Nice People 13: Nice Save

LydiaJ

Loanranger wrote: »

I wish we could go back to the time when the NP thread didn't involve politics or complaining about someone's hours of work. I may have to stop lurking.

Point taken about the politics.

Moaning about one's own hours of work or those of somebody close ... that seems fair enough.

Masomnia wrote: »

Day started off badly but I think I've salvaged it. Got a bit of room tidying done. My system is that I put on a piano sonata (or similar length piece of music) on youtube and then tidy through that, so it's about half an hour ish. Seems to work! Today was Beethoven's Pathetique

Applied for some jobs, posted some stuff from ebay, booked my graduation place (not sure I've passed yet!), and messaged F about a second meeting. So actually quite productive for me

I like your tidying strategy.

Good luck with the jobs and with F.

Generali wrote: »

Got my next PET scan on Tuesday morning next week (Tuesday night your time). Fingers crossed.

Hoping for all the right results for you.

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

this is truly hideous the incapacity and dependency are bearable because I have such good support from my family.

each evening oh helps move my arm .lots of repetitions of specific exercises that i cannot do unaided. one move I have been trying since the day after my stroke(turning my hand from face down to palm up)this week i can do it myself. Oh has done this, making my hand move when i could not.

Your OH is amazing. We are so glad you have him. :T:A

lemonjelly wrote: »

That's actually my biggest fear I think. It's very likely to happen, & I dread it in so many ways.

Possibilities for making friends despite not having natural places to bump into them are much more promising now there's t'internet. Look at us. We're your friends.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

The idea's nice - the practice is that they're all so different. You can't beat the simplicity of one manual big switch ON/OFF. You know where you are with that.

If they all worked the same, with the same dials/buttons/switches/options then it'd be easier to fathom things out, but every one's so darned different.

I am thinking of getting one of these:

https://www.tado.com/gb/lp/ct-1b-3-heatingcontrol?gclid=CMvdz_SP5MECFYXJtAodWg8ACQ

It seems ideal for someone like me who (a) likes the house to be warm when I'm in, and (b) is in and out of the house at irregular and unpredictable times.

mystic_trev wrote: »

I've never used a timer, I just leave on the heating 24/7 and run it from the thermostat. Turn it up in the morning when I get up, and down in the evening when I go to bed.When the weathers nice the heating won't kick in unless it gets really cold. I also leave the radiators off in a couple of bedrooms when I'm not using them.

Are you in all day? Do you work from home or something? Or do you heat your house even when you're not there.

I don't turn mine off in the summer - the thermostat does that for me - but I do have it set to turn off when I think I'm probably going to be at work etc.

OK, that'll do for a few hours. Back later to carry on catching up three posts at a time.

lostinrates

Thinking about healthy food branding .....

' this is what my family eat'. Simple and compelling, but might feel excluding to the childless.

' food good enough to eat' ( especially if you are going to look at ethical sourcing as well as health) '

'Healthy, tasty, wholesome, and in your kitchen'

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

I am thinking of getting one of these:

https://www.tado.com/gb/lp/ct-1b-3-heatingcontrol?gclid=CMvdz_SP5MECFYXJtAodWg8ACQ

It seems ideal for someone like me who (a) likes the house to be warm when I'm in, and (b) is in and out of the house at irregular and unpredictable times.

It says 95% of people install it themselves. I think I can safely say that even if they'd said 99.99% of people install it I know I'd still be the 0.01% that needed a little man

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Thinking about healthy food branding .....

' this is what my family eat'. Simple and compelling, but might feel excluding to the childless.

Yes and we've enough of that type of marketing being thrust out there already

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes and we've enough of that type of marketing being thrust out there already

Tbh doesn't bother me....so long as didn't come with fried potatoes in the shape of teddy bear faces or something. .

Do they still make that processed meat that looks like a face? I wanted it at my mother used to say know and point out it would be in a sandwich so wouldn't see it anyway.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Tbh doesn't bother me....so long as didn't come with fried potatoes in the shape of teddy bear faces or something. .

Do they still make that processed meat that looks like a face? I wanted it at my mother used to say know and point out it would be in a sandwich so wouldn't see it anyway.

We used to have the plain luncheon meat when I was growingup, as themain part of a salad meal (Sunday tea), or in a sandwich. For extra special events we'd sometimes have the one with the egg in the middle! Loved that.

I've seen the faces, they don't look appealing as the browner part looks as if the luncheon meat's gone off.

You can still get it. It's just luncheon meat - in a tin or at the deli counter of supermarkets. I've also seen the faces in the chiller cabinets in supermarkets in recent months/years.

Edit: Looks like it's just Morrisons now. Billy Bear http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=billy+bear&Store=Morrisons

Edit 2: Tesco used to do it http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=257932908 also Sainsburys used to. Asda stopped it too: http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Deli_Meat/ASDA_Deli_Express_Billy_Bear_Meat_100g.html

Nikkster

I have (very mostly) Good and Bad news.

Bad news: I can't start my bonfire of papers tonight
Good news: had a very nice email - supervisor will look over what I've sent, asked me to pester, said he is glad I'm settled (in my Monday email I'd said that I still felt overwhelmed by the writing, but that I could act like a normal person for most other things - have held down a job for 2yrs, pay mortgage on time, meet deadlines - sometimes even do things early and above expectations).

I will submit a thesis this year. I will.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

We used to have the plain luncheon meat when I was growingup, as themain part of a salad meal (Sunday tea), or in a sandwich. For extra special events we'd sometimes have the one with the egg in the middle! Loved that.

I've seen the faces, they don't look appealing as the browner part looks as if the luncheon meat's gone off.

You can still get it. It's just luncheon meat - in a tin or at the deli counter of supermarkets. I've also seen the faces in the chiller cabinets in supermarkets in recent months/years.

The other problem is I don't really like cold meat all that much, lol. :rotfl: when I didn't board and had pack up sandwiches were a nightmare for my poor mother. I would eat ham and coleslaw for a while, the chicken and coleslaw. Then I went of those. She tried so hard to be inventive and keep my interest. Fwiw date and cream cheese was not a winner. No way no how. I did really like sand which paste, to everyone's surprise and disgust. I still do. Its a guilty pleasure. No free range sand wich past I know of. . But I make a good chicken one my self and a tuna one to the same recipe ( I prefer chicken, fir prefers tuna. Its a bit too nice though. It doesn't have the sort of gummy mean quality of the 'real' stuff.