Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

neverdespairgirl

None of us drink it. Isaac, Sam and I have milk in our tea, OH has his black.

lemonjelly

Interesting article, and one I'm sure many of us have discussed at some point:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13749313

silvercar

I drink filtered skimmed milk, Tesco do their own brand now. It keeps for a week once opened. I'm really, really fussy with milk, only needs to be the slightest whiff of it not being completely fresh and I gag. The filtered stuff does seem to keep fresh.

Doozergirl

Sale has fallen through on the right house Their fault, not ours. Not that it provides much consolation.

Waited three weeks and until the surveys were done until we made any offers. Make offer and a sale collapses. EA has already booked in a viewing for Thursday and another potential for Saturday, not that it means a great deal.

GDB2222

I'm sorry for you, Doozer. Hope it sorts itself out.

misskool

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

the student report. 9 days left tomorrow!

I gave in and went to sleep

And more work piled on today so guess I will have to crack on instead of messing on mse...

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

IMO milk in a jug doesn't keep. Unless anyone is aware of an excellent resealble jug (looks at PN, resident detective...:whistle:)

Jugs are for posh people

Actually, you can get plastic or glass jugs designed to fit into the door slot of a standard fridge. Usually used for fruit juice. They come with a plastic lid and a flip up spout cover.

Just google.co.uk for: fridge door jug, then click on the shopping tab, this link probably won't work: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=fridge%20door%20jug&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=994&bih=559&noj=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=shop&source=og&sa=N&tab=wf

PasturesNew

This is good lightweight reading: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13762313

LydiaJ

lemonjelly wrote: »

Interesting article, and one I'm sure many of us have discussed at some point:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13749313

Load of pretentious claptrap. Do the people who write these articles actually know any young people? Marking territory - yeah right! The clue's in the very first sentence - "playing music to each other..." There are various reasons why teenagers might listen to music on their phones - perhaps they haven't got any other music-playing technology with them, and, as the article points out, they prefer sound to no sound. However, if earphones are available and they still play it through the phone's speakers, then it's a bonding thing. When you share music with a group, you feel you belong with those people and they accept you. Listening to your own music on your own earphones is isolating, by contrast. Hence the kids in my school revising for exams with one ipod between two, and one earbud each to listen to.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Sale has fallen through on the right house Their fault, not ours. Not that it provides much consolation.

Waited three weeks and until the surveys were done until we made any offers. Make offer and a sale collapses. EA has already booked in a viewing for Thursday and another potential for Saturday, not that it means a great deal.

So sorry to hear.

John_Pierpoint

silvercar wrote: »

An option that my old neighbour took, was to have the ground floor really near the boundary and the upstairs taken in a bit to comply with the regulations.

There was one like this being built near my late Uncle's home. Don't you get tangled up in "steel" and "engineering calculations" if you don't have an upstairs wall standing on the downstairs wall?

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

It's not really London stock brick, in our place, although i love that, too. It's redder than stock.

The recipe for the London Stock Brick was invented in the late 1700s near Faversham Kent.
Mixed with the contents of London's dustbins, the clay/chalk mix was partly self firing because of the unburnt coal.
Very handy, the contents of the bins was worth money and came back into the Capital as ballast under the hay that fuelled the transport system.
If the mix was not quite right or the temperature did not get hot enough to fuse the brick, it came out red and soft instead of yellow and tough. Bricks with a hint of red, were probably good seconds.
Provided they have stood up to the frost, there is no problem.

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can you eat raw oats? I'd expect that to be very low GI, which would suit me just fine.

I don't think even horses are all that keen on raw oats.
The stuff we buy for making porridge has been pre steam cooked and crushed over steel rollers.
The original oatmeal tastes different and traditionally really needed simmering over night on a peat fire - though a double saucepan (one where the bottom half is boiling water and the steam from that cooks the top half) will do the job.

John.

PS Did we not "do" rugs a few months back and the topic of iconic Casa Pupo from the 1960's came up:
http://www.casafina-interiors.co.uk/About_Us.aspx