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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice
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Spirit I feel you may be in competition with DG for board lush....
Last summer weekends included quite a lot of going to London theatres and more planned 'going out'.
This year we have not been able to plan...so I am staying in and eating fish..and over the last few weeks drinking more 'cocktails' to add a bit more sparkle to otherwise very quiet Saturday nights in the xxxx Valley.
I can be quite jolly on not very much:)0 -
CKhalvashi wrote: »BMI is now 26 (down from 32 in March when I started)...
Am I allowed a takeaway tonight?
Congratulations :beer:vivatifosi wrote: »This amused me a lot:
http://funnyexam.com/answers/popular/4023-is-that-a-hoe-or-a-shovel
:rotfl:Doozergirl wrote: »I believe that this is the beginning of the end of the renovations.
Congratulations to you too :T
Have allowed myself to open a bottle of wine this evening as I've spent most evenings for the last couple of weeks doing some studying or just too tired to consider it. Have finished the first draft of assignment 1 this morning, so feel able to relax a little.
Was watching the diving final. Some excellent dives - particularly from a 14 year old lad from Portsmouth (or Plymouth? - south coast starting with P anyway), and some ones where you think 'that's got to hurt' :eek:. Tom Daley won by a considerable margin. :j
Finally got round to planting the leeks out, in the space in the front garden vacated by the slug-eaten dwarf beans. If they get to spring onion size before winter it'll be a miracle
And took great pleasure in disposing of the huge slugs and snails I saw making a beeline for my one, remaining bean plant. I am determined that they shall not win that battle :mad:0 -
Congratulations :beer:
Finally got round to planting the leeks out, in the space in the front garden vacated by the slug-eaten dwarf beans. If they get to spring onion size before winter it'll be a miracle
And took great pleasure in disposing of the huge slugs and snails I saw making a beeline for my one, remaining bean plant. I am determined that they shall not win that battle :mad:
What are you studying? (Don't say if it is too personal).
Well done on planting out the leeks. Have you grown them from seed? In France in June we saw baby leek plants in huge bunches being sold in teh market.
I bought a box of cut and come again lettce from teh salad counter in the Co-op. It was £1. So today I planted it out to see if it will grow to make up for my lack of succession planting.
I planted lettuce seeds last week, but the two little chooks made a lovely dust bath in that area this week so the seeds have no chance of getting estblished.0 -
It's a first-level qualification from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in the topic of Learning & Development, which is my present role. Equivalent of an A Level in 9 months. Work are sponsoring me; there's day release for 7 workshops and a lot of self-study in own time on top.
I grew some of the leeks from seed. The rest were bought as a top-up when most of the seed-grown leeks died off ... !
Hope the lettuces grow - the slugs had mine in the front garden!!0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »I don't dispute it but I didn't know you thought of me that way!
Cava with dinner. I've just bought a new/old sofa from eBay as instructed by Doozer. I believe that this is the beginning of the end of the renovations.
I expect I could give you and spirit a run for your money.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I do wish the telly worked. I have it on, but it's 80% unwatchable as it's just a broken signal. I retune, it retunes itself, I fiddle with the leads, I poke around with the internal aerial (moving it about without any clue what to do with it or where to point it)... nothing makes any difference.
Which direction do peoples aerials point in? Try pointing your indoor one in the same direction.0 -
Pastures, google for which direction should tv aerial face.
I found uh a Lot of links, but some might be out of date by now. You can look it up based on your postcode.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Fir is making blinis. He wanted to, I was going to.
Its a long process with him doing it
. He's doing it while drinking something called a Santa Cruz Daisy. But he didn't have any soda water so he made a double with out sofa water and it drinking it Un diluted but over ice. I think this might make the blini process progressively slower
Are they for your seaweed caviar?Good gracious, no! Not upset at all. I just couldn't imagine feeling like a winner in those circumstances. Of course, it's a joke, but I was looking past the black humour to the reality.
Good - I'd hate to upset any NPs (unless I was trying....)You were wearing purple. It was a dress very suitable for quickly and unfussily meeting the needs of a small dependent infant.
LiR had a sparkly bolero and black bejewelled dress, and Pastures had a summery cotton blouse.
Kermie had a variety of outfits on.
Yes, most of us managed to get through the day in one set of clothes. Kermie didn't (-:
What I can wear at the moment is rather limited, because I don't want to have to strip to feed him!lostinrates wrote: »Chic red and white summer dress with coordinated a shade darker nails and lovely swishy hair. Black sack dress with beading at neckline and lurex:D cardi in 'Greige'. ( ok, that one's easy for me, I'll spare you details about what else matched, but my shoes coordinated despite the very laid back nature of my slobby outfit. I very rarely wear black shoes) . Petrol blue jersey with lovely swishy hanker chief hem and nice jewelry in own taste ( and presumably self made! ) as could have been expected! Which matched too ( dark, rainbowy) and one on finger. Kermie. Grey and white stripes outfits ( but NDG and I did discuss them) by same maker, before and after explosion. Before, leg less, after with legs! Accessorised with balloon to match personality.
Could do more but....seems a bit obsessive. ( my memory is of course worse now, but I used to be exceptionally good at that sort of thing. Early training!, now I am not very good at memory and my words, faces etc are poor, but I think those early years games help.)
Your memory is "of course" not bad - that's incredibly impressive recall!
I did indeed make my own jewellery - the necklace was a string of baroque Tahitian pearls which are a glimmery dark rainbow with red and green and silver overtones, and my right hand certainly did have a matching Tahitian pearl ring that I made as well.
And Kermie's outfits and accessory were also described down to a "t".
You could do a fantastic job as a continuity person in films or TV, nothing would get past you....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I am definitely not the board lush... nor thought of in that way.
I don't think I'm thought of as board lush either.PasturesNew wrote: »I can't see anybody's aerials.... just satellite dishes. Maybe aerials are in the loft. I don't know if there's one up there, but the TV lead in the living room socket doesn't produce a picture....
Also, aerial, doesn't look like a roof aerial. It's an odd thing. Two extending silver rods and between them an oval shaped plastic thing. Therefore, no concept of which way it's "pointing" as it's not
It's on the list ..... find and pay for a little man to come round, look, poke about with the socket and get the telly working.
I won't do that until I've bought a new telly .... as it could be the portable's on its last legs, or the freeview box is faulty ... or the leads are cheap/dodgy ... so getting a new telly will be the starting point for getting it sorted. New telly might make it all just work by magic.
It's most likely to be the aerial. Those little oval things on portable TVs really aren't designed for digital TV. I know lots of people had to get new aerials when they first got digital (while analogue was still also available). Signals did get better once the switchover happened, but it sounds to be as though if you want to watch Freeview you'll need a proper aerial either in the loft or on the roof.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 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I don't know how to make the aerial face in a direction ..... so even though I'd know the direction I'd still be wiggling/wobbling it about unsure what "pointing it" involves - and when it's pointed.
It looks pretty much like this http://satgear.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/4/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/t/a/ta54-1500.jpg
Is "pointing it" making the round thing face the direction? Or be side on? Should the upright parts be horizontal and pointing? Or is upright OK? I figure horizontal would take up too much room potentially. Should the uprights be vertical, or at an angle to each other?
Too many variables.
Have you extended the uprights to their maximum length? (Apologies if this is patronisingly stating the obvious.) 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
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