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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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  • misskool
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    edited 31 August 2013 at 8:42PM
    lostinrates wrote: »
    Kimchi doesn't strike me as ideal food for someone who thinks they have an ulcer! What did you have?

    I haven't been to the ward our street one but if its as good as the Milan shops I can really recommend Princi. My favorite things include the green olive 'bread sticks' and courgette pizza. I cannot remember the sweet things as well to recommend, but I don't think we've been disappointed by anything ever.

    I also just like the design of the shop. :o modern cave.

    Hotpot (beef and vegetable) and ramyum. Not kimchi :D

    Will check princi out. Wish London wasn't so populated by generic chains

    edit: any house photo updates?
  • zagubov
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    edited 31 August 2013 at 8:50PM
    Nikkster wrote: »
    I can't begin to imagine how difficult this would be with a typewriter...

    It was all handwritten! :D

    There were word-processors back then but you had to put your answers on the TMA booklet you were sent.
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  • lostinrates
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    misskool wrote: »
    Hotpot (beef and vegetable) and ramyum. Not kimchi :D

    Will check princi out. Wish London wasn't so populated by generic chains

    Princi IS a chain, in Milan, :D. But I think its just the one here. And it is good, or was there.


    Sometimes things don't translate, glad nikkster recommends, that suggests this has. Maybe I'll suggest DH get some stuff from there for supper for himself. He keeps saying he doesn't want to be disappointed:D
  • lostinrates
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    edited 31 August 2013 at 8:54PM
    misskool wrote: »
    Hotpot (beef and vegetable) and ramyum. Not kimchi :D

    Will check princi out. Wish London wasn't so populated by generic chains

    edit: any house photo updates?

    That's good. I don't like kimchi anyway.:o:D



    No pics yet. Probably be a while. We'll see.

    :(. I don't really want to talk about boilers either, New boiler people are piddling me off too.
  • misskool
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    That's good. I don't like kimchi anyway.:o:D



    No pics yet. Probably be a while. We'll see.

    :(. I don't really want to talk about boilers either, New boiler people are piddling me off too.

    i think we should connect you to the main gas supply network.

    that should solve a lot of problems!

    who can we get on that? :D:p
  • GDB2222
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    Michaels, it was on HUKD.
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  • neverdespairgirl
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    I can't begin to imagine how difficult this would be with a typewriter...

    My mother had to submit her MA thesis in typed format - the first time. Previously she's done it hand written, including her BA thesis, I think. Mind you, as my mother did geology, not sure why she got a BA at all, surely it should have been BSc? I digress.

    She got her Dad's secretary at work to type it (-:
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • LydiaJ
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    zagubov wrote: »
    It was all handwritten! :D

    There were word-processors back then but you had to put your answers on the TMA booklet you were sent.

    My dad did his PhD in 1954 or about then. He wrote it by hand, but then it had to be typed up, by a typist who had to be paid for the service, and when he got the typescript back he had to go through writing in all the equations by hand. It was a maths thesis, so naturally there were a lot of equations.

    I did mine in 1995. It was all done on a computer, but had to be printed and bound and submitted as hard copy.

    What is a TMA booklet?
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  • LydiaJ
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    My mother had to submit her MA thesis in typed format - the first time. Previously she's done it hand written, including her BA thesis, I think. Mind you, as my mother did geology, not sure why she got a BA at all, surely it should have been BSc? I digress.

    She got her Dad's secretary at work to type it (-:

    Which university? All subjects at Oxford (and I think also Cambridge) are BA for first degree. I have a BA in physics. At least, I did. I've upgraded it to an MA now. :D
    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.     :)
  • lostinrates
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Which university? All subjects at Oxford (and I think also Cambridge) are BA for first degree. I have a BA in physics. At least, I did. I've upgraded it to an MA now. :D

    I didn't know that, how interesting!

    Why?
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