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

Spirit_2

Lunch was 'freezer surprise'.

It turned out to be the christmas turkey soup.:j:j:j

OH and I love turkey soup, but reminds me I need to label things a bit better. Once left a cottage pie out to defrost for dinner and got home to ...crumble.

We only have a few freezer drawers so I always think I will remember what everything is. If I put it in aluminium trays I write on the lid and date it, but plastic boxes or serving dishes are my "unidentified frozen object" down fall.

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

I think you are selling yourself short there Spirit, I wouldn't swap if I were Mr Spirit.

That is either very sweet of you, or you are trying to rile Pastures. I think it is going to take more than that to turn her head.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

That sounds very stylish. My kind of outfit.

Indeed, sounds rather dressed up to me.

great fun with a canvassing guy today. DH was barely able to contain himself.

DH and I have healthily different stances on a couple of issues and the poor guy didn't know which way to argue in order to go for the most reliable vote.

Its an interesting 'test' sincerity or political ability.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Lunch was 'freezer surprise'.

It turned out to be the christmas turkey soup.:j:j:j

OH and I love turkey soup, but reminds me I need to label things a bit better. Once left a cottage pie out to defrost for dinner and got home to ...crumble.

We only have a few freezer drawers so I always think I will remember what everything is. If I put it in aluminium trays I write on the lid and date it, but plastic boxes or serving dishes are my "unidentified frozen object" down fall.

DH had some spice cake from Christmas with lunch). I think its that sort of weekend where Christmas stuff comes to the top of the pile again.

LydiaJ

Welcome ladeeda :hello:

Hope you enjoy the NPT.

Spirit wrote: »

Can you say what it is without revealing too much?

Um, well, it's assistant to the post that the current bloke is trying to get promoted to. It's organisational/admin rather than pastoral/academic, and carries a bit of extra money and a few hours a week time allowance off teaching. I can PM any NP who are desperate to know.

My laptop is on its last legs so I have just bought a new one. I have signed up to the free 1 month trial of Office 365. I shall either have to carry on with it or buy Office, since the copy of Office 2007 that I inherited from LNE has now been installed on as many computers as it's allowed to be. I'll need it on my own machine, DS's (currently has 2007 but he uses 2010 at school) and DD's (currently hasn't got Office at all but will need it within the next year or two).

My email, contacts, calendar and tasks are currently handled by Outlook 2003 (because LNE's version of Office2007 didn't include Outlook). I sync the calendar, tasks and contacts (but not the emails) to my Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 phone using DejaOffice, which I had to pay to put on my old laptop. However, with an Office 365 subscription, I should be able to sync my phone direct with Outlook 365 in the cloud. But it won't let me set it up. I followed the instructions to get it to send a set up text to my phone, which it did, but when I try to follow the link in the text, it tells me that Office mobile 365 isn't compatible with my device. This is puzzling, because googling the problem says that it's compatible with Android phones but not Android tablets. Furthermore, I'm unable to set up the Android phone to sync with email over the Office 365 exchange server - I follow the instructions but it fails.

Are there any NP who know anything about this stuff? Or should I try posting on the Techie Stuff board? What I'd really like to do is go into some kind of shop where they help you with these things, and get somebody to sort it out for me. But I don't think such a place exists, does it? I bought the laptop direct from Dell online.

Oh, and also, I like using a separate mouse rather than the trackpad. I've bought a wireless mouse to use, but its buttons are very stiff. The (wired) mouse I have at work (also a Dell) requires much less force to click the buttons and I much prefer it. Can anybody recommend me a wireless mouse with buttons that only require pressing very gently? The problem with buying mice is that they're always inside stiff plastic packaging, so you've no way of finding out how stiff they are until after you've bought them.

lostinrates

ladeeda wrote: »

haha Spirit
The criteria I meet are mushrooms (bad) and scientist (not) live in Herts (not) Jewish family (not)
Thanks for the welcome - I have read MSE for years and never got the urge to post before and now I'm a bit smitten.

Ooooh, that's a great start,

Just so you know, I love mushrooms, live in greater herts, and have a Jewish partner. I have written on Mse for years yet rarely taken the time to read :rotfl::o

lostinrates

DH gave me a gift this afternoon. A pair of beautiful soft fleecy pj bottoms from tk Maxx. They are so soft its incredible, and I have a vest top that's a perfect companion because its the same colour as the lovely ribbon tie.


I cannot decide if its real love when a man buys your fleecy pjs or a bit of a warning sign.......;)

poet123

I am quite new here too (and non too sure of my qualifications to be here, but was warmly welcomed) I find this thread a bit like the twilight zone at times. You read a post and the next post is totally unrelated, the next unrelated again, then a clutch of related ones, rinse and repeat. It is like the game we used to play as a kid where you would write something and fold over the paper and the next person would add another comment.

I love it, and it is very much nicer than other places on MSE.

Welcome ladeeda, fyi. I love mushrooms, live oop north, am not Jewish but love watching Strictly Kosher on TV, have posted for years all over MSE.

sss555s

silvercar wrote: »

yet again my printer is playing up. However much I clean the heads, they clog up quickly again and waste even more ink in cleaning. I am considering going back to a black and white printer now that the boys don't have school work to print.

Any recommendations. Currently have an Epson that prints too slowly, but scans and faxes well.

I just knew you were going to say you had an Epson before I read the last part. They are well known for "drying out" especially if you don't use it regularly.

I switched to a Canon MX870 SOHO which was a great multifunction printer. It worked great and lasted years.

Last year it stopped working so I got a Canon MX925 which looked like the equivalent, updated, but was quite a bit cheaper.


I'm not as happy with the MX925. It's a bit noisier, slower to start and I had a problem with the fax that it would cut off my landline calls, so I disconnected the fax as I never use it now anyway.

The MX925 is wireless and good at duplex printing, but if I had to get a new printer I'd have to think twice about getting the MX925 again.

lostinrates

ladeeda wrote: »

I think I could probably manage a few nice posts and I hate mushrooms. Passionately - the slimyness of the texture turns me, same for prawns.

Thanks for the welcome michaels - see, you lot really are nice

We're nice in here.

Most of the time. Sometimes we remind each other and apologise and move on, because that's what nice people do. (So I'm told. )

Prawns are funny. I both like and dislike them....

I have a particular issue with them sometimes which I won't share in case it upsets any one else, but they remind me at times of something else, especially if overcooked and tough, which makes it very difficult for me to eat them if I get that mental image. But when I don't they are fine.

But DH and I both got terrible food poisoning from prawns last year and tbh its not been somewhere I've cared to go since. I've eaten them as a guest, especially as they were offered to me as something that had been thought of especially to cater to my somewhat difficult eating restrictions, (though I did say I would pop in for a drink but not stay to eat........)