Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

Apprpos of nothing I got a text overnight from my newish mobile phone providers telling me I'd used up all my included data. When I looked I've just started a new billing period today.

That was much more pleasing than I expected it to be. A bit like thinking you've lost a tenner and then finding it in the back pocket of your trousers.

Yesterday I spotted a small handbag hanging in the hall. I never hang hand bags there, and it has been hidden by coats. I was pleased to see it and instantly wanted to use it:o. On opening the back of it..4x £10 notes all crisp from a cash machine. It felt like a windfall.

We had another windfall yesterday. OH had emailed friend to tell them we had their festival tickets and saying that we were happy to wait to be be reimbursed until we next saw them, and enclosing our bank details if he preferred to transfer.

Ticket money and the other money owed was transferred to us yesterday:) OH also had an email apology for the delay. So that has ended well. We ended the day £540 up.:)

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

Yesterday I spotted a small handbag hanging in the hall. I never hang hand bags there, and it has been hidden by coats. I was pleased to see it and instantly wanted to use it:o. On opening the back of it..4x £10 notes all crisp from a cash machine. It felt like a windfall.

We had another windfall yesterday. OH had emailed friend to tell them we had their festival tickets and saying that we were happy to wait to be be reimbursed until we next saw them, and enclosing our bank details if he preferred to transfer.

Ticket money and the other money owed was transferred to us yesterday:) OH also had an email apology for the delay. So that has ended well. We ended the day £540 up.:)

Fantastic! What a result:beer:

I've had a go at Tart au Citron this evening. It's yet to come out of the oven but it doesn't look good.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I've had a go at Tart au Citron this evening. It's yet to come out of the oven but it doesn't look good.

If it goes badly, you can always mix it with ice cream and freeze it .... tart au citron ice cream.....

Or mash it up and serve with a broken meringue and call it TarCit Mess.... or just Mucky Tart

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I blame michaels ......

.... so I got up, allbeit a little late... looked at the clock and it was 8:10, so I decided to go for a chair .... got there (3 miles), walked in behind an older couple .... walked across the store and there was a man wheeling out 2 chairs and the member of staff with him just said "last 2" .... the couple stopped, I stopped ... and he said "that's it, those were the last 2".

So missed them.

But I checked with him, for details .... he said people had been queueing since 7.30am and they'd had 80 chairs to start with.

Oh well .....

My plan is to stroll into Homebase at 11 and see if they will price match, I'll try not to rush back on here and let y'all know if i succeed.

Ii bet ever complete disaster in appearance tart au citron would taste delicious.

Spirit_2

We have a 9+ duvet all year. There is another bit to it but it is buried somewhere. Heating is on often and usually set to 20 at night.

Our bed and spare room bed are both 19C cast iron so storage amounts to whatever you shove under it but quite a good height.

DD has a modern metal bed , shallow plastic underbed boxes and loose assorted clutter are stored under it.

Our furniture has/is a mix of antique pieces in 'brown' woods and pine. Last year we decided it was too dreary, so downstairs has had a clear out mahogany dining table and arts & crafts chairs sold - chairs were popular but the table less so. Other small occassional furniture such as a mahogany pie crust wine table has gone too.

We have replaced it with modern light oak JL stuff. More 'common' , as in frequently seen, but a lighter look and happier to live with.

Brown furniture is very cheap at present. At some point OH and I are going looking for some art deco type side tables.

We have found sofas we want but are paralysed by indecision about the sizes. We want three to arrange in a U shape and space is a bit tight. At Christmas we moved other furniture in to create a U shaped sitting arrangement, we have not moved it back.

The current style of our sitting room is "scruffy with a hint of shabby" with a large two seater dark red sofa (we have had 25 years), bulky rust arm chairs and footstoo,l and a cream two seater sofa.

The main sofa has a feather seat and back cushions so looks in permanent state of sad collapse.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

We have found sofas we want but are paralysed by indecision about the sizes. We want three to arrange in a U shape and space is a bit tight. At Christmas we moved other furniture in to create a U shaped sitting arrangement, we have not moved it back.

I've noticed a lot of flats/houses for sale (on RM and on telly) where people've bought a sofa and it's over-filled the room..... looks daft. Where the sofa prevents any further usage of the room

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

Fantastic! What a result:beer:

I've had a go at Tart au Citron this evening. It's yet to come out of the oven but it doesn't look good.

If the look is not great but it tastes fine that will be OK.

There are exceptions to this of course..I once made a pineapple cheese cake as a dessert when we had guests. It was not a firm a set as I had hoped.

I took the metal ring off it and the top slithered off the base and the whole thing resembled a plate of vomit.

Generali

Most of the year we use a sheet over here. Maybe a duvet gets used in earnest for a couple of months and then is left at the foot of the bed just in case you wake up cold in the night for another couple of months.

I love sleeping with a cool head/face and being really warm from the chest down. Not a lot of that in Sydney. I predict a lot of arguments over whether the window is open or shut overnight this Xmas when we're in England.

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

If the look is not great but it tastes fine that will be OK.

There are exceptions to this of course..I once made a pineapple cheese cake as a dessert when we had guests. It was not a firm a set as I had hoped.

I took the metal ring off it and the top slithered off the base and the whole thing resembled a plate of vomit.

When I said it doesn't look good I meant it looks like it will taste horrid. Actually now it's out of the oven it looks a little better.

We'll see how it goes.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I won't be having 3 sofas.... just one.

I will bring my own (mint) tea bags.:):):)