Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lemonjelly

Hey all! Nice to see fc123 about!

Rained solidly all day yesterday (how does it rain solidly?)

LydiaJ the thread seems to have been deleted!:eek:

I got 50 something on the colour test thingy.:(

Baked some scones yesterday through boredom! I also indulged in poached egg sandwiches. I agree with John's comment - have to fight myself to stop eating cereals sometimes.

Regarding bats, I do like west midland safari park. They have a "batcave". It is an enclosed exhibit for bats. The light is low, so when you go in, you have to wait for your eyes to adjust. However once they do, you are surrounded by small bats & they fly around whilst you walk about in there. I really like it!

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

I also indulged in poached egg sandwiches.

Never had those. We used to have fried egg sandwiches, which make a bit of a mess when you bite through the yolk,.... and as I read your post I thought they might be great inside something like a pitta bread, that'd soak up the yolk as it spilled.

Or is egg yolk all over your fingers and dripping onto the plate, before being wiped up with bread, part of the experience? I can't decide.

Frittered_Away

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never had those. We used to have fried egg sandwiches, which make a bit of a mess when you bite through the yolk,.... and as I read your post I thought they might be great inside something like a pitta bread, that'd soak up the yolk as it spilled.

Or is egg yolk all over your fingers and dripping onto the plate, before being wiped up with bread, part of the experience? I can't decide.

For me it's egg and bacon sandwiches, but yes, definitely part of the experience. The gooey, tasty, just a little bit messy experience. *drools*

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never had those. We used to have fried egg sandwiches, which make a bit of a mess when you bite through the yolk,.... and as I read your post I thought they might be great inside something like a pitta bread, that'd soak up the yolk as it spilled.

Or is egg yolk all over your fingers and dripping onto the plate, before being wiped up with bread, part of the experience? I can't decide.

The yolk has to be runny! My poached egg baps were definitely runny, and yummy as a result.

I was thinking about this at the weekend - my view on eggs has definitely changed when regularly started eating free range. The tatses and clolours are so much better!:)

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

Glass staircase, young children, sticky fingers, head wounds. Not a good mix. Wait a few years.

Just added my piece

lemonjelly wrote: »

Regarding bats, I do like west midland safari park. They have a "batcave". It is an enclosed exhibit for bats. The light is low, so when you go in, you have to wait for your eyes to adjust. However once they do, you are surrounded by small bats & they fly around whilst you walk about in there. I really like it!

Ditto. Except it smells so bad you can barely even mouth breath. And you get people screaming and jumping on you which is a bit offputting!

Davesnave

lemonjelly wrote: »

I was thinking about this at the weekend - my view on eggs has definitely changed when regularly started eating free range. The tatses and colours are so much better!:)

There's free range and there's proper free range. Even where we are, in deepest Devon, we found it hard to get free range eggs of the standard we wanted. Yup, the hens were able to move around freely, but too often the stocking density meant they were on mud, not grass.

Now we don't need to bother about that, because we have our own. We also find the demand for their eggs outstrips the supply so we have to ration what we sell!

(Mind you, we'd better not talk here about the profit we don't make!)

JanCee

lostinrates wrote: »

how bad is bad, I was 12, and pretty disappointed with that. I then noticed if I changed the angle of my screen it all looked different!

96 Then I decided that I'd rushed it and tried again and got....84

neverdespairgirl

We spent a lot of yesterday at our new place making decisions about colours / paints / floors.

Lots of work has already been done - all the ceilings re-plastered, the walls re-plastered where they need it, the bathrooms all ripped out, the walls re-built, bath and new shower tray installed, undercoating etc done, the windows all sanded down and re-painted (and they are HUGE windows, 7 feet high and very wide!)

Now we've made most of the important decisions - we're having grey slate in the hall downstairs and the kitchen upstairs, and pale sandy slate in the bathrooms. We're having engineered oak floors in the bedrooms.

The whole place apart from the bathrooms is going to be painted jasmine white, with a china blue colour on the door frames, a steel beam, and the chimney breast upstairs. Isaac's room is a pink-ish cream, after we rejected his first choices of bright orange and dark red. Because we do want him to actually sleep once in a while.

We are also going to have slightly bizarre framed exposed patches of the industrial bricks upstairs - left unpainted, and "framed" as if they were pictures.

It's all very exciting!

JanCee

Sounds absolutely fabulous neverdespairgirl.

lostinrates

JanCee wrote: »

96 Then I decided that I'd rushed it and tried again and got....84

did you try moving the screen/your head?


I'll get dh to do it..see what he scores. Bet it'll be about that.