Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sellotape and a bit of cotton thread. As long as they are tinfoil wrapped you can hang anything on the tree - Quality Street, Heroes...

I know what I could do ... but then I'd need to be buying thread and finding the sellotape and getting round to it

And the santas weren't all that brilliant, so I figured I might get some elsewhere. It seems, though, that most shops aren't selling choccies to hang off trees. I even said in one shop what I was looking for and the two women at the tills had a mini discussion about how they'd had early stocks, but nothing since and they, too, hadn't seen them in supermarkets/other shops either.

lostinrates

Here is an odd thing though, I had an Italian person here for coffee yesterday. And the words froze really badly. I do note because resident parent is here DH and I are speaking less in pigeon and more and more in English again. But woah, it was super hard. I had to think really hard about the word for glass, goose, and rat. I even had to pause for church! I was ok with war and military which I don't know if I have ever used myself, though obviously been in conversations about Iraq and stuff.

Yes, it was probably a weird conversation.

tomterm8

To be honest that still sounds like my mum to me. She is now at the point that her difficulties aren't noticeable to other people, BUT when she is tired or when she goes 'off script'* I can sometimes tell that she is having to slow down and think more about what she is saying.

Plus, sometimes she's just worse than other times for no reason.

* lots of conversations have a 'script' ... hello... how are you? Fine, thank you etc.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

To be honest that still sounds like my mum to me. She is now at the point that her difficulties aren't noticeable to other people, BUT when she is tired or when she goes 'off script'* I can sometimes tell that she is having to slow down and think more about what she is saying.

Plus, sometimes she's just worse than other times for no reason.

* lots of conversations have a 'script' ... hello... how are you? Fine, thank you etc.

I guess lots of neurological things have similar patterns?, I don't know, noones ever discussed that with me. I was also thinking after speaking with Lydia about something she said about her ds about a difficulty he has and thinking about pathways, which is slightly different result, but I can see how the same happens to me for different things......


Really annoyed, though my painting was coming today ( missed a delivery yesterday) so have insisted that either I or RP was in the sitting room all morning. Driver just came and it was a small parcel for our neighbour not here at all.

PasturesNew

I nodded off.

I forgot to mention - I bought batteries... for the tree topper. It needed 3, I got 12 as that was the packet available. However, to get into the battery pack requires a screwdriver - a tiny one, the sort of size that you might find inside a cracker. Tiny ... well, I do happen to have a small screwdriver here, which was still too big. But, I did manage to use it to get the batery pack open. I've inserted the batteries, but now can't replace the screw right now as the screwdriver's too big to do the screw up.

But .... the topper is now flashing with LED-goodness

lostinrates

Christmas lamb audition for living nativity scene, please do not quote....
Snipped now

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

lamb

Awww .... how can you ever bear to leave the house???

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Awww .... how can you ever bear to leave the house???

They are not always clean.....

Lydia saw the dogs who were in a honking state on Monday. ( that get a 'proper' going over twice a month. Today was the day the professionals did it.

lemonjelly

Zag - done mate!

All our decs are inside. Don't see the point of them outside, as we can't see them!

Should point out too that we have a specific santa cup, plate etc for his mince pie and milk to go in. There's also a seperate plate for reindeer food (glitter) and carrot for rudolph.

Even now last one to bed has to bite the carrot, pie & drink the milk.

Last year I snuck back downstairs & using talc did footprints on the floor. That was funny!

PasturesNew

Watching James Martin's Christmas food show. They've cut away to two Indian chefs .... who are making something ... and I can't understand a ruddy word they are saying. It'd be possible to follow half what they're saying, but never to understand what the recipe is all about at all.

Odd....

What they are making looks nice, spicy fishcakes, party food.

Ah, other one's speaking now ... Scottish .... NO idea what he's saying. An indian and an indian/Scot .... I've no chance!

Thank god for google, I can google the fishcake recipe.

All I can hear is a bunch of random words, then random sounds....

Found it, bloke was Cyrus Todiwala and recipe is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/fish_cakes_with_tomato_22086

Not that I'll ever make it, but I do like to look.