Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Where did they go to? El bulli?
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Er ... Spain. So wherever a plane could land.... knowing it was Spain was all the detail I could absorb.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh, as student in Oxford, fancied cheese late at night. So he got out of bed and went to France. Had lots of cheese for breakfast, came back for afternoon lecture. He used to do the cheese run at least once a year I think. Sometimes dragging friends with him.

As you do ..... I'd be off to Morrisons

From London it's nearer/quicker/cheaper to get to Paris than Cornwall.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

As you do ..... I'd be off to Morrisons

From London it's nearer/quicker/cheaper to get to Paris than Cornwall.

Yep, definitely. From where I am I still feel Paris is easier than Cornwall. Or, Exeter even really. Yeah, ok, and Taunton. I'd say my westward approach to 'ease' ends at about chard.:D

mystic_trev

The Channel tunnels just over half an hour from me. I regularly used to hop on it, drive to the Hypermarket, do my shopping and come home - all in the same afternoon.

lemonjelly

tomterm8 wrote: »

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.

Weeds appear to be really going for it this year.
Pretty much everything I've planted is late, or very slow. Usually by now I've repotted the toms a couple of times - not so this year.

My carrots appear to be doing ok.

Still yet to eat any lettuce I've grown - that too is growing very slowly. Indeed only the past week or so has seen anything "kick in" a bit.

The ginger is doing nothing at all - nothing is showing.

The only thing that appears to be ok is the onions?

GDB2222

Michaels, wanted to PM you, but your inbox is full.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

No idea what bog standard 5* is - not stepped over the threshold of a 5* even in error. I have stepped into a 3* hotel probably a couple of times in my life.... but no idea what star ratings mean. Although, actually, there are lots of systems that mean different things, but I know any 5 has to be posh

If I were going, I'd be staying at something like: The Camel's Mattress.

I'm in Rome at the moment, and am only staying in a 5*, as it's cheaper than the 4* next door.

Star level isn't really important, but it's about 'poshness' to an extent.

Many of the hotels I stayed in on school trips when teaching were 3*, and we only had a problem with one of these, as we'd stayed there two years before, and then when we returned, it was under new management that had concreted the wall to the rooms we stayed in, meaning the worst hotel I ever stayed in!

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

Michaels, wanted to PM you, but your inbox is full.

Sorted, get in quick before PN and her sexting fills it up again

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

Sorted, get in quick before PN and her sexting fills it up again

:rotfl::rotfl:

I always knew you two had something going on

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Sorted, get in quick before PN and her sexting fills it up again

Hush ..... that's supposed to be our little secret.