Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

vivatifosi

fc123 wrote: »

They could translate well into swimwear for kids but, in their current form, I think they concetrate a bit too much on adult emale errogenous zones
The swimwear thing is all in the head ready to go....slight snag as there are no UK manufacturers left who specialise so it's harder to start up something up with small volumes to try it out..but I will persevere for the launch in Feb 12.

fc, I don't know if you're reading this or whether its one of your periods of working, but I remember seeing an article a year or so back about the Brazilians being very good at small run, niche, high quality swimwear production. I know it isn't exactly on your doorstep, but could be an option as well as an interesting back story given how blinking good at it they are and the perceived image. Also ties in with the whole Brazil/beach/Copacabana/fun/Havianas type thing. Apologies if to you I'm stating the bleeping obvious...

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

We don't have breakfast, never did. In a discussion about this recently I said to my sibling that the school had spoken to my parents about sending me to school without breakfast and I remember being told that I wouldn't eat it (that's what they told the school). My sibling pointed out if I'd been offered any food I'd have never turned it down... and then pointed out that mum never got up in the mornings until after we'd gone to school. It's odd how I never noticed before.

My mother did make sure we all had breakfast - she was very glad when her youngest, my brother, finished A levels at 18, because she'd got up at 6.15am every schoolday for years, and she's not a morning person (-:

My brother had school on Saturdays, too.

Generali

I got cereal, bacon, egg, sausage (sometimes), black pudding and toast every morning through my teenage school years. My mum read we can't store protein and overreacted.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

I got cereal, bacon, egg, sausage (sometimes), black pudding and toast every morning through my teenage school years. My mum read we can't store protein and overreacted.

wow, what a wonderful mother. Its one thing I prefer about how we live now. DH likes a ''good'' breakfast. On a normal working weekend I would find it just too heavy yet cooking bacon (or the smell of it, he likes cooking it himself) inevitably makes one hungry, so I get a bit tetchy for refusing it.

lostinrates

I'm enjoying the story about the rude d-i-l who confirmed her lack of couth by sharing the also rude email of her s-m-i-l to be particularly because before we got married, my step m-i-l sent me emails instructing me not to get married to DH. I'm priding myself this morning on my restraint in not forwarding them, particularly the last one, to the world.

(I can't now share it as I lost in when my old email account was hacked, which is good for me and my karma because on days when I was very cross I admit I did think about it...:)). Mine was a better one, because, thank goodness, it didn't reveal me to be rude or uncouth but rather wholly displayed her failings. In fact, my reply was rather polite. Nowadays I think it would be less so.

neverdespairgirl

I hope she's changed her mind, now she's discovered how nice you are.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

We don't have breakfast, never did. In a discussion about this recently I said to my sibling that the school had spoken to my parents about sending me to school without breakfast and I remember being told that I wouldn't eat it (that's what they told the school). My sibling pointed out if I'd been offered any food I'd have never turned it down... and then pointed out that mum never got up in the mornings until after we'd gone to school. It's odd how I never noticed before.

My mother used to insist on healthy cereal on weekday mornings and whatever we liked at the weekend. Both followed by toast/ tea cakes/ rolls.

I used to insist that the boys had breakfast before leaving for school. Eldest loved his food and was very compliant. Youngest was impossible and it took me years to realise that he genuinely wakes up with nausea and can't eat first thing. Any enforcement does actually make him sick. Now at best he takes a few dry crackers with him in the morning. It does mean that by 10.30 he is starving. At one point he would have complan drinks late at night to keep his body nourished the next day. Just shows that one size doesn't fit all.

Now that we have a dining table in the kitchen rather than stools at the island and the weather means we can have the patio doors open onto the garden I really look forward to us sitting down to dinner.

Boys have started to revolt, the novelty of them both being home (for younger one) and the fixed meal times (for elder one) means they are trying to opt to eat dinner on their laps in the TV room together.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm enjoying the story about the rude d-i-l who confirmed her lack of couth by sharing the also rude email of her s-m-i-l to be particularly because before we got married, my step m-i-l sent me emails instructing me not to get married to DH. I'm priding myself this morning on my restraint in not forwarding them, particularly the last one, to the world.

(I can't now share it as I lost in when my old email account was hacked, which is good for me and my karma because on days when I was very cross I admit I did think about it...:)). Mine was a better one, because, thank goodness, it didn't reveal me to be rude or uncouth but rather wholly displayed her failings. In fact, my reply was rather polite. Nowadays I think it would be less so.

I loved this story.

Pre email days, I have a friend whose m-i-l told her that she had investigated her family (!) and that, though said family were clearly harder working and more successful, she felt her own family were better stock. That though she would have been prepared to look past that, given that said family were contributing to setting the couple up financially in a big way, as d-i-l was not really pretty enough for her son, she couldn't really support adding an ugly duckling to her own family.:eek:

The two mothers then had words.

At the wedding the bride was forced to walk down the aisle half blind as m-i-l banned her from wearing glasses!

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I hope she's changed her mind, now she's discovered how nice you are.

Um, well, I'm not in a position to know. (but thanks for suggesting I am nice enough )

TBH, I know all of the nice people better than I know my s-m-i-l. We have never met in person. Not once. I've had her daughter to stay for a week, and of course know the others (had stints where we were living with the others, I know them better than most know siblings in law in international living arrangements!). The last time dh saw her was at her wedidng to his father, where she accused him of lying about working in Italy in front of some of DH's dad's friends. The thing that ''outed'' that he was a liar was that he said he loved walking past the Duomo on the way to work and she had only heard of the Florentine Duomo, and didn't realised that the word ''duomo'' was not specific to that building. Dh's family friends were profoundly embarrassed. I was in BIG trouble for not going, but, you know, I feel really strongly that DH's relationship with his family is important and its silly for me to go, have a tale like that happen and let more opportunity for resentment on either side to occur. (I wouldn't have been able not to either snigger or resist putting her right I don't think. Which would have been v. rude.) As it is I can gently remind dh to call his father/siblings regularly (in supportive wife of absent minded husband way) instead of risking resentment damaging those relationships. (I would and do see my in laws when I have to. I did consider going to a family even in NYC earlier this year but, tbh, we didn'/t want to shell out for a hotel and I think staying with family would be a push to far for me. When we do see them dh buys my silence initially with a mojito, and after that they vcan say anything and I don't care so long as the limey-rummy goodness is refilled)

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I loved this story.

Pre email days, I have a friend whose m-i-l told her that she had investigated her family (!) and that, though said family were clearly harder working and more successful, she felt her own family were better stock. That though she would have been prepared to look past that, given that said family were contributing to setting the couple up financially in a big way, as d-i-l was not really pretty enough for her son, she couldn't really support adding an ugly duckling to her own family.:eek:

The two mothers then had words.

At the wedding the bride was forced to walk down the aisle half blind as m-i-l banned her from wearing glasses!

Horrendous! Poor girl.

Things like this is why dh and I got married the way we did.