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

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Proper dinner time varies, depending on how you were brought up/who you know.

To me, dinner's at dinner time.... middle of the day. Else, why do school have dinner ladies if it's not dinner? And 5-7pm meals are tea.

But Ladies lunch.

Generali

Ahoy, ahoy nice peeps. Hope we're all having a good Christmas.

I took Mrs Generali and the Generalissimos to the Ocean today (Freshwater if anyone knows it). Lots of fun wave jumping and body boarding and trying out the new kites. We got good and cold and had hot chocolate and Freddos on the way home. Days like today I remember why we moved over here!

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Proper dinner time varies, depending on how you were brought up/who you know.

To me, dinner's at dinner time.... middle of the day. Else, why do school have dinner ladies if it's not dinner? And 5-7pm meals are tea.

silvercar wrote: »

But Ladies lunch.

How are we to stick to the advice "breakfast like a king, lunch like a lord and sup like a peasant" if we have to squeeze a dinner and tea in there as well.
Well it's not like I need an much of an excuse to strap the feedbag on anyway...:D

chewmylegoff

Slight mishap last night, lobbed a glass of red wine all over parents' cream carpet. Dad tried to hoover it up (don't ask me why but he had had a few cans) and burned out the hoover. So next year I need to get them a new carpet and hoover for Christmas. Luckily the current plan is to spend the next two Christmasses in Aus!

Presents seemed to go down well, now I need to work out what to buy oh for her birthday in 2 weeks time. Sigh.

lostinrates

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Luxury!

We got as far as London for 3 nights and stayed with relatives. We had no savings either, it really was a tight budget for our first 3 or so years together.

Eeeeeeee we had it tough, and you tell the kids of today that and will they believe you? :rotfl:

we got married the day before dh's finals. so we didn't have a honey moon even going to stay with relatives. shortly after that we were moving again, so I guess that was a sort of a journey

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Slight mishap last night, lobbed a glass of red wine all over parents' cream carpet. Dad tried to hoover it up (don't ask me why but he had had a few cans) and burned out the hoover. So next year I need to get them a new carpet and hoover for Christmas. Luckily the current plan is to spend the next two Christmasses in Aus!

Presents seemed to go down well, now I need to work out what to buy oh for her birthday in 2 weeks time. Sigh.

Jewellery....how long have you been togather? Is it time for a ring?

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Slight mishap last night, lobbed a glass of red wine all over parents' cream carpet. Dad tried to hoover it up (don't ask me why but he had had a few cans) and burned out the hoover. So next year I need to get them a new carpet and hoover for Christmas. Luckily the current plan is to spend the next two Christmasses in Aus!

Presents seemed to go down well, now I need to work out what to buy oh for her birthday in 2 weeks time. Sigh.

Could be worse- imagine your OHs birthday was BEFORE christmas :eek:

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

How are we to stick to the advice "breakfast like a king, lunch like a lord and sup like a peasant" if we have to squeeze a dinner and tea in there as well.
Well it's not like I need an much of an excuse to strap the feedbag on anyway...:D

how people eat has changed. At my posher grandparents house they were all still very much hard working folk. They had steak for breakfast. Women had a drink mid morning, men had a sandwich/fruit maybe cake too (more than most of us need calorifically for lunch these days), then lunch, the tea at four ish, dinner at 8 ish maybe nine and/or supper just before bed. (this side had lots of low thyroid but were all slim despite eating lots...they worked and played very hard and some got portly in old age when activity decreased, that's all.)


we tend to have lunch and supper here....but sometimes have dinner in the evening....or if a light lunch might have a large ''high tea'' and a light supper.

yesterday we had breakfast, lunch in the afternoon (later than we'd normally lunch, but earlier than a normal christmas, about half two I think...normally we eat at a about four when the first set of out door evening chores are done and the dogs walked etc etc) and .......''rich pickings'' for supper.

lostinrates

tomterm, I hope its of some reassurance to you that my mother has had several mini strokes and recovered fully from them all.

zagubov

Got a request for any NPs who know north London. Meeting a mate who's coming up to London. Need to find a nice pub for a quick pint not too far from London Zoo.
Any recommendations? What I know about drinking places north of tsay Oxford Street I could write on my thumbnail without resorting to small print