Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I had a croissant filled with pistachio cream once. It was heavenly. Heavenly. I have to admit, I like them, but I love the way they look more. I make a nice risotto with pistachios on the top, just cos they look so damn good.



Dh was skyping with his sibling who didn't visit earlier and I am reminded how much new parents bore me. . I love babies, but like children more the older they get, and I find the whole wide eyed no one but us has ever felt this way as boring as I do when you g people discover lust. Or worse really, because by the time you have a baby you should know that those who don't have them aren't that intersted in seeing nappy contents over Skype.

:o

She is a cute baby though, and seems highly alert to the world around her for such a little'un.

We have friends who had their kids relatively late. They insist on boring us with every little detail and treat us like we haven't had kids of their own. Their latest trick is to post on facebook videos of their darlings (now aged 4 + 6) playing (loose terminology) the piano, then phoning us up to check we have watched it!

silvercar

Big fat quiz of the year in 30 mins

family event to watch together.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

We have friends who had their kids relatively late. They insist on boring us with every little detail and treat us like we haven't had kids of their own. Their latest trick is to post on facebook videos of their darlings (now aged 4 + 6) playing (loose terminology) the piano, then phoning us up to check we have watched it!

Drop 'em. Nobody needs annoying people like that around.... nobody.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Torn now, would like to see moon but had deided with dh to set the alarm clock for a more normal six am, to tr and ease in to routine again.

Hmmmmm. Hmmmmmm.

I think films are often on iplayer (thought that might not help you lir). I bet the dvd is quite cheap too - the film is a few years old.

Edit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002KCO6QA/
£3.75 from Amazon (you can make a tax overpayment if you feel guilty )

Spirit_2

Gen and Viva. Heartstrings tugged.

You epitomise the saying "the past is for learning from, not living in".

wageslave

I tend to agree with PN, I have unfriended half a dozen Facebook friends in the past few days.

You know the sort.. Here is a pic of me in my car, here is a pic of me walking to my office......

You end up feeling like a bit player in someone else's life.

lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

I tend to agree with PN, I have unfriended half a dozen Facebook friends in the past few days.

You know the sort.. Here is a pic of me in my car, here is a pic of me walking to my office......

You end up feeling like a bit player in someone else's life.

Not on Facebook.......for just that sort of reason. here the pixels I am friends with I know about,not just an anonymous friend. It's somewhat reciprocal.

I can take the baby thing for while. Dh's sibling always thought the world revolved around them, so expanding to include the baby is actually pretty phenominally impressive I think.

misskool

Anyone else watching documentary on Neil Armstrong? on BBC4 and fascinating.

I'm half watching as half working on interesting topics in science

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

After 8 hours of a non-signal on the telly today, I've just been poking about with the leads again (only the 100th time) ... and this time pressing the SCART lead in the back of the telly hard for 15 seconds seems to have generated a stable signal.

This telly lark these days is expensive. In the olden days you'd be lent a telly, plug it in and off you go. This lent telly so far has cost me: £17 freeview box, £10 SCART lead, £8 for alternative aerial lead. It's adding up!

Sorry PN but an 10 quid scart lead is a posh alert - they are a quid on ebay, probably could have got a freeview hd box with a scart lead thrown in for 20 quid on ebay/tesco outlet.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have old-fashioned nut-likes. Growing up, nuts meant: monkey nuts, salted peanuts and walnuts at Xmas ... as well as a raft of other nuts I am not sure about.... I know some were hazelnuts and brazils, but there was another oval/flat/pock-marked nut I've no idea what that was.

Almonds?

I got a reduced '3 nut roast Sains finest' down from 6 quid to 1.64. It is the first food i have bought from Sains that had 'red' in every segment of their traffic light nutrition circle.

Working tomorrow so bed time

lostinrates

Yes, michaels is right, they sound like almonds.


I fed the last of dh's bargain posh alert London food hall nuts to the birds this festive season. Nuts don't last forever, rancid nuts are just......shudder. So got rid of them before they could be bad for us or the birds. Fwiw, birds don't seem honoured they are eating the finest whoopsies in gb.