Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

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

Hmm. That reminds me. I have a ghastly one of those I haven't seen come out of storage. It belonged, think, to one of my parents. I can't imagine which one.

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

The stuff we buy for making porridge has been pre steam cooked and crushed over steel rollers.

... hand-washed by virgins in fresh mountain springs in the Amazon forests.

Oh you're SO posh!

neverdespairgirl

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

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.

Fascinating, thank you! the bricks have been fine for the last 120 years or so, we're not worried (-:

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Jugs are for posh people

Or, as Lydia would say, for when Granny is staying?

We have a milk jug. It's nicer to offer someone a milk jug and sugar bowl for their tea than a bag of sugar and a bottle of milk. They aren't expensive items of crockery, not that posh, r eally!

chewmylegoff

16 minutes from my desk in the canary wharf tower to the train home from Waterloo. I believe this is a new world record. I hope you are all impressed.

chewmylegoff

LydiaJ wrote: »

Kids with phone playing music

Kids playing music from any device in an enclosed space such as on public transport are just anti social oiks. In the same way as having a loud telephone conversation for ages on a train is rude, so is playing music on a phone. It's not like they can fail to understand their music will annoy others. There's nothing deeper to it than them being selfish and not caring about other people.

Plenty of kids manage to use public transport in a reasonable manner. If you want to listen to music, get earphones and keep the volume reasonable. It's not difficult to have a modicum of respect for other people.

fc123

GDB2222 wrote: »

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

I get them in the smartprice bags from Asda or Lidl. Just soak them in juice for 20mins before eating, pile on fruit, mixed seeds and bit of natural yoghurt and it keeps the tummy full for hours and hours as I think they swell up inside and take ages to digest. I live on them during busy periods but only in the daytime. Always have a 'proper' dinner at night.

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.

Gutted for you........what happened to their circumstances to make them withdraw the offer?

chewmylegoff wrote: »

16 minutes from my desk in the canary wharf tower to the train home from Waterloo. I believe this is a new world record. I hope you are all impressed.

Which way does your window face? I'll give your tower a wave tomo am as I can see your buildings from my studio.....we are down river in the very cheap bit. Cheap for the time being as....
...................there have been 'suits' about last 2 weeks...(makes me nervous)

Apparently the LL is making noises about 'doing it up' as they have let it go to rack and ruin over the past 50 years. The LL is an ancient long standing well known company who own 1000's of acres of 'derelictness' in the area.

The huge buildings on the river edge by me haven't been occupied for 50 tears and have whole trees growing out of them now.
Facing me is a gigantic building 5 stories high and vast, all smashed up with pigeons flying in and out the broken panes.

Maybe they have decided to try and get a better return for their pension fund? I would be mighty peed off if I was a recipient of it and saw how laxly they have been managing their assets.
When they do renovate it, we'll get priced out again I guess along with all the other arty people who are scattered about on our estate.

We discovered a fascinating small bis near us. One of my staff found a hand in a skip (a chipped mannequin hand) and we found out there was a mannequin place. Poppped down there to discover a fairy land of 100's of mannequins and they do all the display MQ's for all the top stores.
There is a container building outside where they do the hair...kind of like a real salon without sinks and the girls are putting in curlers and snipping whilst the torso is trapped with a bungee strap to a chair and they do the make up with the head strapped but the person applying it is just like a make up artist a real person would have. It was quite surreeal.

I think it was one of those moments where you kind of had to be there.:)

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Or, as Lydia would say, for when Granny is staying?

We have a milk jug. It's nicer to offer someone a milk jug and sugar bowl for their tea than a bag of sugar and a bottle of milk. They aren't expensive items of crockery, not that posh, r eally!

Most people put the milk/sugar in the mug - then hand the mug over.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

16 minutes from my desk in the canary wharf tower to the train home from Waterloo. I believe this is a new world record. I hope you are all impressed.

I'm not. I've no idea how far apart those are.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

It's not like they can fail to understand their music will annoy others.

I've just thought of an app for that!!

SRSLY ... a killer app for that.

If only I had contacts that could create that.... I should go and register it on the apple site (I know about these things now as I wrote an article about it last week..... even though I've never seen an app in my life).