Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

chewmylegoff

Well not quite because there wasn't a single car on the road so I just drove around the caravan by going on the central reservation and carried on (there were already police there).

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Well not quite because there wasn't a single car on the road so I just drove around the caravan by going on the central reservation and carried on (there were already police there).

Everyone else's satnav told them to avoid the accident, so they were on windy lanes avoiding the motorway.

silvercar

Davesnave wrote: »

I was a bit disappointed to find that these need to be fixed to the ground. I rather fancied one suspended from one of the oak trees, preferably near the guy who doesn't like me looking through binoculars in his direction!:rotfl:

http://www.johnlewis.com/231124973/Product.aspx

£7.5k for a garden seat that you can use in wet weather!

You could put a deposit on a house for that!

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

I love choux pastry, even when it goes wrong. My moth used to sell cream puffs and profiteroles, so it reminds me of childhood. What are you making?

It worked :j

Saint Delia's recipe filled with Raymond Blanc's creme patisserie and topped with dark chocolate ganache.

Tasty.

I never knew I could make cream puff.

How's the biscuit making?

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

Everyone else's satnav told them to avoid the accident, so they were on windy lanes avoiding the motorway.

Nah it was up the a40, but there just wasnt anything on the road, the motorways were very light nothing on the M4 earlier and the M40/25/4 on the way back were also empty. Usually it's a complete nightmare getting back into London that way on the Monday evening of a bank holiday weekend.

PasturesNew

Following on from an earlier post re time travel....

Good programme just started on BBC4 - Inside the Medieval Mind. "The framework of the medieval class system, where inequality was part of the natural order and the life of serfs little better than those of animals"

Inequality was law.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

It worked :j

Saint Delia's recipe filled with Raymond Blanc's creme patisserie and topped with dark chocolate ganache.

Tasty.

I never knew I could make cream puff.

How's the biscuit making?

Done, in tins. Phew. Now waiting to see what dh makes of an experimental grapefruit meringue pie after supper. I have just realised i have been in the kitchen for almost two hours. For a couple of types of biccie and supper. What have i been doing all that time?:eek:

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Done, in tins. Phew. Now waiting to see what dh makes of an experimental grapefruit meringue pie after supper. I have just realised i have been in the kitchen for almost two hours. For a couple of types of biccie and supper. What have i been doing all that time?:eek:

That's the thing they all leave out .... the actual time it really takes to make these things and clear up after yourself.... usually too kn4ckered to even feel like facing food.

It's kind of why I don't bother. In 10 minutes flat I can be down Aldi and back having spent about £1.50 on some fab chocolate digestives and 3 individual cheesecakes.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the thing they all leave out .... the actual time it really takes to make these things and clear up after yourself.... usually too kn4ckered to even feel like facing food.

It's kind of why I don't bother. In 10 minutes flat I can be down Aldi and back having spent about £1.50 on some fab chocolate digestives and 3 individual cheesecakes.

Yep. I have nt been very organised though, really. If i were cooking 'properly' more regularly i would be more efficient. I don't know how much of that time has been supper ( three courses) and how much is stuff i would have been better doing on a weekday. I normally would not 'waste' weekend time baking for weektime visitors, and if tomorrow were not drive to station day i would have baked over morning coffee/ breakfast instead.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Yep. I have nt been very organised though, really. If i were cooking 'properly' more regularly i would be more efficient. I don't know how much of that time has been supper ( three courses) and how much is stuff i would have been better doing on a weekday. I normally would not 'waste' weekend time baking for weektime visitors, and if tomorrow were not drive to station day i would have baked over morning coffee/ breakfast instead.

We never had 3 courses at home. Never. Not even on Xmas Day. Most ever was two courses - we sometimes had an "afters" as we called it, but not every day,

I've probably encountered a 3 course meal just 2-3x in my life .... and I've no idea how people manage three courses. One's usually enough for me.