Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

Masomnia wrote: »

I realised pretty soon after so I think I've just got away with it. It's currently drying in some rice...

I dropped phone before current brick into a bucket of soaking sugar bête pellets. It was in the water for only seconds but never started again.

I hope yours survives better,

After getting ready 'emotionally' to buy a modern phone last week I found mine in the sofa so I feel happy not to have to update yet.

Oh, to help with indecision nice garage has offered to lend me a discovery for a weekend to see how I'd feel about a more modern car too.

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Spent the afternoon up at my parents house cutting down a tree and feeding it through a wood chipper. I need to get a wood chipper. And a garden to grow things in to feed through the wood chipper of course.

I could do with you (and your wood chipper) coming for a visit.
It's been a bit of a massacre in the garden this afternoon:


Bumped into my neighbours just after I'd headed outside to 'do something' in the garden (green bin collection this week and I had about 30 L left to fill). Mrs. Neighbour used to be a professional gardener and she offered to come and give me some pointers in the garden (she used to look after it). Not long later, we started at the Buddleja, It looks a bit barbaric, but it really needed doing. Unlike me, most of the front and back garden is rather 'leggy' after years of not much upkeep. I also used my new tree loppers to cut down a young leylandii which was trying to sneak into the garden (I really dislike leylandii) and some dead branches from another (as yet anonymous) tree. I enjoy chopping things Don't think I'll be struggling to fill the green bin for a few weeks

Mr. Neighbour brought round an angle grinder (:D) and chopped up the old swing frame that was decorating the garden (bolts were all rusted on) - and took it to the tip as he was making a trip there anyway - so I neither need pay the the council to remove it nor work out how to get that to the front of the house. He also used the angle grinder to cut the lock off the door to the back of the garage (I wasn't left a key) and fitted a new lock. I also asked him to drill some holes in the 2 water butts I bought (took that drill I bought back... decided I needed to do more research), which he did, then insisted on installing them. Which to be honest I'd have had to leave and buy a saw etc.

I'm very lucky to have such nice (and able) neighbours.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I learned my lesson with the slow cooker. ( though I am going to try it again soon because there is something I want to try and the slow cooker seems a good way to try it.

I do miss an icecream maker. I think DH would love me even more if I had an ice cream maker.

I've never had/used a slow cooker - and not had anything cooked with one. While some recipes appear interesting, most of them are simply things you can cook in a saucepan anyway.

I've never had ice cream made from an ice cream maker. Even when I've had a freezer I've probably only ever bought 3 litres of ice cream in my life - and my consumption of ice cream is at the rate of about 1 every 3 years.

it's not that I don't like ice cream - I do..... but there's only so much food that you can consume

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ended up getting a chilli beef pizza (£2.35) ... and also: 6 chocolate mousses, 4 Wispa bars, a loaf of bread and 6 muffins.... so spent £6 in total but did treat myself to high quality Wispa bars as my "mega treat".

Oven's on for pizza, sitting here scoffing a Wispa

Posh alert x2

1. Paying full price for a supermarket pizza
2. Having an oven to cook it in

I won't even mention the branded confectionery

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Absolutely no shame.

A lot of old style is talking about gadgets etc that I'd not use. I learned my lesson with the slow cooker. ( though I am going to try it again soon because there is something I want to try and the slow cooker seems a good way to try it.

I do miss an icecream maker. I think DH would love me even more if I had an ice cream maker.

I have in the dim and distant past made brown bread icecream. I have never had an icecream maker so i wonder how I did it?

If I find out I will let you know.
It may be away of increasing FiRs feelings for you without the need for further electrical appliances:).

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm very lucky to have such nice (and able) neighbours.

That is such practical help:T Well done neighbours.

I suspect that they are grateful to have you move in as the house was a student let before and the garden let go.

You are probably a godsend and they can see their house value increasing by you taking care of your property and being a lovely neighbour.

Nikkster

So yesterday I went to Grand Designs Live. My house is more likely to be seen on DIY SOS, but I can dream
Was even more of an MSE day than I'd anticipated - show tickets were free courtesy of MSE, and I'd managed to get a day return + zone 1-6 travelcard for the tube for less than a tenner. Arrived at the train station to find that no trains were running from my station as a power line had come down. I know it was an unexpected incident, but the station staff were next to useless - no announcements about what to do. Eventually a bus arrived to take us to a station down the line to pick up the train. Anyhow - journey was delayed by over an hour (nearer 2) so I should be able to claim back half the ticket price. Which means I should get back more than I paid
And I didn't buy anything at the show. Got some good ideas (and had a nice day out with a friend), but didn't actually part with any cash (until we went out for dinner).

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never had/used a slow cooker - and not had anything cooked with one. While some recipes appear interesting, most of them are simply things you can cook in a saucepan anyway.

I've never had ice cream made from an ice cream maker. Even when I've had a freezer I've probably only ever bought 3 litres of ice cream in my life - and my consumption of ice cream is at the rate of about 1 every 3 years.

it's not that I don't like ice cream - I do..... but there's only so much food that you can consume

There are excellent commercial ice creams, I see no need for anyone to have an icecream maker ( occasionally I make icecream with out one. The difference making icecream at home is that you are not confined to other people's palates or tastes.


I detest the slowcooker. I suspect this is mainly to do with lack of mastery of it. Food tastes 'diluted' in it and wishy washy. I'm going to get to grips with it I hope. I like saucepans and stewpots. I prefer stove top cooking often because I like to meddle and think and the smell while things are cooking gives me time to think about tweaks from what I miss in the fragrance. ( one of the reasons I don't miss a range like an aga really)

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I have in the dim and distant past made brown bread icecream. I have never had an icecream maker so i wonder how I did it?

If I find out I will let you know.
It may be away of increasing FiRs feelings for you without the need for further electrical appliances:).

Oh, I know how to make icecream you just take it out and mix it a lot. A good icecream maker does all the mixing and freezes quickly. You can put the stuff in it at before sitting down for supper and have it for pudding . . And its easier:D:D


I used to have one, but it got cirrosis of the churner from too much vodka or something and died.

lostinrates

Nikkster, excellent work!


Fir and my efforts look puny. We also have to get really good at lavender cuttings this summer!