Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Well I love Eurovision and long may it live! I also wondered whether the format has been rolled out to other places. For example South America, Africa or the Far East could or already do hold their own contests if the format is becoming more economically viable. It could help bolster large markets for those unable to penetrate the oh so powerful US/UK dynamic. For that matter, I'd love to see a one off contest in the US, where all of the states have an equal weighting, so California/Texas/NY wouldn't win every year. It should be called the Great American Song Contest - there you go, I've already done the marketing..

During the cold war there was a parallel contest run on the Intervision network in the Eastern Bloc. It included Finland (which counted as the East for defection purposes) but not Yugoslavia (which counted as the West for defection).

I'd imagine there must be similar contests worldwide. CK would know more about this.

neverdespairgirl

I'm off, taking Isaac and a school friend of his to the Tower of London for the afternoon. OH is finding something terribly urgent to do instead - watching paint dry, I think. Or perhaps washing his hair (-:

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

PN, I was wondering - have you tried or thought about using silver Art Clay or Precious Metal Clay for your jewellery?

Yes - done some too. It's got its place and I plan to do more ... once settled and once I have an income.

PasturesNew

I just popped out ... hadn't realised it's a scorcher out there.

NPs: as you sit in your home, and potter about, can you tell it's sunny/a scorcher? Or are you, like me, oblivious unless you get dressed and go out to see?

I sat in Mr S car park for 10 minutes wondering "where can I go?" - and decided I didn't know, so came home. No point going somewhere just to be there. else, once you're there you've got the next problem: so, what now?

michaels

Back of our house is just south of west so each time the sun comes from between the clouds we get blasted through the 5 section folding door and the 3 rooflights so often it can feel like a scorcher in here even when it is cool outside as long as the sun shines.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

You've not met my darling Mama. You'd be a beginner in the adventurous with BB dates. "Bacon 3 months out of date? It's fine, it's cured and in a packet anyway."

LOL

Mrs McTavish [STRIKE]is[/STRIKE] was a farm girl, that woman is queen of the whole "use by dates are advisory, rather than compulsory" routine.

Especially with anything cured.

And she can peel a sheep like nobody's business, which may be useful in a post-Armageddon apocalypse scenario.... Or if Zombies take over the world.... Or if we ever buy a farm and go for the self-sufficient country living routine.

But I'd consider the first two choices more likely than the third.

I have another half stone to lose.

I have another half a person to lose, if it makes you feel any better.

I've now lost 12 KG, and about another 30 to go. Even at that, I'll still be significantly heavier than Gen, but being 6'4" and a former Rugby player I'm hoping most of what's left will be muscle rather than middle aged spread....

Oh, and I only lost a kilo this week, although 3 days of hotel and airline food, several bottles of wine, and Papa Johns pizza on Friday night might have something to do with it.:o

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Out of interest ndg, did your Mama grow up here or abroad, or through rationing? I think people who either come from a country where BB dates don't exist, or who have lived through times where food was a precious and treasured commodity, find them at odds to how they have been brought up. My own parents are like that too.

Funnily enough I was clearing out a store cupboard a while back with one of the National Geographic programmes about Egypt on in the background. I was about to chuck out a jar of honey when I heard that they had found honey in the Pyramids that was thousands of years old and that was still edible. It made my couple of months over somewhat irrelevant and pointless, so the jar went back in the cupboard.

We refer all the time to the pyramids when in my food cupboards. IMO few dry goods stored correctly go beyond using. They gre grain from those stored in pyramids. Mine is unlikely to be quite as well stored, but I expect it to make at most a few decades, not millennia!

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm so sorry ndg, the Holocaust is so far from my own family's experience it didn't even enter my frame of reference, though I can completely see why that would shape one's relationship with food. How truly awful.

When I got I'll and stopped eating dh and my then doctor got really cross. That trite and horrid phrase ' no fat people in Bergen Belsen' while not my actual thinking was sort of rationale doctor they explained that metabolic impact meant that those who had 'slower metabolisms' and ate less to maintain that without suplementation might be slim, but are also usually pretty malnourished.....the latter is usually considerably less healthy.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I have been meaning to make pea and ham soup, at Mr Ss request. However i only got around to soaking the peas last night...the gammon hock for the stock is from teh lcocal farm shop and has been in the fridge here for a while. When I said to OH that it was 10 days out of date he scoffed...and said almost word for word what your Mama would say.

Wow, you are sterner people than me! Too hot for pea and ham soup. I would be having pe and mint if I were having pea soup today! I have mine sort of more like mint and pea though!:o

PasturesNew

I won't buy a house that doesn't have a SW facing garden.... patio doors.... small conversatory/sun room. Non negotiable.

If I can't see/feel the sun, I am still in hibernation mode.