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

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

DD1 has just vomited, could be a bug from the millions of people we have been mixing with, too much sun, swimming and sea, a bug from the seawater

Not so much swimming, more going through the motions.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't like mushrooms... don't mind a few bits of it in a chicken/mushroom pie .... but I'd not choose to eat mushrooms. They look horrible and taste horrible to me.

sss555s wrote: »

I hate Mushrooms but love Pineapple :hello:

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I loathe the smell, the taste is disgusting, and the texture revolts me. Apart from that, they're great.

I'm with you three (and michaels) on the subject of mushrooms. I don't like aubergines either. I do, however, like pineapple and chocolate (although probably not together).

Pastures, I'm sorry to hear the hammering has been getting you down. Hope you have a better day tomorrow.

For those who were following my solar panels decision-making odyssey, the update is that I have now decided which panels to get, and which company to get them from, and have put in my order. Apparently they will soon send me a list of possible dates in September, and then my neighbour and I will need to pick one and get back to them, at which point I'll need to pay 25% of the bill. It's all starting to seem real at long last.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Has your oh always been observant with dietary laws? Mine couldn;t be less so! His fsavourite food of all is shellfish. I made a big effort when the aunt who taught me to make chicken soup came to stay....they are very involved in the synagogue and work there etc, but turns out they aren't observant either. One of their kids is.

Its pretty hot out of town, so you must be cooking. even though the valley we now live in is immense not a whisper of breeze today. Its so funny after all the wind we had earlier in the year.

OH is an aethist Orthodox Jew. But because he was brought up being told pork and seafood is dirty, he doesn't fancy it at all.

My Dad is allergic to some types of seafood, so I was also brought up thinking it was dirty (-:

It is really warm here, now 1am and still very hot indeed.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

oops - we tried for as mail on Sunday but they were sold out by 8pm.

It was only low 20s here but actually extremely pleasant on Bantham beach which seemed highly unlikely for England - sea was freezing tho. S Devon is the closet I am likely to get to you PN and you are definitely worth making the rest of the trip for.

Bantham! I learned to swim in a river flowing into the sea at Bantham

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

All that talk of mushrooms didn't help (I vote for food of the devil if we are having a poll) but I do like aubergine (lightly drizzled in oil then bbq'd) and I am not too keen on chocolate either - ndg are you and I sockies?

If so, no-one mentioned a couple of daughters to me! You can keep the vomit, too (-:

Do the nice people have an opinion on Dawlish, near Exeter? Thinking of a short break there next week with Isaac, my best mate, and her two year old DD.

Generali

I hated pineapple and mango until I came to Aus. Tropical fruit in the UK is terrible except for the alfonso mangos you get from really crappy Asian grocers in South London. Those are great, I assume because they are picked ripe by relatives in India and flown directly over to the UK rather than picked when they still taste like rocks.

Potatoes are rubbish over here for the most part. I have no idea why.

Spring seems to have sprung. The weather is great.

Mum's been to Dawlish and had a lovely time. I've not been but this picture makes me very nostalgic:

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

oops - we tried for as mail on Sunday but they were sold out by 8pm.

It was only low 20s here but actually extremely pleasant on Bantham beach which seemed highly unlikely for England - sea was freezing tho. S Devon is the closet I am likely to get to you PN and you are definitely worth making the rest of the trip for.

I've not been there, been past it no doubt but it's off the main road. "Rest of the trip" would be about 140-150 miles round trip .... which I could have detoured to except the current situation means I need to dash homewards without delay later in the week and will be approaching from the north.

Hope you're having a brilliant time!

Davesnave

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Do the nice people have an opinion on Dawlish, near Exeter? Thinking of a short break there next week with Isaac, my best mate, and her two year old DD.

We quite liked it as a base to visit other places from. It was Hobson's choice, being one of the few places where we could take two active ferrets! It also has a pub called The Ferret & Radiator, but when my daughters took theirs inside, they proved less keen on the real thing! :rotfl:

Dawlish itself is pleasant enough, having a central park with a stream full of water birds, including black swans. Local food shopping for self catering is OK. There aren't any of the common seaside issues with young chavs (or at least there weren't when we went there) and I believe a fair proportion of the population is elderly, retired.

There's a good railway connection to other places on the South Coast, and Dawlish Warren has a good beach & nature reserve, though it is a bit 'downmarket' close to the car parks with lots of holiday flats, funfair etc.

Good base for Dartmoor/South Devon Coast.

PasturesNew

One nice thing about being away is .... you get a fried breakfast cooked every morning :0

Been up since 5am ...... killing time until 8.30, which is breakfast time.



I think this last 10 minutes is passing slower than the previous 3+ hours

John_Pierpoint

I've been too busy to keep up with the events on this thread, but I thought I would share this moment with you:

The BBC World Service is still producing good stuff in spite of being hived off onto us licence fee payers.

I have been listening to this programme - repeated on digital radio at lunch time and then on i-player.

The last item in the 20 minute programme explained how to gather a following and get paid for hiding advertising disguised as editorial in your postings. I expect PN can explain better than I, but does anyone know what the rate would be for "corrupting" the nice people thread?

John :wave:


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