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

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Would you? Could you?

absolutely not.

We do plan to swim in it though....so I dare say its much the same badness.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

oh oh oh, which one is it? and would you do grand designs or something?

I'll pm.

re grand designs....ninky (I'd forgotten her name then for a moment) was really helpful and pmed me some numbers. we talked a lot about it. One of our ''team'' has been involved in one before and feels very strongly we should, the stuff you get given is significant, and it can make progress years and years quicker in a pohased project like ours. BUT we decided that its not for us. It would be the mse way, but while I feel comfortable and open with money I don't know I fancy the ''intrusion'' of cameras unrestricted in my home. DH feels less open about discussing finances with the world.

So no.

I'll pm you the other details.

lemonjelly

fc123 wrote: »

LJ, will work ease up a bit stress wise when term starts? I have about a dozen toms in the bowl da da! Snag is, I am reluctant to wolf them down as they symbolise such effort and pride.:o

Gradually. Half term it'll start to settle down. It'll get hectic again when students start applying to go to University next year, but I'd rather be busy at the mo!

& eat 'em! That's what they're for. Eat 'em fresh, whilst they're full of those lovely tastes & flavours:drool:

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Doubt many here are old enough to remember this but when I was a coffee-addicted student, for at least one year there was a terrible harvest and we were all stuck drinking not just camp but dozens of different brands of coffee diluted with chicory.

Even powdered tea (Nestea) made a bit of a comeback, which was a wartime drink I think.

I remember the coffee shortage in the early 70s ... and my parents bought Camp... it was MINGING... disgusting chicory !!!!!! NEVER again. Even the thought, or mention, of the stuff still gives me the heeby jeebies.

lostinrates

MISSKOOL: we have a puffball, dh just found it......can you get to London this week? Should DH bring it with him this week on the train?

(you're welcome to come here sometime though and I can leave it growing with something over it this week)

LydiaJ

Woohoo. :j
Best day so far for the PV. Peak power (3.773kW) not quite as good as Wednesday (3.845kW) but it was sunny for longer so total energy for the day was 16.8kWh (previous best day's output only 10.7kWh). That's worth £7.54 just for today, and a total of £23.55 since last Wednesday morning.

In other news I have had a busy day yesterday and a lazy one today, so now need to get washing done etc so kids have clean uniform for tomorrow. Good news is that a friend has volunteered to babysit on Thursday night so I can go to something at church that I would quite like to go to, but isn't a special occasion, or strictly essential either. It's a long time since I had a babysitter for something that didn't fall into one of those two categories, so it feels a luxury. Thoughts are with Sue, who I know gets a lot less free time than I do. Bad news is I stayed in all afternoon because builder said he would come round but didn't specify a time. He hasn't arrived yet. Hmmm.

ETA Have just persuaded the hamster to come out from under my bed, where DD had let it escape. I feel DD still has quite a lot of the hamster-care-learning-curve to ascend.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember the coffee shortage in the early 70s ... and my parents bought Camp... it was MINGING... disgusting chicory !!!!!! NEVER again. Even the thought, or mention, of the stuff still gives me the heeby jeebies.

At the start of the shortage I quite liked chicory but afterwards no. Mind you in my student days I remember eating haslet and other meats you rarely see nowadays, plus had to make our own pizzas and cheesecakes (Ma Green was the brand) which I now remember were foul. If it wasn't for home-made pizzas I think I would have eaten mince dishes every day.

Mind you, only spent £3 a week on food in total and had no freezer. Or overdrafts on student accounts.

There were also endless alternative brands of ciggies (contain small amounts of a less-carcinogenic filler called NSM/New Smoking Material). It must have been a great time to be in packaging design.

michaels

MissK is there an owners forum for your car? For us there is one for fiat and another for our specific model (possibly says something about reliability?!) but se3arching the forums usually finds someone else who has had the same problem and how it was fixed and if not posting a question garners replies from various experts who are only to pleased to show of their expertise to newbies. (As an aside there is also an owners rally every year where they all meet up, camp, share a communal meal and organise a family charity fun day - all feels a bit anoraky but great if you just go along with it).

Lydia somewhere I have a download of the stats from my parents 4kw install, I will try and dig them out to compare. Just found one for 8th June when they did 27kwh, max 3.684.

DSS has just signed up for another year of college - his 6th I reckon after leaving school at 16- LJ is the only one who may understand how he still gets funding. He also got rear-ended in his car last week and pushed in to the car in front - one of those dodgy claims company seem to have encouraged him to stay at home rather than work as his back is stiff, fixed up a hire car etc -fine he should get the money back in the end assuming the lady who hit him is properly insured but that seems to be several months down the road whereas he needs cashflow now...

Davesnave

I'd forgotten the coffee shortage, but that must've been why I was drinking Camp. I remember that we were told not to hoard tea when it was in short supply, "because it will not keep for an extended period."

Funny, I have a tea mountain in the garage as a result of a recent offer, and some of the dates on those are as late as October 2012.

Of course, nothing was 'best before' in those days.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

DSS ...

do you have a good relationship with him ? I always think it must be a bit difficult at times for lone bigger ''first family'' kids. I think my sister would say that certainly.

Is he doing well on these courses? ay eployment looming at the end of this. I can' see the ipetus to not be at college if one can atm....better than being jobless and on dole and feeling one's future shrinking....what a time to be maturing into adult hood. I think some you guys were in similar boats? Others of us got to be grown ups at quite a prosperous time, its been relatively easy for the focused and determined to do at least ok