Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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vivatifosi wrote: »

If you don't do a deal with michaels, second hand designer is worth looking at. Something like Ligne Rosset, de Sede, Florence Knoll, Ercol even.

I'd never seen a posh sofa until I was a lodger last year.... and the LL told me her two sofas cost £3k. I daren't sit on them!!

How bad is that ... a sofa that's so expensive you can't sit on it.

lemonjelly

Wheezy wrote: »

I know all about having your colours done :mad: The ladies here at work repeat ad nauseam how this or that new garment "matches their colour".

What surprises me is they charge £100-150 to have someone tell you what your colour is? Isn't this something you can find out yourself...just be experience? By seeing what colour range matches you? Or am I being a stupid male now?

Hee-hee.
Always intrigues me, this.
Ladies hair cuts are extortionate amounts (£40 or £50 for a basic cut) whereas blokes feel ripped off paying more than £7?

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lostinrates wrote: »

I want ... steamed pudding...
Just as well we don't have anything like that for me to be thinking about.

I bought a pack of suet and it's in the cupboard..... and I make puds using the nuker.

I have it there.... and know I could make one any time I want.

I've also got lemon curd, jam, sultanas and golden syrup - so loads of options there!

Out of custard this week though; made a crumble/custard earlier in the week and used up the last half of the packet.

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lemonjelly wrote: »

Hee-hee.
Always intrigues me, this.
Ladies hair cuts are extortionate amounts (£40 or £50 for a basic cut) whereas blokes feel ripped off paying more than £7?

I search round for cheap solutions.... which is virtually impossible these days. I don't like paying more than £10 for a "dry cut" - that's where I go in with my hair wet, they cut it, I leave with it wet. Not paying for fripperies.

I've been lopping chunks off mine randomly for months now, but something will need to be done soon

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LydiaJ wrote: »

DS is happy. He has decided to apply to be a library assistant at school. He has to fill in an application form and get his tutor or a teacher to give him a reference. His tutor taught him maths all last year, so knows him reasonably well, so he's done the reference for him. He has written:

I am proud of him, but ... also sad because his inordinate pleasure at this minor encomium says something regrettable about how little progress we have made with his self-confidence problems so far.

He'll get confident once somebody dares to put a book back in the wrong place.

misskool

will catch up later but this is dangerously close to being on topic, but so funny
http://www.dailydot.com/lol/jimmy-kimmel-affordable-care-act-obamacare-prank/

misskool

will catch up later but this is dangerously close to being on topic, but so funny
http://www.dailydot.com/lol/jimmy-kimmel-affordable-care-act-obamacare-prank/

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bugslet wrote: »

Did anyone see the programme Fashionistas on C4 two weeks ago?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/fabulous-fashionistas/4od

May appeal to the lady NPs more, it featured 6 women between mid 60s to 90s, all of whom had a unique take ageing and looking good. It's the only programme I've watched on catch up since I gave up TV in March and this was well-worth it. I'm almost looking forward to the next few decades.

I saw it. But they weren't "everyday people" to start with were they. Some of us were never attractive, tall, slim, stylish at any age.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I want cake.:(. Or steamed pudding. Or something like that. Carby, crumbly sweetness. .

Just as well we don't have anything like that for me to be thinking about.


I think two days of laziness have almost killed this cold. I just have a sort throat left. And a carb craving with a sweet tooth. ( oh, and I'm almost totally deaf, but that will resolve when congestion clears. I'm actually quite enjoying it. )

Make some normal pastry.
Roll it out. Slather the top with golden syrup.
Roll it up like a swiss roll.
Drop it into an oven dish.
Cover with milk.
Bake.
Scoff :drool:

Oh, and :kisses3: for feeling poorly bad.

Wheezy_2

My colour is 'winter jewels'. Ruby red, emerald green, blue sapphire.

...that's what I'm told