Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

vivatifosi

Doozergirl wrote: »

Mmmm.... With too much butter and blackcurrant jam

Surely you mean raspberry jam... specifically this one:


yummmmmmmmmmmm

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Surely you mean raspberry jam... specifically this one:

yummmmmmmmmmmm

Cherry jam for me please.

Or marmite

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Surely you mean raspberry jam... specifically this one:


yummmmmmmmmmmm

Big fan of Bonne Maman myself. My mate's mum's homemade jam takes some beating. I was a big fan of her 9/11 jam: it was extra thick set because she got distracted by the planes thing.

I've never made jam. I make chutneys and pickles a couple of times a year. What I should really do is get organized about this and make jam twice a year, pickle twice a year, ham/backon twice a year and stock 4 times a year. That would be one day a month making stuff which tastes spectacular when homemade and which would have a genuine positive impact on my quality of life.

Time to sort myself out I reckon.

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

and which would have a genuine positive impact on my quality of life.

Time to sort myself out I reckon.

Sounds like it!

michaels

Downstairs is now carpet free. Upstairs still have carpet in 3 rooms sadly, one is small room so not too bothered other two are more problematic, one has a large built in wardrobe which stops the whole floor being done, the other has a steel in the room below that we might want to hide at some point which means putting down a non disturbable floor is not a good idea. At some point there will be a new carpet on the stairs and upstairs landing in a pale neutral colour.

Most of the walls are now white, eventually they will all be the woodwork is one times left, eventually all the doors should be unpainted wood.

The minimalist decor may be a reaction to living in hoarder / clutter land?

Tahlullah

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

OH reckoned the explanation could be translated along the lines, "Jesus was a Jew like Abba, and the Romans thought he was causing trouble. So they killed him on a cross in Jerusalem after Passover, and three days later he stopped being dead and Easter is about being happy he was undead."

Asked how chocolate eggs fitted into this scenario, he said he didn't know, but suggested that Easter is supposed to be happy because Jesus came alive again, and eating chocolate makes people happy.

OH is a bit worried that this group of young Israelis has an image of Jerusalem in 34 AD or so being occupied by chocolate-scoffing zombies.....

And now unfortunately, so do I.

sss555s

Doozergirl wrote: »

The truck is presently being loaded onto a massive recovery truck to go to London to be fixed. It's very broken. Something has shot out the side of the engine. It was a new engine two months ago so it should be covered under warranty. The cost of getting it to London isn't.

I'm also informed that it's been broken into outside the garage H took it to. Wondering why anyone would break into it, I was subsequently informed that my relatively new, fancy brand, lightweight £200 hoover was lying on the back seat. "Was" being the operative word.

We were going through a short spell of bad luck (except work) recently. For a couple of weeks, it seemed anything that could go wrong was going wrong, and that was before MiL's sudden death.

Nothing for it except to plod along and things will be sorted in time.


It wasn't a Gtech AirRam by any chance, are they any good?

I was considering buying one, but the fact I have a very serviceable Miele is making it hard to justify.

Doozergirl

sss555s wrote: »

We were going through a short spell of bad luck (except work) recently. For a couple of weeks, it seemed anything that could go wrong was going wrong, and that was before MiL's sudden death.

Nothing for it except to plod along and things will be sorted in time.


It wasn't a Gtech AirRam by any chance, are they any good?

I was considering buying one, but the fact I have a very serviceable Miele is making it hard to justify.

It was. I also have a very expensive, heavy Polti steamer/hoover which is brillliant but everyone else hates it.

The Gtech started flicking dirt behind it and trapping sand on a plate under the actual dirt catcher which it would randomly drop back on the floor in heaps but it may be because we have hard floors and proper sand coming in from the state of things outside and our loamy soil, so heavier than dust. It was handy for giving things a quick go over and getting other people to do some hoovering.

I was torn between that and the handheld Dyson. In retrospect, the dyson would do my stairs easily and conwebs etc. so I wish I'd bought that.

No doubt there will be a gtech on ebay shortly.

I'm sorry about your mother in law . Everything else is replaceable at some point, it just happens that I need every penny I can get my hands on at the moment, or it wouldn't smart so much.

lostinrates

Jam....

I am a jam !!!!!. Has to be the right one for the mood.

. Best jam memo more...a friends mothers bramble jelly that was underset and she was upset. I prefer underset jam and jelly, vastly. Something with the ooze factor.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Doozergirl wrote: »

the handheld Dyson.

We have one of these, it's pretty good, but the battery life is annoyingly short.:(