Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

Son is on a sleazyjet flight, delayed 3.5 hours. sighs!

Technical fault and then the crew were over hours, so they waited for a new crew. You would think they would order the new crew once they realised.

I can't remember ever getting on a cheap flight after about 2pm and it actually being on time. The morning flights are usually ok because there's not been enough time for stuff to go wrong yet. When it does go wrong they're operating on such a shoestring budget that everything falls over; they probably did order a spare crew when it first went wrong but they were just in Alicante or something stupid like that.

I have more or less given up on them - if there is a BA alternative then I fly with them instead even if it's double the price. Usually it isn't actually that much more once they've added on £50 for credit card fees, luggage and oxygen consumption.

lemonjelly

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My Mama usually says about Christmas / New Year time, "lighter ever day now until summer!"

My not-so-darling Dad likes to email or phone us all in late June, saying, "darker every day until Christmas"......

I knew someone who without fail, every year would sit back after eating Christmas Dinner & announce "Well,it's as far away now as it'll ever be...."

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

I knew someone who without fail, every year would sit back after eating Christmas Dinner & announce "Well,it's as far away now as it'll ever be...."

My mum says that kind of thing. She also announces the shortest and longest days as 'well, the nights will draw in/ out from here' etc.

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I've been to Greece too. A week in Kavos when I was 21. As a result of what British people have done to that poor town, I think that the Greeks are perfectly entitled to expect is to bail them out!

Kavos is the only place in Greece I've been to too. I think I might have also been 21. If I remember correctly, we're not the same age though. Phew.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

right?

Very much so. Still want a cuddle though

lemonjelly

Seems friend had a HA in their sleep.
Weird. Healthy living, healthy lifestyle, healthy diet, looked after themselves.
A lot of people are saying things like "at least they wouldn't have known/felt it".

1 - how do they know?
2 - as the specials said, it doesn't make it alright. Still a shame, & I'm missing my friend...

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Hi Yorkie1, not sure if you have posted on the np thread before but just in case you haven't , welcome to the thread and please drop by any time you would like. We will be nice :-)

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Thanks michaels

I could spend far too much time on this thread

(What am I talking about, I've already spent far too much time on this website ... 2 hours ago I told myself that I was only logging on to send an important email ... and I'm still here, sitting on the sofa, prevaricating about going down to the allotment and hoiking out those dead pea plants )

Perhaps a cup of tea to gird my loins first?!

Indeed. Welcome Yorkie1. Do tell us a bit about yourself. Do you like mushrooms? Are you a scientist and/or a Jew? Do you live in Hertfordshire?

The trick with the NPT is to read at least once a day, preferably more. Otherwise catching up can take a loooong time. I haven't been on here since yesterday morning so will be replying to posts by threes (because that's the max you can multiquote without faffing about) until I get to the end.

SingleSue wrote: »

Me and ex are amazingly, working on the same page for once. He has told James he will continue to pay pocket money whilst he is at university to help out, as I am also doing. It only equates to £15 a week between us but it is better than nothing at all and bearing in mind the food costs he has to bear (due to his exceptional need of a huge amount of calories just to stay the same weight), it is the least we can do.

Think ex hubby is rather over the moon at the boy's recent results, he told me what a good job I have done with them!

Well well well! Wonders will never cease. That's excellent news, Sue. :beer::j

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

Too bl**dy right you have done a good job.

As for the "over the moon" I hope he has a LBM and makes bit more effort to earn that feeling, by supporting them and you more.

The star turns who show up when the medals are being given out p*ss me off.

What Spirit said.

SingleSue wrote: »

Ah he did that with middle son's music teachers, he pretty much took all the credit for middle son and his music.....middle son very quickly put the teachers right about who had actually supported him in his music playing quest!

Just what I would expect him to do. Your boys have their heads screwed on all right.

PasturesNew wrote: »

No idea, never made the journey, but I'd suspect that you'd be going against the traffic, so won't get held up. I don't know the local traffic at all as I don't go out. I'd recommend a route, except I'd be talking out of my 4rse

I know that if I go via the cliffroads there are no holdups in the commuting hours - whereas getting to/from the main A road is all queues. But the clifftop route (without satnav) is something you need to "know" as the first time I tried it I went round in a circle 3 times by different routes.... took me ages that first time.

