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

lostinrates

I nipped into waitrose today to get veal and spinach.

I got more.

But I noticed they are dong a cranachan trifle which made me furious as this is what I wa gong to do this year as my offering for nye and or burns night and now it will look like a copy cat. So I won't. Even though mine would of course be better.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Set yourself a time limit lir, that way you can't be perfect every time. At least I can't, maybe I don't know street view well enough. It's more spin round, do you see a sign, yes, focus in on it, oh, it's in cyrillic and there's an onion dome church in background, therefore stick pin in Russia. There's not a lot more you can do in a minute. I've played it the other way, which takes the guessing out, but it isn't fun.

Mine are hopeless, but I dodn't realise at first I could do anything at all, so wa just looking at the photo and thinking,...hmm...looks....mmmmmwestern European......maybe French, but not a bit I know...lets try,...um, that bit....


But now I know it can be right right is more important than fast if see what I mean.

I'm going to send it to some friends so they can have fun with it too. But its the kind of thing that drives perfectionists mad.....where as from just the photo it was seriously fun!:o:rotfl:

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Gen, I'm sorry you've been feeling less than perfect. I love caffiene.

It does make me feel a little 'edgey' but.....oddly, I think I feel a little more comfortable that way.

I love caffeine too but recently it has been mucking me up quite a lot. A real favourite is an espresso with a small piece of very dark chocolate.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I nipped into waitrose today to get veal and spinach.

I got more.

But I noticed they are dong a cranachan trifle which made me furious as this is what I wa gong to do this year as my offering for nye and or burns night and now it will look like a copy cat. So I won't. Even though mine would of course be better.

Can't you make it and give it a slightly different name.... Ye Olde Scots Treate.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

I love caffeine too but recently it has been mucking me up quite a lot. A real favourite is an espresso with a small piece of very dark chocolate.

:kisses3:


Feel better soon. Maybe consider to have a well man check too? Never hurts to have a look see when things are physically good to get things checked to see what your norms are ( or if you're not as normal as you thought:eek:).

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Waitrose have an interesting policy when applying discounts.

Just bought 3x spaghetti and 1x lasagne ready meals. The spaghetti was originally £2.49 and the lasagne was £3.99. So retail price £11.46.

The spaghetti was buy 3 for £6, and all ready meals were 10% off with a my waitrose card.

The 10% off was applied to the total giving a £1.15 discount
The 3 for £6 was also applied to the total giving a further £1.47 off.

The spaghetti was reduced from £0.79 and the lasagne to £0.99. So further discounts of £8.10, taken off after the other discounts were applied.

Total cost of the lot was therefore 74p. Idiots. Freezer will probably break down now.

They do this a lot. The 3 for £6 deals can be fantastic if any of the dishes has an additional discount. Once walked out with a set of 6 meals at about 75p each. Runs out of space in our freezer- full of peppercorn steaks casseroles etc. Wish we'd kept the 9-drawer freezer we had in our old house.:(

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

zagubov wrote: »

Wish we'd kept the 9-drawer freezer we had in our old house.:(

We just got a new fridge/freezer before Xmas, one of those big American style jobs.

Absolutely cavernous interior, and much better to get things in and out of than a chest freezer. Keeping the old one in the utility room too, so plenty of space for bargain hunting.

Picked up some heavily discounted meats and ready meals on Xmas eve to fill it up with too.:)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Can't you make it and give it a slightly different name.... Ye Olde Scots Treate.

Refer back to fraughterfectionist. I shall probably do the original and seethe silently about how amazing a trifle would have been on burns night ( though the original probably cannot be beaten in truth). On nye maybe I'll do a trifle.....its sort of traditional, but of a different sort. Maybe rhubarb. DH has a rhubarb liqueur I like the smell of I could use.

iPod if I do another fruit I quite like the idea of replacing the custards creamy bit with a layer of mousse of some sort, I don't want to spend all day in the kitchen though.....trifles are quick, multi layered fancy things less so as they need more thinking about while you contemplate your creation. Especially when you cannot taste as you go along. .

michaels

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Waitrose have an interesting policy when applying discounts.

Just bought 3x spaghetti and 1x lasagne ready meals. The spaghetti was originally £2.49 and the lasagne was £3.99. So retail price £11.46.

The spaghetti was buy 3 for £6, and all ready meals were 10% off with a my waitrose card.

The 10% off was applied to the total giving a £1.15 discount
The 3 for £6 was also applied to the total giving a further £1.47 off.

The spaghetti was reduced from £0.79 and the lasagne to £0.99. So further discounts of £8.10, taken off after the other discounts were applied.

Total cost of the lot was therefore 74p. Idiots. Freezer will probably break down now.

This used to work in Sains but they stopped it as obviously it got silly and now you get the opposite silly of ready meals at £3.49 or 2 for a fiver reduced to 2.50 so if you can buy two the reduced item is no cheaper than the in date stuff.

lostinrates wrote: »

Mine are hopeless, but I dodn't realise at first I could do anything at all, so wa just looking at the photo and thinking,...hmm...looks....mmmmmwestern European......maybe French, but not a bit I know...lets try,...um, that bit....

Only played once but did it that way - mostly I was within a few hundred miles but in one case this flat road in a flat landscape with some palm type trees turned out to be Thailand and not somewhere in the south of Europe....

PasturesNew wrote: »

Normal service is resumed.... I'm home. It's all still here and only minor mishap seems to be my expanding curtain pole with a net curtain chose the week I was away to fall down.

Good to have you back. I find it very hard to relax in someone else's (even close family) house.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Good to have you back. I find it very hard to relax in someone else's (even close family) house.

Yes, it's not easy/good at all

I also had many bad nights' sleep ... waking up several times each night all over the bed.