Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

We've decided to leave the cross in the porch of the local Salvation Army. It can be a foundling.

If they don't want it they can whittle it into a tambourine.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

I had a flat mate when I was a student who became a veggie. Trouble was the only veggie meal he could cook was egg and oven chips. We made bacon sandwiches every morning but it was my beef in Guinness stew that broke the poor soul.

Cold and wet and miserable in Aus. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. And cold, cold, cold. 15C in the day and 10C at night and rain every day this week. We're getting an inch of rain today and an inch of rain tomorrow. Oh well, the ducks like it apparently. I don't believe it myself, why wouldn't a duck like nice weather too? Duckist.

15 degrees? We will be lucky to see 12 today thanks to the strong northerly wind. We have our own little piece of November on the last day of May.

SingleSue

My mum quite morbidly said yesterday that they have realised that the years ahead of them are numbered now and that it was an awful realisation. Even if she lived to her mum's age (almost 91) it gives her less than 17 years and as we all know, that can pass very quickly. It made her quite depressed thinking about it.

Dad so far has outlasted expectations for the male line of his family by 20 years, his dad, grandad, great grandad etc have all died in their early to mid 50's and he is 76 this year.

A bit wet here, lots of flooded roads and rail lines playing havoc with travel and it keeps raining, heavy bursts which only last a little while but dumping huge amounts at the same time. Looked out when I got up and I had a pretty fast moving river outside the house instead of a road, luckily it was going in the direction of the bottom of the road as we are at one of the highest points and despite everything else not being looked after around here, our drains appear to be pretty good.

GDB2222

I spent yesterday digging post holes and concreting fence posts in the ground. If it stops raining, today we'll try screwing the fence panels in. Hopefully, the fence posts are the right distance apart!

Postfix is amazing stuff. It's concrete that sets in around 15 minutes. The soil round here is sandy, which makes it fairly easy to dig the post holes but the fences tend to fall over, as the soil moves. I'm not optimistic that mine will stay up any better than any of the others.

chris_m

Generali wrote: »

I had a flat mate when I was a student who became a veggie. Trouble was the only veggie meal he could cook was egg and oven chips. We made bacon sandwiches every morning but it was my beef in Guinness stew that broke the poor soul.

One Scout camp we had a lad who we had been told was vegetarian so we sorted veggie dishes for him.
One day I was knocking up our usual "tent peg" stew - diced beef and whatever vegetables we felt like including. At one point, this lad wandered over and hung around the kitchen tent for a while before saying, "That smells good, can't I have some of that?".
I told him that it had meat in it so, being vegetarian, he couldn't very well - to receive a very pointed reply, "Excuse me, my mother is vegetarian!".
After that, he ate exactly the same as everybody else, and loved it.

chris_m

GDB2222 wrote: »

I spent yesterday digging post holes and concreting fence posts in the ground.

I spent part of yesterday morning (until it got too hot) using "The Hun" to attack about half of my section of lawn that will become veggie patch.
In the evening I dug out a trench to form a straight edge for the remaining area because I quickly found that it's not that easy to do a straight edge with The Hun, it can have a mind of its own - especially when chewing up well compacted turf.
I then attacked the second half this morning, so I now have a mound (surrounded by a trench) where the bottom lawn was. When we get some rain that should help to break the clods of turf down and I can till in some compost later in the year so it's ready for next year, or some autumn/winter planting if I decide to bung something in this year.
In the meantime I'll sort some edging in the trench to keep the grassed surround and the bed from encroaching into each other.

Pyxis

Well, am stuck at the airport.

Got here at 8.30 for the 12.30 flight, as others were on earlier flights. Had to wait two hours before check-in opened!
Then discovered that the flight's been delayed an hour.
Only 'good' thing is that, as I haven't been feeling too good all week, I had decided to upgrade to Club Europe yesterday when I checked in, so that I can fester in comfort and relative quiet, so am sitting on a comfy sofa and can help myself to snacks and drinks.
There's a really nice custard tart thing that's like a Maids-of-Honour tart. (I tried making some from scratch, puff pastry and all, several years ago. It took ages and ages!)
Also, I haven't spent much money as most of our meals were included and the two village shops didn't have a huge selection of stuff, and the only place we went to was the caves at Aracena.
I did buy a bottle of chestnut liqueur, though, and a jar of chestnut jam.
So I refuse to feel guilty about buying an upgrade!

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ivyleaf

Aw, Pyxis, what a shame to feel under par when you're on holiday! Hope you'll feel better once you get back to your own surroundings. I love the sound of the chestnut liqueur and chestnut jam

GDB2222

Michaels, you've been a bit slow commenting on the various innuendos in maid of honour tarts.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've not flown, so only found out that such rooms exist by reading these threads .... how much does an upgrade cost then? Do they let "anybody" in that pays?

The upgrades vary tremendously. It depends what the airline is, what the flight is, and what class you're upgrading to.
On a European flight with British Airways, there's often only the option to upgrade to what they call Club Europe. When I checked in online yesterday, they offered the option of an upgrade because they had seats left in Club Europe, and it cost me £99. For that you get priority at the bag drop counter, so I didn't have to queue, (which would otherwise have taken ages, as someone else in my group later told me), you can wait in a special lounge with sofas, all manner of drinks and some snacks included, newspapers etc., then you get priority boarding onto the plane, so no long queues again.
You're allowed extra luggage, too, but that didn't matter to me.
On the plane you get seats at the front of the plane, so you are first off at the other end, extra leg room, and instead of three people in a row there's only two, with space between you, nicer meals, and the usual included drinks, alcoholic or soft drinks.
As I wasn't feeling too good and there was a delay, it was so much better being comfortable and not standing around in queues.

But they only let you upgrade if you pass the Poshometer test. Plus you have to prove you're related to the Queen.




Joke! :rotfl:
Yes, if you pay, they don't care who you are!



GDB, they were very tasty tarts, too!

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