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

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

My f-i-l gets cranky (and I presume something worse) if there isn't a bran based cereal about. I get cranky and want to yell at him to try eating something fresh. DH used to make delicious fruit salads for breakfast. I adore he huge fat juicy prunes you I can't eat them can get in supermarkets on the continant HUGE. But, sadly, not suffering like f-i-l I can't eat as many as he could . I tend to offer starchy thing (croissant/toast or muffins), a fruity thing that cn go back in the fridge (so if not whole fruit in a bowl or prunes, something like grapeffruits or a robast fruit salad that will last, or berries...or berry soup, I love scandinavian berry soup) and yogurt. DH is i charge of full breakfasts if any one wants them. I learnt from f-i-l that providing all starch is a poor idea for some....and we don't go crazy on cereal. (if we have guests I'll mix up or buy a muesli and we have porridge)


If its family stying, couldn't you all take a turn making breakfast for her?

The thing I cnsider a best treat when people are staying for breakfast or at ''high days'' is fruit juice. I adore grpefruit and prange juice (half and half).

There is also fresh fruit, yogurt, cheese, jam, marmalade (my mother makes those) honey and marmite, so no-one's going to starve.

Fresh juice, too. Apple, orange, grapefruit, and those weird-coloured Innocent smoothies.

Breakfast at my parents' house is never a "made" meal. It's a "here it all is, help yourself" meal. Someone (one of my siblings, or me) sets out cereal, bread, plates, glasses, cutlery, jam, marmalade, honey etc the night before, on the table, and it's help yourself time.

We've also never had breakfast at a set time, everyone eating together. We do for lunch and dinner, but breakfast is a movable feast, depending on when you get up.

Doozergirl

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Sorry to be thick - who he?

She's a barrister and the love interest of Judge John Deed.

You should be more up on your profession

Well done yesterday

michaels

Hypothetical question which I don't suppose any of the nice people will have the knowledge to answer but I thought I would put it out there:

Imagine a 72 year old widow from Jamaica was visiting England on a 6 month visa to visit her two daughters who live here (she had right to abode late 60s/early 70s when she had her family but she and her husband returned to JA in the 70s after he met in an industrial accident). Suppose her daughters felt that actually she now needed some help to live as she lives alone in JA with no family that close by (she has siblings in JA and other more distant relatives plus children in Antigua and Canada). She is a home owner in JA and derives about half her income from renting some rooms in her house with the rest coming from a small UK widows pension and remittances from her daughters.

Would she have a good chance of getting her indefinite leave to remain? Would an application made in the Uk be looked on more favourably as she would not be living independently abroad at the time of application? This would mean she ended up staying in the UK beyonfd the end of her current visa but the UKBA website seems to suggest that her current visa is automatically extended whilst any application is in place, is this correct? If she were rejected would this impact her ability to get a visitors visa in future? Immigration lawyers seem to charge about £1600 on top of the £1800 application fee for submitting the application, is this worth it or is a self completed application likely to be just as effective?

Doozergirl

sss555s wrote: »

7 Brown and 4 White!


Best option is to nip to Farmfoods and get 12 loafs of "best of both" which are 3 for £2 = £8 total.

While she's in there she best pick up some [STRIKE]mar[/STRIKE].... butter. :beer:

And a four pack of Pepsi for £1, non? Or was that somewhere else. U've never been in a farmfoods, I don't know where there is one. Redditch maybe, but I don't go there either.

chewmylegoff

My mum has taken to making her own bread so she doesn't have to worry how much to buy. The trouble is it tastes horrible!

JonnyBravo

Doozergirl wrote: »

I don't know where there is one. Redditch maybe, but I don't go there either.

Very wise. I'd go there for research purposes, so long as I had an armed guard.
I'm being a little unfair, my dad's business was there.... but jeez it's grim.
Oh yeah, Redditch that is.... not Farmfoods. But yeah I've never been there either. The adverts put me off.

JonnyBravo

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My mum has taken to making her own bread so she doesn't have to worry how much to buy. The trouble is it tastes horrible!

Oh dear.
We make, ermmmm OH makes, our own bread. Absolutely yummy.

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

Immigration lawyers seem to charge about £1600 on top of the £1800 application fee for submitting the application, is this worth it or is a self completed application likely to be just as effective?

I don't know about this specific situation at all, but the mrs completed her leave to remain application herself. It sounded to me like the sort of process where there wasn't really scope for lawyers to add value until you wanted to challenge any decision. I.e. fill in form yourself, go for an appointment, if you don't get the answer you want then instruct solicitor to see if worth appealing.

That said her situation was straightforward: has been working here for 7 years already on various visas.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My mum has taken to making her own bread so she doesn't have to worry how much to buy. The trouble is it tastes horrible!

I used to bake my own allthe time, not hard as I don't eat that much bread....but dh is better at it than me. He makes bread to die for and is always keen to make new types.


NDG, I think ''when you are ready' breakfasts are nice, much easier. Personaly, with a house full on non high days I'd be happy to only have sit down suppers together. Sometimes it feels like all you do is cook and clear up otherwise! Breakfast before 8 is triky for me with a houseful as there is only so quickly I can work outside to get in and clean enough to hygenically serve breakfast!

This week I'mlooking forward to tomorrow night: I'm planning on doing a yummy warm salad with cod and bacon and puy lentils. I can hardly wait.:D The ther week I got a beetroot root risotto thing happening (dh get these food fads all the time). We ate beetroot risotto together on saturday, I had the left over on sunday, then made it every day the next week. DH said on saturday ''any chance of another beetroot risotto''and I was almost sick.

neverdespairgirl

Doozergirl wrote: »

She's a barrister and the love interest of Judge John Deed.

You should be more up on your profession

Well done yesterday

Ah, sorry. I watched that once or twice, and it was so ludicrous, I didn't bother again.