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

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I would just like to say that

SILVERCAR is amazing. Thank you.

Glad it is working! Sad that it is needed and bad form that they need to have something in place of this order.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Yesterday when I couldn't make calls I asked DH to order a guinea fowl for me to collect tomorrow.


He's on ths phone now and told me he ordered two and that the conversation was really weird because he said to them 'you cannot really have one can you?' And they said ' cannot you?' And he said 'no it wouldn't be fair' and they laughed and said 'well, there's that'

The upshot is we're picking up two guinea fowl in the morning andi'm not sure whether they are alive or oven ready.

DH thought I meant ' as pets' and I thought 'for supper' god only knows what the people selling guinea fowl think.

OH once phoned me to say he thought he had hit a peacock driving down a country road.

I replied that I didn't know what to do with a peacock. He was thinking along the lines of rescuing it, or scraping it off the front bonnet grill. I was thinking about cooking it.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Durian: tastes like heaven smells like hell.

Hmm. Should I taste a durian biscuit then? Gen...its junk food.....will it taste like heaven?

I'm torn ...I feel I should try it, because one just should......but...it smells so bad. Its junk food, so I don't feel that I'm missing a rare treat in the way I would if someone had cooked it for example.

If it had been cooked for me I would try it. Like it or not. But it hasn't been, so I feel ok to say no, but also curious. DH won't actually say whether he likes it or not. He has sort of rolls of the fruit too. Looks like fruit leather.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

As to other points.....I don't really feel lots of you are strangers tbh. Helped by the fact I have met some, but tbh, lots I met didn't feel like 'strangers'. I think I just feel able to relate here differently because most peoe don't give a monkeys if someone's third cousins dog is snoopy or whatever. We're just people, who might or might not be somehow connected, but the obvious 'nickname' removal even those of us who 'know who each other is' in real life, seems some how more ...to the heart of the matter at times. Does that make sense?

That is definitely true, there is lots of stuff that I would probably share with complete strangers but wouldn't with you lot

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

OH once phoned me to say he thought he had hit a peacock driving down a country road.

I replied that I didn't know what to do with a peacock. He was thinking along the lines of rescuing it, or scraping it off the front bonnet grill. I was thinking about cooking it.

But wouldn't it be fun o have a go with oeacock? When the fox got one of the oeahens I had to resist temptation to ask neighbours for carcass to try.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Glad it is working! Sad that it is needed and bad form that they need to have something in place of this order.

Well.....its me, and I took you advice and gilded the lily a little. I didn't try just one of them. The whole top team got it.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

But wouldn't it be fun o have a go with oeacock? When the fox got one of the oeahens I had to resist temptation to ask neighbours for carcass to try.

The Romans used to eat peacock. I heard it's not very good (Heston TV show?).

I'm having my cyst destroyed in a minute or two. I know it's silly but I'm quite nervous. Wuss.

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

The Romans used to eat peacock. I heard it's not very good (Heston TV show?).

I'm having my cyst destroyed in a minute or two. I know it's silly but I'm quite nervous. Wuss.

Hope it goes well Gen. For what it's worth, I don't think you're a wuss.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Public forum stuff. Ironically its here I can be more relaxed about some other things.....which is why real life feedback is different. Real life inner circle who I would talk in a relaxed way about things like in laws....as a random out of the air thing, is small, because its a small world and many of them work in similar fields or know someone who knows one of 'em or something. So, if say, an issue involved them, it would be hard for them to get an idea of the roundness of the issue.

Feel free to PM (or email) me if I can help, or not if not.

silvercar wrote: »

Glad it is working! Sad that it is needed and bad form that they need to have something in place of this order.

lostinrates wrote: »

Well.....its me, and I took you advice and gilded the lily a little. I didn't try just one of them. The whole top team got it.

I have no idea what you are talking about. Should I be able to understand this, or is it cryptic on purpose?

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

Hope it goes well Gen. For what it's worth, I don't think you're a wuss.

Neither do I.