Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Family/friends video: Somebody always cries at this bit ... wonder which one it'll be.
Oooh, nasty ... one of the fathers laid down some heavy emotional blackmail...

She's just realised that if they move the others will have a great new life at work/school and she'll be left home alone, having to start from nothing.

I watched it too, thanks. I do agree that what her dad said was quite heavy. Essentially it was that he sees his grandchildren all the time, and only time will tell whether the kids thank their parents for being moved to another country vs knowing their grandparents.

I think there are ways of saying the same thing, but more subtly. However, it is also the case that moving the other side of the world does cause these issues and anyone moving there needs to consider such issues. My family ultimately were among the 25% of POMs who decided that they wanted to come back to the UK. While some will have been because they didn't like it there, most will have missed their family too much. That was certainly the case for my mum. Australia is a phenomenal place, as is New Zealand, with some aspects that you can only dream of living here. But it is also a very, very long way away. For young fit adults that trip isn't great, for aging grandparents it is even worse. With the best will in the world you don't go back and forth as much as you think you will.

Also, as the mum in the film didn't work, I could see her concerns I don't think she was particularly high maintenance, I thought she was mostly joking about the beach as it was her reason for moving there (and she was the main protagonist for the move). I think she was more of a typical middle class SAHM who was looking after her children, one of whom wasn't yet school age. She is undoubtedly the one who will find it hardest though, particularly if they end up moving to a part of NZ that is a bit remote.

I hope that at some point they will follow these people up and find out what happened.

Doozergirl

Canada is much closer

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Canada is much closer

But colder and not like Britain

When they arrived they went straight to the beach and she said something like "Good weather ..... you can be on the beach every day ... it's just how we wish Britain would be". That's the thing most want to move for really, the better weather, English speaking, lots of familiar/just like Britain people.

They talk of lifestyle/balance, but a lot of that is due to the weather here being grim when you DO have time off. If you work as many hours, but the weather's always better/hotter/drier then you don't notice it as you can always do something.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

But colder and not like Britain

When they arrived they went straight to the beach and she said something like "Good weather ..... you can be on the beach every day ... it's just how we wish Britain would be". That's the thing most want to move for really, the better weather, English speaking, lots of familiar/just like Britain people.

They talk of lifestyle/balance, but a lot of that is due to the weather here being grim when you DO have time off. If you work as many hours, but the weather's always better/hotter/drier then you don't notice it as you can always do something.

Weather now in London has bright blue skies and it's sunny. Yesterday, it was the same. A bit brisk, but not freezing. Who needs NZ?

ukmaggie45

GDB2222 wrote: »

Weather now in London has bright blue skies and it's sunny. Yesterday, it was the same. A bit brisk, but not freezing. Who needs NZ?

Grim and grey oop north... :rotfl: Sprinkle of rain, but proper rain forecast. Warmer than yesterday though.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

I believe that it's a backronym.

:T

CKhalvashi wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/bbcworldservice/videos/1443188395700282/

Just thought this might be of interest to some famous Georgian folowers

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's beautiful, thanks CK. I bet Pyxis would love that.

You bet correctly!
I didn't know Katie Melua was of Georgian extraction. Was she born there? She obviously grew up here, as she has no accent at all.





Yes, Monk shoes are like that pic........ They all have the double buckle. You can get sandal versions and boot versions.

I only discovered them about a month ago, on another thread.

I found these.........I don't usually like pink things, but I really like these!
Not going to tell you the price as Pastures won't survive the shock, and they are a lot more than I usually pay for shoes.
Depends how comfy they are, too.

(I haven't bought them. Am just deliberating).

I will delete the pic in a bit, as I know it is stretching the thread.


(Pic deleted, in case thread snaps!)




I'm familiar with the phrase " to have a right cob on" too

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

I did something really stupid yesterday. I can highly recommend that if you knock a cheese grater off the side and have zero catching skills (like me) that you don't try to catch it. I ended up grating the side of my index finger.. silly me. Not bad, just annoying.

But did it add zest to your dish, or just blood?

I'm always afraid of grating my fingers when you get to the end of the bit of cheese, having done that once. :eek:
So I always leave a bigger lump at the end.

For Parmesan, I do have a metal pop it in and turn the handle grater. I keep it in the fridge, so it doesn't need washing all that often.

Trouble is, that when the Parmesan is hard, my poorly wrists find it difficult. Ideally, I'd like a battery-operated one, or even a mains one, but I've looked and looked and what there were seem to have been discontinued.
I'm not getting my food processor down and all geared up just to grate a half-inch square of Parmesan!

Doozergirl wrote: »

I can't see it. Don't do this to me, lol!

Press the quote function, then you can see it at the bottom.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

The end bit isn't for grating, that's "Cook's Bonus".

LOL, that's a good name for it - I've never thought of naming it before, it doesn't last long enough :T

Pyxis

Oooh! Pastures! Parmesan isn't posh!

It's been a staple in most households for donkeys' years! Even One-Stop, Asda and Lidl sell it!


Thanks for the grater info. I had a look at the electric ones, and the reviews aren't wonderful, so I won't risk the £25.
I bought a little mini-processor last year, cheese for the grating of, and it was useless, so I gave it away.

There's deffo a gap in the market for a decent, effective, small electric cheese grater.
Lakeland used to sell one, but they don't any more.
There seems to be a problem.

My hand one works. All it needs is something electric to turn the handle. How can that be so difficult?




(PS. I did buy some Roquefort today! A treat, for the first time in ages!
I suppose you might be able to call that a wee bit posh!
But it was from Sainsbury's , not Fortnum and Mason!)

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

LOL, that's a good name for it - I've never thought of naming it before, it doesn't last long enough :T

I thought that was what they called the cooking sherry!