Author Topic: The Good News Thread (Read 1164696 times)

Ham · « **Reply #2825 on:** 23 October, 2010, 07:14:56 am »

Quote from: Greenbank on 22 October, 2010, 03:53:13 pm

Skiing trip booked.

I. LOVE. SKIING.

Maybe we should start a blue skiing soc.....

tiermat · « **Reply #2826 on:** 23 October, 2010, 10:11:27 am »

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 22 October, 2010, 03:16:52 pm

Quote from: tiermat on 22 October, 2010, 08:11:03 am
My new job has been put back a week, due to the IT monkees not being able to produce an AD account in anything less than 5 days!

So why is this in good news? Well it means I am a definate for the FNRtSR, something which was in doubt if I had started next monday.....

Are you taking The Flange?

And a camera?

For you my dear, I may well do...

jogler · « **Reply #2827 on:** 23 October, 2010, 10:23:42 am »

mrs. jogler has a winning ticket for Euromillions

Butterfly · « **Reply #2828 on:** 23 October, 2010, 11:12:55 am »

Quote from: jogler on 23 October, 2010, 10:23:42 am

mrs. jogler has a winning ticket for Euromillions

Is she going to run off and have an international jet-set lifestyle?

jogler · « **Reply #2829 on:** 23 October, 2010, 11:27:42 am »

I can't ask her.She's en-route to Manchester airport

Deano · « **Reply #2830 on:** 23 October, 2010, 11:30:37 am »

More importantly, is she now too rich to bake cakes?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2831 on:** 24 October, 2010, 01:13:35 pm »

I have grated a large bucketful of potatoes with virtually zero human-earthling intermixture!

Quint · « **Reply #2832 on:** 24 October, 2010, 01:19:06 pm »

Grated ? ? ?

Marj · « **Reply #2833 on:** 24 October, 2010, 01:51:16 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 23 October, 2010, 11:30:37 am

More importantly, is she now too rich to bake cakes?

I'm back - I am not too rich to make cakes as I didn't get very far on £4.50

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2834 on:** 24 October, 2010, 01:57:36 pm »

Quote from: Quint on 24 October, 2010, 01:19:06 pm

Grated ? ? ?

Grated, with a grater, like cheese.

Then mix them with two onions and several cloves of garlic (also grated, though I'm sure you could use a garlic crusher for the garlic), eggs, flour, salt and pepper to taste, mix together, fry. Potato cakes. Very tasty.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2835 on:** 24 October, 2010, 02:40:31 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 October, 2010, 01:57:36 pm

Quote from: Quint on 24 October, 2010, 01:19:06 pm
Grated ? ? ?
Grated, with a grater, like cheese.

Then mix them with two onions and several cloves of garlic (also grated, though I'm sure you could use a garlic crusher for the garlic), eggs, flour, salt and pepper to taste, mix together, fry. Potato cakes. Very tasty.

Latkes or hash browns. Nom!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2836 on:** 24 October, 2010, 05:17:15 pm »

Placki ziemniaczane. I'm not too familiar with hash browns, and the one time I've had latkes, or something called latkes, they seemed a little different. However, it would be entirely logical if the difference was merely variation in serving, and in any case - nom nom, mniam mniam! (I have had seven or eight now and am feeling most full

)

hellymedic · « **Reply #2837 on:** 24 October, 2010, 08:11:00 pm »

My Mum's latkes are made from potato, egg, flour and seasoning. I don't think she puts onion in. Dad dislikes garlic so my parents seldom have it.
Any way, there must be many variations to this sort of thing as the ingredients are commonplace. Good, sustaining winter food.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2838 on:** 24 October, 2010, 08:52:18 pm »

My mum used to say "You can't cook anything worth eating without an onion," and I extend that to garlic (with the exception of sweet things)!

Deano · « **Reply #2839 on:** 24 October, 2010, 09:03:34 pm »

Quote from: Marj on 24 October, 2010, 01:51:16 pm

Quote from: Deano on 23 October, 2010, 11:30:37 am
More importantly, is she now too rich to bake cakes?

I'm back - I am not too rich to make cakes as I didn't get very far on £4.50

Good news for the rest of us as well, then!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2840 on:** 25 October, 2010, 10:43:15 am »

The man in the offy found my office access swipe card, so I don't have to wait a week and pay ten quid for a new one

mike · « **Reply #2841 on:** 25 October, 2010, 10:52:58 am »

HMRC have decided my tax is all in order. Phew.

tiermat · « **Reply #2842 on:** 25 October, 2010, 02:24:31 pm »

Mrs T has returned to work (and, as of yet, hasn't come back again)!!!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!

Manotea · « **Reply #2843 on:** 25 October, 2010, 02:54:06 pm »

I didn't actually slice off my thumb whilst playing with a circular saw last week, just took a slice out the skin (four stitches). So what with that, having my bike fork steerer snap a couple of weeks back and this morning booking a visit to the dentist for some root canal work hopefully I've used up my quota of physical trauma's for a while.

groucho · « **Reply #2844 on:** 25 October, 2010, 04:35:36 pm »

Pompey still alive. Congrats.

Great result Saturday as well. Even Mrs g was impressed after I left her with her sister, in South Yorks, and drove to Hull to watch what could have been Pompey's last ever game!

Bledlow · « **Reply #2845 on:** 25 October, 2010, 06:54:18 pm »

I've ridden my Enigma for the first time since sending the recalled forks back in February.

They took 8 months to send me new ones. I'll never buy from them again.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2846 on:** 26 October, 2010, 05:25:53 pm »

My Hope Vision LED is not broken.

Yesterday I thought it would not be wise to leave it attached to the bike, even in a rack pack, while parked in the city, so put it in a bag and took it with me. And then dropped it on a hard shop* floor. Twice. Heavily. So I checked it and found that it turned on but immediately turned itself off again. Oh dear, cacky coffee here! When I got home I tried it with fresh batteries and - lo! - it works properly.

The last time I'd used it before was on flashing mode in fog, where the batteries could have died without my noticing. And they have been in there a year, IIRC!

*Actually it was a cafe, where I had a very tasty piece of banana cake, so that was good!

hulver · « **Reply #2847 on:** 27 October, 2010, 05:01:20 pm »

I've finally got a date for getting the keys to my new place!

* hulver does a happy dance.

Feels like about 10 tons of stress has just lifted off me.

Adrian · « **Reply #2848 on:** 27 October, 2010, 08:18:11 pm »

Quote from: hulver on 27 October, 2010, 05:01:20 pm

I've finally got a date for getting the keys to my new place!

* hulver does a happy dance.

Feels like about 10 tons of stress has just lifted off me.

Good news

clarion · « **Reply #2849 on:** 27 October, 2010, 08:52:01 pm »

That's a good step forward.