The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

rachlikeswinter wrote: »

Exactly

It IS hard work - physically - but it’s easy in the sense it’s not stressful and it’s process-driven. In the real world I sit at a desk all day and use my brain and get very stressed. As well as being very creative. So the winter is the antithesis of that!

PasturesNew - yes, this is why the company I work for employs fully trained chefs. It’s a very high end / luxury chalet experience so you get a full 5 course dinner every night, cooked breakfast and afternoon tea.. I certainly couldn’t do that! Loads of companies hire all round hosts/chefs but our roles are separated out. I just get to do all the fun cleaning and hosting and driving ha =/

3 days to go! Snow is looking excellent. They opened the lifts 2 weeks early this Year. Just hope my roommate is nice.....

Yup, you are deffo Rachli (pron. Rakli) Keswinter.

Just been on the thread about names.

Rachli Keswinter has a lovely ring to it. Me likee.

PasturesNew

I don't think I've even got a passport... I bought one, just for ID purposes, for jobs/rentals etc. Never used it to leave the country, of course - never been abroad, never likely to go. It's probably well out of date by now.

So I've no need to know what they get up to in chalets

Didi33

Ah, being nice is so nice - excellent post!

Pyxis

Oh, by the way, any advance on the chervil front?




Or is it just me?




I wonder if it's addictive? I can't stop eating it! (With meals, I mean!)

Pyxis

In my veg box today wer these nice sprouts ideas:


# To your cooked sprouts, add some toasted hazelnuts, chopped, and some ginger and/or nutmeg, and some orange zest.

# Shred the sprouts (cut into thin slices), and pan fry them with chestnuts, butter and lemon.
OR.. pan fry them with the ingredients in the first idea!


I just got a bag of sprouts in my box, so
I will try that in my next stirfry.


(Knowing me, I will add chervil too! )





I haven't been very MSE today.
An MSE person, when needing new glasses, would have gone for some economy ones and taken advantage of the buy one get one half price thing.
Me, I hate most glasses, so I go for the arm and leg jobs, and rather than have two new frames, decided to keep my existing frames for one of the two pairs ordered, which meant it cost more than the buy one get one half price thing.

My rationale is : I hate wearing glasses. To mitigate that loathing, I must have glasses that I do at least sort of like. I like the frames I already have, so putting new lenses in them, even though it costs more, is better for my psychological well-being.

After all, By doing that, I will save on the psychotherapy bills! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!


And the 'good' news is, I only need new lenses because my eyesight has got better! Amazeballs!
(I still can't see without glasses, though! :rotfl:)

michaels

Pyxis wrote: »

In my veg box today wer these nice sprouts ideas:


# To your cooked sprouts, add some toasted hazelnuts, chopped, and some ginger and/or nutmeg, and some orange zest.

# Shred the sprouts (cut into thin slices), and pan fry them with chestnuts, butter and lemon.
OR.. pan fry them with the ingredients in the first idea!


I just got a bag of sprouts in my box, so
I will try that in my next stirfry.


(Knowing me, I will add chervil too! )





I haven't been very MSE today.
An MSE person, when needing new glasses, would have gone for some economy ones and taken advantage of the buy one get one half price thing.
Me, I hate most glasses, so I go for the arm and leg jobs, and rather than have two new frames, decided to keep my existing frames for one of the two pairs ordered, which meant it cost more than the buy one get one half price thing.

My rationale is : I hate wearing glasses. To mitigate that loathing, I must have glasses that I do at least sort of like. I like the frames I already have, so putting new lenses in them, even though it costs more, is better for my psychological well-being.

After all, By doing that, I will save on the psychotherapy bills! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!


And the 'good' news is, I only need new lenses because my eyesight has got better! Amazeballs!
(I still can't see without glasses, though! :rotfl:)

I think MSE is buying them online made in Pakistan for 1/20th the price of the high street rip off merchants (who have them made up in exactly the same place) and add a 20,000% mark up.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

I think MSE is buying them online made in Pakistan for 1/20th the price of the high street rip off merchants (who have them made up in exactly the same place) and add a 20,000% mark up.

Yes, but remember, you are also paying for ultra fine tuning that only personal attention can give you.

Yes, if you have a simple single lens prescription, I'm sure buying them online might be fine, but with someone like me, who has myopia, presbyopia and astigmatism, so needs varifocals, and one ear higher than the other, and who likes to wear the glasses in a strange position on the nose, getting the very personal touch that an optician gives you for the measuring up stuff is worth paying for.

Not much point getting cheap glasses from abroad if you still can't see well out of them due to the things just mentioned.

I spent two and half hours in my opticians today. Several tests, and extremely personal attention, and had quite a good laugh too!

I have also been able to ask them about latest developments in contact lenses, and about special prescription glasses for night-time driving.

These are the best opticians I've ever had, bar one other who was just as good, but gave up opticianing to open a restaurant! :rotfl:


And no, they aren't Specsavers or Vision Express.

ivyleaf

I'm back!!! Trip to see sister-in-law actually went really well, and it was so good to be able to give her lots of hugs.

Pyxis I used to love the Chalet school books and still sometimes borrow one from my DD1. The first one , "The School At The Chalet" was originally published in 1926!

very brief post today - we got home very late last night and are both kn@ckered today.

ukmaggie45

ivyleaf wrote: »

I'm back!!! Trip to see sister-in-law actually went really well, and it was so good to be able to give her lots of hugs.

Dear @ivyleaf, so very glad your trip went well. Lots of hugs is lovely - please accept lots of cyber hugs from Liverpool. xxx

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Snowing nicely up here.

Very Xmassy. :xmastree: