do, if there's one close by, or, take the car out and do a whole town round robin

Is carnival season over now? Its always cold when people stand out in westcountry towns in floats it seems to me. DH LOVES the by car tours of christmas lights. He's very excited we have a whole host of new territory to explore. Also, the not so posh towns always have the houses than have really gone to town....which is jolly to see

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lots of people do, if there's one close by, or, take the car out and do a whole town round robin

You can't appreciate from the photos how big this one is Pastures, it is massive. I don't know of anywhere like it. Imagine a really posh area in a town and every single house being done up. It's a bit of a festival of chavdom round here, maybe where you are is posher .

Though this is a rather fun Hertfordshire day out for a different time of year...

http://www.flamstead-herts.co.uk/gallery/scarecrow2009winners.html

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Is carnival season over now? Its always cold when people stand out in westcountry towns in floats it seems to me. DH LOVES the by car tours of christmas lights. He's very excited we have a whole host of new territory to explore. Also, the not so posh towns always have the houses than have really gone to town....which is jolly to see

You're speaking of Bridgewater Carnival etc - which is always around 5th November. So, yes. I went there once, in November 2000, the lights were amazingly hot as the floats went by.

It's miles from me here though, about 140 miles at a guess.

I am off to see (probably) Mousehole Xmas Lights turn on http://www.mouseholelights.org.uk/

That's really late, on the weekend before Xmas.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am off to see (probably) Mousehole Xmas Lights turn on http://www.mouseholelights.org.uk/

That's really late, on the weekend before Xmas.

That looks lovely! Its no fun living this far away from the sea:(.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

You can't appreciate from the photos how big this one is Pastures, it is massive. I don't know of anywhere like it. Imagine a really posh area in a town and every single house being done up. It's a bit of a festival of chavdom round here, maybe where you are is posher .

Though this is a rather fun Hertfordshire day out for a different time of year...

http://www.flamstead-herts.co.uk/gallery/scarecrow2009winners.html

LOL/posher. Of course