Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

chewmylegoff

Was at Trent Bridge today. Cricket was nail biting stuff but turned out well in the end. Sat in the sun for 6 hours so my vitamin D deficiency should be sorted now...

Journey home awful. Train into St Pancras was delayed by 90 mins and there were retards in the carriage playing music on their phones. Delay meant I missed my last train home out of Waterloo and had to go to Richmond on the district line and walk 2 miles. Managed to leave my bag on the tube with my phone in it so that's gone...luckily due an upgrade. Just about calmed down enough to sleep now.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Was at Trent Bridge today. Cricket was nail biting stuff but turned out well in the end. Sat in the sun for 6 hours so my vitamin D deficiency should be sorted now...

Journey home awful. Train into St Pancras was delayed by 90 mins and there were retards in the carriage playing music on their phones. Delay meant I missed my last train home out of Waterloo and had to go to Richmond on the district line and walk 2 miles. Managed to leave my bag on the tube with my phone in it so that's gone...luckily due an upgrade. Just about calmed down enough to sleep now.

Good luck but maybe check with the trainline in case somebody did the right thing.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

T in the Park was awesome by the way.

Summary:

-Kesha can't sing. Even with Autotune. And she's even less classy in real life than I expected. Trust me, that's quite something to pull off.

-Diana Vickers needs to control herself and her vocal technique. Immature teenager may work on X-factor, but not on stage. I was expecting good vocals from a relatively unique voice, but got excited kid screaming into a mic. Disappointing.

-Paloma Faith... That girl can sing! By far the best vocalist of the day.

-The Script are better live than I thought they'd be.

-Dizzee was, well, Dizzee. Very good if you're into that.

-Snoop was great, but had the whole place stinking of weed. I'm quite sure every pothead in Scotland was there tonight, and they all insisted on exhaling near me. Here's hoping I don't get a random drug test at work for the next 30 days!!!

-Rihanna....... MUCH better than I thought she'd be, and I was already expecting her to be good.

Other than that.....

Drank too much wine, ate too much boar, bought too much crap, and ended up doing my TechnoViking impersonation in front of the BBC pod while wearing a helmet with viking horns and drinking a pint of Merlot.

Here's hoping the cameras were pointed the other way at the time.....:o

neverdespairgirl

Isaac's school fete was a very warm occasion - I took my assorted sponge and ginger cakes, bara briths, my mother's marmalade, some strawberry and raspberry jelly I made last month, and some sloe gin. The prices they asked (and got!) were ridiculous. Would you pay £8 for a 1lb jar of marmalade? Neither would I. But enough buyers who would came forward.

The school had hired two large bouncy castles, and instead of the "£1 for 5 minutes" idea, £2 got you unlimited access. Isaac bounced for most of 3 hours, and like his mates, ended up bright red in the face, soaked in sweat - but none of them stopped! I poured water down him at regular intervals.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Would you pay £8 for a 1lb jar of marmalade? Neither would I. But enough buyers who would came forward.

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Mr S likes marmalade and has no idea what things cost so I could actually imagine him clutching such a jar and being pleased with his purchase of home made produce. I bought him various jars of award winning marmalade from Fortnums to go in his Christmas Stocking..they were not £8 a jar though.

If all the mummies/grannies contributed as much the fete must have been well stocked.

Sounds like a happy day.

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

It's all gone wrong.

I have bought white 'tote' bags for the party bags with the plan being to iron on a printed image and then the girls decorate them. However I was looking at some cotton ones and then saw I could choose 'recycled' ones instead from the same supplier which I thought would be greener...but it turns out the recycled ones are plastic not cotton which I discovered when I applied the hot iron... :eek:

Not sure what the way forward is now with the party 13 hours away (Where is that shrug shoulders icon when you need it?)

That is the kind of party mishap that would have caused me ('scuse the pun) to go into melt down.

Spirit_2

I am awake at this stupid hour because I slept with my leg outside of the duvet, and the cat "moused" my foot. Aargh.

Awoke with a yell followed by plenty of swearing.

Husband woken by the noise but still sleepy, asked if I would fetch him some squash. I am wide awake.

neverdespairgirl

Are you familiar with Simon's Cat, spirit?

neverdespairgirl

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I'm actually annoyed that I've had to dig out old smaller clothes from the attic to wear, after buying loads of new larger ones earlier this year.

I have definitely been hanging around on MSE too long.:o

Now that is a First World Problem (-:

Spirit wrote: »

Mr S likes marmalade and has no idea what things cost so I could actually imagine him clutching such a jar and being pleased with his purchase of home made produce. I bought him various jars of award winning marmalade from Fortnums to go in his Christmas Stocking..they were not £8 a jar though.

If all the mummies/grannies contributed as much the fete must have been well stocked.

Sounds like a happy day.

They didn't. I was a large contributor, but then I bought none of the overpriced anything myself - total spending was £2, for the hours on the bouncy castle. Iced tap water was freely available.

Bara Brith x 12 @ £10 = £120

Bara Brith x 2 @ £6 = £12

Sponge cakes x 5 @ £12 = £60

12 x Marmalade 1lb jars @ £8 = £96

12 x raspberry / strawberry jelly @ £4.50 = £54

6 x sloe gin @ £10 = £60

Total money in - £402. Total cost to make it all - not much.

GDB2222

Well done, but:

£8 for a jar of marmalade? <-- STUPIDITY ALERT!