Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

GDB2222

PN, I triangulated the extra distance info you gave me, and I've discovered that you are on an oil rig orbiting Venus. Amazing that your broadband connection works so well.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

PN, I triangulated the extra distance info you gave me, and I've discovered that you are on an oil rig orbiting Venus. Amazing that your broadband connection works so well.

I am bouncing the signal off the ionosphere, which is currently possible due to the recent exceptional solar flares that've been spouting out in your universe.

Brallaqueen

PasturesNew wrote: »

I cannot BELIEVE the amount of people who say they're having to look up Pearly Kings and Queens!!! Gobsmacked isn't the word.

They're as much part of being English as having a Queen and eating fish and chips at the seaside!!

Can I use in my defence the fact my parents are Irish? Granted, I was born here but surely it is mitigating circumstances

I luff dried skimmed milk, 1.01 a bag at Sainsbobs and it makes loads and loads and lasts a lot longer than the regular stuff. can't drink proper milk now, it tastes thick and oily, so Mum gets it in special for me.

I do love this thread, lots of interesting people and I get to learn new stuff every day so thanks for being such awesome peeps :T

PasturesNew

Brallaqueen wrote: »

Can I use in my defence the fact my parents are Irish? Granted, I was born here but surely it is mitigating circumstances

No. No excuses.... this is PEARLY KING AND QUEEN we're talking about here!!

Brallaqueen wrote: »

I luff dried skimmed milk, 1.01 a bag at Sainsbobs and it makes loads and loads and lasts a lot longer than the regular stuff. can't drink proper milk now, it tastes thick and oily, so Mum gets it in special for me.

Growing up, I loved school milk (except when it was frozen and the silvertops had popped up by 1-2" on a stalk of frozen milk .... that'd be thawed by the time we got our bottles. They were fab bottles too, little 1/3rd of a pint ones or so.

I dislike watery milk, which is why I don't use milk powders. I've tried powders in making angel delight though and that works OK.

Brallaqueen wrote: »

I do love this thread, lots of interesting people and I get to learn new stuff every day so thanks for being such awesome peeps :T

Mostly, what I don't already know, I'm not interested in

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Thank you LIR (is your middle name wikipedia?)

At the front of the house and not that far away we need to be careful with how much roots and how big it will grow to - for example when I was growing up we had a 80 foot tulip tree in the garden so that would probably not suit...

Our favourite apples are royal Gala but I worry whether fruiting hybrids are as robust and I also don't really understand about the pollination class thing. Being on the edge of town we also do get some fairly low temperatures so that needs to be considered.

The thing with royal galas is i presume they can be bought cheaply to eat? Better to plant things expensive to buy. Any of the fruit trees will be ok near the house. So would the liquid amber and burnt sugar tree.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Aww. Thanks sss. I think I talk how I post - but ask lir, because she's met me. My own perception is that my RL self is pretty much like my online persona but with a better sense of humour. I don't seem to be able to do humour without non-verbal cues, and that frustrates me online.

He seems nice so far, but I am not making any decisions in a hurry. I'm arranging to meet one of the others soon, too. He seems nice as well.



I have tea, coffee, whisky (single malt), port and gin, none of which I drink, but am happy to keep in the house because, as GDB points out, they're not perishable. So I still get caught out when I want to offer people tea/coffee and haven't got any milk. Since I don't drink tea or coffee, and don't think much of cereal, and my kids prefer their cereal without milk and won't drink milk, in our family milk is just a cooking ingredient. I buy it if I know I am planning to cook something that needs it, or (if I remember) when I know somebody will be coming round who might want tea/coffee. Hardly anybody ever drinks any of the booze, though. They aren't here at the right time of day to want some, or they're driving, or usually both. Some of it I bought for visitors, but some came from LNE's booze cupboard when I cleared his house.

You are the same but better still in real life. .

How do you all get calcium?

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

If only we could teleport each other a drink....



Lir's would be herbal with a hint of jasmin

Viva's would be well researched, thought out and practical

Dave's would include a fried banana skin

zag's would have a drop of Scotch in it

Lydia's would be technically awesome

wheezy's would include a Belgium chocolate

michael's would be teleported on a 2 for 1 deal through top cash back

PN's would be black coffee, no sugar in a plastic cup

And Gen's would arrive upside down and spill everywhere




I'll leave the rest of TNP for another time

That sounds lovely thank you. Atm my favourite tea is cardamon tea. Its just a normal black tea but woth cardomon in it, but delicious and refreshing. I like cardomon a lot, i have it warm skimmed milk in the evenings sometimeS because its guilt free but smells less puritanical than inpt is.

My very faorite tea is a twinings not available in uk (whihc suggests its one of those they make in eastern europe). It too is a black tea this time with coconut in it.

My best morning 'tea' is an infusion of some fresh rosemary and hot water, some times a lemopn wedge. Its very good for breath, and feels clean and light. But it is difficult when i am taking a whole host of pills, because i need to have them with food (or milk).

Edit, when its nice weathe i like rose tea.

lostinrates

The thing that amzes me is how many people cannot have watched mary poppins with julie andrews, as that has a perly king and queen in it, when they are in the chalk painting riding the carosel horses and having tea with penguins.

zagubov

sss555s wrote: »

If only we could teleport each other a drink....

zag's would have a drop of Scotch in it

That'll be the very thing!:D:beer:

lostinrates wrote: »

You are the same but better still in real life. .

How do you all get calcium?

We all inject ourselves daily, of course! Otherwise our bones would all crumble like digestives dunked in our favourite tea.;)

lostinrates

Brallaqueen, i prefer skimmed milk too. I buy that for me, we get the other sort from the cow. (which means visitors get skimmed because i cannot serve unpasturised milk) . I like cream, but not in my milk. Its a shame because full fat milk is actually not a high fat food.