Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

On a lighter note, a good friend visited from the UK a while back and brought with him a few beers. It turns out that I inadvertently saved the best til last, a fine brew called Sheepshgger.

With all this talk of UKIP and their possible rise to power, I'm very pleased that I've invested time and effort into becoming an ale drinker. At least I'll look like I fit in :beer:

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

I've been to 5 baptisms and one naming ceremony and catered all of them. All of mine were baptised, the other three events were for my sister's children.

My christening was a joint one with my cousin who was born 10 days before me, it was held in a lovely little church in Sussex.

We had Jerusalem at my wedding.

I've been to more than I can count, both baptisms and dedications, and been godmother at two of them.

I was christened at about 3 or 4 months old, wearing a Victorian christening gown belonging to my dad's family. It was quite a lot longer than I was. My youngest brother, then aged 6, walked into my parents' bedroom just before it was time to go to church, and saw me lying on the bed wearing the thing, and said, "That's far too long. She'll never walk in that."

Jerusalem always reminds me of the person who described its first verse as a series of questions to which the answers are: no, no, no, get them yourself.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

There was a BBC reporter on the news this morning, at a car boot sale somewhere like Nottingham... he was trying to go round and randomly chat to stallholders about things..... and those he spoke to either had no clue about anything or wouldn't speak to him.

At one point he did say "It just goes to show - the further from London you get the less people feel interested in this stuff that seems massively important if you live in London".

Like I said yesterday - most people really don't know, don't have the time to know/understand... and will just vote for whoever their mum/dad did, or will vote based on one leaflet's one-line promise ..... which won't be delivered.

I read an article which said the opposite. Voters in the Midlands were voting UKIP to stop this supposed mass immigration of Lithuanians without ever having met anyone from Lithuania. Yet in London, the home of more recent immigrants, the support for UKIPs policies was lower.

One thing that has changed, there was a time not so long ago when people would be embarrassed to say they had voted Conservative.

silvercar

SingleSue wrote: »

I've been to 5 baptisms and one naming ceremony and catered all of them. All of mine were baptised, the other three events were for my sister's children.

My christening was a joint one with my cousin who was born 10 days before me, it was held in a lovely little church in Sussex.

We had Jerusalem at my wedding.

Jerusalem was my school song. A large state school in Wales, I was always surprised that they had chosen a song where one of the more memorable lines was "...walk upon England's mountains green.."

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

Jerusalem always reminds me of the person who described its first verse as a series of questions to which the answers are: no, no, no, no, get them yourself.

Brilliant :rotfl:

silvercar

I bought some lights yesterday. Assuming that they would be in flat boxes. I was wrong.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

I bought some lights yesterday. Assuming that they would be in flat boxes. I was wrong.

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Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

reel-to-reel

Probably showing my age here (not sure in which direction ), but the only thing 'reel-to-reel' means to me is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_2_Real

particularly:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtrgjbG3uUs

Yorkie1

Nikkster wrote: »

Anyone else suddenly craving a Crunchie now? (other chocolate bars are available)

Always

Nikkster wrote: »

So, what can and can't go in there. No tomato seeds (don't think I ever chuck anything with tomato seeds away anyway) - what else?

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Just check out the RHS link I sent a few pages back, or google making compost. Don't put tomatoes in, or spud peelings, or meat of any description. But it's easy. Chuck in some cardboad (toilet roll and kitchen roll middles as example) and maybe some shredded paper. You want about 50/50 green (kitchen waste, non perennial weeds, maybe grass clippings) and "brown" (the paper and cardboard). We tend to just make a heap of grass clippings, and then dig them in under where we're going to plant the beans. We dig in some of our home made compost too, and then add a scatter of chicken s*it granules. Beans at the lottie went bananas last year! Though we didn't get to harvest any as green beans as were away on holiday, but we picked them, podded them, blanched and frozen, and over the winter we've had loads of beany stews with pork or other additions.

Do make the effort to fight your way through to the composter and rescue it! The great thing about compost is that even if it does go to a slimy mess it's rescueable using paper and cardboard. Go for it!

Maggie's said most of it. No dairy or cooked meats. I do bung tomatoes in as they're easy enough to hoik out the following year (or replant for early, sturdy plants - far sturdier than those you deliberately planted from seed and cosseted lovingly ... )

If you use weedkiller on your lawn, don't compost the cuttings for about 3 cuts. Avoid putting too many lawn cuttings on at once. And after that it's fairly straightforward.

I remember going round with the biggest grin ever when I emptied my first compost bin on the allotment

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

Probably showing my age here (not sure in which direction ), but the only thing 'reel-to-reel' means to me is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_2_Real

particularly:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtrgjbG3uUs

Ha ha, I remember them. Jazz it Up! was ok I thought.

This is quite funny, I thought so anyway:

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