Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

hjd

PasturesNew wrote: »

You've only got one arm??

I had 2 last time I looked - but if I wore one on my right arm, I wouldn't be able to fasten it with my left hand, and if I wore it on the left it would rub.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

lostinrates

Pastures, updating you with what I use my kitchen aid for.....

Just made mayo with it. Because it did the whisking I could clean benches between oil drizzles.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think I am ambidextrous when it comes to watches.... don't even know which arm I'd put it on - to know that I'd have to pick one up and put it on without thinking (probably put it on my left arm).

I'm mentally going through it and can't decide .... both seem plausible as recipients.

I very rarely wear a watch. They tend to stop on me.
But, when I do I used to wear on my right before I broke the head, now I wear on the left, and the right feels odd. Weird huh?

DH wears on the left.

Spirit_2

My chooks have not turned up.:(


It looks like we have lost our cockerel and two home bred mixtures.
No sign of any feathers. Will check a further neighbours garden for evidence but not expecting any good news. Feel a bit glum.

I now only have two chooks left.

We have a large run but let them free range when we can. This is only my second predator loss in 10 years so I will keep keeping chooks this way as it is a very good life for them.

Will look for ex batts and bantams, hens only.

lostinrates

bugslet wrote: »

They lead very happy lives, don't they. Mine get locked in an office with me, which they don't miond, but kipping in the sun sounds much more pleasureable.



I had a private numberplate on my VX, sold with the car as it was car specific rather than bugsleet specific. I don't wear a watch at work, basically because I only have one and it was an expensive one for my fortieth. I too can tell the time to within minutes as well.

Sorry, not contributing much at the minute, but work is silly busy and likely to stay that way for a while, possibly the rest of the year. Taken on one new member of staff, thinking if we need more, here or Southern office, extra vehicles..... It's good, but no time!

I'd like a numberplate I can remember. Not the boss asked which was my car last week and I said ..' Um.....there's a 7 in it I think'.



I think my girls would like an office, particularly big dog. Big dog would have been a better only dog. Dog dog just wants to be with me, and kiwi just wants to be busy

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

My chooks have not turned up.:(


It looks like we have lost our cockerel and two home bred mixtures.
No sign of any feathers. Will check a further neighbours garden for evidence but not expecting any good news. Feel a bit glum.

I now only have two chooks left.

We have a large run but let them free range when we can. This is only my second predator loss in 10 years so I will keep keeping chooks this way as it is a very good life for them.

Will look for ex batts and bantams, hens only.

Darn, I was going to offer you a boy and a couple of bantam cross girls if we have any:D

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Pastures, updating you with what I use my kitchen aid for.....

Just made mayo with it. Because it did the whisking I could clean benches between oil drizzles.

I've never made/eaten mayo ... except that which comes in a squeezy bottle from Lidl

I was thinking since the comment the other day when I asked about food drying out in a dishwasher if you don't use it more than once in 5 days and I've been watching to see what I mean about what I said.

I enquired if putting dishes into the dishwasher didn't mean that food was hardened onto the dishes after 5 days as I put everything in soak. I think this read as "I burn everything, so everything has to soak", but I know I never burn anything, so had to watch for a few days to explain.

If I have a plate with, say, pie/chips/beans on it then it's almost scraped clean as I'm greedy, I'll put that plate in the bowl with a little water where the pie/chips rested. Next I'll get Weetabix/milk in a bowl and I'll pour water into the bowl and down the plughole (that's now blocked by the washing up bowl) and place the bowl on top of the soaking plate and top that up with water.... I'll continue to do this with pretty clean dishes until the bowl's full and I've run out of the dish I need (1-2 days), then I'll wash the lot up.

I'll usually have: 2 plates, a dozen knives/forks/spoons, 2 bowls, a pyrex jug, one mug, 2 paring knives and 2-3 plastic pots I use to store things in the fridge (ex sandwich filler tubs) and 2-3 plastic dishes (saved from microwave meals) that I use to heat up things (such as tinned tomatoes/beans) in the microwave. There might also be 2-3 plastic storage tubs that have hardly been used - e.g. when I bake the part-baked baguettes they get halved and stored in those, then need washing out, but they're not "dirty".

If I'd not made sure they were all sitting in water/filled with water, then by the time I did wash them up it'd be a big scrubbing job to get off the dried weetabix, bean juice, small pie debris, dried cheesy mash/beans.....

Having been continually "left in soak" to do the washing up I simply have to empty the bowl, turn on the tap and wash everything easily. I don't do it straight away as it can take several minutes/gallons before the water temperature's stabilised itself and then got hot enough for good cleaning to occur.

lostinrates

Another first world problem.

I cannot find any garden furniture I really like. I am thinking about one of those cube sets. They don't bowl be over, and if hate buying things I don't love, but I think its getting harder and harder to expect people to sit on the floor.

We need a big dining table really, 10 to twelve people, and I'd like it to be comfortable enough to be somewhere Res p could sit all day, feet up, reading or whatever. The good think about those cubes is they tuck in well, so when not in use not sprawling all over the show. But they look a bit......mean, when tucked up so.

I categorically don't do folding chairs, which narrows the search.

tomterm8

Hm... need to get on with some more work. I've been putting one youtube video up a day. It's kind of a learning project.

Need to focus a little more on things, I am so behind today

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

My chooks have not turned up.:(

Awww - is there a village Facebook page?