Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

Any Ripper fans, who haven't seen it, Yesterday channel right now is Prime Suspect Jack the Ripper - investigating if this bloke did it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Deeming

Freeview channel 19.

michaels

Ours were great until I was cutting open some packaging at the weekend and the handle broke - generally the handles are not all metal but a bit of metal in a plastic loop. I also have to say anything labelled 'value' doesn't seem to last more than a few days in our house.

Last night was 90 minutes in the 'hot tub' with 3 Spanish students, tonight is just hot and sticky but the pool isn;t quite warm enough and I can't be bothered to pump out 2000 litres and fill it again with hot water. One of the students went home today, DD1 was crying this evening that she missed her, she had only been here 3 weeks.

PasturesNew

Just googled it ... you can spend £70-90 on a pair of kitchen scissors!!!1

Given a budget of £70 I'd expect to pick up: good frying pan, set of 3 saucepans, a food processor, a microwave, a set of cutlery, a dinner service for four, a tin opener, tablecloth, tablemats, glasses, serving dishes .... and some £2 scissors.



And still have change to buy oven chips.

lostinrates

Michaels, I don't think he is going to call, and I'm not calling him (that's how we do it....)

S I'll ask him tomorrow. It's really not something I feel I can get into in text!

lostinrates

Oh he has just called...he got them from a door stop seller in London...sorry, not very help ful

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh he has just called...he got them from a door stop seller in London...sorry, not very help ful

Don't worry, thanks for thinking of me.

Boring story but I had a potato peeler that looked ordinary but peeled potatoes twice as fast as any other and never went blunt, I think I 'borrowed' it from home when I went to uni and took it with me when I worked as a ski chalet host, eventually about 3 years ago the blade started coming out of the plastic handle and eventually we had to abandon it. It looked like it cost pennies from a cheap shop but I have never found its match again and I still think of it with fond memories when I am peeling spuds or carrots....

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Don't worry, thanks for thinking of me.

Boring story but I had a potato peeler that looked ordinary but peeled potatoes twice as fast as any other and never went blunt, I think I 'borrowed' it from home when I went to uni and took it with me when I worked as a ski chalet host, eventually about 3 years ago the blade started coming out of the plastic handle and eventually we had to abandon it. It looked like it cost pennies from a cheap shop but I have never found its match again and I still think of it with fond memories when I am peeling spuds or carrots....

Our ( as in my family, not dh and mine) best veg knife has an interesting provenance. . Looks ordinary though, and was cheap I dare say.

silvercar

Googling to find if my cream can be bought over the counter in the US and find that I should have only been using it once a day, not 3 or 4 times. Oops, no wonder I thought it was effective. The instructions were in italian, so I never knew what was right.

Still can't find what can and can't be bought over the counter in the US. Betamethasone dipropionate if anyone knows any generic and available alternative.

Looks like the only OTC equiv is hydrocortisone.

CKhalvashi

I'm not going to say exactly where we are, for obvious reason, but we're on casting on the Romanian Black Sea coast for the next week.

I know that 3 people here worked out my address; don't even bother, my niece is looking after the house for me, as she works in a school, therefore has the summer off

OH earlier



Junior Eurovision 2009/X Factor contestant Ioana Anuta



I feel a little drunk, so I'm off to sleep

CK

zagubov

Spirit wrote: »

And they would have known you, so could leave him knowing that he was safe in a loving family of his own.

I had the good fortune to meet my future wife, and FIL and MIL through a mutual friend before I started dating. I got on so well with them that when we started dating, the parents were happy and there wasn't the ordeal of "meeting the parents".

DW's dad passed away between the time I asked him for permission to ask her to marry me and the actual wedding. Despite the sadness of his passing, I'm glad he knew I'd be marrying her.

Just realised that maybe nobody does that now but that's the way we did things in the 80s.