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

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

So far this week have read th kindle book, a hardback and a paper back. I definitely am a paper back girl nut pink whistley likes a hard back. Cover your eyes lemonjelly, but she spent today liking and bitiong the top right hand corner of the hard book i was reading.

That happens a lot to a particular type of library book. It's always on how to train your dog. I can't tell you the number of times you find bite marks on books on training your dog. It is very frequent.

fc123

misskool wrote: »

good luck nikki and chewie for jobs.

good luck from me too

PasturesNew wrote: »

I must be doing something wrong... he's just a lad who works in a shop ... maybe he's a gigolo.

Maybe he inherited a lot of it and just uses things as normal (like the solid silver teaspoons)...my mothers is a bit like that as she decided rather than have 'special' things locked away, may as well use them as they were intended......so yes at my mothers you will drink tea out of some rare fine china handpainted Georgian tea cup, stir it with a silver spoon and wipe your mouth with a hand crafted lace napkin made in 1800 by nuns.
She dealt in antiques post age 50 so picked up all sorts of stuff that she ended up keeping instead of selling.

*Excited* just got equestrian para for mon 3rd sept + athletcs finals (para 100m etc final etc) for tues pm 4th sept.

I got several so taking mother and step-dad down to Greenwich + brother, his kids and my dad on the tuesday. We will travel by cable car to other side of river then on to Stratford

got back from Romania 5pm today and we are too old to miss a nights sleep as we used Mon all night to travel.
It was a fascinating trip and I appreciate UK + London all the more now. I have only been to St Petes Russia before but no other Eastern Bloc countries. We also went to a town (rather than a major city) and the crumbling concrete blocks of flats are something else.
I'll update tomo ...wheezy did a tour but I can't find the post which said where he went.

The 5 hour car journey from Bucharest @ 5am Tues when we landed was tough as the drivers car kept over heating....but the driver back this morning did it in 2 and half hours but we didn't think we would live. OH was white throughout the journey as his driving was boderline kamikaze.

Good luck with the house decorating Silvercar.

zagubov

PN, as you're in rented accommodation for a time have you looked into getting a slow cooker or one of those Remoska cookers there's a major thread on in the other forums..
Don't have one myself but it might tick a few boxes.

Got to be healthier and cheaper than takeaways!:A

And thus ends the sermon according to St Zag who's going back to watching "breaking Bad".:cool:

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

There is a fab art programme on bbc atm. I wonder if i dare paint a ceiling lapis lazuli blue.

Is that the one about the 3 colours? I think BBC4.
Going to watch that on catch up at some point.

PN have you discovered the pause button so you can pause live TV, then wait and watch without the ads?

lostinrates

Yes fc, that pne. But i missed the one on white.

Also, shhh...but the blue one at least was a little inaccurate imo.

Nikkster

Lir, there is a hospital with a pianist on newsnight. Not so far from you either...

lostinrates

Re slow cookers, i am going to do a pn and moan about the plight of the single cook.

Unlike pn i am happy and able to cook a meal for one, primarily thanks to the freezer. I know that slow cookers come in different sizes but ours is massive, and all the ones i have seen are too big for one meal (but could be part of a batch cook regimen when pn gets her pwn place and a freezer.

Finally....i have only cooked one thing out of the darn thing i half liked. Some how the flavours seem to musdy in a way they do do if i put in in the cooker or stove or hob top for a long slow cook, and the liquid seems to emerge from no where to make a horrid texture. One uses more pots, because meat really still needs to be browned (the depressing look of unbrowned meat in the slowcooker made me feel a bit ill) So more washing up.

I do plan to give it another fo this winter, but after three goes if i cannot make it work its on its way out of my house.

zagubov

fc123 wrote: »

*Excited* just got equestrian para for mon 3rd sept + athletcs finals (para 100m etc final etc) for tues pm 4th sept.


The 5 hour car journey from Bucharest @ 5am Tues when we landed was tough as the drivers car kept over heating....but the driver back this morning did it in 2 and half hours but we didn't think we would live. OH was white throughout the journey as his driving was boderline kamikaze.

Good luck with the house decorating Silvercar.

Sounds like when DW got tickets. Will check!
We had a crazy taxi journey across Crete when the travel company c0cked up our tour pickup and worked wonders to help us rejoin it.

I take it OH was like me, daft enough to sit in the "booby seat" inthe front. Well, more fool me for thinking londoners just close their eyes and "use the Force" when driving.

I spotted pdq how scary driving is in countries where the driver answers his mobile while driving and also needs his hands free to make unobservable hand gestures to the caller who can't see diddy-squat!

Now let's guess how many hands that leaves on the driving wheel of the car in the fast lane.:eek:

If I could have flicked his phone out of the car without him noticing..........:D

vivatifosi

Have been on the internet for the past 50 minutes trying to get tix. Have managed to get a single ticket for closing ceremony. Have told DH he can go so he has the full set. I am a nice wife.

There are tix still available (poss not for closing) for people willing to persist.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

PN, as you're in rented accommodation for a time have you looked into getting a slow cooker or one of those Remoska cookers there's a major thread on in the other forums..
Don't have one myself but it might tick a few boxes.

Got to be healthier and cheaper than takeaways!:A

And thus ends the sermon according to St Zag who's going back to watching "breaking Bad".:cool:

I'm only in this one for a month, then moving.... the trouble is, that as a lodger, you really need to scope the place out first before you start altering somebody else's home.... like bringing in major appliances. Also, as a lodger, you only get one designated freezer drawer (if there's a freezer) and one fridge shelf, so you can't be cooking lots of stuff and having stuff in the fridge/freezer as you'd run out of space. Also, with a total of 2 wallcupboards at the next place (most of which I won't be able to reach as I'm too short....) I'd not have room for anything beyond the basic cooking gear I've already got.

I am on takeaways at the moment as the kitchen here's dinky, there's no freezer and I've probably got 1/3rd of a fridge shelf.... so I'm just thinking "it's only a month". I know at the next place the kitchen's 4x bigger (probably 6'x8'), with room to cook and 1 fridge shelf and a freezer drawer.... these are regular under-counter fridge/freezers, not sure if you NP remember those things, pre-your-big-American-walk-in-fridge/freezer-days