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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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chewmylegoff wrote: »This is how it should work but for some reason these days when it is your birthday you seem to be expected to buy cake for everyone else.
Office culture. Friend culture imho is that you show the birthday friend how much you cherish them. Exception is where birthday person invites others to a restaurant rather than inviting them to meet to celebrate at a restaurant. One means you are dinging on the birthday boy/girl , the other means going Dutch IMO.0 -
Happy birthday fc123. Enjoy the spa...and 5 days of you time.
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I thought fc's birthday was a few days after mine (early May)? Did I imagine that?!
Edit: How rude of me... Happy Birthday fc if I did indeed imagine it
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Have been given google play voucher. What do I do with it? Says can be used to buy android apps - but I have ipad and iphone, so really itunes would have been more useful.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0
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LIR, and everyone else, thanks for your help. The cod was really quite edible, but I do not pose a threat to DW's status in the kitchen. So, a pretty much perfect result, really.
I'm getting better at cooking rhubarb. I tried whipping up the custard to go with it, but custard doesn't really whip. It was a touch lighter and smoother, though.
Edit: And happy birthday, FC.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
There is a google play app for ipad / iphone.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Office culture. Friend culture imho is that you show the birthday friend how much you cherish them. Exception is where birthday person invites others to a restaurant rather than inviting them to meet to celebrate at a restaurant. One means you are dinging on the birthday boy/girl , the other means going Dutch IMO.
That's one of the things I like about my current workplace. I don't know about other departments, but in physics, when it's your birthday, the head of department brings in cake. When it's his birthday, somebody else does. Actually, when it's his birthday, usually more than one person brings cake because we don't communicate well about who's doing it this year. Not that they bring me cake, though, because I never have a birthday during term time.
Note to self ... somebody will need to explain to the new HoD who's starting in September that bringing cake for people's birthdays is an unwritten part of the job description.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Have spent large portions of today pre-weeding in the garden (it is what happens when your weeds are so large you can't even see the proper plants. This year has been a killer for gardening).
Is anyone else having a nightmare gardening year? Can't only be us.
Over the winter, my Dad lays old carpets and similar on the bare patches on his vegetable garden. Then, when he wants to dig it over and plant something, he whips them off, and there are no weeds to deal with.PasturesNew wrote: »Not really. Lots of personal traumas and unresolved angers on both sides I think.
They never ever spoke of any dates or how they met, or anything either - and there were no wedding photos.
There wasn't conversation/discussion really. Just a controlled atmosphere where you weren't to question anything.
Do you really not know how they met each other?
That all sounds rather difficult and distressing <hugs>today my day has been brought to you by maximum doses of ibuprofen and paracetamol
Ouch - hope you sleep well and wake up full of the joy of living, tomorrow.However despite all my input it looks like I am going to be pipped to the post on it because my financial partner has discovered how much property costs in Blackheath where he is hoping to buy.
It's a lovely place to grow up, though. Speaking as one who did! :j...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Michaels, why not look at areas that aren't already priced up? You can get a feel for the areas that will always be tricky and the ones that can change.
My friend just sold a semi (3/4 bed 30's) that was a prime plot for an extension. Doubt planning would have let then back build a 2nd house on the site though...it was Cator Estate and they don't like that sort of thing round theres
She sold for a million and a bit few months back
I had lots of mates at primary school who lived on the Cator Estate - you need to get management's permission as well as planning, I think, and it's much harder to get the former than the latter.
Happy birthday, FC! Hope you feel pampered and lovely....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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