Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

neverdespairgirl

I've been draining, sieving and then filtering my sloe gin from last autumn this evening.

Normally, I'd also be doing some essential quality-control tasting of it too, but that necessity has had to be postponed this year. Sadly. I rather like sloe gin.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Am watching Mars Attacks! for the first time.

It's completely bonkers. I should really be going to bed but it's irresistible!!!

Ack....

Ack Ack......

Ack Ack Ack Ack Ack Ack Ack.

Yorkie1

Not to mention yodel!

Generali

Pommes boulangere is a good dish.

Sliced spuds (the ones sold as baking potatoes work especially well) interspersed with sliced onion. A cup or so of chicken stock poured over and a few blobs of butter on top.

It gets its name from the fact that people used to take it to the baker to cook it in the cooling oven.

It's amazing what we waste these days. I'd think nothing of turning on the oven to make a jacket spud or something. People used to have to use the cooling oven to keep body and soul together.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Thanks Blin.

I thought it would be just too weird to have a heterosexual only group this large once you include lurkers.

I bet there are a lot of lurkers on this thread. Hello lurkers

Evening all! Agree with the that point about a group this large. Lydia, this group's a lot bigger than it was which it's why it's so fast. I think it has shrunk then grown, slowed down and speeded up.

Spirit, hope you're OK it's unsettling when you have a bump. We skidded on an oil patch once between vauxhall and clapham and hit a traffic light. Everything went into slo-mo, a most weird and unsettling experience. Nobody hurt, not even the traffic light although it blew a tyre. A policeman and policewoman were walking past and helped us change it. If I'd thought to note their details I should have phoned their boss and said something good about them.

SC I used to spend a lot of time in the US when soon-to-be-Mrs Zag worked there. Found it's a hard place to kill time unless you've a car or can put up with some amazingly dull TV. I used to explore the university area of the city and spent so much time browsing in bookshops and record shops I got offered a job in a record store.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Sister #1's very small puppy continues to show who is in charge:

Excellent puppy.

So cheeky, but so cute

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I'd think nothing of turning on the oven to make a jacket spud or something. People used to have to use the cooling oven to keep body and soul together.

I've always had an eye on waste and don't oven bake spuds for the reason that it's a waste of electricity to have a whole oven on for so long for one potato. It's no longer a cheap meal!

Spirit_2

Made it safely too and from the pub. Stuck to diet coke. OH is drunk. This is a very infrequent state of affairs so I am fine with it and will look after him as necessary.

The band was fantastic - mostly played covers of The Jam, the Clash, Sex Pistols, Undertones, Madness - the music of my student years (well we also had Rumours).

The happy couple have four offspring between them , she two girls of 17 and 19, he two sons of 25 and 30. Watching them all together I felt so pleased for them as they have a fabulous family who plainly get on very well and have grown close. They are all delighted by the upcoming wedding. The whole family were dancing and singing together (baggy trousers) The girls lost their dad when they were small, the boys lost their oldest brother at the millenium so they have known hard times.

The bride to be was telling me she was undecided about her future surname as she felt it "one more step in leaving her late husband behind". My nephew's widow has recently remarried and has taken her new husbands name, she had changed from being a widow to being a wife, she had not left my nephew behind, it is that he cannot go forward with her.

The LNE status is going to be rare as it is dependent on a death in a short window of time so I am not surprised that few are found.

I do know of widows/ widowers of long separated people although not sure how they refer to their own status, widowed or separated.

I dealt with a case at work where a widow was set up to receive benefits whilst a long standing partner was not to receive benefits. This was legally sound but morally wrong and uncomfortable as the partner was known to colleagues and would be in hardship whilst they went through the worst of the grief. When he got his diagnosis the staff member he had told colleagues he intended to make a change to his pension nominee but time ran out in days.

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

Just wondering. On the scale I reckon I'm very hetero but I have had a little dabble once when drunk many years back.

Was your companion gay or a fellow-dabbler?

LydiaJ wrote: »

I think I wasn't the only female NP who felt that more than one bloke at a time was just as off putting as a woman.

You certainly weren't. I'd not fancy any combination of genders in a more-than-two situation.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

If the first person to find it happens to be honest, then that's all it takes. V pleased you got it back, but vaguely puzzled why you were carrying a fork.

I've got a spoon in my handbag.....