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  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Is aubergine akin to marmite and mushrooms? I dislike aubergine.

    Love marmite
    Quite happy to eat small mushrooms, hate the big black stinky ones
    Don't like aubergine but will eat it to be polite if necessary
    michaels wrote: »
    Niks - ours looks like we have only just moved in, would you like to visit for a weekend?!

    No no. I want her first. :)
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    OH's parents... have gone away this weekend after a row with OH but are coming back for another three weeks. :|

    Three weeks???? Why are they going to be staying so long? Don't they have other things to do?
    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.     :)
  • Spirit_2
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    OMG, pn, that's momentous! I want a hug!


    I am pretty tactile so my expectations of the next meeting with PN have just increased to include hugging.
  • Nikkster
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Three weeks???? Why are they going to be staying so long? Don't they have other things to do?

    They've probably had a bit of a long journey? (If I remember correctly)
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    zagubov wrote: »
    Changed a halogen spotlight bulb in the upstairs bathroom. Loads of black things fell out of the socket in the ceiling. Got a pan and brush to sweep them up and found the black things all over the bath were dead wasps.

    We knew we had a wasp nest somewhere but never knew where. I hate them, but fortunately we only ever saw them when they were dying and crawling around the floor. Now we know where they came from.:eek:

    Those will be last summer's ones. Be warned they do sometimes come back and build the new year's nest next to the old one. It might be worth checking your loft and getting someone in to remove them if they're building another nest up there. (When I was a kid we had a nest in our loft one year, didn't do anything about it, cleared up dead wasps in the bath in the autumn, and thought it was all over. The next spring there were five little nests in the process of being built, so my parents got someone in to deal with them all.)
    Nikkster wrote: »
    YOU feel inadequate? I only have two Dysons :( (one was here when I was moved in, doesn't work - keep meaning to stick it on Ebay)

    I have 2 dead Dysons in the garage - got dead off freecycle for taking bits off if anything broke on mine - plus one only recently deceased Dyson in the house, and LNE's really not very good cheapo bagless vacuum that's come down out of the loft to be used until I get round to buying a decent one.
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I bought my OK vacuum from Lidl recently. Seems to do the job, but I've no reference point to know if others would do a better/different job.

    Since you have neither animals nor children, you probably don't need a particularly brilliant vacuum. Yours is probably fine for your purposes. :)
    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.     :)
  • Nikkster
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    Spirit wrote: »
    I am pretty tactile so my expectations of the next meeting with PN have just increased to include hugging.

    I'll take the hug on PN's behalf. Please :)
  • Spirit_2
    Spirit_2 Posts: 5,546 Forumite
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    Nikkster wrote: »
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    You should have made me sound a bit more high maintenance and workshy :)


    I am willing and able to fill that vacancy.
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    ....or whether it was because you've been forced to live on toast for two days and old shoe leather would have tasted great :)

    Forced? I could easily have gone out in search of food if I'd felt the need. Not like you live a million miles away from places that sell food. And 'food' ;)

    Anyhow it wasn't just toast. It was toast with marmite. The angels were dancing on my tongue chez PN :D
  • PasturesNew
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    I had to pop out so "stocked up" with more random food .... and so today's scoff-fest has been: a slice of cheese/bacon quiche, some cherry tomatoes, a whole red pepper, some jalapeno coleslaw, 3 jaffa cakes, a packet of cheese/onion crisps and a blackcurrant cheesecake.

    Lying here on the sofa staring at the big changing sky :)
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    I really shouldn't like marmite - I use a bit of stock cube when cooking veg, but I never add salt to food whether eating at home or out (pepper is another story). But I LOVE marmite. It would come with me to a desert island, I'd work out how to make some kind of toast.

    I don't think liking marmite is inconsistent with not liking to add salt to food. I hate food to be over-salted but love marmite.
    Nikkster wrote: »
    They've probably had a bit of a long journey? (If I remember correctly)

    Oh I see. That makes sense.
    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.     :)
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Lying here on the sofa staring at the big changing sky :)

    :D
    Enjoy!

    I found it quite dark in here when I got back. Then I realised that the front curtains were still closed :rotfl:
    Still nowhere near as light and bright as your place.
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