The Tougher Thread continues.....

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lillibet_dripping wrote: »

...... Do you remember him skinny-dipping in the sea on the separate ladies/gents beach? (think I need to get out more:o)

Ooh yes....I had it sved on the digibox but DH deleted it "by an accident" :cool:

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

I've planned my funeral & told all the family what I want, it includes the Shepherds duet for the coffin to be carried in, a few brief words, the hymn Jerusalem as I'm a WI member & Build me up Buttercup to finish.

I'm thinking of Bye Bye Baby or Dream a Little Dream to go out to but DH says he & my two sons will outvote me and play Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!!!!

My dad was in his words a "confirmed Agnostic" yet had a crem service lead by a Catholic priest, a C of E card-carrying Lodge member and a bacon-sandwich eating Jew....methinks he was hedging his bets!

ceridwen

Minihauk wrote: »

That would be great if we could collect our state pensions. When I started my working life it was expected that women would retire at 60. Now I am nearing that age the goalposts have been moved and I can't get my pension until just before my 65th birthday. I would really LOVE to be able to retire and enjoy leisure time, instead of tramping into London daily.

Thanks to all who contribute. This is a wonderful thread.:T

The thing is that we all of us know very well that a lot of people in the workforce today simply won't be replaced when we retire - it will be regarded by the employer as "natural wastage:D - another one gone:D" and that is where, I think, the problem lies. I think a lot of us are quite happy to pass "our" jobs over to the next generation - but we know they will "die with us" iyswim. When its put like that - then its almost a case of "Might as well keep the job as long as I like - because it will vanish when I retire anyway".

dronid

Apologies for my absence - work keeps dragging me away from interesting places like this one so I'll try to answer any questions as I come to them - Though it might appear a stream of me!

Frugal wrote: »

Dammit - all the good ones are taken :rotfl:
Welcome Dronid :wave:

Yes, that's probably true!

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Curses, got the book but it's in London on the top shelf of my cookery book Library :rotfl:!
HJ - do you think we should ask Dronid to go back and review the last few pages of the old thread?:o

Happy to have a look at the older stuff – or is there stuff in there to scare the males?

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Ooh Dronid, just seen your location - you lucky boy you, so close to the market (tho now been poncified out of all recognition imho, and V expensive!). But once was my fave place to while away a Friday lunchtime!

Borough Market. To be fair, these days, I don't touch it. It seems to have turned into a touristy/middle class parody of a Farmers Market like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afY4v0y4fL4 though the environment is a bit more interesting. And the prices are scary!

[QUOTE=JackieO;47672223
Dronid Many moons ago (around 1960)I worked in St Thomas's Street and we used to go to a pub called The Grapes around the corner to find dishy Docs from Guys Hospital is the pub still there I wonder([/QUOTE]

I think this is the one!
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/restaurants/info/138/the-bunch-of-grapes

mrsmuggy

Thanks for that advice Hobsons choice,i'll try that over the weekend

ceridwen

VJsmum wrote: »

I was thinking this today - the thread is like one long rambling conversation.

Wine did you say? Don't mind if I do

Well...actually the thought was put to me today in a PM that MSE probably really "values" this thread (ie the "Its Tough" thread in all its various incarnations) as a big "draw" to get peeps into MSE these days....I DID see the "funny side" of that one....:cool::rotfl::rotfl:

dronid

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Oh dear Kate, yes sounds like you and I are of the same vintage, give or take a year or two! I really have to resist the urge to go up to some of these boys and pull their trousers UP! Must be getting old .

Nope, you're not. They should pull up their trousers. It looks ghastly. The only joy is watching them have to run. The worst thing in London is the achingly fashionable twenty-something middle-upper class media types who now wear jeans that hang low around the nethers but have a purposely high waistband, not to show off their pants. It looks, well, it looks like this!

dronid

Draagonfly wrote: »

Evening all :hello: Mine's a large rum & cola please

Ahhh...my working week is done...& I have a week off work to look forward to:j

Planning on "pottering" about for the week doing a bit of what takes my fancy, hopefully some NSD's & maybe getting some Christmas prep done

My OS plan for the w/end is pot-roast brisket in the slow cooker for the first time....now I'm a rare beef cooking/noshing kinda gal whereas hubby, step-d & the in-laws all like theirs incinerated & like boot leather so I usually refuse to cook beef for a family get together...however I'm hoping that the slow-cooked pot roast will bring a compromise that will make us ALL happy

That'll be delicious. I tend to the rare beef kind of person but brisket works much better cooked long and slow and tastes superb. Also if you want to slice it for sandwiches, store it in a tub with the stock until it gets quite cold and it'll firm up perfectly (I like mine with horseradish or mustard and gherkin - though it's not corned beef).:)

Draagonfly

dronid wrote: »

That'll be delicious. I tend to the rare beef kind of person but brisket works much better cooked long and slow and tastes superb. Also if you want to slice it for sandwiches, store it in a tub with the stock until it gets quite cold and it'll firm up perfectly (I like mine with horseradish or mustard and gherkin - though it's not corned beef).:)

Thanks for the tip about storing it...I'll try it if the tribe don't nosh the lot...HUGE appetites hubbies family have!!!! :rotfl:

I was showing it to my Mum on SKYPE earlier...she said it looks like a lovely bit of meat so I'm hopeful that it'll do the job nicely:o

Mrs_Chip

Dronid

If you can find the old thread (can someone linky it?) - there are some 'interesting' pics if you go back several pages from the end - and Smileyt started it (tho she tried to get out of it!)

Last time I went to Borough Market it was hellish, on all fronts. I was a regular in the 90's just as the market started to grow and it was wonderful. Then all the celeb chefs got in on the act and well, killed it for lovers of the real place. Same happend to our favorite place on the coast, Whitstable, now too trendified for it's own good. God forbid that the chattering classes find their way down the M4 to west wales...

:rotfl:- you got it with the trews, exactly! I saw a cool looking black dude walking up Sydenham High St in trousers exactly like those - and he did look a proper nana! I bet he thought he looked real 'sick' - a term of approval, apparently?! As for the middle class while guys who wear them to look cool, well they just look like they have carped themselves!

Right to matters toughly OS - does anyone know how to keep cooked choux pastry products fresh - made a lovely batch of eclairs and profiteroles today, but they always go soft on me (no sniggers please ladies), I need to find a way to keep them to use later.

Nearly time for the lovely Hughes-Games!

Frugalista

oldtractor wrote: »

I had Jerusalem at my wedding.

Me too .