Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Get you! You'll turn into a lady wot breakfasts! Why not if you enjoy it...you'll get out, get to meet new people... when do you start? I feel a recce maybe required sooner rather than later... just to check it out..

Well, they do carveries too, for about £7, .... it's not a salubrious pub .... this is the sort of old local joint that does Open Mic nights and Karaoke (both best avoided...) and random "got the BBQ out this afternoon" posts on their Facebook page ... but we could do an NP Meet Up for a carvery belly busting chow down

Man v Food might have nothing on us

neverdespairgirl

purch wrote: »

You Barristers are weird :eek:

Don't blame me, I don't make the rules (-:

Under the wig, gown and bands men need to wear 3-piece suits if they are juniors (we're all juniors, no matter how old, unless and until we "take silk" and become a QC). QCs wear different court trousers, no waistcoat, and a special jacket under their gowns. Their gowns are silk, juniors' are wool and cotton mixed.

So a QC will usually wear a 3 piece suit with waistcoat, separate collar and tie until he gets to court, take off the jacket, collar, tie and waistcoat and put on court collar, bands and jacket, and he's ready to go.

"He" because women's clothes are different, we wear all-in-one court collars and bands made together.

In Chambers, it varies - some Chambers insist all barristers are in 3-piece suits all the time, others don't care what you wear when you aren't in court or having conferences with clients.

silvercar wrote: »

Abandoned. Change of mind. Again.

Oh dear! Are you OK? The whole thing sounds immensely frustrating for you and your DH.

LydiaJ

All you can eat breakfasts are wasted on me. I either get terrible value for money or else I feel terrible all morning. My metabolism is just not designed to have lots of food at the beginning of the day.

Fortunately, when we stay at the place up the road from LNE's parents, the all you can eat breakfast deal is that if there's at least one adult paying full price, then kids eat free. DS is not a big breakfast person any more than I am, but DD makes sure that as a family we get excellent value overall.

Talking of DS and eating... One of the few forms of mammalian meat that he actually used to like before he gave it up was ham - never on pizza (he would pick it off) but in cheese & ham toasties. Since he gave it up, I've tried him with turkey ham, but he wasn't impressed. However, this week I have found he will eat toasties with cheese and thinly sliced chicken. I've just got some quorn ham for him to try too.

PasturesNew

I'd like a job with flexible hours (with me choosing that flexibility) and where I can wear jeans.... where the duties are specific/set and a doddle - and where it's acceptable to surf the Internet when you're not actually working.

I had a one day temp booking once - unbelievable it was. It was a regional office for ITV (television), where the local reporter/cameraman worked from (I never saw them). The job was to sit in reception. Reception was a room about 15'x30' with a low desk and in the corner a comfortable seating area and television (for visitors to sit and wait).

The job was to answer the phone and take messages for the reporter. There might also be members of the public dropping in for the sort of reasons that the public drop into such places. e.g. there was a cooking slot called "Patrick's Pantry" so a member of the public might drop in to pick up a recipe.

My "induction" was being told the following: Answer the phone if it rings, take a message. Watch what you want on the telly, but if a member of the public comes in make sure it's on ITV. If somebody comes in for a recipe they're in the drawer there.

And that was it. The phone rang about 4x that day..... so I sat and watched the telly. Of course, this was in about 1987, so pre-Internet.

I could handle a nice little job like that 4 days a week

Yorkie1

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Grrrr. Some sort of hitch with the bit of the chain above us means we are going to be homeless. Our tenancy agreement ends on 17th and looks like we won't have completed by then.

silvercar wrote: »

You've been on MSE long enough to know you don't have to move out....stay another month, there is little the landlord can do about it.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I know, but they've let the place to someone else and morally I don't want to sit tight as that will likely result in the new tenants being homeless instead. It would be the letting agents fault if we did refuse to move out though - we said we didn't want to extend the contract, they asked us when we would leave, I said "don't know" and they have proceeded to not s21 us...

We will probably have exchanged by the 17th so hopefully won't be too long. Storage isn't expensive and we may take the opportunity to stay in a hotel near work if it isn't for more than a couple of days. Just a bit of a pain having to move twice.

Might be worth asking the removals company whether they can pack you and store the stuff for a short while, then bring it to the new place when you've completed. At least that way you would have minimal disturbance in the circumstances and wouldn't have to source separate storage.

Perhaps a bit risky if you haven't exchanged by that date, though.

neverdespairgirl

Breakfasts are wasted on me, really. They come far too early in the day. A couple of cups of tea, or perhaps some toast and marmite, are the most I can fancy

Yorkie1

lostinrates wrote: »

But then don't you want the matching knickers on fulL view and to see properly how they'll look when worn together? The same pics are often used for the knicker listings.

One leg in, one leg out?

(I'll get me coat ... )

Yorkie1

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

If you have to wear them for your work dress code, though, washing machines make no difference.

(Men) barristers have to wear separate collars and shirts, because a court collar is different from a normal one. You are supposed to go to court in a shirt and normal collar held on with studs, and when you get to court, take off your tie and normal collar and use the same studs to put on the court collar, and then bands.

It's considered bad manners to wear the shirt on the way to and from court without a normal collar and tie.

Never knew that.

There are times when the other branch of the profession looks so much less faff!

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Talking of DS and eating... One of the few forms of mammalian meat that he actually used to like before he gave it up was ham - never on pizza (he would pick it off) but in cheese & ham toasties. Since he gave it up, I've tried him with turkey ham, but he wasn't impressed. However, this week I have found he will eat toasties with cheese and thinly sliced chicken. I've just got some quorn ham for him to try too.

I'm not keen on ham that's cooked such as on pizze or sandwiches ( I think I might be the only Brit who doesn't like toasted sandwiches too......I like mozzerrella in carrozza, or sometimes croque Monsieur etc if done in a pan, not in a sandwich maker ( I find those things weird). As a student I had one and used it but .....often to feed friends. I think its the bread.


Edit: would he eat fish? Hot smoked salmon, as opposed to normal smoked salmon, might be useful? Fish oils might be valuable in other ways for him anyway?

purch

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

some toast and marmite,

I rest my case.