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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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lostinrates wrote: »I told DH I think lidls have bakers in store now, is that right PN?
Yes, but I don't buy from that.... it's "exposed breads" - open to people snuffling around, touching, coughing... I never buy exposed bakery items
What it amounts to is: when you go in, there's a 3-high row of wicker baskets, set at an angle on a framework ... filled with rolls etc. The row is about 30 baskets in total (never really looked/counted). Then, at the end, a small "booth" where the staff member takes them out of an oven and puts them in the baskets... the booth rarely populated.
It's also just inside the door, on the left there's cereals, then the bakery, then the regular bread display.... so it's in a busy area where you can't really spend time looking as there's a lot of footfall. I rarely see people getting the breads.
There are some images on Google, here is one I selected at random: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/LIDL_prodejna_-_koutek_pek%C3%A1rna.jpg - that big/open kitchen behind is not in my local Lidl at all....
Not watched it, but this Youtube video shows a similar booth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LA8lhImtyw0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Not long now till you can get a freezer and put all of this kind of annoyance behind you :j
I told DH I think lidos have bakers in store now, is that right PN?
Kind of. They bake off pre prepared things in some ovens towards the front of the store (at least near here). Its nice and pretty well priced too.
Three of us spent the afternoon. Five hanging baskets are now up (3 in the back garden were a surprise gift), the lawn and patio have a defined edge and about a million weeds are now in the bin (still plenty in the beds). The garden looks so very different. Its amazing
I also bought a garden table yesterday so we'd have somewhere to rest our drinks
All feels rather civilised!0 -
Nice Baby pics are gorgeous, NDG.Am I the only one who saw that story and thought of Lir and her ,chicken rescue,?
No. But not in any way that reflects badly on lir.PasturesNew wrote: ».... so it's in a busy area where you can't really spend time looking as there's a lot of footfall.
I understand that being speshul may mean you don't feel comfortable spending time looking at goods in an area with high footfall, but that doesn't mean that other people wouldn't.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I understand that being speshul may mean you don't feel comfortable spending time looking at goods in an area with high footfall, but that doesn't mean that other people wouldn't.
Yes, I like to look in isolation. I rarely see other people loitering in aisles though .... just me
I like to go up and down, then up, then down, then check, then look again, then mentally compare, then stand and try to decide.....0 -
NDG, Danny is a little beaut. Please give him a cuddle on my behalf x0
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lostinrates wrote: »Vegetables, so many lovely vegetables.
I am nursing a vegetable food baby and a whole heap of pre and pro bionics to try and get be through typical lir ' I can do this now' attitude, today applied to a diet of foods I have missed and only those foods, and not in moderate quantity.
Don't answer if you don'rt want to but have all the more recent tests now debunked the dietician 'can't eat anything nice' stuff?PasturesNew wrote: »Yes, I like to look in isolation. I rarely see other people loitering in aisles though .... just me
I like to go up and down, then up, then down, then check, then look again, then mentally compare, then stand and try to decide.....
I loiter, check prices by 100g etc and also really don't like buying food that is open to the air. Worst is our local market which is right by the main road as well so not just people and germs but exhaust fumes as well all over the bread and meat - yuck...
Question for NP. Boxing, I don't get it, grown people causing each other short term physical damage and long term brain damage and other people gettign really excited to watch this - is there something wrong with me?I think....0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I picked up the Tesco Home book while I was in there earlier.... it felt nice... just got it out of the car to flick through it and it's on the floor now ... blimey that stuff's ridiculously pricey!!!
I kind of suspect it is all 'price discovery' pricing and the vast majority sells at deep discount with voucher codes, clubcard boost, sales etc.I think....0 -
Boxing: no, not my cup of tea either.
Forgot to say, I've also been reunited with my Raleigh Lizard and my lovely stereo 0 -
Question for NP. Boxing, I don't get it, grown people causing each other short term physical damage and long term brain damage and other people gettign really excited to watch this - is there something wrong with me?
Nothing wrong with you at all.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Question for NP. Boxing, I don't get it, grown people causing each other short term physical damage and long term brain damage and other people gettign really excited to watch this - is there something wrong with me?
Why do people like football? I don't get it, grown people kicking a ball around the field, heading the ball causing them long term brain damage even worse than boxing and other people getting really excited to watch this - is there something wrong with me?:D
I guess the answer to me is...
Boxing isn't about violence, or half killing someone. It's just as much about pure skill, hard work, and hard thinking as any other sport. If you can't admire someone who's worked that hard to get that good at something despite all the human limitations - pain, fear, wanting to eat chocolate etc - then I'm not sure what you're going to be impressed with.
Most sport is the same to me. You enjoy watching people who have worked so hard, put so much effort in, that they are almost like gods coming so close to what it's possible for a human to do.
Same as when you watch a truly fine musician, or computer programmer, or cook, or chess player... Or one of those marching bands where they play difficult pieces of music, and then walk around, in difficult patterns, in time with the music. Just for the H-L of it.
Not that I enjoy doing boxing myself. I don't enjoy things that make me sweaty. At least, out of the bedroom:D“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0
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