Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

This reads as if for a future meal you will be eating the two students. The only thing to consider is whether they are big enough to feed eight.

Perhaps if you served the two at once.

Two short ones would be better for a round dining table.

One could serve them decorator crosswise, like pair of anchovies on a Provençal tart.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Mr. S says great, I like the idea you can be a sex-and-domestic slave without leaving home (-:

I have avoided surfdom for 30 years. I am not starting now.

DId you have to start horribly early in the morning?

Not at all. I left the hotel at 9am, as I took some time off. When at home I do not now usually leave for work until about 8.30 arriving at 9.30 unless I have an earlier meeting, as it takes me while to take all of the tablets, eat and'come round'. .

Sorry if we were being bossy! Glad you got a cab safely.

Not bossy, you were just 'at home' in your town...whereas I can find my way around a few familiar bits and that is it. I did feel a bit of a bumpkin though as I had no idea which way to turn at the end of the road.

PasturesNew

Maybe when meeting people from online, a new name needs to be agreed for the group, that's not "embarrassing" if you ask a stranger. So you can ask if strangers are meeting some group that sounds exciting.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe when meeting people from online, a new name needs to be agreed for the group, that's not "embarrassing" if you ask a stranger. So you can ask if strangers are meeting some group that sounds exciting.

Lol, public place planning ...

'Are you a nice person?' Could leads to various confusing scenarios, interlopers thinking they were being propositioned and then being joined by others asking the same rather bland question eagerly!:rotfl:

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe when meeting people from online, a new name needs to be agreed for the group, that's not "embarrassing" if you ask a stranger. So you can ask if strangers are meeting some group that sounds exciting.

The trick is to get the first person in to go to the bar and say that it's a drink up for the Trip Advisor/Zagats/Time Out executive committee prior to the annual editorial meeting the following morning.

You'd get very good service!

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Two short ones would be better for a round dining table.

One could serve them decorator crosswise, like pair of anchovies on a Provençal tart.

They are from Spain not France, the other bit I don't know them well enough to comment on yet.

One of them would easily feed 8 and some left over for the next day (and would only need to feed 6 of course), the other we might go a bit hungry.

Funnily enough they all sent me emails before they came, No 1 probably wrote the best email and can't understand a word of English, no 2 wrote a much shorter less grammatically good email but can understand English even if not speak much. No 3's mum sent an even shorter and less good email but no 3 can actually understand English and even speak it a fair bit which is useful as it means we don't have to communicate everything important by typing into google translate any more.

lostinrates wrote: »

Lol, public place planning ...

'Are you a nice person?' Could leads to various confusing scenarios, interlopers thinking they were being propositioned and then being joined by others asking the same rather bland question eagerly!:rotfl:

That is pretty much exactly how I approached Gen, having first got a bit close and peered over his shoulder to confirm that the comic he was reading was Private Eye. It was tricky recognising him because despite no evidence to support it, I had always pictured him as a small south-american/italian looking bloke with a moustache and a dody uniform with a lot of medals that he had presented to himself.

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

Margate - count me in I'll have properly free weekends by then (woo hoo).

I definitely drank rather a lot of wine too... GBD and zag were rather effifcient glass-topper-uppers! I don't remember anyone exhibiting embarrassing behaviour (GBD you were just very sweet to the waitress ) - of course that may have been because I was the most inebriated of the lot

Today has been a bit of a struggle - but we had an afternoon of corporate fun (which was actually not very corporate and quite good fun), outside running around in the sun. At least it didn't involve trying to think! Looking forward to catching up on sleep over the weekend (apologies to those with small children who don't have that luxury).

FC - didn't realise you'd bought 2 bottles - I must owe you at least one! :beer: edit: will repay you in wine if there is a next meet up)

Yes, yes but how many dodgy emails did you get whilst waiting for the train home this time?

lemonjelly

Spirit wrote: »

I liked the NP play date. Much missed were those who were not there.

Mr S had given me a good talking to about "stranger danger" with a warning that I had no need to be trafficked for household drudgery or s*x as that was available at home if I was interested.

I travelled up late afternoon and as I wanted to stay out late on a school night, and get just too tired, stayed somewhere non MSE. Took some time off today, so only worked a short day.

What struck me is how those who live in/around London are so familiar with the routes/districts that it is bit like listening to directions in a foreign language. I boldly set off in the direction pointed at the end of the evening, walked to the end of the road and hailed a cab.

I mixed beer and red wine with drinking a lot of water. So I will not be able to hide behind the demon drink.

We have in our midst delightful people, touchingly self effacing, humourous, self doubting, unaware of how clever, kind or beautiful they are.

As well as putting faces to names (and real names to NP names) I will 'hear' posts, where I now know what people sound like.

It has reinforced for me that t'internet is a valid way of making new and lasting freindships.

lemonjelly likes this. A lot.:)

lemonjelly

Got given some extra pots today!
Some of my chilli's appear to be struggling a bit. Might have more than 6 casualties.
Got a flower on 1 cucumber plant!
However it's on one that I gave away...
Gonna have a weekend of planting lettuce, planting my cucumbers out, and repotting tomatoes.

lostinrates

Pears....




I'm getting cocky and have been reading about pooktre.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pooktre&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=hKfWUd3XOa-a0QXj_IDYCw&ved=0CDYQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=672


I make loads mistakes with my simple pleaching, but plants are ace, they mainly just grow back and while you see your mistake forever you see that even if perfection is not obtainable something can be rectified. For a fraught perfectionist like me there is something incredibly important about this I think.

Anyway, quite tempted to have ago, I have a small boundary to creat between the house and the hedge, its less then ten metres. A chum from green fingered has suggested quinces or nuts might be worth having ago at working with for this sort of thing.

I'd need someone more artistic than I to help me work out what to shape and how (although practically I love the idea of a pair of love seats, one facing out and one facing in, to enjoy each garden from) I am not sure if something more whimsical might be better?

I've been dithering over a hedge or a boring fence for ages and this seems more fun, huh?