Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Spirit_2

We mostly buy low sugar soft drinks, although OH does like ginger beer.
Ou drink of choice at home is lime and soda (no added sugar lime). Dining out the no alcohol choice is the same plus diet coke.

My niece's children have been brought up to think fizzy drinks are poison and only drink water or milk.

I wish health information had been as easy to access when i was bringing up a child. I thought I was doing a good thing filling my daughter full of reduced sugar Ribena as her go to drink.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

When you've had five hours sleep and you have to pick toilet roll holders and loo brushes for seven different bathrooms.

That feeling. I'm feeling it.

Earlier it was door stops and coat hooks. This afternoon I fretted that I missed window restrictors off that order.

I left all the really boring stuff right to the end of this project. Beginning to wish I hadn't.

I would go into a decline faced with such a task.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

OH does like ginger beer.

I used to love that, somehow, over the years, the recipe's changed and it's rarely got that "ginger bite" it used to have.

Idris is the best one I've found so far, but there's still something a bit lacking.

Years ago mum often would have a ginger plant growing in the kitchen for weeks before she bottled up ginger beer... and there were a few of the inevitable explosions in the garage

PasturesNew

Channel 5 just started, Britain's Horror Homes.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just thought this meal deal through. If I were richer, say earning £20-25k/year, I'd be picking up a nice fat coronation chicken baguette, gleefully grabbing the Walkers cheese/onion crisps and getting the bottle of PM.

I'd be out of that shop to scoff that lot down ..... and I'd be a lot fatter if I had more money.

That meal deal will cost about 1000 calories.
My cheap £1 sandwich (egg/mayo or cheese/onion) is probably closer to 350-400.

Monday's I normally buy a naked smoothie (2.50), triple chicken sandwich (3.25) and 60g doritos (90p) for £1 at Boots

Then I go to 10m to WHSmiths and buy a pasta salad 3.00, vit d drink (1.50) and large doritos 90p for a quid

Then I go 20m to Upper crust and get a filled baguette (3.25), drink (1.20) and crisps (1.00) for a quid.

Finally I go to Cafe Ritatzza and get a sandwich (2.50), drink (1.20) and crisps (90p) for £1.

I give away half the drinks and crisps to the DW and DKs.

silvercar wrote: »

The odd IRA bomber was a right pain in the 80s, tube stations being shut and evacuated etc.

Brussels has had high level risk for a few months.

We are flying this afternoon (not near Brussels), feeling anxious already.

I'm sure michaels can produce some statistic that airports are the safest place to be for the rest of the day!

You should always carry a bomb with you in your luggage - odds of there being a bomb in an airport must be 10,000,000:1 so the odds of there being 2 bombs is 100,000,000,000,000:1 or basically nil so as long as you carry a bomb you can be certain there won't be another one.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Monday's .... Boots .... WHSmiths .... Upper crust .... Cafe Ritatzza

There's a Boots 1 mile from me. WH Smiths also 1 mile (had no idea/never seen it) although it doesn't look very big so might not have food.

Monday is the "local market day", which would tie in to get those. Although I've to re-read to work out how you manage to get them, maybe I'm excluded by your method.

Never heard of the next two, so I googled. Upper Crust is a bit hard to find, without knowing what it is, I tried to make an assumption to find/guess it, but it's too hard.

And Cafe Ritatzza (which I can't even pronounce), is 24 miles away at a train station in another county

michaels wrote: »

You should always carry a bomb with you in your luggage - odds of there being a bomb in an airport must be 10,000,000:1 so the odds of there being 2 bombs is 100,000,000,000,000:1 or basically nil so as long as you carry a bomb you can be certain there won't be another one.

Good thinking. This makes sense.

vivatifosi

zagubov

Pretty much wish the news programmes would just report the incidents factually and move on. Not being cold-hearted, but the more you report this stuff, the more you encourage future events.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Er, what's that then?

hjd

PasturesNew wrote: »

Er, what's that then?

Tintin.
He's Belgian.