Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

No matter how hard you try ... they always get you in the end don't they.

I don't like mince pies. No intention/need/desire of buying any. I popped into A1d1.... and the b4st4rds were selling packs of "Chocolate Orange Mince Pies". So I've now got six mince pies to scoff at some point in the next week

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

No matter how hard you try ... they always get you in the end don't they.

I don't like mince pies. No intention/need/desire of buying any. I popped into A1d1.... and the b4st4rds were selling packs of "Chocolate Orange Mince Pies". So I've now got six mince pies to scoff at some point in the next week

Never mind! You should see what I was 'forced' into buying this morning! :rotfl:


Although, I did resist buying a large tart/cheesecake/thing because it would've been just me eating it, and I reckoned I was already buying too many calories! With those sorts of desserts, I find that occasionally they are scrummy, but most of them are just sickly sweet nothings, really.
I bought a lemon doughnut and a cup of coffee in the supermarket's cafè, thinking that if I liked the doughnut enough, I'd buy some. However, I only ate half of it, and was pushed to eat that much. It was too sickly and the dough wasn't superfresh. I only had about a third of the coffee, too, because it was just flavoured water. Given that usually, if I've paid for it, I must eat it, that was quite something.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

I think it might be permitted development - only because when we had our extension one restriction was that converting the garage to a room would not be permitted development.

I think GDB lives under an extra layer of beaurocracy that would be worthy of one of PN's posh alerts.

silvercar

Cheesecake beats mince pies. Cheesecake beats donuts.

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Cheesecake beats mince pies. Cheesecake beats donuts.

Depends on the cheesecake!
Depends or the doughnuts!



About a year ago, the Coop did some limited edition doughnuts. One type I really loved were rhubarb and custard, and the dough texture was lovely!

They didn't do them for very long, and I haven't seen them since.

Probably just as well given that there's a Coop within walking distance of me.
They were lovely, though, and even beat their New York Cheesecake, which was my downfall for several months.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

... if I've paid for it, I must eat it...

I'm like that

PasturesNew

I've spotted, yet passed, several bags of doughnuts this week.

I'm quite good, overall, at being aware of food and still walking away as it's so much easier to eat it than it is to try to lose the weight in 2 years' time.... so you can't buy it in the first place.

So much good looking food in the shops

I'm making a trifle.... tricky one that. When you're trying to cater for one you've fewer choices. A1d1 have a 99p trifle that "looks OK" and would be serves 2-3. But I decided that I'd make my own and be able to choose what's in it..

Thing is, that's not worked out well. I've decided the trifle should be chocolate based, so forked out 25p for an A5da swiss roll; already had blackcurrant jelly (but that'd have cost 35p); bought a tin of mandarin segments, wanted the black cherries but they cost about 55p/can and it's a big can, mandarins cost about 35p; then there'll be half a pack of instant custard, 15p and some chocolate 15p; then I've got some instant whip for the top at about 40p. So me trying to "make my own" will have cost nearly £2.

By comparison there was a HUGE/yummy looking ready made huge (serves 4-6) trifle for sale in A1d1 for about £2.50.

You do wonder, sometimes, why you even try to bother. And I don't even have a bowl to make a trifle in, so it'll probably be made in a pyrex jug

I think it's this one.
http://offers.kd2.org/pics/29/db/29db8d95a2948e6a75dcd604f48948cafe15d119.jpg

Not used to Aldi ... lesson learnt. Next year THAT is on my list! Mind you, it doesn't look like it has much cakey layer.

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

I think it might be permitted development - only because when we had our extension one restriction was that converting the garage to a room would not be permitted development.

If you were told that it would not be permitted development, why do you now think that it might be?

I believe that some councils (if not more than some) are not keen on garage conversions - due to some roads having most of them done and now being clogged up with parked cars because the off-street parking has been turned into living accommodation.

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

Oo-er!

You don't want to see me at the Full Moon, then! :rotfl:

I nearly wrote you seem comfortable in your own skin.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

In your neck of the woods? Take whatever number doozer comes up with and then triple it for post code pricing!

You could post on the diy board, some people there good at estimating.

Do you need planning permission to convert garage door to solid wall?

It's MIL's house, so not in a conservation area. We went for planning permission, which we got.

We can put it out to tender, but it would be good to get a ball park figure first.