Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

misskool

Spirit wrote: »

OH made some bread with basil and sun dried tomatoes.

It is still warm, smells delicious and he has just cut me a piece.

I have given it back to him.

There were too many bits of tomato in that bit and the appearance was offputting. It looked like a something had pooed on a slice of bread and trodden on it.

As pastures would say, Ewww.

if you close your eyes and eat it, does that help? :rotfl:

I sliced up a fresh fig for stepson 2 and he said brains. :rotfl: and he refused to try it. at least he ate all the grapes. would like stepson 1 to pretend to eat some fruit and veg though

chewmylegoff

Bank holiday traffic is rubbish.

M25 awful
M1 diabolical

We left at 12, sat nav said we would arrive in derby at 2.30. We are somewhere south of Luton at the moment!

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

OH made some bread with basil and sun dried tomatoes.

It is still warm, smells delicious and he has just cut me a piece.

I have given it back to him.

There were too many bits of tomato in that bit and the appearance was offputting. It looked like a something had pooed on a slice of bread and trodden on it.

As pastures would say, Ewww.

Awww.... at least he's making you bread
I hate the whole kneading idea.... I've a fear of dirt, dirty worktops, germs ..... and hands/nails. And if kneading I'd just be visualising all sorts of things being pressed into the bread (even if the top had been disinfected 100x by every product and method known to mankind).

Apart from that I've got weak wrists.

I've got a bunch of "no knead" recipes ... usual story ,...... never get round to it. Lidl part-baked baguettes do me fine. 39p for two.... and they taste fab. Cooked two up last night - served two halves topped with roasted onions/herbs/tomatoes and some cheese last night; had the other two halves for breakfast as scrambled eggs and beans on toasted baguettes.... and then I started having a funny turn right before finishing that, so never managed the last 2". Suddenly realised I couldn't remember eating the last few inches and I was aware of being "out of body", so got scared I was about to keel over ... so stopped eating.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Bank holiday traffic is rubbish.

M25 awful
M1 diabolical

We left at 12, sat nav said we would arrive in derby at 2.30. We are somewhere south of Luton at the moment!

12 is utter madness in anybody's books. All accommodation, for starters, does a changeover of "out by 10" and "in from 2pm", meaning everybody and their dog is on the road between 10 and 2.... plus all the usual people.

The secret to bank holidays is to leave home at midnight the night before, arrive and kip in the car until 8am within 2 miles of your destination, then go find breakfast.

Years ago, when I was a kid and we were going a long way on holiday (e.g. Wales or Cornwall), there were no motorways at all, it was all A roads and through the centre of towns. The journey took up to 12 hours to get to Cornwall (300 miles).

Mum/dad wouldn't tell us we were going on holiday else we'd not sleep. They'd pick us up out of our beds while we were asleep and lay us down on the back seat of the car. Then we'd drive .... and when we arrived dad'd park on a clifftop. I used to get very scared when I woke up and realised we were close to the edge .... then, once daylight, dad'd start driving about, looking for a sign hanging outside a field or farm that said "caravan to rent".

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

12 is utter madness in anybody's books. All accommodation, for starters, does a changeover of "out by 10" and "in from 2pm", meaning everybody and their dog is on the road between 10 and 2.... plus all the usual people.

The secret to bank holidays is to leave home at midnight the night before, arrive and kip in the car until 8am within 2 miles of your destination, then go find breakfast.

When you're getting a lift you don't get to dictate timings! I would have left it until 6/7pm personally but the people driving wanted to get there for lunch time, I did try pointing out that we would just sit in a traffic jam all day but they thought everyone would leave early and the roads would be clear by lunchtime.

chewmylegoff

My parents used to do the same - we always went to Cornwall at Easter - they'd pick us out of bed and carry us to the car and we'd usually not wake up until we were halfway down Cornwall. We stayed in be same cottage in Peranuthnoe (sp?) every year and spent most of our time on the beach wearing jumpers.

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Bank holiday traffic is rubbish.

M25 awful
M1 diabolical

We left at 12, sat nav said we would arrive in derby at 2.30. We are somewhere south of Luton at the moment!

There are alternatives if v bad. Come off, go A5 to Milton Keynes, rejoin. Come off, go cross country to A1. Would they work better? M1 currently moving at 7mph according to AA.

ETA: just checked. A5 also dreadful. A6 to Bedford then A1 or back to M1?

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My parents used to do the same - we always went to Cornwall at Easter - they'd pick us out of bed and carry us to the car and we'd usually not wake up until we were halfway down Cornwall. We stayed in be same cottage in Peranuthnoe (sp?) every year and spent most of our time on the beach wearing jumpers.

Perranuthnoe. Between the "claws" or "toes" of Cornwall.

We always went to the mid-north coast where the beaches are massive and sandy, there are sea pools, rock pools and caves. We'd spend all day every day on the beach.... and on some beaches we had to climb/sit on the cliff rocks as the tide came in past us and we had to sit and wait for it to go out again. We built sandcastles, ate tomato sandwiches and went swimming..... and wore cardigans.

If it was proper peeing down, we'd walk round a town.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

There are alternatives if v bad.

Can pop in for a toilet break/ cup of tea too BYO biscuits though.
And don't expect me to get changed out of my slob clothes/ wash my hair.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Bank holiday traffic is rubbish.

M25 awful
M1 diabolical

We left at 12, sat nav said we would arrive in derby at 2.30. We are somewhere south of Luton at the moment!

For return journey, have you thought about the M42/M40? Usualy pretty smooth. M1's been horrible every single time I've used it.