Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lemonjelly

Well, with the heat this weekend, really glad I had a big garden tidy last weekend!

Moved 9 tomatoes into the biggest pots. That'll be their last move. Spotted my first tomato flower! Moved a few more up into bigger pots which had become available, but I'll still have to repot a fair few into the biggest pots.

Cucumbers planted out.

Hanging baskets are kicking in, & one of the flower tubs has burst into flower. The other had 1 flower bud on friday. It hasn't opened yet, but on sunday noticed a wealth of other buds appearing.

A couple of other chillis appear to have perished, but in the main, they're all surviving.

Had to water twice on sunday. Morning & night. I'm actually (with hindsight) relieved the tennis was on, as I'd have stayed out in that sun all day otherwise, & the tennis was probably a good distraction & kept me out of too much sun!

In the heat, a couple of tomato plants grew at least a couple of inches from the time I repotted them at 11am.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

All this BBQ/food talk made me wonder..... do NPs eat bigger portions than me? I know, at a BBQ, with unlimited food, we'd all tuck away a good 8 things..... before being unable to move or ever want to even mention food again, but what's a "normal portion" when you're mentally planning to eat/feed?

Here's mine:

Sausages: 2
4oz Burgers: 1
Fish fingers: 2-3 (brain says 2, eyes say 3)

Is that all for one meal?

At the BBQ here last night there were 9 of us eating, between us we got through

18 sausages, 8 burgers, 15 chicken wings.

With assorted rolls (12 consumed) dips and crudities, crisps, green salad.

Plus fruit salad and Etons mess.

Plus drinks. Soft drinks + 3 jugs of Pimms, 1 bottle of wine, a couple of beers. Alcohol consumed by just 5 people, in our crowd you either drink like a fish or don't drink.

Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

Is that all for one meal?

At the BBQ here last night there were 9 of us eating, between us we got through

18 sausages, 8 burgers, 15 chicken wings.

With assorted rolls (12 consumed) dips and crudities, crisps, green salad.

Plus fruit salad and Etons mess.

Plus drinks. Soft drinks + 3 jugs of Pimms, 1 bottle of wine, a couple of beers. Alcohol consumed by just 5 people, in our crowd you either drink like a fish or don't drink.

I don't think I should tell you what we usually get through at a family bbq (bearing in mind last time it was for 3). And there is usually leftovers for 2-3 meals too. We like a good choice of items, and figure that seeing as the bbq is lit we might as well make use of it.
In mitigation - we do usually skip lunch and have and early bbq dinner, and there is a lot of salad too.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

I don't think I should tell you what we usually get through at a family bbq (bearing in mind last time it was for 3). And there is usually leftovers for 2-3 meals too. We like a good choice of items, and figure that seeing as the bbq is lit we might as well make use of it.
In mitigation - we do usually skip lunch and have and early bbq dinner, and there is a lot of salad too.

'Snake' eating is more like us too.


DH could easily eat a whole pack of fish fingers. I know because he'd happily eat two fish finger sandwiches and he has told be before there are five fingers ina fish finger sandwiches otherwise it makes a mockery of the whole ironic concept.

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

All this BBQ/food talk made me wonder..... do NPs eat bigger portions than me? I know, at a BBQ, with unlimited food, we'd all tuck away a good 8 things..... before being unable to move or ever want to even mention food again, but what's a "normal portion" when you're mentally planning to eat/feed?

Here's mine:

Sausages: 2
4oz Burgers: 1
Fish fingers: 2-3 (brain says 2, eyes say 3)

yesterday i had 2 sausages, 1 lamb kebab and 2 vegetable skewers. so about that really.

feeling really blessed. have just been to allotment since surgery and we had loads more than we thought. picked 1.5 kilos of gooseberries (anyone want any?), over a kilo of mangetout and loads and loads of broad beans.

the sweet potatoes aren't splendid nor the courgettes (as I couldn't get out there when it was wet and rainy) but we have currants and a few straggling beans as well.

oh has been keeping the tomatoes alive at home and the leeks can be planted out. garlic was pulled out a week ago and the potatoes are nearing eating time.

raspberries looking good too. no beans or salads this year but not bad considering. i'm pretty happy with my current lot in my life at the moment.

lostinrates

Well, I get to have a Sehcat scan next . Apparently the chances of something cool like turning in to spider man are slim. I did point out I do well with long odds. . He also said there is no actual Geiger counter pointy thing, just a biggish scanner.

But I wil have to sit down to wee while radioactive ( it says that on the instructions,) And no compost duty for me for a week.

(NDG, did your coeliac sister have one? ).

(I find the idea of being radio active kind of funny and marvel/dc comics)

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

'Snake' eating is more like us too.


DH could easily eat a whole pack of fish fingers. I know because he'd happily eat two fish finger sandwiches and he has told be before there are five fingers ina fish finger sandwiches otherwise it makes a mockery of the whole ironic concept.

WE always give the DKs 4 or 5 fish fingers each, they feel very hard done by at school where it is rationed to 2 each.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

WE always give the DKs 4 or 5 fish fingers each, they feel very hard done by at school where it is rationed to 2 each.

I am trying to imagine a fish finger and ATM I cannot.

A portion of meat or fish is approximately the size of a pack of cards, isn't it. So two sausages probably about right (especially as they are fatty) but I think but might be wrong that fish fingers are smaller and two would be 'too small '

I guess a lot else depends what you would eat with it. Fish fingers here we have as sandwiches. Pretty much only as sandwiches. It's a sort of a joke between us to have a fish finger sandwich now and again in winter. But bearing in mind we so rarely eat bread, its a rare joke!

neverdespairgirl

Isaac would regard 2 fish-fingers as a snack, not part of an actual meal.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

(NDG, did your coeliac sister have one? ).

(I find the idea of being radio active kind of funny and marvel/dc comics)

No, I don't think so. She had a swallow-a-camera thing, and wasn't allowed to be on her own after that, so I collected her and she came to our flat for a while, and then OH drove her down to Kent after the rush hour. But I don't remember that this involved any radioactive substances.