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

sundevil_rachael

vivatifosi wrote: »

Welcome to the NPT rachael. I know of nobody with Brazilian contacts too. I did however borrow a bossa nova CD from the library where I work last week. I also went to Rio as a kid. But that's all I've got, sorry.

Ah that is ok, appreciate the thought and isn't Bosa Nova fabulous!

Rio is fabulous too, I am off there in 7 weeks....and counting :T

sundevil_rachael

michaels wrote: »

Welcome Rachael, i love that name spelt that way

Thank you, becoming a bit more common now but as a youngster I appreciated my parents individuality :rotfl:

sundevil_rachael

lostinrates wrote: »

Welcome sun devil Rachael. I love that spelling of sun devil too.


Brazil. Hmmm.

DH has yet more family there ( between us we can take the world, evil laugh)

If I were a food I might choose to be pao de queijo, ( which are so easy to whip up and are an easy adult supper with red wine if health is not the consideration).

And just after we bought DH was offered a job in São Paulo. We so would have done it some how. I probably would have stayed here cause of animals, but.....what an opportunity.

One of my best friends at school ( no longer in touch) was also from São Paulo.

Tenuous, all links. Bar the cheese breads. Every one should eat them. They are a bit like mochi. Which is quite sensual texture.

A big hello to you too, the cheese breads are lovely. I prefer the little bites but get a little addicted to them. That and the pastels all washed down with a Caipirinah of course.

My friend lives in Rio and is married to a Carioca (Rio Native) - not jealous at all of course. :eek:

sundevil_rachael

Generali wrote: »

Hi Rachael.

I went to Uni with a woman from Brazil, in fact we shared a house for a few months. She now lives in the US.

I live in Aus, as has already been said, in fact in Sydney. Gentile, mycophile with 2 Generalissimos (children). Welcome.

Another hot day down here. They've had over 13,000 dry lightning strikes in QLD today! There'll be a bunch of bush fires up there by the weekend.

Argentina and Brazil are both fabilous!

Sounds like a hot Summer down your way. I used to live in Sydney - Elizabeth Bay and then Punchbowl - gave me a view of both sides of life :rotfl:

Over ten years ago now but was there last year visiting friend who lives on the beach in Coogee and dragged me to some awful bootcamp at 5am!!:(

sundevil_rachael

SingleSue wrote: »

Welcome Rachael

I'm a divorced mum of 3, one who is at uni, one in 6th form (and is a musician) and one in his last year of GCSEs. The two younger ones have forms of autism plus other varying disabilities, the older one takes after his old mum and has a connective tissue disorder.

I love mushrooms, live in outer Herts (also known as the Suffolk coast), not a scientist but do love science and maths, not Jewish but it is in my ancestry and I can also be a bit weird.

Thank you for such a warm welcome too , glad we are all mutually weird!! :D






Thanks to everyone I have missed for such a warm welcome and look forward to joing all your chat soon (and when I am not on lunch at work:))

Have a great afternoon everyone

PasturesNew

grrr.... one lifelong problem I live with day to day is comms problems - and getting noticed, getting listened to ..... and getting SERVED. I was out and the market was half running, not many people about, there was a pie stall where I've previously had a nice sausagemeat plait (£1) from. Went there, was talking one to one with the stall holder - and then I enquired "how much are they?" "£1" he said "Oh I'll have one of those please, I've had one before and loved it"..... cue me getting my purse out of my bag and out of the corner of my eye I saw him getting a bag off the hook to put it into. Suddenly, from nowhere, a woman appears to my left and points out what she wants and he slides her stuff into the bag, then she asks for something else and he puts that in..... I was annoyed, but hadn't got my £1 out at that point, so fair enough (there were no other people anywhere near, market had about 12 customers in total)..... so then I assumed he'd get me my thing, when that woman re-appeared and pointed at something else (having already turned away from the stall) ... well FARQ me if he didn't serve her again.... so I stomped off, gripping my £1.

That sort of exchange/event happens to me pretty much every time I go out and try to buy stuff.... but it's still farqin annoying every time.

PasturesNew

sundevil_rachael wrote: »

glad we are all mutually weird!!

I'm super weird
You could guess "what sort of weird" if you wish , but that'd be super dull.

lostinrates

Urghhhhhhh



My dogs are stir crazy, I'm guessing the geese are as far away as they can be. I'm going to have to trudge through mud and yuck in the rain and blackness this afternoon. I think I'm going to start putting the guess down at the Cake again for a while, to keep them closer.

I need new muckers too, mine the lining is coming out.

neverdespairgirl

I'm back from Feltham - both OH and I have busy weeks this week, I'm in court 4 days (3 of them in Feltham) and OH's in Ashford today, and then either Sheffield or Leeds for 3 days from Wednesday. He really does need to find out which one it is, I reckon!

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

What's chocolate concrete lemon jelly? Is it like soldiers fudge, or rocky road maybe?

Here's Nigella's take:
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/chocolate-concrete-1735

the recipe I have at home also includes egg (only one). Essentially it's a halfway house between a cake & a biscuit. Tastes very chocolatey :drool:
Apparently it is lush with custard.
I only heard of it a couple of years ago, & made it for friends who haven't stopped jibber-jabbing about it!