Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

misskool

no to mushy peas too.


Anyone else feel like it's autumnal today? I'm not in the mood to go in the garden and there are loads to do

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

no to mushy peas too.


Anyone else feel like it's autumnal today? I'm not in the mood to go in the garden and there are loads to do

Its felt autumnal most of summer. The wet earth smell only misses that leaf mold smell. Even smoke has whispered in the air as peeps have had burners on all summer.

My garden is a total, total mess. I am ashamed of it this year, but ....at least gardens can be reclaimed. The really gutting thing is the amount of blackspot on my roses. I have a lovely white rose called winchester cathedral whose leaves are almost totally black. The desease resistant roses are clearly showing the benefits of their breeding this year.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

My garden is a total, total mess. I am ashamed of it this year, but ....at least gardens can be reclaimed. The really gutting thing is the amount of blackspot on my roses. I have a lovely white rose called winchester cathedral whose leaves are almost totally black. The desease resistant roses are clearly showing the benefits of their breeding this year.

Mine too:(. I bought a garden fork three weeks ago to dig out the nettles and it has sat unused since. Twice this year, twice, I've managed to mow the lawn.

lostinrates

I like peas in every way i have eaten them, including muchy peas. Wasabi peas sometimes leave me a bit breathless, but the ones that are not TOO aggressive i like.

Also, i have been craving susho a lot lately but never add wasabi now, I just lost the taste for it a few years ago.


We have almost emptied the wreck rooms for thie nice builders. Just the dogs sofas and the kitchen to go, which looks like tomorrows job. The two rooms we have kept are chocablock. I think the nice builders will have the garden room and temp kitchen ok for us to move some stuff back there next weekend, so by the weekend after we should be in our summer normality and ready to have a good old relax.

lostinrates

Oh the lawn...grr...the lawn mower has slipped the drivebelt now...grrr. I am hoping dh has time to fix it for me this weekend, as it looks like a crop of docks out there. Just going out to feed geese we get soaked as the grass has to be waded through.

I am beginning ro think i might get trench foot as i seem wet from the knee down at least for ages every day. (i like to not wear boots in summer and have three very disrepuatble pairs of daps/plimsoles instead.....damp, wet and wettest,)

misskool

are the builders there until the weekend after?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

are the builders there until the weekend after?

The builders are here for three months or so!

Life goes on, i will have a temp kitchen by then and i certainly do not expect me to stop having people to visit or getting on with life generally. As we will be having phases through the years i think getting into the habit of not enjoying weekends with friends for example, to be a poor lifestyle choice!


We have space, because as i was saying to dh, were we to have a big party and it rains then there is an empty barn where chairs and tables could be put if need be, but hipefully the sun will come out again, or at least the rain go away, and the four downstairs rooms we are keeping (after the forst push)will allow us to use the house pretty much as normal with the back garden, so i don't think its reasonable for me to feel restricted by 'only' having four downstairs rooms!

We have a good Plan with the nice builders, who aren't local, that they plan to work four or four and a half day weeks, which means we will have nice clear weekends most of the time, and they get decent work life balance not unlike the way dh and i live...weekends at home.

The cats are going to be the main victims, as they will have to be confined upstairs on the working days.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

The Times has a list of torch bearers for each day. I can't see CK's name. Then I thought maybe it isn't his real name, but then I know he links his FB pictures often and they are named Chris.

Just searched the torch bearers website and there is a Chris Cannon (his FB name) but he's older and running on 16th July.

My thoughts were he said he has one in his boot ... now, I bet the runners don't get issued them ahead of the day, but on the spot .... so it must be there for some other reason, he's not a runner.

PasturesNew

Well, I went out in the rain, to get Ibuprofen among other things... got that, forgot the other things... damn.

Also picked up a cozzie and had a 10 minute dip in the pool.

Found an 'interesting' local shop, it's a franchise apparently - it's posh frozen ready meals. They stuck a leaflet in my hand, so I can tell you it's .... http://www.cookfood.net

Sitting here nekkid .... and thinking "I should have a big dress thing to lounge about on my bed after swimming"

PasturesNew

Mushy peas... when I was young mum'd steep dried peas overnight with a tablet of bicarb... and the next day they'd be boiled up .... and heated/re-heated for a few days.

Back then chipshops did the same sort. Nowadays most chippies do rubbish mushy peas... they're often just marrowfat/processed ones. So, now, I always keep a can of Harry Ramsden's Chip Shop Style Mushy Peas in the cupboard... he also does a Mushy Peas can which isn't any/much different if you can't spot the "chip shop style" ones. At 25-30p/can they're better and cheaper than what most chippies serve.