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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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lemonjelly wrote: »Last time I sent you a PM the rozzers came round & bost me door down!
Sorry about that.lemonjelly wrote: »Have you considered being a pescetarian?
I could be a pescetarian. Actually, I was a pescetarian while we were in Cyprus. The fish dishes were amazing.
We ate fish mezze 4 times...swordfish, squid, scallops, king prawns, octopus, mussels seabass, ...just keep it coming!
I'm hungry now
Is Spirit around? If so, thanks a lot for your recommendations, Spirit. We used the car rental you advised and ate in kouklia and pi55ouri, all lovely.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »Woohoo! On my way to find bargainous ....and H is doing central london, already picked up from Kings Cross
PasturesNew wrote: »Did he pick her based on underwear?
Sounds like it was based on price....I think....0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »Can you post pics?
(of the decking, obviously...)
Obviously.....
But if the client just happened to be standing in frame over one of the lights we probably wouldn't complain too much.....:D“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
I'm getting thinner! Thougha way to go lemon.
I'm expanding my very at the moment limited repertoire, but can now make vegan cake and very more-ish it is too.
It's only one of the Bs ( B12 I think) that you are likely to be short of on a vegan diet, plenty of protein in a wide variety of non animal food, so I just take a multi vit with a high percentage of Bs in it and leave it at that.
I do love fish, whereas meat I usually didn't eat anyway, but I'm an all or nothing person on the food front!
Vegan chocolate cake is one of the best cakes in my repertoire, Its very moist.
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Iron can be a problem. It was for me as a vegetarian. Iodine, calcium, can be issues depending on HOW peoe are vegan. Vegan can be healthy or unhealthy....(and dare I say it, sustainable or not..and ethical or not......)
Actually, rather than me just go through them, its worth googling....
This was the first article that came up, but probably not the best, first ones rarely are!
http://www.theveganrd.com/2010/11/recommended-supplements-for-vegans.html0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »Woohoo! On my way to find bargainous lights now! I need several sets so I'm doing Worcestershire and H is doing central london, already picked up from Kings Cross
Doozer Does Droitwich - I think I may have seen that oneI think....0 -
Based on Doozer's worth being £5/hour .... these bargain £1 lights will cost £11 by the time she's picked them up.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »I could work magic with small spaces - but you need budget to do that. I'll be living with what the house offers. No budget to do anything except live in it.
Anybody can be a genius with a cheque book
Cheque book? 19th century alert!
I get paid by cheque, but I so rarely write one, that last time I dusted it off I realised that it's older than Isaac is - dated April 2005. That's how often I write them (-:
I'm also hoping an NP might be able to give me a reference to a good immigration lawyer....
Be easier if your PM box wasn't full......Doozergirl wrote: »
The perfect house in perfect condition in the perfect location at the perfect price may exist, but how many NP feel that they live in that? Or, if they do, that they didn't have to experience some form of discomfort to get it?
I feel our flat is perfect for us, in the perfect location, too.
But then I always knew that anything like parking, gardens, conservatories, and so forth, were unobtainable in London. We have a tiny back courtyard, which doesn't see any sun any time of day or night, and residents' parking, on the street. PN's list of south-facing, private parking, conservatories and all the rest of it would mean a multi-million pound budget in our neck of the woods.PasturesNew wrote: »If I had a household income of, say, a huge £30k/year it'd be possible. And, as I am older, every day a little older, the chances of making money lessen and the time to benefit would reduce.
Household income is related, though, to necessary household expenses.
I'm sure you'd think our household income is vast - but in order to earn it, our expenses are necessarily a lot higher. We can't both work without a nanny, for example, as our jobs are simply not compatible with the hours that nurseries or childminders keep. So our minimum expenses per month are much higher than if we were both on benefits. We also have to buy, out of taxed income, expensive work clothes, because you can't buy cheap women's plain black suit and cuff linked shirts, for example.
We therefore spend, out of taxed income, £1,900 a month on interest-mortgage, council tax, and utility bills, and £2,000 a month on childcare, before we go to the supermarket, or clothe any of us....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'.0 -
It always is - I've no idea who PMs him!neverdespairgirl wrote: »
Be easier if your PM box wasn't full......
Yes, it's all about what's left over - but my leftovers have historically been £50-200/month .... so hard to see the point of saving for 10 years just to knock a wall down. Better to spend that money and those 10 years eating takeaways.neverdespairgirl wrote: »Household income is related, though, to necessary household expenses.
I'm sure you'd think our household income is vast - but in order to earn it, our expenses are necessarily a lot higher. We can't both work without a nanny, for example, as our jobs are simply not compatible with the hours that nurseries or childminders keep. So our minimum expenses per month are much higher than if we were both on benefits. We also have to buy, out of taxed income, expensive work clothes, because you can't buy cheap women's plain black suit and cuff linked shirts, for example.
We therefore spend, out of taxed income, £1,900 a month on interest-mortgage, council tax, and utility bills, and £2,000 a month on childcare, before we go to the supermarket, or clothe any of us.
The point I was trying to make was that I don't start with enough leftover money to be able to leave the house and save for nice fripperies as it was implied that people save to make houses how they want them - but they'd not save every penny for donkeys' years, never leaving the house, just to have a granite worktop (say) that nobody but them would ever see.
I'm just not saying it well.
I mean .... I can't really look for a house that needs work doing to it because they aren't that much cheaper and the cost of the work might easily make them more expensive than I just bought a house I can put up with.
And that's still not said right - and I'm not sure what the original point was, but I know we've strayed off it ... and, yet again, I'm defending some corner I never painted. 0 -
Also when square feet are used instead of metres as is sometime the case, it makes it very difficult to visualise - I guess thats also probably tactical - number sounds bigger and no-one actually knows what it means
I can imagine what 1,000 sq feet is, but not the same in metres without a quick mental conversion.
Similarly if someone says they are 1.9 metres tall and 50kg, I need to translate that to make sense of it. (I think that's what OH is)....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'.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I have no winter coat but I have seen one on ebay. I'm not sure......its long, full length. I might look like an rotund monk in it. Its not exactly what I was after. It would lo better if I could wear heeled boots with it. But it looks warm. Its also black.
I have a fleece, and also a "proper" winter coat, that I absolutely adore. I bought it 3 years ago, and it still looks like new - I loved it, thought it was too expensive, and OH bullied me into buying it, and I'm very glad he did. It's a cream, Phase 8 mock sheepskin coat, and perfectly smart enough for work. And very warm.
By the end of this winter, though, I won't be able to do it up. :eek: I can already see the future need for new work clothes, which is a major league PITA. My work trousers fit differently already - tighter round the front, but looser round the ar5e, as I can't eat and be pregnant at the same time....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'.0
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