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

PasturesNew

The trouble with "first come, first served" off-road parking is ... once parked, you daren't move as you'll lose your slot.

Trying to juggle a takeaway pick up with a bus timetable's not likely to be successful either.... went to bed hungry last night (aches), might go to bed hungry tonight (laziness).

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I reckon I'll be safe to drive in a few hours...

I don't...

Doozergirl

I decided to set up a reward pot for DD. She decorated it last night. She earns pieces of pasta for certain behaviours. She decided what behaviours are worth what number of pasta pieces. So things that she doesn't mind doing she naturally allocates less reward to. Then we worked out what she wanted and how many points those items might be worth.

All written down in gold pen, ready to refer to. Tidying up her room is actually split into about 10 tasks. If she does them all, she could earn 21 points.

If she goes on silver on the zone board at school I said she could have 5 points, gold and she gets 10.

So, she was really excited about it, set off to make her bed (1) and tidy her teddies (1) bearing in mind that her room is a bomb site (I have previously posted pictures on the flylady thread). She claimed 3 for sweeping, although I'd already sweot up and she just came in and put it in a dustpan and brush. She tried to claim 1 point for clearing under the sofa, but I did that yesterday, so it hardly counts!

She has informed me that she plans to go on gold 10 times at school to earn the roller skates she wants and doesn't intend to do any more house work, despite there only being a week left in school.

Shrug.

DS s considerably older, I looked at him when he sad he wanted to do it too, but he's actually embraced it. His room is much easier to clean so aside from making bed, dusting room, putting clothes away, we put things that help me more on his list - popping to the shop (2), walking the dog (4), taking out the recycling (1), cleaning the sink (1), bath (2), shower (3) toilet (3).

Only thing is that he's set himself a target of an iPhone4S. Something tells me he might get bored before he earns that much!

I'd have earned a lot of pasta pieces today if I was doing it too. I'm wondering if it's worth doing my own one to show DD what she's missing out on (champagne and donuts, I suspect)

Doozergirl

Oh, something's happening I think. One of my slippers just came flying out of her room!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Doozergirl wrote: »

She earns pieces of pasta for certain behaviours. She decided what behaviours are worth what number of pasta pieces.

Quite right too.

All children should have to earn their food.

But surely pasta is spoiling them? I'd have gone for gruel myself....

I'm wondering if it's worth doing my own one to show DD what she's missing out on (champagne and donuts, I suspect)

Way to go rubbing it in...:D

vivatifosi

QUOTE=PasturesNew;54489821Fruit.... not tried exotic stuff. Nor me really

pineapple - love it, it's ok, just ok...
bananas - I eat a lot of these I only like as fritters with ice cream:o
coconut - yummy
grapes - love them; prefer the green/seedless ones to the black ones same here!
strawberries - love them as long as they have flavour. Love the wild ones.
pomegranates - used to grow in my back garden, haven't really eatn since.
oranges - tend to drink the juice rather than eat the fruit.
tangerines/similar - always bought at Xmas, nice. Agree
rhubarb - I'll eat stewed or in rhubarb crumble, so anyhow really same here.
gooseberries - not keen, they're sharp and I don't like the hairs
apricots, peaches, nectarines, - not really keen, so would give them a miss raw.... but if they were in a cooked dessert I'd eat them same here
plums - don't like
apples - nice in a crumble. Tend to be a bit big raw, get bored half way through one. I don't mind them in curries. Same here, I think I'm trning into you Pastures.
pears - not overly keen, skins often look rank and they're so juicy it gets everywhere same again!
grapefruit - don't mind.
most melons - I love melon, esp watermelon
cherries - yuk. The devil's own fruit.
mango, papaya - never had - quite nice, but I don't like sticky fruit as its messy.
mangosteens, rambutans - never tried
lychees - can't eat them as I think they look like eyeballs.

mystic_trev

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fruit.... not tried exotic stuff.

I'll eat any fruit except the dreaded Durian:eek: I bet most of you have never heard of it,you can't buy it here, but it's very popular in SE Asia. The smell can put most people off it, which is why it's banned from most Hotels etc.

This best sums it up :rotfl:

... its odor is best described as pig-!!!!!!, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away.

michaels

DW and I played it as a duet but then got stuck on the last bar, perhaps a trio of NP could play it for us to get the tune?

GDB2222 wrote: »

This is on your website, but it's kind of hard to play.

All fruits are great...except for Bananas of course.

mystic_trev wrote: »

I'll eat any fruit except the dreaded Durian:eek: I bet most of you have never heard of it,you can't buy it here, but it's very popular in SE Asia. The smell can put most people off it, which is why it's banned from most Hotels etc.

This best sums it up :rotfl:

We missed out the karaoke/x-factor, a few of the games and the ice-cream bar but I think a good time was had by all, certainly none was ready to go home. I am now sittign down. DKs want to go for a cycle ride as it has finally stopped raining but I have to admit to having put on the TV and I think they are also on the rugs having realised they have run out of steam. I got back from Sains at 1AM this morning

Now we have 18 hours to clear up and sort out before the Spanish students arrive, apparently 'Sunday Afternoon' meant 1PM wanting lunch not the 5PM I had imagined...

We have had minus one present for particularly naughty behaviour of late for DD1 who is a teenager of 8, it is going to be less effective now the party is over DW who went to bed after 11 before I went to Sains got up at 4 this morning to go to the Next sale...crazy

lostinrates

Glad it went well michaels!

I could murder a salad but have not been out for fresh stuff. .

I swear out stuff is breeding! I have a HUGE pile to sort through this evening, just looking at it is exhaustiong me.

lostinrates

Ok, while on food how are np on olives, e.g. If np were eating a vegetarian pizza with no mushrooms, would capers and olives be ok? If its been on it and people do not like will they pick off what they do not like?

I am trying to devise food diverse tastes enjoy atm