Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

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.

Plus ca change.

We had a little friend to play with DD1 and they decided they wanted pancakes but by the time we had bought some lemons and tidied up the after effects of DS putting the fork in to the mixing bowl whilst DD was running the hand mixer, friend's mum arrived to collect her leaving us to eat the pancakes and it was quite late so in effect we started with afters then had michaels's simple beef stew which somehow seemed the right choice given the weather of late.

PN I also agree with you re excessive courses, and the effect is exaggerated in poncey restaurants where I always arrive hungry preferring to eat between 6 and 7 rather than 8 so then eat the entire bread basket whilst waiting for the starter, eat the starter and then find by 9PM just as the main is coming that I am done for the night.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

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.

One should be enough for any one really. I guess the food is different and meals take longer. I like to make sure dh always has two courses, even if one is cheese, and prefer to yive him three. If nothing else he won't be able to run off with another woman, merely waddle till his tummy starts rumbling when he will turn and head back for supper......:D

E.g. Tonight we had three courses, little smoked haddock fishcakes, one each, with lemon and some cucumber salad, then 0 humble mac and cheese (i made one hundred grams of pasta each, but there is a lot left, so well under a 'portion' of pasta each, more like a starter portion, and we ate that with salad, and then he is having pud, i am not. Dh did think aboput having mopre pasta, but he is too keen to have pie (taking a break between courses and moved into the sitting room now). Supper can take hours though!

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I can confirm that it rained all the way to my parents house, then thunderstorm whilst we were there, and then there was a jackknifed caravan blocking the road on the way back. I must win something for my earlier prediction.

Did they brew up some tea and invite everyone in for a cuppa?

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Plus ca change.

We had a little friend to play with DD1 and they decided they wanted pancakes but by the time we had bought some lemons and tidied up the after effects of DS putting the fork in to the mixing bowl whilst DD was running the hand mixer, friend's mum arrived to collect her leaving us to eat the pancakes and it was quite late so in effect we started with afters then had michaels's simple beef stew which somehow seemed the right choice given the weather of late.

PN I also agree with you re excessive courses, and the effect is exaggerated in poncey restaurants where I always arrive hungry preferring to eat between 6 and 7 rather than 8 so then eat the entire bread basket whilst waiting for the starter, eat the starter and then find by 9PM just as the main is coming that I am done for the night.

Ah, the trick in restarants is....not to have bread. Unless its special i tell 'em to take it away if they bring it. Why waste space and calories on bread? We usually don't go out til too late though, say eight thirty or nine, which has other problems, goung to bed too full is horrid and i start to get very sleepy half way through supper:o

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

PN I also agree with you re excessive courses, and the effect is exaggerated in poncey restaurants where I always arrive hungry preferring to eat between 6 and 7 rather than 8 so then eat the entire bread basket whilst waiting for the starter, eat the starter and then find by 9PM just as the main is coming that I am done for the night.

I've only ever once had bread offered (for free) in a restaurant. It was an Italian and they delivered these squidgy dough balls..... scoffed those down!!!

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Ah, the trick in restarants is....not to have bread. Unless its special i tell 'em to take it away if they bring it. Why waste space and calories on bread? We usually don't go out til too late though, say eight thirty or nine, which has other problems, goung to bed too full is horrid and i start to get very sleepy half way through supper:o

That's true, but as we only ever have sliced Hovis here, when I get offered a chunk of fresh from the oven bloomer, I can't resist. Today I went out for lunch with my absolutely wonderful m-i-l. I had a grilled haloumi salad with ginger and sesame seeds and leaf salad which was gorgeous, but by the time I'd scoffed two slices of fresh bloomer I only managed 2/3rds of the salad and no room for pud:o.

misskool

mmm....fresh baked bread.

Anyone going to the great escape in Brighton this week?

chewmylegoff

I always eat the bread. Because (a) I am a human dustbin and (b) bread and butter is one of my favourite foods.

If they keep refilling the bread I will keep eating it.

vivatifosi

Global warming? Blame the dinosaurs...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/07/dinosaur_flatulence_warmed_earth/

I love this story, it's the sort of science that kids love. Plus of course big kids like me.

Spirit_2

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

Saw one in JL on Saturday. The only thing I could say about it is "why?"

It is like being trapped in a booth in a dodgy 70's disco. To be of any real use it would need to be twice the size. Suitable only for thin people so they fit between the bench and the table, ideally with stooped posture to pitch them over the table and reduce the frequency of bumping their heads.

I am sure most people have houses they could sit in if the weather is the reason for needing one of these.