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

Nikkster

I spent a lot of my afternoon in a certain supermarket (both parents are supermarket monkeys, it's traditional on our house to go bargain hunting and I am 49% tight after all). Things reduced in every dept other than bakery. All the fresh bread had best before dates of today or tomorrow. Disgusting that it will most likely all go to waste (there was a lot).

misskool

merry christmas all!

we're all bunkered down, sorry to have been missing but life gets in the way some times

michaels

Nikkster wrote: »

I think my parents are working up to making our house that house... Will try and get a pics tomorrow (have already popped to the garage in my obedient tonight, not doing it again ) It'll take a few years, but another illuminated Dec was purchased this eve... As well as our traditional yellow sticker turkey for next year (£84 :eek: down to £21. Wonder if that beat Michaels? )

I scored a complete fail - I was last to leave the office at 3 (the boss who was working from home sent an email at 3 saying anyone still in could go so I was able to reply that I was last and on my way out the door then slow train home as the line is still not fully fixed and then a choice Sains or Tesco as it was too late for both - we chose Sains as I knew they would have a better choice of the must haves although like last year they did not reduce any of the 50 odd birds left - I believe they go to the staff as a freebie and any left go for christmas 'soup kitchens'. Then again last year we bought a reduced turkey and when we came to eat it DW was very underwhelmed as she just hates turkey so no point looking for a cheap one really, duck or goose would have done but not to be this year.

misskool wrote: »

merry christmas all!

we're all bunkered down, sorry to have been missing but life gets in the way some times

And to you too MsK and family, we miss you but understand.

I seem to have suddenly started to got horrible acid reflux every time I have a mince pie

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

I spent a lot of my afternoon in a certain supermarket (both parents are supermarket monkeys, it's traditional on our house to go bargain hunting and I am 49% tight after all). Things reduced in every dept other than bakery. All the fresh bread had best before dates of today or tomorrow. Disgusting that it will most likely all go to waste (there was a lot).

Well, let's hope it's being given away to one of the charities doing free Christmas food for homeless people or something.

michaels

Wrapping done - just waiting for kids to fall asleep so Santa can do his rounds

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

Well, let's hope it's being given away to one of the charities doing free Christmas food for homeless people or something.

I'd love to hope so, but I really doubt it

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Well, let's hope it's being given away to one of the charities doing free Christmas food for homeless people or something.

That's one of the things I admired about America- they had a food distribution system called Second Harvest that sold massively discounted food at the close of day to needy locals (in some places they passed it to local food kitchens etc. to make sure it all got consumed). I'm a big fan of that as I can't stand the idea of waste, expecially something as precious and vital as food.

The Ausies have a great charity organisation called the Smith Family; another smart organisation we could do with importing (Gen will know more about them).

Funny how globalisation means we get to take on the wrong ideas from the countries we could imitate. Such as their bad spelling.

Nikkster

I think we've had a visitor : ) Albeit one photographed by a drunken crocodile
Hope all the NP have a lovely and peaceful Christmas xxx

zagubov

Merry Xmas bugslet. spirit, viva, gen, nikkster, GDB, missk, Hamish, kabayiri, hjd, ck, bertieUK, John. michaels, Lydiaj, lj, wheezy, lir, chewie, sc, yorkie1, talullah, singlesue, pn, ndg, fc, masomnia, tomterm8, doozergirl and allthess. And any other posters or lurkers I've forgotten. :beer: :j

Bear in mind my memory holds facts about as well as a string bag holds porridge. :eek:

tomterm8

Have a happy christmas / holiday everyone!