I know i'm bitter but can they do this????

carpetbelly

ooo now i'm eating meat again that sounds like it could be fun! I love playing the stacking game

Jonbvn

PasturesNew wrote: »

A carvery is a meal where you queue up and a chef carves you a choice of 1-2 meats from a selection of 2-4 of them. You are then handed your plate and you help yourself to the vegetables.

In most you can only do this once. Some others you can return to the vegetables and stock up a 2nd time if you want.

So you are helping yourself to as much/little as you want of everything rather than being handed a plate.

I love them. I can stack really high!

PN,

If you like carveries then you really must try the Holly Bush in Whitchurch. Easily the best VFM in Cardiff!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

A carvery is a meal where you queue up and a chef carves you a choice of 1-2 meats from a selection of 2-4 of them. You are then handed your plate and you help yourself to the vegetables.

In most you can only do this once. Some others you can return to the vegetables and stock up a 2nd time if you want.

So you are helping yourself to as much/little as you want of everything rather than being handed a plate.

I love them. I can stack really high!

Ah. I've always wondered....PN I'm beginnign to think I should ask you all my 'always wondered' questions,;)

DH would love that kind of thing. He can stack REALLY high and has hollow legs.

nobblyned

ds1980 wrote: »

Having time to reflect im not bitter really we live rent free at the minute in our lasses mum and dads mansion house. We eat out in fancy restaurants whenever we like i buy the best wine ive just bought a new sports car we are going to the carribean in a week and another 4 holidays before the years out we have money in the bank im getting married next year oh and ive just won £400 on henrythenavigator. Must dash.

There's nothing quite like the satisfying feeling of pride that one gets sponging off one's girlfriend's parents in order to live the high life. Makes you feel warm inside.

PasturesNew

clutton wrote: »

there is a pub i know in lancashire and they provide the BEEEEGEST yorkshire puddings you have ever seen to fill the plate so you can't get a decent amount of veggies on there as well !! sneaky - i've stopped having the yorkshire ........

I tend to start by lining up 3 small yorkshires and plonking a roastie inside each one. If they are the sort that are puffed up so you can't I'd develop a strategy of poking them, or I'd put those on last.

I'm also not afraid to rearrange the meat into a pile (after the chef's laid it out on the plate), to maximise my veggie space.

My preferred carvery though is to go for the (cheaper) veggie one, where they give you an empty plate and no meat. I am funny about meat and don't like fat/bone/skin/gristle, and at a carvery a slice will usually include some skin and fat, so it's no loss to me. And it saves about £2-2.50 for not having the meat. And at the end of the day, with a big plateful you don't notice.

PasturesNew

Jonbvn wrote: »

PN,

If you like carveries then you really must try the Holly Bush in Whitchurch. Easily the best VFM in Cardiff!

Thanks for that!

My opportunities to eat out are limited as I don't like to eat out in public alone... which means I have to arrange a Welsh MSE Get Together there.

*starts plot to lure MSEers to Whitchurch*

I do like Whitchurch.

I just looked it up, I think it's on the right as I am driving out of Whitchurch heading for Asda... I was eyeing up their sign the other day, but you can't tell if a pub would be dog rough on the inside and full of coughing, dodgy, unwashed locals.

Cheap as chips. It's about £3.50 for the carvery Mon-Sat.
Looks like an ideal MSE meetup point if that's the one.
Out of town/close to an M4 junction for those driving. Car park. Can't miss it.
Right by the trainline, allbeit the local line.
http://www.pubcarvery.co.uk/find-us/Thehollybush.html

Austin_Allegro

To quote Alan Partridge again: 'I've had these shorts since 1982!'

I can't understand you folk driving around the country and staying in hotels. Why bother when you can put the back seats of the car down, roll out a duvet, and hey bingo, a hotel on wheels!

PasturesNew

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

To quote Alan Partridge again: 'I've had these shorts since 1982!'

I can't understand you folk driving around the country and staying in hotels. Why bother when you can put the back seats of the car down, roll out a duvet, and hey bingo, a hotel on wheels!

Not all cars work like that.
I know mine doesn't.
I can get the base of the seats up, then the back drops down ... and the total length of the rear area is probably about 4'

Personally, I can sleep in the back of my car, along the back seat as it is, wrapped in a duvet. But how safe is that for a single female?

I had a boss that told me to do that while I was travelling for business. He said "Just pull into a motorway service station, like I do, and kip in the car". He had a Mercedes 500 and is a tall bloke. I had a tiny Citroen and am a small female.

Captain_Mainwaring_2

ds1980 wrote: »

NOw before I start I don't care what house prices are doing so please dont speak to me about this isnt a good time to buy as it makes no difference to us.

So we made an offer for a house at the weekend with apparently two others. We are chain free and large deposit but do need a mortgage. ANother one needed to sell but rang back saying that parents were sorting something?

Monday comes and EA rings to say the vendor is mulling over the 2 offers not 3 so something a miss there.

We were called to day to be told that the other people were now going to be cash buyers with the money from their parents? Now I know I'm a bit bitter but I didn't think this thing was allowed as it could be IHT avoidance etc?

Would anyone be able to shed the light on whether this is possible but i'm missing something?

I do think there is something else to why we didnt get it (EA has bought it themselves) but I don't think I could find out! I'm sure theyll be more so we'll bide our time but I look at a lot of property and this one was the most perfect we'd seen and cheap!!!

Anyway rant over.

Without reading over any other reply - WHAT THE HELL HAS IT GOT TO DO WITH YOU where they get the money from?
How dare you judge people? they may be properly accounting for and paying any tax due.

If the EA is going to buy then they must declare an interest.

neverdespairgirl

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

To quote Alan Partridge again: 'I've had these shorts since 1982!'

I can't understand you folk driving around the country and staying in hotels. Why bother when you can put the back seats of the car down, roll out a duvet, and hey bingo, a hotel on wheels!

My Dad actually does have some clothes from the early 80s he still wears - 3 short sleeved shirts he bought in 1982, and some blue plastic swimming shoes from 1983.