"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

I'm lost ... there's obviously a part of our culture I missed I'll check out your diary when I've had my tea

I'm turning into Jamie Oliver - bit o'this, bit o'that, see what it tastes like. Scary :eek:

MrsMoo2U

It was a tv programme when I was a kid called Pipkins. Octavia was an ostrich and Hartley was a hare. Sorry - showing my age.

Lula-Hula

Good evening KC,

Laptop man, oh dear sorry you have to do that but there is a very delicate frustration vs money balance on such matters & there comes a point when spending money is the lesser evil.

One of the reasons for choosing the make of my new laptop was due to to working with a team of very knowledgeable long term users .

A bit of Jamie wont go amiss & as to Octavia ... isnt that a Jilly Cooper book ?

The_Dragon

Don't know if you have ever tried this KC but we had it tonight and it was quite nice!

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1306/easy-peasy-lentil-curry

I know you were planning on getting more recipes under your belt

EssexHebridean

Kittikins wrote: »

I think Z is a pretty unshockable kind of chap, he's probably a fireman on the quiet

Ooh - I have an altogether different view on Z all of a sudden!

gilligansyle wrote: »

Just thought I'd add to this, when DS was at junior school, I would tell him that he could invite friends round for tea if he wanted, but he always said no. Eventually he told me that he would rather not have his friends have food that was cooked according to whether the smoke detector went off or not. I thought that was the only way you knew things were properly cooked :-)

MrEH used to accuse me of this at our last place - the only sensible place for the smoke alarm was right outside the kitchen - it jused to go off fairly regularly!

LT - well done for getting out of the car. The reason for me ranting about that one is a few years back I was on the M25 one morning - saw a broken down car on the hard shoulder some way ahead...and then saw the 7.5t truck lose control and career straight into the side of it. Bits of car flew everywhere and it must have been pushed 100 yards up the shoulder. I pulled over a little way ahead, an artic truck had also pulled up pretty sharpish, and we both dashed back to see if we could help - even as I was running I knew that there was no way anyone in the car would have survived though, and was dreading what I was going to find. My sense of relief when I discovered that the girl whose car it was had broken down a few days earlier, and been told off by the RAC man who had gone to her then for sitting in the car, so had got out and was stood the other side of the barrier when, in the blink of an eye, her car was smashed out from in front of her, was incredible. I stayed with her (she was, inevitably, incredibly shaken up) until the Police arrived and then drove her on to her workplace which turned out to be just up the road from mine. She just kept saying "I should be dead - if I'd stayed in the car I would be dead!" She was right, too.

Kittikins

Moi, dreaming about men in uniform when I have MrA in my life?!? Surely not, I'm all lurved up.......... Feeling very happy tonight as I popped over to see him this afternoon and met his mother, sister and seriously cute little nephew, and they were all lovely and very friendly, phew!!

Trying to think if I know any handy laptop men in the area........nope, failed you!

Dragon - that recipe looks yum, might have to add it to my pile of recipes to try

taxi73

I'm another one that likes to pay a man when things defeat me as they aren't worth the headspace...lol

Karmacat

The_Dragon wrote: »

Don't know if you have ever tried this KC but we had it tonight and it was quite nice!

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1306/easy-peasy-lentil-curry

I know you were planning on getting more recipes under your belt

Thats my sort of cookery

Kittikins wrote: »

Moi, dreaming about men in uniform when I have MrA in my life?!? Surely not, I'm all lurved up.......... Feeling very happy tonight as I popped over to see him this afternoon and met his mother, sister and seriously cute little nephew, and they were all lovely and very friendly, phew!!
Thats so cute :j

Trying to think if I know any handy laptop men in the area........nope, failed you!

Not a problem - I know its something easy-to-them, I just don't want to use the headspace, to adapt Taxi's **glorious** phrase, to learn it

taxi73

Its always best not to give stressful stuff headspace...that's my theory anyway..lol

Kittikins

I'm learning to do the same Taxi