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

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I know, but it suits me as I dont want to get married so I'm not going to reinvigorate the debate. I think she is saving her bullets for the "i want to buy a house now" and the "I want babies now" debates which are both imminent!

A couple of regulars on the mortgage board always comment that it is easier to extract yourself from a marriage than from a joint house purchase!

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

If not a ring, Tiffany does a lovely two rings interlocking necklace for about £200. Can't get to the UK site without it crashing, but it's this one:

http://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/Item.aspx?sku=22992139

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I know, but it suits me as I dont want to get married so I'm not going to reinvigorate the debate. I think she is saving her bullets for the "i want to buy a house now" and the "I want babies now" debates which are both imminent!

Maybe something from the tiffany keys range would be more appropriate.

Generali

If I'm cycling to work I'll have a pre-breakfast although I skip that if I'm driving/getting the bus. Then breakfast, mid-morning fruit, lunch, afternoon snack (fruit or cake), dinner then something like cheese and biccies or a tomato sandwich for supper.

It does me pretty well.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I know, but it suits me as I dont want to get married so I'm not going to reinvigorate the debate. I think she is saving her bullets for the "i want to buy a house now" and the "I want babies now" debates which are both imminent!

do you want babies and/or to buy a house with her?

lemonjelly

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lemonjelly

zagubov wrote: »

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

I have 5 (FIVE!!!) people with birthdays in December.:mad: Two of those are within 7 days of Christmas day.:eek:

It was six until a few years ago when my nan passed away...

misskool

Stuffed from turkey. 4 hours of cooking demolished in 40 minutes. 2 teenage boys do very short work with food.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Stuffed from turkey. 4 hours of cooking demolished in 40 minutes. 2 teenage boys do very short work with food.

from where did you acquire teenaged boys Missk?

did they chew or just swallow? I ended up making Nigella's port and stilton gravy, less ''subtle'' than what I would have done....and very punchy but very good.

I got some super foody books this week and I'm really looking forward to curling up and reading them greedily.

edit: including these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-Garden-Sinful-History-Forbidden/dp/0345440161

http://www.amazon.com/Feasting-Ancestors-Oswald-Rivera/dp/0750938366

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0091922348/?!!!!!googhydr-21&hvadid=6067877049&ref=pd_sl_1do04phoel_b

lemonjelly

misskool wrote: »

Stuffed from turkey. 4 hours of cooking demolished in 40 minutes. 2 teenage boys do very short work with food.

It ain't just teenage boys who do that to food...(burp...):o

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

do you want babies and/or to buy a house with her?

Dunno. At the moment I'm just being a typical male commitment-phobe. I think I do want to have kids eventually and obviously will buy a house again at some stage. However my current focus is on career and financial security rather than worrying about having children. It would mean a complete change of lifestyle and moving away from all our friends in the fairly near future in order to be somewhere where we could reasonably bring up children.

Basically I want to wait about 5 years but since she is about to turn 33 it is easy to see why that probably isnt going to happen. One of the most important things to try to sort out is that at the moment she expects to be able to take the kids to australia to see her family twice a year for two weeks at a time. So basically our whole life would be going to work, saving money and accruing holiday in order to fly to Australia twice a year.

I am not doing that...