Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Yorkie1

Nikkster wrote: »

What is one *supposed* to do with slugs and snails?

All the snails I encountered when dealing with garden pots yesterday encountered the underneath of my boot ... nope, I'm not at all a NP when it comes to things eating my plants

Spirit wrote: »

Unusually for me, I am not looking forward to work this week. Was it really only yesterday that I was feeling all was well with the world? I just want the days to go.

Try to be kind to yourself - given what you've mentioned in your post, any one of those would impact on someone's mood. You've got all in one week, as well as life generally. No wonder you'd like the week to be over.

lostinrates wrote: »

A plastic spoon? Wouldn't scissors be easier? My mother likes a bucket of salt or bleach so she can see their pain.

The not nice was bred into me.

On an allotment forum I frequent, someone got very pleased with their scissor success ... :T

zagubov

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Hope it went OK



I think so. Also the coca cola family / people who know the secret recipe, I once heard ...

I think the same's true of the American President and the Vice president. The President's plane is Air Force One and the VP's is Air Force Two.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

... just have pie and chips instead. Life's too short for odd food

Have to be honest, I prefer oysters most times.

And I'm guessing life is shorter if opted for pie and chips too often!

I do like a could pie though. Just, not too often.

PasturesNew

So, in my random googling (which can churn up all/any results, mostly not connected, so don't be fooled by what you discover) ..... I've an entry in a Parish Register where the given name doesn't "fit right". There's an unmarried mother and a man she married the following year and the child bears neither name, nor indicates that the marriage the following year was a relation of the child. Ergo: it looks like another little b4st4rd.

On the other hand, the last name in the Parish Register is SO far off either name, it makes you wonder if it's entirely an error.... I doubt the mother could read/write so would have just put an X against anything.

On another hand (lots of inbreedings, lots of hands) .... the last name of the child is [a] a well known village surname possibly even the surname of the local publican (and we all know what randy s0ds they are around 14-15 year old girls.

So ..... who is he? Where is he? Well, there's only one "match" on the whole Internet.... in the Old Bailey trials. Now, most of the people in that trial gave their address, but not this fella.

So I'm sitting here wondering if he is the "missing relative", banged up for 6 years for deception/fraud .... or if he's a random fella with the same name ...

The ages seem to fit ... I have a baptismal date of 1865 and a court date of 1884 with a 19 year old.

The OB transcripts don't even tell you which jail they were banged up in.

It was in the Criminal Courts in March 1884. It's such a shame all information isn't just online .... I'd like to dismiss him as "not one of mine".... but the name/age match. The only discrepancy would appear to be location/occupation, which are quite biggies really.

Unlike Viva's recent research, which was trying to prove a Royal connection.... all mine's doing is yielding a list of workhouses and jails.... and hundreds of little b4st4rds.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

... just have pie and chips instead. Life's too short for odd food

Beef and oyster pie? :rotfl:

Yorkie - I've been called a witch before (which I thought was either brave or foolhardy, considering). Prefer goddess though

PasturesNew

A funny thing happened to me today .... I was walking past a market stall and the stallholder was telling an old fella (aged about 65-70) that one of the coins he'd given her wasn't right and she couldn't accept it. So I loitered/eavesdropped.... dying to know what coin it was.

Then, finally, when he'd looked confused and she'd taken a closer look and kept trying to explain/hand it back to him (he had his marbles but wasn't listening), I heard her say "it's not a British coin, it says two shillings".... well, that's when I leapt in. "Ah, that is British coinage - that's old money" ... and I then had a conversation with the man, he showed it to me and said he must have been given it in change on one of the other stalls, so I suggested they might have given it as a 10p as it's round and silver and no other coin is..... he showed it to me and it was shiny, so I had to have it .... so then I offered him 10p for it. And he went for it.

So .... I now appear to be the owner of a 1970s Two Shillings coin, in mint condition. Googling it, it seems this was a proof coin.... it's shiny.

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

Beef and oyster pie? :rotfl:

That dish was my only experience of eating oysters. Not to be repeated. Gen says you have to eat them raw:eek:.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

That dish was my only experience of eating oysters. Not to be repeated. Gen says you have to eat them raw:eek:.

I saw oysters for the first time last year, when I was walking round the food festival and there was a stall there, so I watched the man open three and put them onto a serving dish for a customer. £5. £5 for 3 !!!!!!! slimey things.

eewwwww

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

Beef and oyster pie? :rotfl:

Yorkie - I've been called a witch before (which I thought was either brave or foolhardy, considering). Prefer goddess though

As you seem a dab hand in the garden, moving unmovable sinks and such like, if you have got magical powers can you please mow my lawn and clean my pond by voodoo or something, to save me the bother!

PasturesNew wrote: »

I saw oysters for the first time last year, when I was walking round the food festival and there was a stall there, so I watched the man open three and put them onto a serving dish for a customer. £5. £5 for 3 !!!!!!! slimey things.

eewwwww

Had them in New Orleans but deep-fried and stuffed in a baguette called a po'boy sandwich. They had more interesting food, too. A nice introduction to America, that place, lots of different cuisines all mixed up and everything cost nothing.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

That dish was my only experience of eating oysters. Not to be repeated. Gen says you have to eat them raw:eek:.

He's right really.

They are good. But different depending on where from and stuff.