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Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Well, 3 hours into the day and I've already added two extra pages of sh1te to the Internet. Go me!

    I think I'm going stir crazy. Every time I try to leave my room, for the past 6 weeks, I hear Chris Tarrant/Who Wants to be a Millionaire .... Challenge Channel: Avoid it. It's the current OCD obsession of one of the olds.... and it's on all day every day. Every time I walk past the living room door I can hear bl00dy Chris bl00dy Tarrant and that annoying soundtrack.

    So I just checked.... http://tv.sky.com/tvlistings?epgMethod=findChannel&channelId=2202

    Today it's on solidly from 9am to 2pm.

    And when that's not on, it's another dire set of old quiz programmes, often 30 years old.
  • GDB2222
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    I'm impressed that your elderly parents know the answers.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • misskool
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    Yep, the ''Suppers'' 2011.

    today is unrelentingly busy. We have bees arriving, more chickens to do, a whole host of garden/field stuff we need to get round to.

    My whole incubator clutch seems to have failed :( I'm really upset about that....they weren't chickens and were gifted eggs for me to try. I'll leave them a few extra days but....

    mmmmm...chicken :D

    You're keeping bees too?
  • lostinrates
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    misskool wrote: »
    mmmmm...chicken :D

    You're keeping bees too?


    Yep. But the bees sare DH's project. Because I tend to know more about some of the other stuff (though dh is rapidly becoming more lknowledgable a gardener than me) I decided NOT to go on the bee course, so that he would be the ''leader'' in the bee project. So though I stand out there reading things out of the book to him he is definitely the ''bee manager'' :)
  • PasturesNew
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I'm impressed that your elderly parents know the answers.
    They generally don't....

    It's like there are two modes:
    1] Dull TV on way too loud, on repetitive dull shows, old poised holding remote and leaning forward... muttering "I've never heard of it/them/him/her"
    2] TV off, total silence, old sitting forlornly staring at the TV, trying to invent an annoying question to ask me about things that aren't happening, I never said... they made up from 7 fragments of random conversation.

    :)
  • Generali
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    They generally don't....

    It's like there are two modes:
    1] Dull TV on way too loud, on repetitive dull shows, old poised holding remote and leaning forward... muttering "I've never heard of it/them/him/her"
    2] TV off, total silence, old sitting forlornly staring at the TV, trying to invent an annoying question to ask me about things that aren't happening, I never said... they made up from 7 fragments of random conversation.

    :)


    Having lived with the in-laws for a while I feel your pain.

    Father-in-Law who is a very intelligent and interesting man also likes WATCHING TV.
  • PasturesNew
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    I just managed 2 minutes of 'interaction'. During this time a row was started over who found the 80p trifles in Asda. I left.
  • michaels
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    80p trifles - I think you should be posting on the grabbit thread?
    I just managed 2 minutes of 'interaction'. During this time a row was started over who found the 80p trifles in Asda. I left.
    I think....
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    80p trifles -

    Mmmmm, trifle.

    On another note, just got back from Tesco and managed to spend £223 without buying any booze!!!

    Maybe there's something in this food inflation malarkey as I swear it wasn't that expensive the last time I was there..... Weird.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • PasturesNew
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    Mmmmm, trifle.

    On another note, just got back from Tesco and managed to spend £223 without buying any booze!!!

    Maybe there's something in this food inflation malarkey as I swear it wasn't that expensive the last time I was there..... Weird.
    Scan in your receipt... let us see what on earth could be purchased for such a princely sum.

    I had a mate once who swore blind his shopping was expensive and most of it was for the baby. He scanned in his receipt for us to look at and the kid's stuff was about £4, he'd spent £70 on booze - and most of the rest was luxury/prepared food items.
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