Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

We are definitely not of the put an extra jumper on mold.

Please, if any one visits me, I do try to warm the place up when visitors come but......bring an extra jumper!!

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

You're a ruddin' walkin' posh alert.

I guess I was thinking of people who can't afford to have the heating on ... so not you.

I've been huddled under a blanket for the past week already..... it's too cold to even think about getting up to make food. Braved it enough earlier to put the oven on and make up half a packet of 15p stuffing mix, then bake that and eat it.... fingers are freezing just typing this.

Oh PN reading that makes me feel a bit sad. I just interrupted OH (who is cladding my walk in wardrobe as I write) and read it to him and he just said 'Is she OK? '
Are you? I said I thought you were despite just having stuffing mix for dinner.....

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never liked/had dates. I remember in the 1960s there was always a packet of dates in the bowl as a Xmas treat. The traditional packet that had rounded ends and inside was a plastic two-pronged fork. They were dad's.

Never fancied them.....

A box like these: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DbpqRnKDw4s/TRHpTuvvyVI/AAAAAAAAA1g/yTiTaZ8EBJo/s1600/eatme.jpg

We still have 3 packets in the cupboard from a long time ago.
I must use a recipe to cook them in.
What was Bug's recipe?

lostinrates wrote: »

Sitting by the woodburner. So nope.


However, do wish I was living somewhere where didn't need heating engineers or electricity companies.

Thisaftertoons meeting brought a whole new surprise. House surprises are rarely good. Today was not a rare day!

What surprise? Is that the heating should be left on 24/7?

I don't think we have ever done that except when it snowed.

Mind you we are totally non MSE at the moment as the steels have gone in across the back and we have a 2' deep strip open to the elements across the the entire back of the house above the windows. It affects 2 rooms but the icy wind is whistling through both doors throughout the house.....so the heating is on full blast to compensate.

neverdespairgirl

Went to GP, who said I was probably deficient in ever vitamin, and certainly anaemic, so he's given me a prescription for some pills. Can't get them until tomorrow, though.

Isaac was angelic, managed to shut up the entire time!

GDB2222

Doozergirl wrote: »

I am so cold! I'm in my bed with a coat on. The heating is on but even standing next to the radiator isn't helping.

I have to do school run in a few minutes. Dreading it!

It has been really funny weather here in London. This morning, it was literally freezing cold, and it was bucketing down with rain and hail. This afternoon, it changed dramatically and was warm and sunny. Well, fairly warm. Warm enough for me to go out walking for an hour.

Spirit_2

fc123 wrote: »

Oh PN reading that makes me feel a bit sad. I just interrupted OH (who is cladding my walk in wardrobe as I write) and read it to him and he just said 'Is she OK? '
Are you? I said I thought you were despite just having stuffing mix for dinner.....

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^^^^^I feel exactly the same

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never liked/had dates. I remember in the 1960s there was always a packet of dates in the bowl as a Xmas treat. The traditional packet that had rounded ends and inside was a plastic two-pronged fork. They were dad's.

Never fancied them.....

A box like these: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DbpqRnKDw4s/TRHpTuvvyVI/AAAAAAAAA1g/yTiTaZ8EBJo/s1600/eatme.jpg

I remember them!

I didn't understand the earlier comment about the spices swamping the flavour of chicken. I always thought the point of chicken was it was almost tasteless.

i always assumed that when people ate unfamiliar meat and they said it was like chicken they really meant it had hardly any taste you could recognise.:p

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Went to GP, who said I was probably deficient in ever vitamin, and certainly anaemic, so he's given me a prescription for some pills. Can't get them until tomorrow, though.

Isaac was angelic, managed to shut up the entire time!

If you are feeling exhausted, what are you going to do to rest more?

Well done Isaac for being a Nice child.

neverdespairgirl

Spirit wrote: »

If you are feeling exhausted, what are you going to do to rest more?

Well done Isaac for being a Nice child.

I've booked tomorrow out of court - I wasn't already in it, so marked it out of my diary. So I can be calm and get paperwork out of the way.

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

I remember them!

I didn't understand the earlier comment about the spices swamping the flavour of chicken. I always thought the point of chicken was it was almost tasteless.

i always assumed that when people ate unfamiliar meat and they said it was like chicken they really meant it had hardly any taste you could recognise.:p

Chicken is delicious. Has to be free range and of a good size, about 1.8KG

Roasted...
with just a cut lemon inside and rubbed with some olive oil and herby salt

or stuffed with HM sage and onion stuffing

It is so tasty .

Now I want roast chicken.

lostinrates

Some chicken is actually a quite pronounced taste. Some of our dual purpose bread cockerels have been almost gamey, the brown meat is properly brown.....not just dark white, and the breast is a bit puny tbh. But the flavour is......incredible. It doesn't really taste like 'chicken'.