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

silvercar

My decking has fresh paint on two thirds of it. 2 cans down 4 to go. It's been in this state for a week! I need a gap of 6 hours with no rain. But this needs to happen when I'm free!!

PasturesNew

I was reading the 3M website at about 6am, as you do - because I was looking to see the range of command strips etc they do .... and which sizes are for what weights and the weight range etc.... and there it was.... hidden in the small print it says "or methylated spirits", so no need to order IPA isopropyl alcohol at 99.9% online and then wait up to a week for it to arrive.... just popped down the road and got a bottle of meths for £1.20.

I expect to be experimenting later as I'd bought some strips many many years ago, about a decade, (they looked handy!) and so I have just dug out what I've got to see.... what I've got. I've got two small hooks and 6 picture hanging ones.

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

Who'd have thought that a vegetable yogurt could be so nice?

I've been buying these carrot and turmeric yogurts from my veg people. They are made with milk, carrots, carrot juice, lemon juice, turmeric and salt.
No added sugar at all, yet they don't taste completely savoury, iyswim. Carrots have a fair bit of natural sugars. The flavour is very subtle, which is nice, and the texture is very slightly grainy, presumably from the carrots, which I like, too.

Plus they come in glass jars, rather than plastic pots, of which I've kept a few, as they're a useful size, and of course are fully recyclable.

They also do a beetroot one, which I haven't tried, as beetroot is the one vegetable I don't like. I might try it though, just to see what it's like. I might be pleasantly surprised.




Thinking about it, in the past, before sugar became so cheap, veg like carrots and parsnips and beet were used to sweeten puddings and cakes. Maybe this current blitz on sugar content will lead to these veg being used more as natural sweeteners, and give people some of their five-a-day at the same time.

Because the effect is so subtle, though, it will still take a long time to wean people's palates away from the totally in-your-face, 'hit you on the head with a brick' sweetness of cane and beet sugar, I expect!

Carrot cake is really nice. OH makes one occasionally.
I really like beetroot. But I like lots of "weird" (not really weird, but stuff people don't like) stuff, spinach, parsnips. Oh and I like salad too.

PasturesNew

I've totally farqued up these command strips.... gone spectacularly wrong twice and I think it's now irretrievable. I had a fiddle and thought I understood, but then made a poor choice in placement, had to "prise" that off as I realised ... and then I put the strip on upside down .... so not sure if I can reuse those two or if they're broken/duff.

Having another go....

Got that one right.

Trouble is, with anything, you need to "have a go" and see how it works, then have a "practise run" first to check if you farqued it up or not .... and I did farq it up, twice. Pack contains two hooks and four strips ... I guess that's why.... for some it's so they can reuse the strips ... and for others they have two duff goes before getting it right

Also, just realised, I did "man looking" when I looked at how many of these I have - I've got a 2nd pack of hooks That's handy ... I only spotted one when I got them out from where I'd put them... the 2nd one that I didn't see is RIGHT ON THE TOP IN PLAIN VIEW

Right - they're up - and I'm leaving them for an hour or so, as I've seen suggested.... then I can hang a curtain rod from them. Until now I've held this net in place using two loops of velcro by creating a loop for the pole to go through and opening the window, sticking the end of the velcro outside and shutting the window on it to hold it in place, so I've never been able to open those windows

I've just moved into the 19th century of opening windows if this works.

LydiaJ

Jackmydad wrote: »

Carrot cake is really nice. OH makes one occasionally.
I really like beetroot. But I like lots of "weird" (not really weird, but stuff people don't like) stuff, spinach, parsnips. Oh and I like salad too.

Are beetroot, spinach, parsnips and carrot cake going to be the new mushrooms on the thread? Here are my verdicts:

Don't like carrot cake, and not particularly fond of beetroot, although both DS and DD love it. DS has a "favourite sandwich" that involved beetroot among other things.
Willing to eat spinach as part of something else - the canteen at a previous workplace used to do a puff pastry thing with spinach inside as a veggie option at lunch, for example, and I liked that - but not just sitting in a pile on the side of the plate as one of the vegetables with a meal.
Loooove parsnips. Possibly my favourite vegetable. Don't cook them all that often, though, because DS and DD are not keen.

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was reading the 3M website at about 6am, as you do - because I was looking to see the range of command strips etc they do .... and which sizes are for what weights and the weight range etc.... and there it was.... hidden in the small print it says "or methylated spirits", so no need to order IPA isopropyl alcohol at 99.9% online and then wait up to a week for it to arrive.... just popped down the road and got a bottle of meths for £1.20.

I expect to be experimenting later as I'd bought some strips many many years ago, about a decade, (they looked handy!) and so I have just dug out what I've got to see.... what I've got. I've got two small hooks and 6 picture hanging ones.

I should have said about meths. I had a blind moment with the surgical spirit / Iso propyl thing!
I don't tend to use meths for cleaning stuff because it leaves a slight residue of the dye. Won't matter for what you're doing PN.

chris_m

LydiaJ wrote: »

Loooove parsnips. Possibly my favourite vegetable. Don't cook them all that often, though, because DS and DD are not keen.

Ooh, parsnips - the king of root vegetables, IMO. I have 50 or so growing in my veggie beds and two dustbins - the former to see how they do in my newly made & filled beds, the latter because the best ones I got last year were sown in dustbins full of compost.

PasturesNew

Jackmydad wrote: »

I should have said about meths. I had a blind moment with the surgical spirit / Iso propyl thing!
I don't tend to use meths for cleaning stuff because it leaves a slight residue of the dye. Won't matter for what you're doing PN.

The benefit of using meths is that, if it should all end in tears, then at least I can take the bottle to the Park and sit and drink it to forget

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

The benefit of using meths is that, if it should all end in tears, then at least I can take the bottle to the Park and sit and drink it to forget

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl:








I just lurrrrrrrrve parsnips, especially roasted so that they caramelise!
Plus they don't take as long as potatoes to roast.

I like spinach too.

I have tried to like beetroot. When they're roasted to within an inch of their lives I can manage to eat them. Just about.
I did once use them in a chocolate cake recipe, and that was fine, 'cos you couldn't taste any beetroot, they just made the cake nice and moist.

Still, disliking only one vegetable out of the hundreds available isn't too bad!

SingleSue

Love beetroot, parsnips are good if roasted, spinach is eugh. I don't mind a good carrot cake but much prefer just munching on raw carrots.

I took everyone's advice and contacted the OT, amazing how one phone call leads to lots being received and an immediate lighter feeling of the mood. I have now been referred/recommended for a wet room, a wet/dry toilet, a stair lift, the chronic fatigue clinic and the wheelchair service for a powered chair...or if the adaptations on the house are too much, possibly being put on the list for a bungalow or flat.