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

lostinrates

I've just watched DH eat an entire panforte. Incredibibile! At least I'm not worried about him being thin any more. He weighed himself a the vets and it will be interesting to know how the vets scales compare yo his gyms, because he cannot have out as much on as they said! He's looking forward to getting back to the gym tomorrow though.

neverdespairgirl

Gorgeous stuff, panforte. Of a similar name, and also fabulous, is panatoni (not quite sure how you spell that). My uncle & aunt always give us each one for Christmas.

lostinrates

Panettone.:)

Pandoro is similar without the dried fruit.

Generali

Tahlullah wrote: »

Wow, here I am showing my ignorance again!

What food do you cook which includes the use of blood, apart from black pudding?

Coq Au Vin and Jugged Hare both have their sauces thickened with blood in old recipes.

PasturesNew

*googles panforte* I've never had that, of course. You're the only person who consistently posts about food, almost daily, that I've never heard of

Today I've had: 3 after eight mints (all gone now); cheese omelette/oven chips/beans; 2 crumpets; 2 weetabix/milk/sugar.

Edit: ditto panettone - never had it, but I did know that was cake.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

*googles panforte* I've never had that, of course. You're the only person who consistently posts about food, almost daily, that I've never heard of

Today I've had: 3 after eight mints (all gone now); cheese omelette/oven chips/beans; 2 crumpets; 2 weetabix/milk/sugar.

Edit: ditto panetone - never had it.

If it helps, you post about food I've never eaten . I really fancy weetabix. .

neverdespairgirl

There is considerable !!!!!-footing around whether it is "action" or a "strike" or whatever. I rather agree with the head of the Criminal Bar Association:

George told his colleagues: ‘I call it a strike. Others of a more delicate disposition may not want to call it that. We can call it the teddy bears’ picnic for all I care, but we must do it.’

I was a bit concerned in case the BSB's [STRIKE]threats[/STRIKE] guidance was private, but it's on their website, so can't be.

https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/media/1549213/annex_g_-_guidance_on_deliberately_failing_to_attend_court_-_signed_off.pdf

They set out all the parts of the Bar Code of Conduct that you might be breaching if you take part in the action tomorrow, and conclude by saying:

Instructed Barristers who deliberately fail to attend a hearing at which they are due to represent a client may face regulatory action. In deciding whether to take action, the BSB will consider all the circumstances, but will have particular regard to the harm caused by the Instructed Barrister’s actions.

Barristers who are not already instructed to appear at a hearing and who wish to refuse to work on a particular day or for a particular period are in general free to do so. Therefore, in principle, you can book a day in your diary as unavailable because you wish to participate in a protest on that day.

However, should a hearing in a case in which you are instructed subsequently be listed for that day despite the fact you had declared yourself unavailable in order to register a protest (for example, an urgent hearing at short notice), you should consider carefully whether, in these exceptional circumstances, the “reasonable efforts” required on your part under rC26(3)(b) in fact oblige you to make yourself available, so as to avoid detriment to your client.

They are likely to find themselves with a fight on their hands if they do drag people into disciplinary tribunals over it - a number of non-criminal QCs have been pointing out rather loudly that the right to withdraw labour AKA strike doesn't just apply to tube drivers.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

If it helps, you post about food I've never eaten . I really fancy weetabix. .

I used to have it as a child, but put too much milk onto it and the texture would turn me off it... so I hadn't had it for years. But then I thought I'd try it again. I tried the Tesco Everyday Basics ones - they were fine, then I tried the Lidl ones - and they are a slightly bigger size, so better.

It's essential that you use a bowl where two can sit side by side absolutely flat (else it mucks up the milk absorption).

I then sprinkle a spoon of sugar over the top, then very carefully dribble milk frist round the edges, then in the middle - aiming to add just enough milk so that there are no dry bits left, but not making it a horrid soggy mass. Having milked the edges, I carefully dribble milk on the top, so it doesn't knock the sugar off.

I know that 1 pint of milk does seven portions of 2 weetabix.... one OCD day I'll pick up a tiny measuring jug and measure out "just the right amount" of milk rather than trying to pour it from a 2 litre bottle of milk.

I use only whole milk; I tried it with semi-skimmed at my sibling's house and it was vile as the milk was like water.

In Lidl a box of 36 Bixies (their name) costs £2.99 I think.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

*googles panforte* I've never had that, of course. You're the only person who consistently posts about food, almost daily, that I've never heard of

Today I've had: 3 after eight mints (all gone now); cheese omelette/oven chips/beans; 2 crumpets; 2 weetabix/milk/sugar.

Edit: ditto panettone - never had it, but I did know that was cake.

It's not very cake-y cake, it's quite light, and fruity. Very nice.

My mother's made panforte a few times after we had it in Italy when on summer holidays in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It's lovely, but eating an entire one is impressive!

PasturesNew

Has the law just become too long-winded and complex these days? In the olden days, people'd be caught for, say, a murder, banged into jail until the assizes bloke came round .... then they were tried in under a day and hanged within the week. It seems as if now a murder trial might not even occur for over a year, then take months to run.