Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lemonjelly

I do have some good news - one of my pepper plants has a flower!:j

Also, got an electric soup maker to make home made soup recently. Thought I'd have a go last night. Will be looking forward to experimenting with it - the soup was nicely textured, & stayed very hot a lot longer than canned soups. Need to put less basil in next time though!:o

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Also, got an electric soup maker to make home made soup recently.

A what?!!

I find sop odd...sometimes its all in the world you could want at other times its really unsatisfying. I make lots of soup in winter and usually gazpacho in summer. telling that IIRC haven't made gazpacho at all this summer!

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

A what?!!

I find sop odd...sometimes its all in the world you could want at other times its really unsatisfying. I make lots of soup in winter and usually gazpacho in summer. telling that IIRC haven't made gazpacho at all this summer!

http://www.next.co.uk/x4810268s3#742497x48

Chop the veg, add stock it does it for you. Also works as a blender & smoothie maker.
I now need to start collecting soup recipes....:)

Davesnave

lemonjelly wrote: »

Thankfully, someone stopped the tape after about 20 mins, but for the family especially, it was absolutely awful.

Couldn't they have made an edited mix of the tape lasting, say, 2 mins?

lemonjelly

How remiss of me to omit to say misskool I hope all went well & is well with your sister. Not at all daft to consider staying up all night for a 5 minute phone call. That kind of call can mean everything to you and to her.

Family comes first. Sorry you weren't able to be there with her.

lemonjelly

Davesnave wrote: »

Couldn't they have made an edited mix of the tape lasting, say, 2 mins?

Wish they had tbh dave.

With hindsight, you could see what he did. He made up with a few peeps & contacted a few of us whom he hadn't seen for a while in the 2-3 weeks leading up to him doing it.

At the crem, the coffin was brought in with a suede song playing (they were his favourite), so didn't seem unusual. As the song ended, everyone stayed standing, then another song kicked in (a spaceman came a travelling). No-one really knew what to do. Mum & sisters at the front bawling their eyes out. & this went on until the vicar decided enough was enough & stopped the tape.

At the time I wanted to think it was what he would have wanted, but I also had a feeling that how he'd taken his life was actually designed to hurt certain people. The funeral stretched this out.

Now, I am sorry to say I feel he acted in a very childish immature way even though he was my friend. And that makes me a little sad, as well as a little angry. a waste.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

http://www.next.co.uk/x4810268s3#742497x48

Chop the veg, add stock it does it for you. Also works as a blender & smoothie maker.
I now need to start collecting soup recipes....:)

I have several just sop cook books...but very rarely use them becase soup tends to be ''of what is available'' or sort of instinct based on old favorites. I also love the cabbage sop from the cabbage sop diet! I have a couple of Convent Garden soup company recipe books which are very nice.

That's a fun little gadget.

edit: I think the ''u'' missing is a keyboard error not mine. I think its a bit sticky!

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I have several just sop cook books...but very rarely use them becase soup tends to be ''of what is available'' or sort of instinct based on old favorites. I also love the cabbage sop from the cabbage sop diet! I have a couple of Convent Garden soup company recipe books which are very nice.

That's a fun little gadget.

edit: I think the ''u'' missing is a keyboard error not mine. I think its a bit sticky!

The missing u is making me laugh...:D

To be honest, talking last night about soups, we were in agreement that basically experimenting by throwing loads of stuff in together is the way to go - hopefully we'll stumble on all sorts of delish accidents.

Need to get some barley or something as a thickening agent - personally I'm a fan of thicker soups.:drool:

Really2

On funeral music, we had the most perfectly timed inappropriate music ever.
Just as they started lowering my wifes nan in to the ground an ice cream van started playing Colonel Bogey (other swill know it as "Hittler has only got one....")

A. I had never heard an ice cream van play that before
B. as icream vans go perhaps it was not that bad a choice for someone who had lived through the second world war.

Thank god the Vicar said that he could not helped think the deceased would have laughed as that then enabled people to react.

It was one of those moments that was funny, but at a very inappropriate time.

lemonjelly

Apparently nowadays one of the most coomonly requested pieces of music as the coffin disappears, is the countdown tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62wIQFgAAa8