Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

ivyleaf

LydiaJ wrote: »

I like the word, but... wouldn't pomicide be the Poms getting killed, rather than doing the killing?

I was thinking that!

OH has tried many times to explain the rules and scoring system of cricket to me and I still haven't a clue. we've both given up hope that I'll ever understand it, but at least he enjoys watching it. He did a bit of umpiring when he was in the Army years ago.

vivatifosi

I know you are not interested PN, but I am anally retentive and felt the need to go search for mini-ovens... I think it may be at Lidl:

http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=25907

vivatifosi

People who like home improvement programmes... when I'm in the States I like watching a programme called Rehab Addict. The first series (from 2011), has started showing on the Food Network if anyone is interested.

The woman in question does up turn of the century houses in the Mid West, in particular Minneapolis and Detroit. I like seeing the ways things are done differently there but also the results. She likes to try to return things to as close as possible to original and some of what she has done is really beautiful.

The House she is doing up at the moment is called the Minihaha House, after a neighbourhood in Minneapolis. I WANT that house!

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

I know you are not interested PN, but I am anally retentive and felt the need to go search for mini-ovens... I think it may be at Lidl:

http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=25907

Ta Viva. No wonder I couldn't find it when searching at Aldi

However my Aldi search did reveal that every year for the last 5 they have had mini-ovens from the last weekend in August for 16.99, 17.99, 18.99, 19.99, 19.99...I think you get the picture...

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

I know you are not interested PN, but I am anally retentive and felt the need to go search for mini-ovens... I think it may be at Lidl:

http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=25907

Thanks for saving me the trouble viva
A year on and my mini oven is still going strong (touch wood). Can't batch cook or do a proper roast dinner, but otherwise it's fine. One day I'll have a BIG cooker. Until then, it'll do (and if it broke I'd probably just buy another on rather than a cheapo 'proper' cooker.
Edit: mine is a Curry Essentials one.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Nikkster wrote: »

mini oven

When I lived in the USA I used a 'toaster oven' as they call it almost every other day for bagels or such like in the morning. In my memory it seemed to be super handy for cooking all sorts of things and got a lot of use.

I have one here and have almost never used it.

Can't quite figure out why.

Nikkster

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

When I lived in the USA I used a 'toaster oven' as they call it almost every other day for bagels or such like in the morning. In my memory it seemed to be super handy for cooking all sorts of things and got a lot of use.

I have one here and have almost never used it.

Can't quite figure out why.

Because you have a toaster and an own and a hob and whatever other gadgets and the mini oven is in its box in the loft?

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

One of the better sports headlines I can remember....

It's even better than the Super Cally Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious headline.

I liked the Tweet from Leicester RFC when the score was 42-7 asking who got the try for the Aussies.

Also the game you can play with the kids called 'Aussie Batsman'. You find a large fieldand walk to the middle. You stand still for 30 seconds and then walk off again.

Apparently the French police were surprised to find 12 men dressed in white running out of their end of the Tunnel.

This is great. Even the bus driver asked me not to mention the cricket when he heard my accent.

zagubov

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

When I lived in the USA I used a 'toaster oven' as they call it almost every other day for bagels or such like in the morning. In my memory it seemed to be super handy for cooking all sorts of things and got a lot of use.

I have one here and have almost never used it.

Can't quite figure out why.

When DW lived over there they were everywhere. But no ovens had grills. Kettles were few and far between unless they were the kind you could put on the hob.

And microwave ovens were still called radar ranges by some older people.

Nikkster

I don't 'get' cricket at all (though I lived 10 mins walk from Trent Bridge at one point). The score still managed to catch my eye though #ThingsLongerThanAnAussieInnings