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

mystic_trev

PasturesNew wrote: »

I know when clotted cream is sent through the post they pack it inside polystyrene to try to keep it cool long enough to arrive.

.......in time to clog up your arteries:eek:

lostinrates

mystic_trev wrote: »

.......in time to clog up your arteries:eek:

Dh once tried to take a tray of that back top italy woth him, thinking it would be allowed as not a liquid , but they said no, so he stood at the entry to airside eating a whole tray of it, washing it down with the full cream milk he knew he would have to drink at the gate anyway. Later he thought he was having a heart attack.

vivatifosi

Went to see the torch too. It was fun. Had to laugh at the old Lloyds TSB bus. Maybe that's all they can afford given they are taxpayer owned. (Not my pic):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdurston2009/7289191740/

One of my old school friend's sons was running in Hatfield today. Another neat backstory.

Screwed up though, the place we were going to stand near our house wasn't actually on the route, it was on the route between routes. So we watched it from Hemel Tesco instead.

michaels

Did you notice they have only fixed the potholes in the half of the dual carriageway in Hemel that the torch took, other direction remains as rubbish as ever :mad:

Builders turned up at 3PM long after we had decided they weren't coming so then we rushed around removing remaining things from cupboards, went to watch torch for about 45 mins and found they had started knocking down all the walls when we got back without having bothered to dustsheet the tv or sofas (which we thought they would move in to the garage before they started anyway but which they decieded they would work around. So now we are living in a 12x13 room which is lounge plus dining room and the utility area is our kitchen. Also no hob despite a freecycle request so tonight is oven chips and fish fingers and salad. Don't know what we will do tomorrow

Students room is now empty but not yet polyfilled or the new plaster sanded ready for painting, let alone painted - but I have made cupcakes for DD to take to school for her birthday tonight. Present wrapping is some time after the kids are asleep this evening...

vivatifosi wrote: »

Screwed up though, the place we were going to stand near our house wasn't actually on the route, it was on the route between routes. So we watched it from Hemel Tesco instead.

chewmylegoff

mystic_trev wrote: »

.......in time to clog up your arteries:eek:

I think clotted with warm chocolate brownies (not brownies with clotted cream) is my favourite thing in the whole wide world.

Apart from lager.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I think clotted with warm chocolate brownies (not brownies with clotted cream) is my favourite thing in the whole wide world.

Apart from lager.

I orefer my brownies cold, three days after they are baked, but still sticky and deadly. I make really good brownies.:D

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

Did you notice they have only fixed the potholes in the half of the dual carriageway in Hemel that the torch took, other direction remains as rubbish as ever :mad:

I didn't notice, will have to have a look next time I drive on that stretch. There was a big bit missing between the two lanes though, people were saying "hope she doesn't drop the torch down there". A sort of long, thin pothole, like they didn't join the bits together properly when they laid the two lanes.

vivatifosi

Welcome to July. Per Countryfile: sleet on high ground this week..

PasturesNew

There's lots of veggies I've never had. I was brought up eating a lot of veg because we used to grow a lot of veg.... but that was "bog standard 60s/70s veg".

I like: potatoes, swede, parsnip, turnip, carrots, peas, asparagus, sweetcorn, brussels, cabbage, cauliflower, french dwarf beans, onions, beetroot, peppers, brocolli,. I like sweet potato but I've only had it once. I'd like most dried beans too, and chickpeas.

I don't like: broad beans old green beans, mushrooms, courgettes, aubergines, celery. I don't like the idea of lentils as mum used to put orange ones into the pressure cooker with a hock of salty ham... looked disgusting.....

Never had: fennel, marrow, artichoke, spinach, avocado, pumpkin

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

the blondies are in.

To my knowledge I've never had those.... don't even know what they are.