Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

What is/are nabs? Google suggests "nabs" in an educational context refers to something Scottish. Are you in Scotland? I'm not, I'm afraid.

Ours were just our usual mock papers -

Yes they sound the same and yes Scotland. Gawd knows why they call them different things and the results system is pretty complicated from what i was used to.

Spirit wrote: »

Dear all the S's. The Snow Queen has been in touch with me and commanded you to join my daughter and my husband to dig her car out from where I got it stuck yesterday.

It is on a verge at the bottom of a U shaped bit of road with steep hills either side of it.

There will be opporunities for digging and pushing.

Last time my husband got a car stuck near there it was 3 days befoe we could di it out, today id not so bad but more snow due tomorrow so tehy are going this morning.

Ok I'll parachute in, deal with any foes and save the day, again.

Only problem is I have quite a checkered record with cars and they usually end up in flames or riddled with bullet holes at best.

005 would have been a better bet to carry out your task but he's been called to some kerfuffle in Algeria.

I'll whatsapp him and see how long he is going to be...

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got some Ibuprofen I bought some months ago, no paracetamol.

I've no honey and no lemon juice - they aren't things I've ever bought.

I rely on the thoroughly unreliable and discredited homeopathic remedy of consuming food that encourages sweating and a feeling of heat. In other words I use colds/fevers as an excuse for cooking myself a vindaloo. Notr sure if it always deals with the symptoms but it's worth trying even if it doesn't.:beer:

Take care and have the ibuprofen, Pn

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Ibuprofen is fine. Take 2 tablets (standard adult dose). I think they are 200mg tablets.

Just checked ... and took 2. I only had 3, so now I've only got 1 left

I bought them last year, never bought tablets before but I was getting headaches.... so they're not something I usually have in.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

... excuse for cooking myself a vindaloo. ... it's worth trying even if it doesn't.:beer:

Not sure what's in a vindaloo ... but I do know I don't have any of the ingredients.



I did buy a small pot of hot curry powder the other day and a pot of chilli powder. That's my lot.

I've got crisps, muffins, naan breads, bread rolls, spuds, onions, mushy peas, beans, noodles, rice, cheese, tinned tomatoes and some individual cheesecakes

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Well I'm on the plane at gatwick and have been for 45 mins. They just said we might be able to take off in an hour! The problem is at Grenoble apparently, although since they haven't finished de-icing the plane yet I'm not convinced! Not sure why they haven't finished as the plane has 2 inches of snow all over it so it was clearly here all day yesterday as it didn't snow overnight.

Yay, we're home. We parked up at Gatwick and had to walk over that tall bridge designed for A380s to pass underneath. Coming across that, departures are on a different level. We did see a plane heading off skiing, but when I had a good look and saw that George Clooney wasn't there, thought that chewy must be on a different plane, the above confirms it as we arrived at just after 9am.

House is freezing. Reading in the kitchen is a massive 6 degrees. Have put the heating on but the joy of E10 is that they don't come on for another hour, so sitting here with boost on in lounge but trying to heat the whole house from it is pretty pitiful. I have decided that we need to upgrade the storage heaters to something that has a panel that we can log into from abroad and switch on the day before we come back.

Generali

Is it just me or has this board gone from slowly dying to being quite busy of late?

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Is it just me or has this board gone from slowly dying to being quite busy of late?

It'll always die when I can't get online ... once reinstated my fans come flocking back and chatter

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

Brilliant! I'd still have been procrastinating about it all weekend. You really are a marvel, Lydia!

Thank you!

I had to invigilate an exam at school - just an internal exam so invigilators allowed to do marking as long as we keep looking up and around every few seconds (which is a lot easier when marking physics than it would be with an essay subject). So I got started while invigilating, and then I'd got the bit between my teeth and wanted to see the final results and how my set compared with the others once I'd got my marks onto the system.

I have dreadful problems with procrastination, but they're mostly to do with getting started. Keeping going once I've begun is not so much of a difficulty for me - at least, it isn't for desk work. Housework, OTOH, I can procrastinate both by not getting started and by keeping stopping. The only time I get on with housework promptly is when I am using it as an excuse for not writing reports for school.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not sure what's in a vindaloo ... but I do know I don't have any of the ingredients.



I did buy a small pot of hot curry powder the other day and a pot of chilli powder. That's my lot.

I've got crisps, muffins, naan breads, bread rolls, spuds, onions, mushy peas, beans, noodles, rice, cheese, tinned tomatoes and some individual cheesecakes

Ypu could make a hot potato /veg curry. (I'd use the onions, tinned toms and the pots (which I would leave as wedges). Potato curries are delicious.

I wish I had stuff in for curry now!

We are having a middle eastern inspired chicken and rice meal topnight.

vivatifosi

I think it goes in cycles gen depending on the amount of economic/house price news. There's a lot of news at the moment on problems on the high street so its in a lot of people's minds.

I have a question for you if I may gen. I heard that the price of cigarettes in Australia has gone up to $20 a pack. In the in-flight duty free brochure I also noted that the duty free allowance to bring into Australia is now 50 cigarettes or 1 pack of rolling tobacco. Are the duty free measures new to come in line with the more stringent cigarette pricing?

It's interesting I think as it is so hard to bring cigarettes in from a second country. It's not as if there's another country that is particularly close to bring them in from, so very unlike here. I don't think it could work here, but interesting to watch Australia do it.

ETA: doh, stupid me! Of course, it was because pastures had no net access for a long time. Thanks for putting me right PN.