Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

vivatifosi

Spirit wrote: »

My back up plan is just to see how it goes in the morning. I will charge my non work laptop today and use it to write a document to achieve some productive output if all else fails. For our essential staff there is emergency planning in place to provide beds for staff who cannot get home, harder position is for essential staff who cannot in and with likely increased demand for services.

That's similar to here. My plan is to have phones and laptops charged tonight. I will also have a shower and wash my hair tonight. If I get up tomorrow and don't have hot water, washing hair is miserable, though I'm quite happy to have a wash in luke warm/cool water. Following Silver's earlier prompt (thanks Silver!!!) I also have my bits and pieces in line for a power cut.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Saccharomyces carlsbergensis - pass

I wondered if that was beet sugar (thinking of saccharin), though I'll probably be way out and it will be jugged hare or something. I know they didn't have sugar cane back then, but they must have had beet, surely? It's the sort of veg that would have grown here.

vivatifosi

Doozergirl wrote: »

The oldies that bought our old house did that. Paid full asking price for the house, ripped out our 2 year old Mereway kitchen with quartz that wasn't to their taste and put in a nice melamine wrapped cottagey kitchen from Wickes with laminate wood effect worktops. They were going to give us our kitchen back until the fitters told them it was worth a bit.

They've also just painted over my Farrow and Ball Green Blue on the front door with lurid bogey green. And put a white plastic porch on the back.

Doozer, have you used the recycled glass surfaces anywhere? I really like them (especially the crushed green glass ones) but haven't seen them anywhere other than in design mags. They aren't cheap, so was wondering what they were like in the real world.

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I think that's mostly true, but in medieval times, no-one ate lamb (shockingly wasteful, you'd wait until it was mutton and had produced some wool, first). So that's why it's lamb / lamb, as opposed to mutton / sheep.

Purely guessing, no googling, from no scientific knowledge of names but a mix of GCSE Latin and things like star names:

Sus scrofa - no idea. Pass

Oves aries - sheep. don't know what type of sheep, but the "aries" is a giveaway

Gallus gallus - that's Latin for a !!!!, I think, so I'm guessing either chickens or some other egg-laying domesticated bird

Bos taurus - bull?

Ursus arctos - bear

Canis lupus - wolf

Saccharomyces carlsbergensis - pass

Zea mays - vague idea - is that corn on the cob?

Good going. :beer:
Between all you guys you got them all.:j


Sus scrofa - pig

Oves aries - sheep.

Gallus gallus - Red JungleFowl of India/ chickens

Bos taurus - cattle

Ursus arctos - bear

Canis lupus - grey wolf (includes dog)

Saccharomyces carlsbergensis - lager yeast

Zea mays - corn/maize

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

It never used to be important here.... until the likes of Homes under the Hammer, Kirsty and Beeny got TV programmes. It's a new thing.

20 years ago not many people ever got a new kitchen. You bought a house for what it was first..... and lived in it.

My mother was converted to the idea when she installed a new kitchen in our then-family home in 1989, and a series of various cupboards and so forth became a fitted kitchen.

So when we moved house in 1994, she made it a condition that she could re-do the kitchen, and did it relatively expensively - it still looked pretty good when they sold the house last year. The kitchen we've installed here in our new flat should last a good long time, too.



One of the magic things about our current kitchen is the corner cupboards - they tend to be useless, and you end up with stuff stuck there, because you don't know what it is, or they are empty. But this kitchen lot recommended amazing metal swing things, so when you open the cupboard, the bit round the corner comes out, too. Impossible to describe, so here's a photo. I don't know if this is the exact one, but it's similar:

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Sounds much more sensible to me. Sell your own house without spending lots of money doing it up, buy one that hasn't been done up, and then you've still got your kitchen/bathroom money available to do the new one up the way you want. Otherwise everyone lives in places with brand new expensive kitchens/bathrooms that aren't to their personal taste, or rips out perfectly good brand new kitchens/bathrooms to replace them with ones that they like.

We thought that when looking for our present flat - there were lots of brand new kitchens (included in the price) that I couldn't have lived with - like the bright gloss red one. I couldn't live with a bright red gloss kitchen first thing every morning, it would do my head in.

vivatifosi wrote: »

I wondered if that was beet sugar (thinking of saccharin), though I'll probably be way out and it will be jugged hare or something. I know they didn't have sugar cane back then, but they must have had beet, surely? It's the sort of veg that would have grown here.

I don't know about "back then", because things are given new scientific names like that even now, aren't they?

There was some sugar in medieval Europe, but I'm not sure exactly where it came from. It was massively, horrifically expensive, so it was usually kept under lock and key with the spices and so forth in wealthy households. And it came in what was called a "loaf", a sort of block of sugar, and you chipped a bit off, I think. Not sure if it was beet or cane sugar.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There was some sugar in medieval Europe, but I'm not sure exactly where it came from. It was massively, horrifically expensive, so it was usually kept under lock and key with the spices and so forth in wealthy households. And it came in what was called a "loaf", a sort of block of sugar, and you chipped a bit off, I think. Not sure if it was beet or cane sugar.

I know that in some languages sugar is zucchero. I wasn't aware of the block sugar. Interesting... thanks!

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

We thought that when looking for our present flat - there were lots of brand new kitchens (included in the price) that I couldn't have lived with - like the bright gloss red one. I couldn't live with a bright red gloss kitchen first thing every morning, it would do my head in.



I don't know about "back then", because things are given new scientific names like that even now, aren't they?

There was some sugar in medieval Europe, but I'm not sure exactly where it came from. It was massively, horrifically expensive, so it was usually kept under lock and key with the spices and so forth in wealthy households. And it came in what was called a "loaf", a sort of block of sugar, and you chipped a bit off, I think. Not sure if it was beet or cane sugar.

I think they had beet sugar. No cane sugar in medieval Europe but when it was imported people's teeth started rotting like nobody's business.

neverdespairgirl

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm worried about DH. He needs to leave for London by about 5am. I like to be pragmatic about these things but I'm not good at anything at 5am. He's not the type to be persuaded out of things.

I'm not a morning person. So 5am seems, to me, to be a time of day when everyone should be tucked up in bed, sleeping peacefully.

Isaac, fortunately, never went through a stage of starting his day regularly at 5am. I'm hoping #2 follows suit in that respect, although I'd also prefer it if it learned to sleep through the night before the age of 6.

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, you don't understand family dynamics.... whatever decision I make is never the right one.

Are you sure? If one of my sisters told me off when I was house-sitting for free, I'd say something rude in return!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Friends just getting a new kitchen, again. They were talking about gloss finishings on cupboard doors and the need to get good quality because they will last for 20 years. I said they may as well go for the cheap stuff as they are bound to be changing their kitchen in a few years time!

Prompted by this article if anyone is interested.

My kitchen expectation is that I might get one new kitchen in my lifetime; I might not. It's certainly not something I'd be actively looking to buy. So long as a house's got a kitchen, most are fine.

Never used a posh kitchen - probably wouldn't dare in case I ruined it.