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Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie
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Ok - I know that Kate's parent's aren't titled but I feel calling them riff-raff may be going a little far...Dear oh dear! the riff-raff are even attending RA now :eek:The Duchess of Cambridge's parents attended Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot, [].
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/royals-dodge-ladies-day-brawl-ascot-225602435.htmlI think....0 -
lostinrates wrote: »at 2.5 hours a wash (comparing on JL site) it could be built up quite quickly I guess.
That must be a man with one hand behind his back!
2.5 hours for a wash???? Most dishwashers have an economy wash that is under an hour. The 2.5 hours is for pans with caked on residue that hasn't been washed for a week.
In my house everything goes in the dishwasher. If any dishes are rejected they go in a second time until it gets it right. Anything deemed difficult gets soaked overnight in hot water with a teaspoon of biological washing machine powder, then goes back in the dishwasher.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
Good wishes to IM and family.
For those not on FB, here are some recent posts from "Daisy Palmer Trust"Tuesday wrote:Thankyou for all your recent kind words and thoughts. But please dont be fooled by Daisys looks and smile. Although much better than she was 3 weeks ago in PCCU, she is still very poorly. She hasnt stood up for 3 weeks now, let alone take a step. All your love and good wishes help her go stronger day by day, and thats all we wish for. Taking each day as it comes until she can get back home again. Shes a fighter :-/today wrote:Daisy is off to theatre again shortly for more surgery :-( . The peg she had re-sited just last Tuesday has not stopped bleeding since. Surgeons believe they may have nicked an artery last week, so better to totally re-site it again! It never gets any easier for poor Daisy does it :-/today wrote:Last minute change of plan. Now not going down til early evening.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
That must be a man with one hand behind his back!
2.5 hours for a wash???? Most dishwashers have an economy wash that is under an hour. The 2.5 hours is for pans with caked on residue that hasn't been washed for a week.
In my house everything goes in the dishwasher. If any dishes are rejected they go in a second time until it gets it right. Anything deemed difficult gets soaked overnight in hot water with a teaspoon of biological washing machine powder, then goes back in the dishwasher.
We were talking about clothes washers, but it got side-tracked.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
The poor brave Monkfishes. Thank you for posting the update silvercar.
Its nice to see dopester about.
I'm sitting surrounded by cookbooks and totally lacking inspiration for the weekend. Part of the problem is the weather is just out of whack. My calandar says gazpacho, my themometre says tomato soup and I'm in the middle confused.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »
I'm sitting surrounded by cookbooks and totally lacking inspiration for the weekend.
Then scan down the photos until something nice shows up.
You emd up discovering some great things, reading recipes and then having great ideas for a new image search.
You'll end up with loads of yummy looking stuff to choose from.
Just try it with something simple and see how varied it all is... e.g. try searching meatloaf recipe
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&xhr=t&q=meatloaf+recipe&cp=10&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=997&bih=555&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Loads of variations and completely random things that aren't even meatlof.
I just did vegetable recipe, that's wildly random ... some great photos
http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=997&bih=555&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=vegetable+recipe&oq=vegetable+recipe&aq=f&aqi=g4g-m6&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=22304l23493l0l9l8l0l0l0l4l273l1402l1.4.3l80 -
After vegetable recipe.... within 3 minutes I had found this
http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/j6tran/recipes/guinness-cupcakes-with-baileys-buttercream
mmmmmmm0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »My top tip is to load up google images, then type into the search box your favourite ingredients or dishes, or stuff you've got in already.
Then scan down the photos until something nice shows up.
You emd up discovering some great things, reading recipes and then having great ideas for a new image search.
You'll end up with loads of yummy looking stuff to choose from.
Just try it with something simple and see how varied it all is... e.g. try searching meatloaf recipe
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&xhr=t&q=meatloaf+recipe&cp=10&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=997&bih=555&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Loads of variations and completely random things that aren't even meatlof.
I just did vegetable recipe, that's wildly random ... some great photos
http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=997&bih=555&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=vegetable+recipe&oq=vegetable+recipe&aq=f&aqi=g4g-m6&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=22304l23493l0l9l8l0l0l0l4l273l1402l1.4.3l8
mmmm.. I love meatloaf (but not with an egg in it).
I think I've decided on duck (from freezer) with.....sour cherries (because we haven't had that for YEARS) (salad to start and ....maybe we'll have more strawberries ready)
and some sort of asian pork for the other day (with greens and rice, I might make some pot stickers to start and some star anise plums for pudding)
....and ......I dunno what for tonight.but strawberries for pud, because we have loads of them. (I crave shelfish now, but wrong time of year...um.....soup, or something from the freezer..maybe he'll want fish'n'chips and I cn have a bloddy mary
Just blah about food today.
another edit: for tonight beer bruschetta and salad (and that's it, he's blah too about food)
and I found a nice sounding cake recipe so I'll make that for weekend munching if he decides the fare isn't filling enough.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »exactly this. I'd love to do it. I could arrange cover here, justify buying a kindle and go somewhere where I could read all day unless picked to do something useful. I'd quite like to be a magistrate as well.neverdespairgirl wrote: »My mother did jury service at Southwark Crown Court when we were all still at school. My Dad had a quick squiz at the lists to check there were no 6 month trials starting, but there weren't, so she was safe.
She did a day-long trial, and a 3 day one, in the fortnight. She also read 4 novels and knitted an entire jumper (-:
I have done jury service twice: 35 years ago and 10 years ago.
Things changed quite a lot in those 25 years.
The "conspiracy" law was reformed - so at least now you cannot get more for "conspiracy" than for the actual crime.
At the first trial one of the defendants "made a personal statement",
This enabled him to address the jury with out any interruptions.
If you can fake sincerity that was all you needed.
"I am the young innocent one, the older conspirators just paid me to drive them in my car, I had no idea what was going on"
"This is all a fit up by the police - where is the Nigerian [Back home in Nigeria I would guess]. Why has the case taken so long to come to court? [Because you jumped bail that is why you are in handcuffs unlike your two co-defendants]
We were all naive first time jurors as the three defending barristers had turned over the whole jury to get an almost all male jury under 30. But we learned fast during that week, how to identify the evidence that could not be presented - more important than what was said (eg If there is not as list of witnesses saying what a good boy the defendant is then it is most likely because he has a record already)
Both the Jury rigging and the personal statement has been changed in the 25 years I gather.
We were all really relieved when the "previous" was revealed endorsing our verdict of "a right little con man".
The system had also changed by the second trial. No more sitting around for a week but a system that required the potential juror to telephone every evening between 17:30 & 18:30 to discover if they would be needed for a jury the next morning.
With less jury rigging, there were very few rejected jurors left sitting in the canteen in the new court house. Most days the "spares" could be sent home by 11:00 and put back on the on-call system unpaid.Apart from anything else, some people may be liars, indeed may be proven to be liars, but that does not mean they are lying this time round.
In fact, of course, everybody lies some of the time to some extent. It's necessary for normal social interaction.
There is a theory that keeping track of the lies we have to tell, is what has made us the clever apes we are?0 -
Not such a clever cow, she did the hard bit, should have made a break for it
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/udder-genius-daisy-cows-great-escape-132759524.html'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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