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

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

The rest of us look pretty normal too.

Normal? Is that hat normal in Herts?
That'd make me stare across the street, potentially to walk into a lamppost.

PasturesNew

purch wrote: »

Not in a hat like that :eek:

PHEW - not just me then!
When I saw/responded, I thought it might just be me.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

I like looking at the pics of baths that you post, but ... many of them seem to have very sharp edges. Do people not lie back in the bath with the back of their head and neck on the edge of the bath?

I'd like to do that - like they do in the ads. Unfortunately, being short, it'd take a short bath for that to be possible!

In most baths, most of the time, if I am lying down in the bath, my feet aren't reaching the end (unless my head goes under).

Years ago we used to have a standard bath that had a good sloping end for lying on. I remember trying to lie down and ending up "bouncing" my outstretched toes off the other end to try to stay above the water level.

I've always thought lying down in a bath is a fab idea... but unlikely unless I get my Heath Robinson sketch book out and start cobbling together plastic stools and bricks to hold them down in the water.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never really been into pasta dishes. My only experience really being mac cheese, spag bol, lasagne ... and pasta salad. If I am eating out I'll never choose pasta as I see it as a "cheap/pointless meal" and I want proper food, so will go for a curry or a pie.

Hence - I've never really thought about pasta sauces and flavours.... always thought they were bland and boring.

So, I had to google that sauce .... and I had no idea there was a pasta/sauce that was intended to be hot.

I don't get out much do I ....

I'd still prefer a curry/pie though in a pub. It's still "just pasta and sauce"

I love pasta.

It IS a cheap carby food, like Yorkshire pudding, its role historically was the same, to fill up on a cheaper ingredient. You might have a small portion as a starter or even after a starter but before a small main course. Or a big serving as a meal alone or a main course.


It makes expensive ingredients go further...just like with Yorkshire pudding we need only some thin slivers of beef and gravy with pasta one needs less of the key proteins. Expensive seafood, beef, othe meat....a shaving of ( my personal yuck) truffle....


I am not really a spicy pasta person, but I do love that starchy comfort of give like lover's skin to my teeth and that warm satisfied feeling of satiation from pasta.


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PasturesNew

There are loads of Quakers in my family tree. Not directly, but once you start digging around in the family history. LOADS of them. Notably loads, whole swathes. Not the odd one married into, but the whole family name going through generations.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

It IS a cheap carby food, like Yorkshire pudding
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You crossed a line.... you can't compare pasta to Yorkshires!
Sacrilege.

I love Yorkshires

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd like to do that - like they do in the ads. Unfortunately, being short, it'd take a short bath for that to be possible!

In most baths, most of the time, if I am lying down in the bath, my feet aren't reaching the end (unless my head goes under).

Years ago we used to have a standard bath that had a good sloping end for lying on. I remember trying to lie down and ending up "bouncing" my outstretched toes off the other end to try to stay above the water level.

I've always thought lying down in a bath is a fab idea... but unlikely unless I get my Heath Robinson sketch book out and start cobbling together plastic stools and bricks to hold them down in the water.

My mother lies in the bath and is shorter than you, I seem to remember having had this conversation before?


Laying I. The bath is important I agree, its much better read laying in the hot, scented water. Its the main reason we're not seriously looking at a beautiful copper bath ( I like the ones on that Mexican site actually) because they are all sitty- up type baths.

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

Just the throat gets irritated and triggers some muscular spasms somehow. Don't know if it's really well understood.

It does amaze me that we can built giant machines 20 miles long in underground caves that cross international boundaries to resurrect lost forms of matter like the Higgs boson that vanished from the universe 16 billion years ago.

And not explain hiccups. :eek:

That's the difference between physics and biology for you!

SingleSue wrote: »

My wheelchair is not fixable, so until some money is saved up for another one, we are confined to barracks

Begger! Half term next month is not going to be fun....

Oh no! I know you say hiring one ends up costing loads if you keep doing it, and is nowhere near as nice as having your own, but might it perhaps be better than nothing to hire one just for half term week, even if you save money by not hiring the rest of the time?

bugslet wrote: »

lydia, you always make sense.

Thank you!

silvercar wrote: »

In case that image of what orthodox jews look like remains, this is a recent rabbi (relgiious leader) of my (modern orthodox) community and his wife.

The rest of us look pretty normal too.

They look nice - as though they are the sort of people who smile often and not just when being photographed. I like smiley people.

And I think silvercar's point was not to give everyone the opportunity to criticise the lady's taste in hats, but to point out that they don't look "ultra-Jewish" with ringlets and long beards and so on. Yes silvercar, they look normal to me.

PasturesNew

Random house for sale, posted for no reason whatsoever except it's different.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41130896.html

ukmaggie45

SingleSue wrote: »

My wheelchair is not fixable, so until some money is saved up for another one, we are confined to barracks

Begger! Half term next month is not going to be fun....

Oh Sue, so sorry to hear that! Might be worth checking on eBay? About 7 or 8 years ago I found a manual one for £40 that was close enough to collect. Belonged to a chap who had a broken leg, so once leg healed he didn't need it any more. Of course mostly limited to collect only. And it's very basic too, but adequate in an emergency. Do you need a very customised wheelchair, or might you be able to manage small outings in something basic? Or is it one of those electric ones?

My other thought is it's possible to rent wheelchairs from the Red Cross. Even if you just did it for Half Term it might make life a bit easier. Do hope that you can manage to sort something out soon.