Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lemonjelly

Today I picked 4 cucumbers, and a few tomatoes that are slowly changing colour.
I also noticed I have one chilli! (not much from 13 plants, but there you go...)

Also, on the blackberry front I picked LOADS 2 weeks ago, & got a huge crumble out of it.
Picked a much smaller amount yesterday, so will have to mix with apples I guess.

GDB2222

zagubov wrote: »

DD's gone back to her new house in North London. Starts 2nd year very soon.

Still trying to figure out what's next for DS as he's entering the second year of his GCSEs.

Since DD moved out the house seems slightly "haunted". I expect to hear someone moving about from room to room upstairs and it gets a bit eerie (and lonely) when I don't.

I think GDB's got one up at auld reekie. Probably second year now too IIRC.

Yes, second year. He's rented a house with other students, and suddenly he's complaining about the cost of utilities.

" I've been looking at our power tariffs and how much the meters have gone up since we've moved in and I'm convinced the bills are going to be considerably more than £30 a month each - it's looking more like £50. Obviously I've told both of my flatmates not to leave the lights on etc. but it's hard to avoid heating the flat when it's freezing here and there doesn't seem to be much we're able to do to save. "

If he started this at home, it would be more convincing. Like not leaving all the lights on here ....

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Shudder. Shudder.

I found the stuff about facebook bereavement fairly horrific too.

When I die I don't mind if so e one occasionally says in passing...that lir was a terrible speller/ liked to laugh/ found funny interior decorating links / was vain....I don't want out pouring of emotion or nuffink. I have requested no funeral too. Just throw me into the fire in a cardboard box please, no fuss, no expense. DH is going to do e expense afterwards which we have agreed and like, and then I want him to get out to see his family...away for here, for a couple of weeks and preferable back at work within the month, certainly dating by six months.

Life goes on. I don't want any thing that slows that down for him. . I wanna kick him up the backside so he runs into the future

But that is the value people have invested in their online selves, & how intensely central to who they are. (This kinda relates to Viva's point about fb earlier).

It includes fb, but also characters that people create in online games, blogs and the like.

In certain countries, people have been prosecuted for hacking others accounts & damaging charaters cultivated by their creator!

zagubov

When I was a student back in the 70s my diet was disturbingly basic. The only meat I could afford was mince so main courses were a rotation of rice and pasta dishes with mince as the protein.

Nikkster wrote: »

Either that or too much cheesecake...

Pizzas were baked from kits in packets, as were cheesecakes. Limited fridge space and no freezers but iceboxes in fridges were jammed to the hilt. My food budget was £3 per week which was pretty frugal even in those days. If we'd had a freezer we could have bulk-cooked and saved ourselves loads of time and money but that's the price you pay for choosing to be born in the wrong decade.

Tesco's arrived in a new shopping mall after my first year- it had its own bank (well a place you could cash cheques) and sold baguettes (Scottish bakeries catered more for the sweet tooth). It was mobbed by students and locals alike.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

But that is the value people have invested in their online selves, & how intensely central to who they are. (This kinda relates to Viva's point about fb earlier).

It includes fb, but also characters that people create in online games, blogs and the like.

In certain countries, people have been prosecuted for hacking others accounts & damaging charaters cultivated by their creator!

I don't really get the division between online self and self?....I guess this is stuff like second life ( is that what its called?, it looks odd written down, ) its still'self' though, isn't it.....just a weird projection of self not denied by real life situation or physicality.

Oh. So confusing.

Lj, I still want to do the school of life thing, and haven't been able too sort anything out. I was chatting to a friend who thinks it would be full of pseudo intellectuals and yummy mummies and people who think they are clever and the while idea seems less appealing. What do you think?

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Yes, second year. He's rented a house with other students, and suddenly he's complaining about the cost of utilities.

" I've been looking at our power tariffs and how much the meters have gone up since we've moved in and I'm convinced the bills are going to be considerably more than £30 a month each - it's looking more like £50. Obviously I've told both of my flatmates not to leave the lights on etc. but it's hard to avoid heating the flat when it's freezing here and there doesn't seem to be much we're able to do to save. "

If he started this at home, it would be more convincing. Like not leaving all the lights on here ....

Goodness, you've trained him well. I doubt DS2 even knows how to read a meter.

Do lots of students live in flats in Edinburgh? In Manchester they all seem to find houses for 5/6/7.

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

When I was a student back in the 70s my diet was disturbingly basic. The only meat I could afford was mince so main courses were a rotation of rice and pasta dishes with mince as the protein.

Pizzas were baked from kits in packets, as were cheesecakes. Limited fridge space and no freezers but iceboxes in fridges were jammed to the hilt. My food budget was £3 per week which was pretty frugal even in those days. If we'd had a freezer we could have bulk-cooked and saved ourselves loads of time and money but that's the price you pay for choosing to be born in the wrong decade.

Tesco's arrived in a new shopping mall after my first year- it had its own bank (well a place you could cash cheques) and sold baguettes (Scottish bakeries catered more for the sweet tooth). It was mobbed by students and locals alike.

I can't even remember what I ate as a student. I remember the wine we were drinking too much off. I also remember a phase of drinking red witches - pernod + blackcurrent + cider.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

I can't even remember what I ate as a student. I remember the wine we were drinking too much off. I also remember a phase of drinking red witches - pernod + blackcurrent + cider.

The only wine students could afford in my days were Yugoslavian and Austrian. This was before the huge scandal that made Austrian wines disappear from British shelves, AFAIK never to return. They're about as obscure as Swiss wines now.

In Scotland we were mostly beer drinkers- which means lager, as if we wanted a warm flat drink we'd order a coffee or tea.

Beer and ale had a real stigma up there- you order it; everybody'd expect you to put on a flat cap and start talking about racing greyhounds and how difficult it was living on a pension. A real old person's drink.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I can't even remember what I ate as a student. I remember the wine we were drinking too much off. I also remember a phase of drinking red witches - pernod + blackcurrent + cider.

I still hate stirfries after eating them as a student. It just seemed the quickest, easiest way to get veg in a shared kitchen sometimes. Otherwise I had a book called 1001 recipes which I at one point took a vow to work through entirely. Never did. We all liked the sweet and sour chicken from in there though, and I associate it with the rare Friday and Saturday nights in alone, as it was a bit of a faff. Otherwise I'd only make it for a houseful.

Often we cooked in turns , rather then cooking individually in the cramped kitchens. That was an education too, but much healthier in many ways.,...more varied, more social.

One of my partners and I became quite good friends with a couple who lectured at the place, and we used to go round to their place ever second week for a while for supper, which we took, for supper and gin....they supplied gin. It was a hoot .

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't really get the division between online self and self?....I guess this is stuff like second life ( is that what its called?, it looks odd written down, ) its still'self' though, isn't it.....just a weird projection of self not denied by real life situation or physicality.

Oh. So confusing.

Lj, I still want to do the school of life thing, and haven't been able too sort anything out. I was chatting to a friend who thinks it would be full of pseudo intellectuals and yummy mummies and people who think they are clever and the while idea seems less appealing. What do you think?

The price of it puts me off a bit.
I like the idea of it, but part of me also likes finding out the reading list myself - I kinda like the journey. My £2 coin jar was full recently, so I treated myself to all amazon books under £5 on my list (there was 1 exception, which is a pre-order). 29 books are on route to me!:o

They did a little series of books which I bought (before they added the rather nice box) http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/toolkit-for-life/
I've read 3 of these, & started a 4th but it didn't grab me. The 3 I read I liked though. The career one in particular.