Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Unlikley to be eaten today..I am just making it because I have finally got round to it..and did not want to waste teh gammon hock....I thought I was being rather MSE actually.:)

Oh I see!

Yes good for you! ( I would probably have lazily shoved gammon hock in the freezer till I was ready...but soup is much easi to deal with than a freezer full of limbs and bits.:o

wageslave

Does anyone have any experience of the foster system? I want a small(ish) girl with a shopping addiction

PasturesNew

Top tip: If for tea you're having rice pudding and jam.... open the jam jar before you open the can of rice pudding. Can't get the soddin' jar open. Tried everything, both hands crippled with pain from trying ..... so no jam for me

PasturesNew

wageslave wrote: »

Does anyone have any experience of the foster system? I want a small(ish) girl with a shopping addiction

I'm smallish .... but not got a shopping addiction ... I'm up for being fostered though

wageslave

PN, I am almost tempted:)

Seriously, does anyone here have any experience of the foster system? I am not sure if I would be accepted

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Top tip: If for tea you're having rice pudding and jam.... open the jam jar before you open the can of rice pudding. Can't get the soddin' jar open. Tried everything, both hands crippled with pain from trying ..... so no jam for me

Try running the lid under hot water and/or giving it a tap on a hard surface? Have you tried a rubber glove/ towel for grip?

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

Yep. We get visitors from Scotland who want to do the touristy thing in London and we don't know what to suggest.

I can highly recommend the Churchill War Rooms (and the cafe at the end is lovely too). I've never been to the Tower. I meant to before I left London, but never quite made it (and a lot of other places). Not that I'm so far away now!

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Try running the lid under hot water and/or giving it a tap on a hard surface? Have you tried a rubber glove/ towel for grip?

I'll try those tomorrow, eaten the rice pudding now (half a can, Sains Basics, 15p = gorgeous!).

Not sure about tapping it - kind of accident prone.... no rubber gloves.

I've got one of those one-touch lid openers in one of my storage boxes. Bought it for my dad for Xmas 3 years ago or so, and slipped it into my box when I was clearing the house .... he never really used it, for all his "wanting" of it and urgently requesting one.

My hands are too small to fin round the lid - so I couldn't get a good grip. Small hands are a nuisance for stuff like that. I have the hands of a small 10 year old.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Top tip: If for tea you're having rice pudding and jam.... open the jam jar before you open the can of rice pudding. Can't get the soddin' jar open. Tried everything, both hands crippled with pain from trying ..... so no jam for me

Bang the edge of the lid on a hard surface.

Pierce the lid with sharp implement.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

As opposed to plastic glass or a can.

You don't think it's posh because that's what you do..... but it's rare for people who have a party to [a] have enough glasses be confident it won't all be ending in a punch up in an hour.

As I've said before - I've not been able to afford to mix with people above the scum level, hence one of the reasons I've never bothered trying to go out and "make friends" as the only ones I could afford to meet/mix with are scum

I would never judge people as scum, just because they don't have much disposable income.

We have friends who never eat out because the budget doesn;t allow. so we coffee at each others houses. We also have friends that can afford considerably more than we can.

We also know people who might be considered "scum", though I hate that word and hate to judge like that, anyway their values were very different to ours and their moral code was somewhat lacking, they had a high disposable income, only partly because of the way they behaved. We didn't want to eat out with them.