Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Conrad

silvercar wrote: »

I know a couple of shops near family that do this sort of thing. One is a posh cafe that also supplies meals in containers to go. Another one just makes home cooked food and sells it in individual portions. Seems there are 2 markets, those that can't /won't cook but want home cooking and those that want to create a dinner party without any work.

My idea was more along local lines (initially) and not so reliant on some mass online campaign. Pastures New makes a lot of great points and honesty I would hate all the online promotion side of things, daily blogs, etc, I find it all so faux and tedious.


I have a passion for good bistro type food and I'm forensically fussy by nature which seems to mean I'm forever spotting the shortcomings in foodie business's that result from the owners being attention forensic which detriments customer experience.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

I am part way through switching and hopefully won't suffer SilverCar's fate, I have never had any trouble in the past.

With solar panels we have wide diveregence in summer and winter usage in both gas and lecy and I am now switching to a high standing charge, low unit cost tariff for the winter months with the cashback covering most of the early switchign fees for the old tariff. advantages are that although savings are less than 50 quid for the whole year there is a big saving over the next 6 months at which point if prices are still cheap I can switch again or alternaively if prices are higher I have another 6 months of fix to go rather than coing off my fix at the end of April.

I did look into switchign to an E7 tariff for winter months and a standard tariff for summer months but the maths doesn't quite stack up and I'm not sur whichever company switched us to an E7 meter would be too pleased....

It must be said, I've never had a problem switching before and this is the one area where I do keep an eye on things and regularly switch.

Downside of this switch is that my one year fix with eon has finished, so I'm paying a lot for gas on their standard tariff until I get switched over. Had I stayed with eon I would have moved to their newest best tariff and not had 3 weeks on a really bad deal.

GDB2222

bugslet wrote: »

Not today though. New puppy day tomorrow:j:j:j and I'm already over-excited:o

You're all so 'ard, you truckies!

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

You're all so 'ard, you truckies!

Must direct you to thread where dead 'ard truckers were talking about the day they had to have their dogs, you know...the big kennel in the sky.

Or get their wives to do it 'cos they couldn't. Hard? Pah!;)

chris_m

bugslet wrote: »

Must direct you to thread where dead 'ard truckers were talking about the day they had to have their dogs, you know...the big kennel in the sky.

This puppy's not a Yorkie, I trust?
:rotfl:

bugslet

chris_m wrote: »

This puppy's not a Yorkie, I trust?
:rotfl:

*groan*

Giant Schnauzer actually.

chris_m

Sorry, couldn't resist

chris_m

Conrad wrote: »

I decided I wanted to cook with black pud, having not had it in years, so I opened up a lean pork loin, and put some crumbled black pud in, then rolled it up, EDIT >>> in Parma ham, bound with string, then tightly with cling film and poached it in water for 30 mins.
Then fried the beast in hot oil, butter and fresh thyme, salt and pepper, then let it rest.

Thanks once again for this, I've finally got around to doing something similar tonight.

Instead of poaching it, I wrapped it in foil then "fried" it for a few minutes each side in a baking tray with a bit of hot oil in, to sear the surface of the meat, before transferring the tray (and meat) to the oven for an appropriate time.
Simply did some more of my homegrown new spuds, boiled and drizzled with butter, to accompany it, yum, yum, yum.

Now to decide what to have with the (reheated) half tomorrow

CKhalvashi

If Witney yesterday was repeated nationally, LD would be largest party by vote share this morning.

Maths on request.

hjd

CKhalvashi wrote: »

If Witney yesterday was repeated nationally, LD would be largest party by vote share this morning.

Maths on request.

You really can't extrapolate one constituency vote to cover the whole country - also depends on how impressive the individual candidates were and the nature of any protest vote against DC for bailing out.
You might as well do the same based on the Batley and Spen result!