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

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never been a JL shopper. Where I lived before I think the closest was 90+ miles away. Now I'm about 10 miles from one (just looked), but if you dropped me in that town I'd struggle to find it and would have to ask people

It's all "posh stuff"

There's no "£1 rail" in there.....

The blackcurrant Elton mess cheesecake in the cafè is very nice, though!




I don't shop there for much. Just occasionally, though, they have exactly what I want.
Plus it's on a retail estate with some other useful shops like Homebase, and the parking is free.

It's also handy for things like feeling how heavy a particular saucepan is. I bought some new pans earler this year, and wanted a particular sort, but needed to lift them up to gauge the weight, due to my poorly wrists.
(Some pans are very heavy, even before liquids and foods are in them, and I wanted stainless steel ones, which are heavier than aluminium to start with).

chris_m

All my veggies appear to be growing well - I dug up the last of the first early spuds today, and did the first harvest of peas. I have some purple sprouting broccoli nearly ready to cut and several of the calabrese are getting close. I also spotted the first hint of red on some of the strawberries today.

There's just one problem that I've observed with growing peas - it takes twice as long to "unwrap" them as it does to take them off the plants

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

All my veggies appear to be growing well - I dug up the last of the first early spuds today, and did the first harvest of peas. I have some purple sprouting broccoli nearly ready to cut and several of the calabrese are getting close. I also spotted the first hint of red on some of the strawberries today.

There's just one problem that I've observed with growing peas - it takes twice as long to "unwrap" them as it does to take them off the plants

And you have to sit on the back doorstep with a bowl, to shell them; it's a rule.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

And you have to sit on the back doorstep with a bowl, to shell them; it's a rule.

Oh, I got that wrong then - I sat in my easy chair, with bowls, to do it

Jackmydad

And you have to eat your peas with honey,
I've done it all my life!

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

And you have to eat your peas with honey,
I've done it all my life!

Peas with honey? I've never heard of that!
Or is that a jackmydadism?

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

Peas with honey? I've never heard of that!
Or is that a jackmydadism?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42908/i-eat-my-peas-with-honey

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42908/i-eat-my-peas-with-honey

Now I know how to stop them falling off my knife!

Jackmydad

I first came across it (IIRC) as one of the poems in a book we had at school called "Poems of Spirit and Action" edited by W.M.Smyth.

It's a good collection IMHO. It's also got some rarities in it like. "There's a Pathway" by Alys Fane Trotter.
I must get a copy.

zagubov

You don't eat your peas with even modest/normal amounts of mustard?
What on earth do they taste of?