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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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lostinrates wrote: »No, cried in a frustrated and angry and fed up and lots of other negative emotions way.
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Ah, I'm sorry to hear that:(. it must be unbearably frustrating some days.
I found the scallops I had on Saturday night on a pre-theatre meal didn't like me. At least I realised that and left to throw up outside rather than over the chap in front of me.:o. Managed the second half of the show, but did a repeat performance on the hard shoulder of the motorway.0 -
Btw we also have the metal nut crackers, and some sort of wood ones where you corkscrew the nut into submission and a couple of others. Only DH actually attempts to use the Nutcrackers as in the soldier type.
I have the best nutcracker. I bat my eyelashes at DH and he cracks me a nut.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Electric lights on the tree - turned on when it's dark and the room lights are out .... and never left on if you're not there.
I had a feeling you'd say that. I'm a bit more cavalier about leaving them on, I'm afraid, especially now we have LED ones that don't get at all hot, rather than the older ones that were forever blowing one lamp and taking ages to find which one needed replacing. I wonder whether it's safer to have a fibre optic tree that plugs in or a non-electric tree with lights put on it after it's set up.
I'm dreadful about forgetting to switch off the outside lights. Last year I remember coming home from work more than once to see they were still on from the previous evening!
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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PasturesNew wrote: »Many years ago I visited a friend who had an unusual style of nutcracker, it's a flat piece of metal that you stick in the top of a walnut, give a small twist and the walnut opens immediately in two halves (99% of the time). She said to me "keep it, I never use it".... still got it, 25 years later. Only "downside" is that I rarely get round to buying walnuts at Xmas as there's so much food overload anyway that you can't buy everything, so they don't get bought.
Bit like this, but not in sterling silver and no tassle: http://www.thelondonsilvercompany.com/images/cache/products/sterling-silver-walnut-opener-542.229.jpg
Hmmm.
I think we might already collect nutcrackers but not in the way I meant:rotfl: . 0 -
Ah, I'm sorry to hear that:(. it must be unbearably frustrating some days.
I found the scallops I had on Saturday night on a pre-theatre meal didn't like me. At least I realised that and left to throw up outside rather than over the chap in front of me.:o. Managed the second half of the show, but did a repeat performance on the hard shoulder of the motorway.
Oh poor you.
The thing with shell fish is that when it doesn't sit well it makes it very, very clear. Shell fish food poisoning is always the worst!0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Btw we also have the metal nut crackers, and some sort of wood ones where you corkscrew the nut into submission and a couple of others. Only DH actually attempts to use the Nutcrackers as in the soldier type.
I have the best nutcracker. I bat my eyelashes at DH and he cracks me a nut.
Yes! I have a wooden corkscrew type thing as well as a metal one too. And I have someone to crack nuts for me - DD likes cracking them but doesn't like eating them!Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
The birds have arranged to grow me some mistletoe - I wonder if it is a criminal offence to cut it these days?
So I now have holly, ivy, yew, and mistletoe all potentially toxic for little people.0 -
Walnuts are normally possible two together in one had, brazil nuts not a hope - however we haven't had nuts for a few years cos of DS allergy. His annual check was due in October, rang the hospital to find out why no appointment to be told the consultant had left so we are now on a waiting list which of course they had not bothered to tell us....I think....0
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PasturesNew wrote: »I can do that. It's what I used to do, before I got the walnut opener
A single delicate little female hand crushing a pair of wrinkly shelled walnuts...the mental image brings tears to a grown man's eyes.....I think....0
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