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

neverdespairgirl

Sounds (and looks) as if a good time was had by all!

Davesnave

Fantastic cake! So realistic; there must surely have been a model......:cool:;):D

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

Have any of the nice people been to the Maldives?

yes, i went to veligandu in 2008. very good, although i haven't been to a huge number of places like that to compare it against what the other options are. think it is probably a bit of a rip off and expect it is worse now that the £ has fallen off against the $ by quite a significant amount since i booked our holiday there.

lostinrates

Dh is moving again...same city, different flat. He's been in a corporate let, and now there is a vacant office appartment so he'll move week after next. This of course suggests another month out there.......

sss555s

Looks quite like you Sue. I mean James, i couldn't comment on the cake

StevieJ

I saw a badger for the first time last night (I think) in the flesh, boy can they move, it ran off like a scalded cat.

lostinrates

StevieJ wrote: »

I saw a badger for the first time last night (I think) in the flesh, boy can they move, it ran off like a scalded cat.

they do move fast, when they get going the motion is a bit like a ripple.

I like badgers a great deal.



Well, good news on the kitchen wall....

a: I'm not going mad, it has moved a fair bit

b: structural engineer is designing some strapping for it for winter but things if we did nothing it would stand through winter treated considerately.


Its just as well to have some prop I think, because it feels very precarious. The top 8 rows or so of bricks on the extreme corner the mortar really is just as a decorative spacer now.....some harsh weather could be a very real challenge I think.

chewmylegoff

StevieJ wrote: »

I saw a badger for the first time last night (I think) in the flesh, boy can they move, it ran off like a scalded cat.

one of my friends is obsessed with badgers and therefore i constantly get emails directing me to news stories about them attacking people and animals. this is the most extreme one - they were lucky it wasn't a honey badger...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3023369.stm

PasturesNew

StevieJ wrote: »

I saw a badger for the first time last night (I think) in the flesh, boy can they move, it ran off like a scalded cat.

Last one I saw was a dead one, I pulled over and we dragged it to the edge of the road as it was huge and in the way.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

one of my friends is obsessed with badgers and therefore i constantly get emails directing me to news stories about them attacking people and animals. this is the most extreme one - they were lucky it wasn't a honey badger...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3023369.stm

One of my friends bought a new build house in 2001 and at the bottom of the garden (20' from the house as new builds have tiny gardens) was a big bank of earth about 4' thick and 3-4 foot tall. As that was her boundary she decided to make it a bit nicer looking .... and promptly fell inside it as it was a badger set. She had electrical cables laid across the garden, providing garden lighting - the badgers would come along, dig up the cabling and toss her lights around. In the end she had the whole garden concreted over and a huge conservatory built, with foundations so thick you could land a plane on them as she read badgers can try to dig in from underneath.