Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

michaels

Right - caught up since lunchtime.

Pancakes - used a mix as it was free (reduced to £1 in Tesco and then topcashback spend and save buy 2 get £2 back), served them with lemon and sugar, used a pan that is clearly no longer flat bottomed which meant they stuck a little in the middle as the butter flowed away from the high point and then our wooden spatula has broken so was trying to use a wooden spoon to loosen them which made them wrinkle up however this meant there was no option but tossing to turn them which the kids loved along with eating them.

Nikki we are very excited for you. I think I first put an offer in on a house in 1996 and actually first bought one in 2001 so I suspect you will manage to be a lot more decisive than that (and yes underbidding by about 2k on 120k on the 1996 one probably did cost me 80k but it did mean i didn't end up owning a house with a girlfriend I split from 3 years later so not all bad).

Brutus was the slave and Aurelius was always at the forum?

DG where have you been so long?

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm usually quite blase about going places alone .

My daughter is going to a meeting in central london tomorrow. She has instructed the colleague she is going with "not to let go of her hand". When I reminded her that she got herself round Australia she said that she felt safer.

You cannot live your life 'scared' however keep yourself safe, Now I want someone to accompany you.:(

vivatifosi

Spirit wrote: »

Do any NP speak Latin?

I have a very rusty recollection of Latin Mass (which is beautiful when sung), a selection of Hymns and Carols and the odd bit from an O level class book involving the tale of a girl called Flavia .

Since that time the odd bit of law in latin has taken residence in my brain but otherwise that is the sum total.

If you do speak it what do you use it for?

Latin would be really useful to me at the moment. I mentioned I was helping a friend trace their family tree, we're in the 16th and 17th century and the parish records were in Latin. Not only that, but the records have not always been well kept and priests had handwriting a doctor would be proud of. It is really hard going.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

My daughter is going to a meeting in central london tomorrow. She has instructed the colleague she is going with "not to let go of her hand". When I reminded her that she got herself round Australia she said that she felt safer.

You cannot live your life 'scared' however keep yourself safe, Now I want someone to accompany you.:(

I am way more scared that ever was as a youn g woman, for other young women.

I don't know at which stage I became a coward.

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

My daughter is going to a meeting in central london tomorrow. She has instructed the colleague she is going with "not to let go of her hand". When I reminded her that she got herself round Australia she said that she felt safer.

You cannot live your life 'scared' however keep yourself safe, Now I want someone to accompany you.:(

Nah, its much easier not having to persuade someone else to go where I want to go :rotfl:

I'll just make sure I tell people (work, parents) if/ when I arrange any more rendez-vous with strange people on random streets

I'm sure Miss Spirit will be fine tomorrow, especially if she has travelled independently . Perhaps she could make a note of where the meeting is, and which tube station they will get off at - then if they did get split up she has a chance of getting at least in the right direction. There are also street maps at the exit/entrances of all the tube stations.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Latin would be really useful to me at the moment. I mentioned I was helping a friend trace their family tree, we're in the 16th and 17th century and the parish records were in Latin. Not only that, but the records have not always been well kept and priests had handwriting a doctor would be proud of. It is really hard going.

What sort of things do the records say? Is it very factual like births, deaths and marriages or is there more meat to work through?

lostinrates

Caecilius. That was the Cambridge Latin chap. His wife was...Metella.

I don't remember a different text book for gcse, but I guess there must have been.

Doozergirl

Spirit wrote: »

Do any NP speak Latin?

I have a very rusty recollection of Latin Mass (which is beautiful when sung), a selection of Hymns and Carols and the odd bit from an O level class book involving the tale of a girl called Flavia .

Since that time the odd bit of law in latin has taken residence in my brain but otherwise that is the sum total.

If you do speak it what do you use it for?

I chose Latin and Ancient Greek as options at secondary school. I've never conversed in Either other to answer a teacher. What sticks
In my head is Caecillius who liked baths and his wife, began with M, who liked shopping. Unfortunately for them, they lived in Pompeii. Ancient Greek, the main character was a shepherd from Athens.

I found them both to be really useful for vocabulary, knowing what choristers sing about and guessing random phobia name in pub quizzes.

I jest, but I loved learning Latin, particularly, and I do genuinely feel that I have taken benefit from it. If I ever took up other languages, I know it would have paved the way. If I did my time over again, I'd still learn it, but probably take it further.

Doozergirl

Metella, yes! I wrote that then deleted it!

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Caecilius. That was the Cambridge Latin chap. His wife was...Metella.

I don't remember a different text book for gcse, but I guess there must have been.

Ha - you claim your brain is broken but you can remember Caecilius whereas I sit down at work every morning and gradually try and work through the fog of what it was I did the day before

ETA: Looks like NP may be over-represented in the learned at least a couple of words of Latin stakes. I shudder to think what PN thinks of that...