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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »My Dad reckons that my mother's church choir is actually a dating agency or marriage bureau vaguely disguised by a bit of singing once in a while. Since my mother joined it 20-odd years ago, there have been 12 marriages among its members!
My mother's a fully paid-up card-carrying member of the Church of England - used to be on the PCC (before she was ill last year), and the church choir which means 2 x practices a week as well as Sunday services, and so forth. I imagine that's why LIR thought of her!
Didn't know that. Maybe I should meet your mother ....
Last time I was in a sort-of church choir was when I was a student and sang in the choir of one of the Oxford colleges. Naturally there were always various relationships forming and splitting up, and rumours of who fancied whom etc. I was already going out with LNE before I joined it, though, so I was never part of the relational rearrangements.lostinrates wrote: »I'm don't actually know what denomination Lydia is, nor am I asking...but yes...the dot achingly joined last night....and I thought....you know, worth saying.....
Don't care about denomination. (Well, as long as we're talking "mainstream" ones and not doctrinally different groups like Mormons or JWs or whatever.) C of E and Baptists and Methodists and Roman Catholics and Vineyard and so on just have different styles of following the same God. I've actually always been in C of E churches (although the one I'm in now is not very typical) but it's never stopped me getting interested in men who were some other denomination.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »My Dad reckons that my mother's church choir is actually a dating agency or marriage bureau vaguely disguised by a bit of singing once in a while. Since my mother joined it 20-odd years ago, there have been 12 marriages among its members!Last time I was in a sort-of church choir was when I was a student and sang in the choir of one of the Oxford colleges. Naturally there were always various relationships forming and splitting up, and rumours of who fancied whom etc. I was already going out with LNE before I joined it, though, so I was never part of the relational rearrangements.
A lot of my friends met their partners at university through one society or another.
One particular friend was persuaded [STRIKE]bribed[/STRIKE] by her mother to go to a particular society; as her mother thought it was about time that she found a husband and that society was where her mother thought the more suitable suitors may be lurking.
It worked - OH and I offered her a lift to go to a meet-up and in the back of the car (also accepting a lift) was her future husband.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
All of you lot with your green fingers makes me think of havign a small vegetable patch but in all honesty we struggle to find the time to cut the grass and keep the brambles under control so a veg patch would never happen. I think about half our weekly food bill is on fruit and veg, I can't help thinking there must be a huge mark-up on these and that a well organised internet business could clean up offering slightly more reasonable prices.
I also admire all the gardeners here. I garden reluctantly and badly! We're just back from N Norfolk. One chap in Upper Sheringham is selling a large bag of runner beans for 50p, huge courgettes/marrows for 20p each, and a bunch of 5 heads of garlic for £2. The beans are delicious, but I don't see him getting rich at that price. Maybe he's making something on the garlic.
There is a firm that does regular vegetable deliveries - Riverside, is it? But I think it must be hard to make money delivering perishables over the internet. Ocado have been trying for years, and they haven't managed.
Ah, nearly right, http://www.riverford.co.uk/ They are hardly cheap, though!No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I also admire all the gardeners here. I garden reluctantly and badly! We're just back from N Norfolk. One chap in Upper Sheringham is selling a large bag of runner beans for 50p, huge courgettes/marrows for 20p each, and a bunch of 5 heads of garlic for £2. The beans are delicious, but I don't see him getting rich at that price. Maybe he's making something on the garlic.
At those prices I could probably organise for a weeks supply to be couriered to us and it would work out cheaper than Sainsburys who are the best of a bad bunch (groan) for green vegetables - Morison sell tiny packets at extortionate prices, tesco the packs are again small and the quality is too, asda have the smallest vegetable/fruit area in proportion to the rest of the store of any supermarket. Sainsburys the pack sizes are mostly acceptable but the 'offer' is 2 packets for 2.50 and 2 packets = veg for 1 meal for a family of 5 (and we are talking the 'green veg' bit, starchy veg is on top.)I think....0 -
My advice? Start with a herb garden and a grow bag with half a dozen strawberry plants.
Herbs have the largest markup of any food it seems and even I have consistently failed to kill rosemary and thyme plants.
A decent growbag and 8 strawberry plants will cost in the region of £10-20 to set up. That will provide great strawberries for most of June and July.
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll try rosemary and thyme. We've got mint growing, but not enough, as I can use half a plant in one cup of tea. Mint is dead easy to grow, and as proof I point to my garden!
I think you home-grow strawberries because you want the home-grown flavour, not as a proposition for making money. 70p for 400g of yellow-stickered strawberries in the co-op and £1 in LIDL for in-date ones, but none of them very tasty. The yellow-stickered raspberries, on the other hand, were simply fantastic!
There's a bonanza of free blackberries just starting in the hedgerows - Michaels please note - and you can keep the kids busy for hours collecting them.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Didn't know that. Maybe I should meet your mother ....
Last time I was in a sort-of church choir was when I was a student and sang in the choir of one of the Oxford colleges. Naturally there were always various relationships forming and splitting up, and rumours of who fancied whom etc. I was already going out with LNE before I joined it, though, so I was never part of the relational rearrangements.
Don't care about denomination. (Well, as long as we're talking "mainstream" ones and not doctrinally different groups like Mormons or JWs or whatever.) C of E and Baptists and Methodists and Roman Catholics and Vineyard and so on just have different styles of following the same God. I've actually always been in C of E churches (although the one I'm in now is not very typical) but it's never stopped me getting interested in men who were some other denomination.
We found out recently someone who was a uni friend of DH has become a vicar. They dropped out of touch before we got married. We had a difficult conversation when his fianc! kept saying 'but you HAVE to get married in a church' and we kept politely sidestepping (we were still planning a bigger wedding then. Eventually I pointed out it just wasn't going to be that simple, as I didn't really want to have confirmation just for the sake of a pretty wedding and the Boss isn't a Christian. She was quiet for a bout five minutes and then started again with the 'but you HAVE to get married in a church'. She was very young for her age, and was only 20 I think,..they were getting married upon her graduation. But I hope their horizons have broadened.
I think maybe friend didn't realise DH wasn't Christian, there was some cooling rapidly, or it might just have been that fianc!e felt the distance was too big to gulf....shame, he was a nice chap, not a bosom buddy of dh's , just a nice chum..you know? Think a few other friends have been dropped too actually....0 -
Eton mess is meringue mixed with cream and chopped strawberries. It's a great simple, cheap pudding as it tastes good and is reasonably healthy for the kids/Missus as it has fruit, protein and dairy.
I'm just wondering what universe I am in where Eton Mess is regarded as healthy? Nevertheless, Gen is definitely fit and healthy, so maybe Eton Mess in very small portions, or when recovering from a 100 mile cycle ride? No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Oh dear. 7 year anniversary on Friday and I forgot to do anything about it. I don't think Heston or Gordon will have any availability at their chefs' tables at this late notice. Any suggestions (fleeing the country is not an option)?0
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