I drove home from London yesterday afternoon. Once I got onto the A4 it was fine, and the M4 was clear all the way westbound. Drove past miles of crawling traffic on the M4 eastbound, though (at the London end).

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Always difficult when you have to decide that elder can't do an activity because younger is too young. Elders tend to remember and remind when younger is allowed to do something that elder had to wait to do. OH and I and DS1 (obviously DS1) are elders and I think over the years that has meant the DS2 has been allowed stuff that maybe he shouldn't have been allowed just because, in sympathy with being the elder mode, we have not wanted to prevent DS1 from doing. Having nearly 4 years between them excasberates the problem.

I can relate to that. DS is now very careful to make sure that DD does not watch some of the 12-rated stuff he watches, although I'm afraid not quite as careful about the boy next door, who is a few years younger than DD - I'm not sure if this is sexism or just a bias against the annoying younger sibling. For once it worked out well for me this afternoon. He was pestering me to allow him to buy a computer game that he told me was rated 15. I said I'd look at some reviews and think about it - I prefer to make my own decisions rather than rely blindly on the classification. When he came back the conversation went as follows:

Me: I watched the review. It says it's 16+, not 15.
Him: And...
Me: How come you are so strict on not letting DD watch 12s, and you want me to let you have a 16?
Him: OK, I won't get it then.

lostinrates wrote: »

If you don't like courgette you'd hate marrow. Even lots of people who like courgette hate marrow.

We had marrow often when I was little. It was cheap, or my dad grew them so it was free, or something. I hated it. When I grew up and met courgettes, I didn't like them because they reminded me of having had to eat marrow. I wonder if I would have liked them if I hadn't had that earlier experience?

lemonjelly wrote: »

Feeling very mortal all of a sudden.
A colleague who I worked closely with has died suddenly.
I had a lot of respect & appreciation for them, & liked much about them.
They hadn't even reached 60. Weren't ill. Had a lot to live for.
Complete shock.
I feel sad for their early passing.

Oh no! That's very sad. Hugs to you jelly.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

And many recipes have that "how much" moment. Or "do what?"

My aunt got married at the end of the war to a bloke in the NZ air force who was then posted home to NZ, and naturally she went with him. She'd never been very interested in cooking, and was stuck in the middle of nowhere in NZ, paging through a pre-war cookbook looking for something that didn't require ingredients that weren't available. Eventually she found something, read through the instructions, and burst into tears at not understanding what was meant by "fold the flour with a knife".

lostinrates wrote: »

When I'm sick bed ill I just want quite plain food usually. Chicken soup alone would be perfect. Chicken soups with too much spice (presuming I were not on pills or gut rotting and able to eat it) would be too much.

Jelly is also good. All that kind of protein stuff that's way on the throat and yet not too hard to digest .

You are such a food husband. . (Food should have read good, but,apt so can stay!). Some prepped fruit might be nice to pick at, and lots of nice drinks.

If I am not feeling able to eat - either too ill or too upset (for example the first 24 hours after "the accident") - I try to keep my strength up with liquid calories, so lots of hot chocolate and smoothies and things. I find I can get those down even when chewing solid food doesn't feel possible.

PasturesNew wrote: »

First of all - forget about discounted. There are never any discounts in the shops (I look/head for that section EVERY time I am in a shop). Where I shop I'm more likely to have to find a 2nd/3rd shop just to get the stuff I'm actually after. I couldn't even pick up a "small tin of cheap pineapple chunks" the other week as all the shelves were empty.

"Some strawbs" would involve buying a whole tub. Cream would involve knowing which sort and buying a whole tub.

So, I'd be sitting there with a whole meringue, whole tub of strawberries and a whole tub of cream ..... that it was then solely up to me to create and eat.

Honestly, PN, it would be no trouble. I can make an Eton mess in about 3 min - a little longer if it's for lots of people because the cream takes longer to whip. You can buy a box of 8 little meringue nests and just use one if you're making it for one, because the others will keep pretty much indefinitely until you happen to feel like making it again. Strawberries are a bit expensive, I grant you, but I can easily eat a whole tub of them over a couple of days - well, I could stretch them over a couple of days if I wanted to, which I usually don't. Get either double or whipping cream - the smallest pot should be about the right size for a single portion of mess.