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

Doozergirl

We did Sharm at Christmas. Loved it. The sea is warm, the snorkelling was unbeatable.

We also got the most amazing deal, bought flights from Easyjet and the hotel I researched for ages and found the right level of service etc at the right price and even managed 10% cashback through Quidco. I would happily recommend the hotel The food quality and variety was fabulous. No trips to Cairo etc again now, but it's as far from Sharm as Belgium is from us, probably, but the opportunity is there for a bargain.

In laws have a place on the coast near Lisbon. It's lovely. We should go more.

I went downstairs for the first time in neary a week to try and eat with the family. It was like trying to eat really tasty red hot pokers. I have retreated, defeated.

Doozergirl

purch wrote: »

I have always thought that she is somehow, not normal :eek: (were there any UFO sightings over Croydon in 1962 ??)

I'm a Croydon girl, originally

tomterm8

misskool wrote: »

Almost all diets are just calorie restrictions, people just feeling hungry and doing more.

All diets for reducing weight are calorie restriction ; not all diets involve being hungry. You can manipulate the calorie density of food so that someone who is on a diet is full, and someone who is massively over maintenance is hungry.

But, calorie restriction in LiR sense is a different thing; it aims for a substantially smaller number of calories over a very long period resulting in BMI's that are often underweight or malnurished compaired to most common medical advice.

Personally, I think that 5:2 is basically just a standard diet, over the course of a week your deficit averages to no more than 500 a day, whereas as the number of fasts increases it becomes more and more extreme until you get close to starvation levels at the far extreme of 1:6 or VLCD.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Emotional attachment to clothes. I'm getting the spring cleaning feeling to chuck things away but this whole thing has thumped me. I'm like you, annoyed that I can't just be getting on but just can't do anything (but we have different conditions obvs)

Its been dry but threatening all day, we were convinced it would rain, and the air has been.....heavy. Very grey and dark.

Our soil is still sodden. I remember every year you are able to get on your ground before me and I am envious, Here it would be unwise : I could, and should, start tidying the weeds that have germinated in containers and so on and so forth.

I'm really sorry you feel grim. I hope the cause subsides rapidly!

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

Its been dry but threatening all day, we were convinced it would rain, and the air has been.....heavy. Very grey and dark.

Our soil is still sodden. I remember every year you are able to get on your ground before me and I am envious, Here it would be unwise : I could, and should, start tidying the weeds that have germinated in containers and so on and so forth.

I'm really sorry you feel grim. I hope the cause subsides rapidly!

Unlike yours, mine only lasts maximum 48 hours so will be well in a day or so. it prings but going slowly now.

I can't get out to do the borders yet but thought I could start clearing the top rubbish.

tomterm8

I can't even walk on the grass in my garden. No chance of doing anything substantal.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I can't even walk on the grass in my garden. No chance of doing anything substantal.

Our grass in the garden is doing a bit better. Wouldn't put the mower over it but can walk over it. We use the road as our garden path really.

Just a
put our char Sui pork in the oven. Its b
Very unlike us but I think we've had this three times already this year, making more meals than that from each 'cook'. And we had that jamie Oliver fifteen minute meal we had last weekend again yesterday. I'm just not imaginative enough ATM.


Noodles got me through those carb heavy months I think!

lostinrates

Ok, so I have switched on to the closing ceremony stuff on bbc very late, and missed opening ceremony, but I am finding this slightly creepy tbh. Winking bears and those other animals actually give be the heeby Jeebies.


I have really enjoyed the winter game coverage much more than normal limpics though.


The mongolfiera is beautiful.

Yorkie1

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

LOL someone did that on our allotment... But they left without taking up the carpet. OH has been digging up nettles and couch grass growing on top of carpet. He's now trying to find our Stanley Knife to hack it into small enough pieces to drag up and bag up to take to the tip.

Have to admit we put loads of old stuff from house on the paths at top of garden, they are in much the same state as the lottie carpets.

Carpets are banned on our council allotments sites now as they are a nightmare to lift (I know someone who slipped a disc trying to lift one which the grass had grown through), can disintegrate into bits in the soil, and you just don't know what chemicals are leaching into the soil from it.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Does anybody like to help the OP on the house buying board anymore or is it just an opportunity to pick holes at what people say? Am bored, but not bored enough, clearly.

I go on there, but I think many of the forums have become so much less tolerant over the last few months or year or so. People very quick to call troll or criticise someone for not having full knowledge already.

zagubov wrote: »

I am my ideal weight (if I was a foot taller). On another thread there's loads of people on this 5:2 diet. Not me yet but need to do it I reckon.

I do it, and feel brighter as a result. But not lighter ... the eating on the other days is way too over-compensatory

Yorkie1

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok, so I have switched on to the closing ceremony stuff on bbc very late, and missed opening ceremony, but I am finding this slightly creepy tbh. Winking bears and those other animals actually give be the heeby Jeebies.


I have really enjoyed the winter game coverage much more than normal limpics though.


The mongolfiera is beautiful.

I've been watching it too; don't understand most of it but it has been fun. I shall be bereft tomorrow when I get home from work

I've had a surprisingly effective day. Should have been at church at 9am but getting out of bed never quite happened ... A neighbour knocked on my door a bit later, so I got up at that point and went to help him prune his apple tree.

Spurred on by that success, I pruned my own without breaking it, me, the ladder or the loppers / bowsaw. Half of it was done by a friend a couple of years ago, so the other half needed attention now.

Did a bit more tidying up, chopping up old sunflower stems into the green wheelie bin ready for when the collections start in 5-6 weeks.

Now need to decide what to eat...