Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Spirit_2

fc123 wrote: »

Today, the recovered sofas arrive...and will be far too nice to actually sit on....but I can stroke them periodically.

Being a fashionista seems a very tough lifestyle choice.

Lovely bathrooms that are for dusting only and sofas you cannot allow yourself to sprawl on.

Are you also dressed in a hair shirt?

An absence of style has its compensations..no qualms about using the outside loo...sofas that dogs look good on...but it always looks/feels a bit scruffy when you think of it through visitors eyes.

Spirit_2

Happy New Year to Silvercar and to all who are celebrating it.


When you hav etime could you tell us what the traditions are that you will be keeping?

GDB2222

Happy new year, everyone. May you have a happy and sweet year ahead.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Happy New Year to Silvercar and to all who are celebrating it.


When you hav etime could you tell us what the traditions are that you will be keeping?

I've celebrated this one with dh's observant cousin who lived with us. I can tell you what I remember til they get free?

Apples dipped in honey, and other symbolic foods .....um...? Dates? Olives? Cannot remember what else ATM . Fish cakes ( ge filter fish but dh's family make nicer looking sort of fish cakes than the he filter fish I have seen,....) We made Honey cake.

You wish people a good year or a sweet year.

Um.....mainly I remember food.

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

Happy New Year to Silvercar and to all who are celebrating it.


When you hav etime could you tell us what the traditions are that you will be keeping?

We pray, we talk, we eat. Actually in reverse order - we do a lot of eating.

Traditionally we dip pieces of apple in honey, the apple being a whole fruit to signify the whole year and honey to make it sweet. We also eat anything made with honey, so honey cake and tzimmis (carrot/ cinamon/ honey mix).

Traditionally families get together for meals etc. We had a few young people to dinner tonight, kids of friends and others friends of friends, who were here without family. So they all came to us for dinner. Makes the holiday nicer for them than being alone over a festive time and entertaining for us. DS2 is with us. DS1 declined.

lostinrates

While we are talking about Jewish food.....I haven't had lokshen pudding i don't think because dh and his family hate it. I'd like to try it one day because its so iconic. DH puts his foot down about very little but lokshen pudding is one of them.

Funnily enough the other is tuna pasta bake. Or pretty much any baked pasta apart from lasagne. V. Occasionally he tolerates macaroni. A friend wanted me to make him a macaroni cheese pie ( even I think that sounds gross, but would have done it for a friend...) and DH was horrified.

lostinrates

Actually, now I wonder if I have had it and cannot remember it. Oh dear.

SingleSue

bugslet wrote: »

Is that down to the change of schools making him feel unsettled?

Had a lovely Sunday/Monday away witha friend at my very favourite hotel, Howards House in Salisbury - yep, near you again lir, but little time! - before going for lunch and a millinery talk at Lainston. Only trouble is there was an avalanche of paperwork to get through yesterday morning.

Been summoned into hospital to see Mr C's doc this afternoon. It'll be good to have concrete information about his health, be it good or bad.

It all goes back to the start of last school year where the school mucked up big time....and then continued to muck up.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's been overcast, grey, cool here all day. Cool, verging on nippy enough to need a jacket!

Extremely blooming hot here today, even on the sea front it was very very warm.

Nikkster

Its between very warm on the IoW today. Getting a little chilly now. I can tell why peoplecome to festivals with friends but at least some music starts tomorrow. Lots of today spent snoozing so could have been worse.