Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

Since we are all hoping to have you around for aeons you can leave fir out of Nikkster's queue..

Exactamondo. There is no queue though.

LydiaJ wrote: »

We do need to arrange a meet-up for her and jelly as soon as the thesis is finished, though.

I can see this bit too, you know.

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

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

Agree about the M1 - around Luton always seems to be troublesome.

misskool

Everyone should be like me and be working on their lab work on the Saturday of a bank holiday.

Got in before Brighton and Hove had their footie and planning on leaving at 7 so avoiding all traffic

Nikkster

misskool wrote: »

Everyone should be like me and be working on their lab work on the Saturday of a bank holiday.

Got in before Brighton and Hove had their footie and planning on leaving at 7 so avoiding all traffic

Or just not leaving the house and spending the whole weekend in front of a computer... :wave:

chewmylegoff

We have made it through the worst I think (not counting actually being in derby for the weekend), after a horrid stop in Newport Pagnell services it is now reasonably clear. The good thing about this is that we have missed lunch with the bride's family and we can get straight on the beers when we arrive. After a 2 hour nap of course.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Or just not leaving the house and spending the whole weekend in front of a computer... :wave:

Um, that's me

Ok, ok..not the same

I am however back in bed after a minor episode in which its been determined I absolutely cannot eat biscuits anymore. Under two duvets and shivering, and feeling sorry for myself wondering where all this has come from,

I'm thinking of making raspbarry marshmallows tomorrow

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I absolutely cannot eat biscuits anymore. Under two duvets and shivering, and feeling sorry for myself wondering where all this has come from,

I'm thinking of making raspbarry marshmallows tomorrow

Do you know what it is about biscuits you now need to avoid?
We can find yummy photos of "biscuitless biscuits"

How do you make marshmallows... never thought of those as being things people make before.

PasturesNew

I flick round on the TV until I find something I don't mind having on in the background.... and it's on that channel until what comes on next annoys me enough to notice and change channel..... looked up and saw Wizard of Oz was on.

Well, I've never seen it .... so I left it on. Watched most of it, so now have the gist of what the film was about. Never knew before.

Earlier I'd watched Saturday Kitchen - and a bizarre part where Madhur Jaffrey was cooking a chicken and roast spuds..... it all looked a bit .... embarrassing, to be honest. The end result was very much "here's something you'd not rush home for" - a plate with a chicken on it and some roast potatoes that weren't that great looking.

Thing mid-way that she did was rubbed a load of spices in the chicken skin, then scrunched up foil to cover it - then she immediately started coating the spuds with salt/pepper and rubbing it in and James Martin shoved a bowl of water at her and shoved her hands in it, saying "you've just touched the chicken" - and she really seemed oblivious to that maybe being a small problem.

All very bizarre.

PasturesNew

Googled it ... er ... "the powdered root of the marshmallow plant".... I had NO idea there was such a thing. Reads like an April Fools Day joke

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I flick round on the TV until I find something I don't mind having on in the background.... and it's on that channel until what comes on next annoys me enough to notice and change channel..... looked up and saw Wizard of Oz was on.

Well, I've never seen it .... so I left it on. Watched most of it, so now have the gist of what the film was about. Never knew before.

Earlier I'd watched Saturday Kitchen - and a bizarre part where Madhur Jaffrey was cooking a chicken and roast spuds..... it all looked a bit .... embarrassing, to be honest. The end result was very much "here's something you'd not rush home for" - a plate with a chicken on it and some roast potatoes that weren't that great looking.

Thing mid-way that she did was rubbed a load of spices in the chicken skin, then scrunched up foil to cover it - then she immediately started coating the spuds with salt/pepper and rubbing it in and James Martin shoved a bowl of water at her and shoved her hands in it, saying "you've just touched the chicken" - and she really seemed oblivious to that maybe being a small problem.

All very bizarre.

It's a wartime movie that started with a black-and-white budget but got it boosted to colour so they included it as a gimmick. the auithor wrote a string of sequels mostly untouched by hollywood. For some reason "friend of Dorothy" was a way of saying someone for gay, but not sure why.

There's a bunch of crank movies on youtube trying to say it's a giant metaphor for finance with the emerald city representing the dollar.